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For 12,919 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 51% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Lowest review score: 0 Dirty Love
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,618 out of 12919
  2. Mixed: 5,135 out of 12919
  3. Negative: 1,166 out of 12919
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  1. Go Back to China
    The didactic screenplay sinks the film. Instead of exploring characters, or having them spout witty lines, Ting has them explain everything to each other, out loud, almost all the time. ... It’s great to see more films with Asian and Asian-American actors and stories, especially one written and directed by a woman. But while Ting’s movie may be heartfelt, it offers viewers more fluff than heart.
  2. Vision Portraits
    If only for the in-depth discussions of the creative process, the film is worth a watch.
  3. For Sama
    Revisiting some of the events that marked Aleppo’s final year under siege, as well as those that led up to them, the film offers up a rare firsthand account of war from a strictly female perspective, focusing on how conflict affects families, and, especially, the hundreds of innocent victims that are children.
  4. Alice
    The writer-director's first feature has much going for it, above all a striking performance by Emilie Piponnier in the title role. Neither a fallen-woman melodrama nor an encomium to guilt-free sex work, the complicated moral tale has strong art house potential.
  5. Yes, God, Yes
    A fun and entertaining ride that unfolds at just the right speed.
  6. Well Groomed
    There is nothing radical or especially distinctive about the style of this mildly entertaining documentary.
  7. Olympic Dreams
    The pic is visually exciting and has a palpably organic quality that translates well to the screen. ... A refreshing and confident piece of work.
  8. The Art of Self-Defense
    While the beats of its plot may be nothing very new, the tone, language and performances here make Self-Defense its own beast.
  9. Extra Ordinary
    A well-tuned vehicle for the comic charms of Irish stand-up Maeve Higgins.
  10. Captive State
    Visually murky, choppily edited and lacking both narrative clarity and well-defined characterizations, Captive State is a deeply frustrating viewing experience. It seems to be straining mightily for a future cult status which it doesn't deserve.
  11. Frances Ferguson
    It's another chapter in an oeuvre that is so peculiar some of us will root for it to keep going.
  12. Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops
    As well as building a strong case, through example, of the implications for towns and cities across the country, the film delivers telling glimpses of the personal day-to-day coping mechanisms of the cops themselves.
  13. Bruce!!!
    Eden Marryshow (Jessica Jones) makes an arduous attempt in his feature directorial debut, in which he plays the title role of an unemployed actor who gets by thanks to the good graces of family and friends. But his character ultimately proves far more grating than endearing, making Bruce!!! a slog to endure.
  14. Finding Steve McQueen
    Unfortunately, despite the fascinating story that provides its inspiration and a solid cast, the pic provides neither sufficient thrills nor humor to make it anything more than a minor diversion.
  15. Get Duked!
    A too-familiar vibe hangs over much of the film, whose comic violence is nothing new and whose banter underwhelms, but the pic gets more fun as it goes, especially after an unlikely hallucinogen makes its entrance.
  16. Combat Obscura
    More polished docs like "Restrepo" have covered similar ground in less scattered fashion, usually giving more coherent pictures of military operations while they're at it.
  17. Wonder Park
    Like so many animated movies these days, it buries its ideas in a visual and aural cacophony of frenzied action sequences designed to engage the shortest of attention spans.
  18. Five Feet Apart
    The film becomes more exhausting than tense. In the end, all that manipulation backfires. Unlike the best of its genre, the rote Five Feet Apart isn’t wrenching enough to jerk a single tear.
  19. The Peanut Butter Falcon
    [Gottsagen's] sensibility infuses the modern-day fable with an engaging forthrightness. But the unequivocal material often sticks close to the surface, and the film built around him, for all its physical sweep, can feel constricted by obviousness.
  20. Good Boys
    A nearly one-note comedy.
  21. The Day Shall Come
    The film represents another leap forward for [Morris].
  22. Booksmart
    A hilarious, blazingly paced teen comedy.
  23. Adopt a Highway
    Despite the film's choppy and tonally dissonant storytelling ... Hawke’s performance quite literally carries the movie.
  24. The Highwaymen
    Costner and Harrelson both give fine performances, but when it's time for each to have his one allotted dramatic monologue, you can practically hear the movie clearing its throat: Shut up and listen while the man is speaking, folks.
  25. Long Shot
    Very funny whatever you think of its more old-fashioned notions, the picture will charm many viewers who can set implausibility aside for a while.
  26. The Beach Bum
    Bu I, admittedly, had a hard time getting on its woozy wavelength. But The Beach Bum is a work of undeniable commitment and craft — a gonzo picaresque, soaked with booze and filled with gyrating, jiggling flesh, that will play well to the not-negligible segment of the population where cannabis lovers and cinephiles overlap.
  27. Sword of Trust
    Enjoyably shaggy ... Both [Maron] and [Shelton] seem happy to play to their fans in this modest outing, worrying little about straying beyond their comfort zones.
  28. Us
    Clearly the work of an ambitious writer/director who can see himself inheriting the mantle of Rod Serling ... it offers twists and ironies and false endings galore — along with more laughs than the comedian-turned-auteur dared to include in his debut film. ... It packs a punch.
  29. Juanita
    Juanita wants to be so many things: road movie, rom-com, a middle-aged woman’s coming-of-age tale, a verite window into Native American life in the West, a chef’s kitchen drama. But a script that needed a couple more drafts holds the film and its talented ensemble cast back.
  30. The Wind
    Well-shot and edited, with a script that keeps you guessing for a certain stretch of time, The Wind doesn’t quite sustain the tension through the final reel, resorting to eye-rolling scare tactics that go from serious to way too silly. Nonetheless, it’s refreshing to see such an original stab at this type of indie genre-bender, especially one told from a strictly female point of view.
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