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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. The Two Popes
    The actors draw out both the spiritual and the psychological dimensions of their characters. The interplay, a duet with sweet and eccentric harmonies, is fascinating to observe, even as it undermines the overall structure of the narrative.
  2. Queen & Slim
    The film fumbles some of its big gestures and over-italicizes a few statements. What lingers, though, are strains of anger, ardor, sorrow and sweetness, and the quiet astonishment of witnessing the birth of a legend. This movie feels like something new, and also as if it’s been around forever, waiting for its moment.
  3. 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.
  4. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
    It’s not only Mister Rogers’s kindness that hovers over “Beautiful Day,” but also his creative spirit. Paying tribute to his skills as a composer, performer and puppeteer, the movie affirms his status as a hero of the imagination.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator
    This haunting documentary is a powerful addition to a growing body of post #MeToo films — including “Finding Neverland” and “Surviving R. Kelly” — that show how cultural power is accumulated and weaponized.
  6. Dark Waters
    You do feel Haynes’s touch now and again, particularly in the sense of menace that seeps into a crepuscular law office and in the everyday eeriness that suffuses outwardly ordinary homes that are anything but normal.
  7. Varda by Agnès
    It’s a perfect introduction and a lovely valediction.
  8. Shooting the Mafia
    Idiosyncratic to the point of alienation.
  9. 21 Bridges
    Spraying what seems like several thousand rounds of ammunition, this sturdy thriller (the big-screen feature debut of the director Brian Kirk) has no patience for nuance. It’s a big, blunt, battering ram of a movie, but it’s not dumb.
  10. Hala
    If Baig’s writing is at times thin and excessively pointed — like a classroom discussion about what it means to live an authentic life — her grasp of mood is spot on.
  11. The Courier
    This is another cinematic slab of sound and fury signifying nothing.
  12. Mr. Toilet: The World's #2 Man
    This is a puff piece of a documentary, eager to spread a message and go down easy.
  13. Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
    “Recorder” doesn’t explore the extent to which Marion’s original project of analysis was subsumed by the compulsion to tape everything. But her taping of everything created an irreproducible archive that is enlightening and the stuff of madness.
  14. Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops
    As promising as Ernie and Joe’s program may seem, there is no insight into whether the nation’s law enforcement agencies are prioritizing these humane methods.
  15. The Report
    However crucial and opportune in its truth-seeking and depictions of political trickery (Burns could hardly have known his film would plop into theaters alongside the impeachment hearings for President Trump), The Report is too often dramatically frozen, its emotions stubbornly internal.
  16. Lady and the Tramp
    The movie is middle-of-the-road rather than bad — hard to hate and harder to love.
  17. Everybody's Everything
    An engaging account of Peep’s life and the alt-music scene.
  18. Waves
    All of Shults’s stylistic brio and formal inventiveness is finally in the service of a story about love, its mutability and fragility.
  19. Atlantics
    It testifies to the variety and vitality of politically alert genre filmmaking. It’s a suspenseful, sensual, exciting movie, and therefore a deeply haunting one as well.
  20. Scandalous: The Untold Story of the National Enquirer
    The various excuses made for The Enquirer’s ethics undermine Landsman’s efforts to portray the paper as splashy, all-American fun.
  21. The Hottest August
    This collection of interactions with ordinary people is a cinematic gift both simple and multilayered, an intellectual challenge and an emotional adventure.
  22. Ford v Ferrari
    Ford v Ferrari is no masterpiece, but it is — to invoke a currently simmering debate — real cinema, the kind of solid, satisfying, nonpandering movie that can seem endangered nowadays.
  23. I Lost My Body
    The movie abounds with imagination, but is unfortunately too unnerving — even nauseating — to enjoy.
  24. To Kid or Not to Kid
    Candid and empathetic, the movie’s segments can feel rushed and unfocused; yet they have a ragged intimacy that argues implicitly for an individual’s right to choose, without interference or condemnation.
  25. The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
    An unfortunately clunky, relentlessly corny salute to Rani Laxmibai.
  26. Radioflash
    At fault is a threadbare, irritatingly vague script (by the director and artist Ben McPherson) that simply strings together a series of generic setups and forgettable characters.
  27. The Good Liar
    The real good liar is whoever convinced Mirren and McKellen to class up such thin and arbitrary material.
  28. Charlie's Angels
    Banks wants to fight a righteous fight. But she is selling stale goods in which adult women spout girl-power clichés and conform to norms that make it very clear what kind of heroines still get to fly high: young, thin, beautiful, perfectly coifed, impeccably manicured and profoundly unthreatening.
  29. Mickey and the Bear
    A sturdy, watchable character drama.
  30. Harpoon
    It’s a sparse, nasty little thriller.
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