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For 20,280 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: 9,381 out of 20280
  2. Mixed: 8,435 out of 20280
  3. Negative: 2,464 out of 20280
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  1. Mr. SOUL!
    Broad in scope and rapidly paced, the film can feel as if it’s bursting at the seams. But it acutely conveys the radical joy that “Soul!” inspired, barely contained in the movie’s running time.
  2. You Cannot Kill David Arquette
    What’s fascinating is Arquette’s vulnerability, both emotionally and physically.
  3. Ghost Tropic
    Beguiles and fascinates on several levels.
  4. Fatima
    While the film may speak to viewers with a spiritual investment in these events, it does little to bring them alive for others.
  5. Epicentro
    Whether Sauper’s travels delivered a cohesive movie this time is debatable, but what he does find is always interesting.
  6. The Binge
    Here’s an equation for third-period math: Take “Superbad,” “Booksmart,” and, hell, any teen-party movie, add in a useless overarching conceit, subtract all originality. The result is The Binge, a new Hulu original that is only exceptional in its mind-numbing inanity.
  7. Matthias & Maxime
    This exploration of suppressed homoerotic longing would be infinitely more moving if the pair had even a smidgen of sexual chemistry.
  8. All Together Now
    The movie’s familiar suggestion of music as a light in the darkness works primarily because its star shines so brightly.
  9. Lingua Franca
    The mood is meditative, the camera patient; yet the film is too dramatically shy and narratively slight to stir.
  10. Rising Phoenix
    By avoiding complexity, Rising Phoenix preserves its inspiring mood, but offers only a platform for champions who already dominate the arena.
  11. The Personal History of David Copperfield
    Restructuring some story arcs and jettisoning others, Iannucci and his collaborator, Simon Blackwell, have created a souped-up, trimmed-down adaptation so fleet and entertaining that its cleverness doesn’t immediately register.
  12. Get Duked!
    The scenery is pretty and the actors appealing enough to almost excuse the thinness of the material.
  13. Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
    To elaborate as Chatwin did, Herzog implies, is a legitimate response to places that can’t help but exert a strong pull on the imagination. And of course, the truth-and-a-half principle figures heavily in Herzog’s own art — of which this film is a particularly outstanding example.
  14. Tenet
    The film is undeniably enjoyable, but its giddy grandiosity only serves to highlight the brittleness of its purported braininess.
  15. The Sleepover
    As The Sleepover juggles the genres of heist movie, action thriller, scavenger hunt and teen/tween comedy, it never finds an identity which it slips into effortlessly, the way a good thief can.
  16. Chemical Hearts
    Despite the movie’s sympathy for the high stakes of Henry’s adolescence, the myopia of his point of view settles over “Chemical Hearts” like a layer of grime.
  17. 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.
  18. Tesla
    You might not learn everything there is to know about Tesla — that’s what the internet is for — but you will nonetheless feel illuminated by his presence.
  19. The Crimes That Bind
    Roth is never less than a treat as a woman whose veil of class and privilege is being slowly lifted to reveal her misplaced loyalties. The Crimes That Bind might feel leaden, but Alicia’s transformation feels lighter than air.
  20. Desert One
    Though comprehensive and often stirring, the accounts lack new insight or analytical heft.
  21. The 24th
    This stultifyingly earnest movie makes its points with such a heavy hand that its horrors struggle to resonate.
  22. Unhinged
    While Derrick Borte’s filmmaking is bluntly efficient — and the vehicular stunt work impressive — the character is a windup toy, a dumb and dirty symbol of male grievance.
  23. Cut Throat City
    The reversals the characters suffer across the movie’s running time are epic, and the movie’s finale unfolds to genuinely startling effect.
  24. Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula
    Here, after the gunfire dies down, terror at times gives way to a melancholy that can be quite affecting even if the message remains familiar: We have met the zombie, and it is us.
  25. The One and Only Ivan
    Mostly The One and Only Ivan consists of fairly standard Disney lessons, about the hardships of losing parents (real and surrogate) and how difficult it is to embrace change.
  26. Emperor
    Okeniyi has a strong presence that conveys a genuine moral authority.
  27. Coup 53
    Is Coup 53 trustworthy in every respect? Perhaps not. Both as a detective story and as a deep dive into a world event whose consequences linger, it is bracing, absorbing filmmaking.
  28. Boys State
    By eliding the Legion’s history and focusing on winning personalities, the filmmakers have made an engaging movie about some kids who — as their jokes give way to debates, stratagems and even shocks — already seem to be drafting their own more interesting sequel.
  29. Project Power
    The humanity of the leads fills up the hollowness, putting flesh, or at least charm and attitude, on their archetypes.
  30. An Easy Girl
    Sultry, but never sleazy, observant yet nonjudgmental, An Easy Girl is more than just a tale of innocence and experience. Taking a nuanced look at sexual awakening and, to a lesser extent, class distinction, the movie has a charming flightiness that builds to an unexpectedly touching climax.
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