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For 20,278 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: 9,380 out of 20278
  2. Mixed: 8,434 out of 20278
  3. Negative: 2,464 out of 20278
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  1. Come Away
    Like a magic brew thinned into bouillon, Come Away folds spellbinding storybook tales into a mundane melodrama.
  2. The Climb
    Rather than ascending to new heights of bromance, The Climb coasts down into the barren flatlands of masculine self-pity.
  3. I Am Greta
    It’s a bit of a blur, but Thunberg strikingly upends the stereotype of the young innocent as poster girl.
  4. 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.
  5. The Life Ahead
    This picture earns its tear-jerking without becoming treacly. OK, without becoming too treacly. And it has other charming, enlightened components.
  6. Wolfwalkers
    As much a joy as this movie . . . is to behold, its scenario is more than a little overbaked and overdrawn.
  7. Monsoon
    The ambience doesn’t register with full force, or do the heavy lifting entrusted to it. Monsoon finally tips over the line that separates minimalism from a not-fully-developed movie.
  8. Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
    This film rests on the fact that Mother Earth is always being called on by other worlds in the forms of comets, meteorites and asteroids — and it’s about as transportive as documentaries get.
  9. Dreamland
    It’s a lot of hooey and might have been at least tolerable if the movie had been rougher, meaner, tighter, and if the filmmakers — the writer is Nicolaas Zwart, the director is Miles Joris-Peyrafitte — had never watched a Terrence Malick movie.
  10. Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
    The movie is packed with thrilling sequences, charming songs (by Philip Lawrence, John Legend and others), flashy dance numbers and a delightful cast. Although parts of the film veer on cliché, its intentions are well-meaning and its messages about nurturing curiosity and fostering community are well worth hearing right about now.
  11. Ammonite
    The movie needs Winslet and Ronan’s skills, their ability to semaphore more with sliding glances and tiny gestures than many actors manage with pages of dialogue. There’s pleasure in deciphering these signals.
  12. Freaky
    Vaughn and Newton prove remarkably effective at selling the benefits of their alternate packaging. Their efforts, however, are too often diluted by the film’s lazy plotting and Millie’s hackneyed emotional baggage.
  13. Fatman
    Waffling between anger and pathos, dry humor and dead-eyed violence, Fatman feels tonally befuddled.
  14. Free Time
    The sound effects are emphatic enough to call attention to themselves, and serve as a tacit, admirable acknowledgment that this material has been shaped. Even so, some of the clatter distracts from the purity of these great images.
  15. Transhood
    With so much ground to cover, the scenes’ shortness can feel unsatisfying and even occasionally facile. Though conversations between parents and their children are designed to be emotional beats, there’s a peculiar staginess that comes off as jarring at times.
  16. Coded Bias
    The most cleareyed of several recent documentaries about the perils of Big Tech (“The Great Hack,” “The Social Dilemma”), Coded Bias tackles its sprawling subject by zeroing in empathetically on the human costs.
  17. The Endless Trench
    It’s fertile thematic ground, but as in most survival movies, showy feats of filmmaking take precedence over insight or revelation.
  18. Koko-di Koko-da
    Though at times tasteless and barely coherent, the story is oddly affecting, the very strangeness of Nyholm’s folkloric vision and its unnerving execution pulling you in.
  19. Let Him Go
    With uncommon stealth, Let Him Go morphs from a drama about loss and grief into a terrifying thriller.
  20. The Dark and the Wicked
    Pitiless in its intent, and hopeless in its sense of sorrowful dereliction, The Dark and the Wicked fully earns its horrifically distressing final scenes.
  21. Proxima
    Torn between the maternal and the cosmic, the tactile and the unearthly, Proxima feels as unsettled as its heroine.
  22. Mortal
    Mortal isn’t really a movie proper as it is ponderous scene-setting for a potential sequel.
  23. Kindred
    A derivative, irritating thriller.
  24. Triggered
    Melding “Saw” with “The Hunger Games,” Triggered wins no points for originality or distinctiveness, not least of its cookie-cutter characters. But its relentlessness, and the gusto with which it embraces its mandate to make a mess, is tough to resist.
  25. Operation Christmas Drop
    Much of the film feels not light and breezy, but like a self-conscious chore, unwilling to deviate from an established blueprint.
  26. Jungleland
    The sweaty clichés enacted along the way are uniformly tired and ultimately offensive. A love scene near the movie’s finale, Winkler’s vision of sex among the underclass, is a caricature that could comfortably fit in the new “Borat” movie.
  27. The Informer
    The movie has a surfeit of the sudden reversals and interlocking loyalties that can make for an absorbing time killer.
  28. Rogue City
    Violent, law-defying cops would be a tough sell at any time, but “Rogue City” is oblivious to the changed context surrounding their stories. They don’t hold much romantic allure nowadays.
  29. City Hall
    City Hall runs four and a half mostly engrossing hours, making it one of Wiseman’s longest. That sounds daunting, but I could have watched hours more of people simply talking to one another in auditoriums and across conference-room tables.
  30. Us Kids
    Us Kids skillfully handles a sensitive subject and prudently connects the Parkland students’ stories to those of Black students whose experiences with gun violence rarely garner similar national attention.
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