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For 20,335 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Short Cuts
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,412 out of 20335
  2. Mixed: 8,455 out of 20335
  3. Negative: 2,468 out of 20335
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  1. Spider-Man: No Way Home
    Her casting as MJ and her expanded role in the series continue to pay off, and Zendaya’s charisma and gift for selling emotions (and silly dialogue) helps give the new movie a soft, steady glow that centers it like a heartbeat as the story takes off in different directions.
  2. Sonic the Hedgehog 2
    Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is a fast-paced romp that’s silly, filled with quips and unabashedly for children — which is refreshing, coming at a time when so many other children’s franchises have succumbed to Sturm und Drang.
  3. Make Up
    It’s an intriguing interpretation of adolescent discovery, one that uses horror to suggest the dread that comes with finding a sense of self.
  4. All In: The Fight for Democracy
    In a sense, it’s less a documentary for posterity than an urgent broadcast. That doesn’t mean it’s not worth hearing.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Gay Divorcee
    Like the carefree team of Rogers and Astaire, The Gay Divorcee is gay in its mood and smart in its approach.
  6. Rebuilding Paradise
    Though it might seem generic in some respects, Rebuilding Paradise resonates with the moment.
  7. Host
    Though not as dynamic as “Unfriended,” another “desktop movie,” Host observes uncannily the supernatural, ephemeral, and material worlds colliding together, gesturing toward an uncertain future.
  8. Shine Your Eyes
    Shine Your Eyes, from the Brazilian filmmaker Matias Mariani, finds a distinctive way to tell a familiar narrative — of immigrants in megacities, of how dreams can pummel you and of the complexity of fraternal bonds.
  9. The Bear
    No less amazing than the material Mr. Annaud has captured on the screen is the fact that he has gone to such crazily elaborate lengths to capture it at all.
  10. A Most Beautiful Thing
    The film’s fast-paced editing makes it difficult to get to know individual members, but the men register powerfully as a collective, just like a real rowing team.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    El Topo
    El Topo is a good deal more interesting and a good deal less hung up on its own pretensions than all my most intelligent friends had led me to believe.
  12. Liquid Sky
    It's the overall resourcefulness of Mr. Tsukerman and his talented colleagues that gives Liquid Sky its high style. Visually bright and arresting, with a varied and insinuating electronic score, the film is full of eye-catching images.
  13. Song Without a Name
    The narrative drifts, but the alienation communicated by the movie’s images feels purposeful and striking.
  14. The Way I See It
    The movie is impeccably crafted and consistently engaging.
  15. Robin's Wish
    As potentially valuable as Robin’s Wish is for illuminating Williams’s death — initial reports noted his past struggles with addiction and depression — it is more affecting and appealing as a tribute. Stories of Williams as a matchless improviser, an unpretentious neighbor and a man who had a gift for consoling others suggest the world lost not just an uproarious presence but a kind one.
  16. Martin Margiela: In His Own Words
    It is a poem about the ways in which the speed and ubiquity demanded by the internet have squeezed certain creative wells dry, perhaps irreparably.
  17. Alone
    This minimalist survival thriller unfolds with such elegant simplicity and single-minded momentum that its irritations are easily excused.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Cocoanuts
    Fun puts melody in the shade in the audible pictorial transcription of the musical comedy The Cocoanuts.
  19. The Thrill of It All
    I don't want to give you the impression that The Thrill of It All is a great film. I just want to tell you it is loaded with good, clean American laughs.
  20. Enola Holmes
    The film is successful in balancing these broad themes with our heroine’s adventures, and that is due in large part to the work of Brown, whose energetic performance breathes new life into the Holmes creative world.
  21. The Front Page
    Even though the mechanics and demands of movie-making slow what should be the furious tempo, this Front Page displays a giddy bitterness that is rare in any films except those of Mr. Wilder. It is also, much of the time, extremely funny
  22. Epicentro
    Whether Sauper’s travels delivered a cohesive movie this time is debatable, but what he does find is always interesting.
  23. Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles
    Ultimately the results are eye-popping, sometimes almost confoundingly so.
  24. Watch List
    It has a sturdy, vivid construction, and is a convincing demonstration of the venality that’s central to the thinking of hardly squeaky-clean antidrug zealots.
  25. The Boys in the Band
    The ensemble is superb, and each member has at least one standout moment, but the movie rides on the shoulders of Parsons, as Michael, the host of the party.
  26. A Kiss Before Dying
    A Kiss Before Dying is not Crime and Punishment. It is pop movie making to be enjoyed without guilt.
  27. Sunrise at Campobello
    A well-done, moving biographical film.
  28. Class Action Park
    Class Action Park loses its footing somewhat in the closing passages; Scott and Porges don’t seem to know quite how to wrap things up, and the film’s big tonal shift is a turning point that is all but impossible to come back from.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Great Impostor
    An amusing, and occasionally fascinating, comedy-drama about the career of one of the most amazing—and likable—contemporary charlatans, Ferdinand W. Demara Jr.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    To Each His Own
    To Each His Own spins dangerously on the brink of bathos but it seldom spills over into that treacherous chasm for more than a fleeting scene or two, thanks to a screen play which artfully dodges complete morbidity.
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