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For 20,335 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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. Monkey Man
    Patel does some fine work in Monkey Man even if its fight sequences rarely pop, flow or impress; they’re energetic but uninspired.
  2. Monolith
    Lily Sullivan plays this unnamed reporter with cagey, harried intensity, and she is more than capable of carrying this one-woman show.
  3. Irish Wish
    The movie (directed by Janeen Damian and written by Kirsten Hansen) skips over Maddie savoring the outcome of her wish, and shifts right into charming comedy around her confusion, including having no memory about how she got engaged.
  4. They Called Him Mostly Harmless
    It’s a film for those who don’t know the outcome, playing upon the viewers’ thirst for answers as it chips away at a clearer portrait of the man.
  5. Moana 2
    Squint your eyes against the specifics, and the odyssey tends to deliver a mood that fluctuates along a scale of benign to bright.
  6. Joy
    This is one of those pictures where the actors outdo the conventional material they are given to work with.
  7. Scoop
    What Scoop offers is the modest pleasure — to which any journalist is susceptible — of rooting for a reporting team to get a story.
  8. The Space Race
    A theme running through the interviews is that for the U.S. government, sending a Black astronaut to space was more a matter of propaganda than racial justice.
  9. Space: The Longest Goodbye
    Space: The Longest Goodbye leaves open the question of whether anyone could get to the red planet with his or her sanity intact.
  10. Red Island
    Red Island is by turns seductively sultry and frustratingly elliptical, with a structure that brings to mind matryoshka dolls, those colorful nesting figurines of differing sizes. For the most part, Campillo introduces these nesting elements just fine; it’s integrating them that proves difficult.
  11. I Don't Understand You
    In trying to be both subversive and sincere, I Don’t Understand You ends up not quite pulling off either.
  12. Alien: Romulus
    Alien: Romulus is a nuts-and-bolts action-adventure horror story with boos and splatter. It doesn’t have much on its mind but it has some good jump scares along with a disappointingly bland heroine, a sympathetic android and the usual collection of disposable characters who are unduly killed by slavering, rampaging extraterrestrials.
  13. Humane
    This isn’t a movie with much to say, but it’s the sort of thought experiment that will keep you up at night.
  14. Turtles All the Way Down
    What “Turtles” does offer in surplus is texture, thanks to Marks’s springy, stylish direction.
  15. TRON: Ares
    Ranked against other “Tron” feature-length installments, while this one fails to capture the adolescent low-fi charm of the 1982 film, it’s appreciably more enjoyable (and, frankly, comprehensible) than “Legacy.”
  16. Toy Story 5
    It’s fine, pretty and amusing, but if no one’s heart seems in it, perhaps it’s time to make way for other toys.
  17. The Beach Boys
    Any deviations from the film’s obligatory timeline tour are very welcome, like a mortifying studio recording of Murry holding forth, and it’s a treat to hear the esteem for Brian among the Wrecking Crew, the storied group of session musicians.
  18. Boris and Natasha
    Fans of Rocky and Bullwinkle won't be disappointed.
  19. Young Woman and the Sea
    This is one of those movies that proves, when they’ve got a mind to, they can still make them like they used to.
  20. Slow
    Grineviciute and Cicenas, however, give depth to a story that becomes stuck on the sorrows of the couple’s discrepancies.
  21. Karate Kid: Legends
    There is at once a roughshod, zippy energy coupled with a sedateness here that results from the simple fact that the film never quite knows how to square the pure awkwardness of two teachers — two stars from different eras of a franchise — instructing a karate kid at once.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Magnificent Obsession
    Playing his first major role, the strapping, manly Mr. Hudson gives a fine, direct account of himself, in the film's only real surprise. Otherwise, Universal has delivered the goods—or good—exactly as prescribed by the doctor.
  23. Blues Brothers 2000
    The movie only really comes alive when the music plays and people sing and dance.
  24. The Instigators
    So if the plot of “The Instigators” kind of goes nowhere, its characters give it the feel of a hangout movie with some added shootouts and car chases and a few well-timed explosions. And that, at least, is wicked good.
  25. Parthenope
    Parthenope, like Sorrentino’s previous films, is an intentionally garish display of sex and luxury that is both irritating and oddly seductive.
  26. Supergirl
    That this movie never matches the brilliance of Miller’s goes without saying, despite the heavy-metal clanging. That Alcock manages to rise above the fray with a performance that never feels like borrowed goods is at once a surprise and a gift.
  27. The Surfer
    If this movie leaves Cage adrift, he doesn’t seem at all uncomfortable about it.
  28. M3GAN 2.0
    Maximalism has its place, but it wears out its welcome here.
  29. Drop
    Drop is pleasantly silly and minimally suspenseful.
  30. Black Barbie: A Documentary
    On the surface, the documentary is about what led to the 1980 release of Black Barbie, but the issues it explores run much deeper: the harm of lacking a “social mirror,” the slow pace of progress and the tensions around darkening a white fictional character.
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