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For 20,336 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: 9,413 out of 20336
  2. Mixed: 8,455 out of 20336
  3. Negative: 2,468 out of 20336
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  1. Skyscraper
    There are intermittent pleasures, including Ms. Campbell, who seems ready to transition to a new career phase playing hard-hitting maternal types with Mona Lisa smiles. Mostly, though, Skyscraper is about the movie’s other, far more towering figure: Mr. Johnson, a performer whose colossal physicality is strikingly complemented by a delicate expressivity too rarely seen in contemporary blockbusters.
  2. The Show About the Show
    This is an undeniably fascinating film despite, or perhaps because of, the repellent actions Mr. Zahedi depicts himself taking.
  3. The Current War: Director's Cut
    As its energetic early scenes give way to a sluggish second half, you start to sense how much better this good-enough movie might have been.
  4. Burden
    This is a film unafraid to look at [Burden's] acts, but timid when approaching his ideas.
  5. American Anarchist
    A study in denial, American Anarchist may be illuminating for being unilluminating.
  6. Death Note
    Perhaps stifled by the cultural and commercial clout of its source material (a multimedia juggernaut of books, movies, television shows and a stage musical), Death Note feels rushed and constricted.
  7. Wish Upon
    The splatter is deployed cautiously and sometimes wittily, the story moving briskly from wishes granted to costs exacted with the help of familiar faces (including a warm Sherilyn Fenn as Clare’s surrogate mother) and a sympathetic lead.
  8. In Search of Israeli Cuisine
    When it’s not being overly promotional, it can be interesting.
  9. Get Me Roger Stone
    Topicality is all or at least a large part of the movie’s draw.
  10. The Cage Fighter
    The Cage Fighter is not riveting from moment to moment, but Mr. Unay allows the movie’s themes to click into place beautifully toward the end.
  11. Drone
    [A] modest, proficient thriller.
  12. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
    “Sacred Deer” feels like a dark, opaque bit of folklore transplanted into an off-kilter modern setting.
  13. Behind the White Glasses
    At its most enjoyable, Valerio Ruiz’s rambling profile cedes the floor to Ms. Wertmüller, who recalls her creative partnership with her husband, the production designer Enrico Job, and her cultural importance in representing Italy’s south onscreen.
  14. Sacred
    A kaleidoscopic travelogue depicting demonstrations of faith worldwide.
  15. Avatar: Fire and Ash
    The fight sequences are models of spatial coherency and escalating tension, and they grab you wholly, turning a movie into a full-body workout. That feeling dissipates whenever the fighting stops, the story cranks back up and somebody calls someone else “bro,” which happens too often.
  16. Deadpool 2
    There is something ever so slightly dishonest about this character, something false about the boundaries drawn around his sadism and his rage. Deadpool 2 dabbles in ugliness and transgression, but takes no real creative risks.
  17. The Exception
    The Exception is a diverting and occasionally exciting film, though it is rarely disturbing or thought-provoking in ways the material might require.
  18. The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
    There are several strong stories in The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson, a documentary that, in trying to tell them all, takes on too much.
  19. A Gray State
    There’s a morbid fascination inherent to documentaries like A Gray State, which is engrossing for the reasons it’s also unsatisfying: As Adam Shambour, a friend of Mr. Crowley’s, says, it’s a mystery that answers all the major questions except “Why?”
  20. Frozen II
    The ensuing adventure is lively, amusing and predictably predictable with revelations, reconciliations and some nebulous politics for the grown-ups. It’s never surprising, yet its bursts of pictorial imagination — snowflakes that streak like shooting stars — keep you engaged, as do Elsa and Anna, who still aren’t waiting for life to happen.
  21. Welcome To Marwen
    What makes the movie interesting — and disturbing on a few different levels — is how its sentimental, inspirational elements do battle with darker impulses.
  22. Ta'ang
    Incorporating his typically arduous, slow-paced style, Mr. Wang doesn’t make things easy for viewers.
  23. Handsome Devil
    As in many a high school movie, it’s the seasoned teacher who brings the best out of his pupils, and here Mr. Scott draws the hidden potential not only from his students but also from the film.
  24. Vincent N Roxxy
    The cast members remain dedicated to their brooding roles as the script admirably reaches for emotions it only sometimes captures.
  25. Tully
    Tully isn’t really interested in the sustaining joys of female bonding. It has a message to deliver, which is as sincere and decent as it is obvious: Mothers need help, sometimes serious help. Which is why it’s strange that as Marlo very visibly sinks into postpartum depression — you can see Ms. Theron pulling Marlo deeper and deeper inside — the movie pretends that her burden is somehow too hidden for anyone to notice.
  26. The Glass Castle
    It’s both too tidy and too messy, and at the same time neither quite wild nor quite sensible enough.
  27. Major League
    Major League trots out the standard formula, but has the wit to make fun of it now and then. The film is so loopy that it glides over its cliches and indulges in some congenial movie-baseball silliness.
  28. The Midwife
    Because it is a French film, or rather the kind of French film that wants to serve its sentimentality with a dollop of prestige, The Midwife doesn’t offer an entirely shameless version of the “dying free spirit imbues uptight caretaker with a new lust for life” scenario.
  29. Wrestling Jerusalem
    Sometimes the effort here is more admirable than exciting.
  30. Lancelot of the Lake
    What's missing from the film is any urgent interior meaning, and this it may be because of the distractions of the exterior details. It may also be because the conflicts that rage within Lancelot — between duty and desire, courtly love and physical love — simply aren't complex enough to bring out the best in Mr. Bresson.
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