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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. Happy Death Day 2U
    Jessica Rothe as Tree is still an appealing presence. But the film is overstuffed with unfunny self-parodying gore slapstick, half-felt sentimentality and semi-meta sci-fi.
  2. The Unicorn
    Isabelle Dupuis and Tim Geraghty have made a grim and haunting documentary about what it means to burn bright, then die alone.
  3. Fighting with My Family
    Like its amiable, irresistible ménage, Fighting With My Family softens its rougher edges with humor. It’s often broadly funny but never mean or patronizing; it takes the Knights, their eccentricities and quixotic aspirations seriously, but not enough to squelch the fun.
  4. Clara's Ghost
    As is perhaps appropriate, given the comic occupations of the Reynolds (and the Elliott) family, this unusual, unsettling and terrific little film presents itself not as a domestic opera, but as a family comedy.
  5. Ruben Brandt, Collector
    The movie is fun to look at without quite being exciting to watch. This is mostly because the story never fully lives up to the ideas, and the ideas themselves are fuzzy and scattered.
  6. Sorry Angel
    It took a while for this digressive movie to get its hooks in me, but once it did, Sorry Angel didn’t let go.
  7. Alita: Battle Angel
    A pileup of clichés in service to technological whiz-bangery, “Alita” is one more story of the not quite human brought to life with hubris and bleeding-edge science.
  8. Birds of Passage
    Instead of stepping back to explain the beliefs and practices of its main characters, it plunges you into the reality of their lives, trusting that both their humanity and their distinctiveness will be apparent, that they are no more inherently mysterious — or inherently noble — than anyone else.
  9. Isn't It Romantic
    The film’s reliance on conventions even as it snickers at them gives it the faint air of a con.
  10. What Men Want
    While What Men Want starts off as a stinging critique, it undermines that message with one of Hollywood’s favorite idiotic subplots.
  11. Cold Pursuit
    I can’t deny that the glum, resentful, not-giving-a-damn masculine vibe of Cold Pursuit has its appeal, as does Moland’s blunt knack for efficient screen violence.
  12. To Dust
    You can see what this movie is after, something cockeyed but sincere, something in the neighborhood of Paul Mazursky, Elaine May or Alexander Payne. But the writing and filmmaking (Snyder directed) just aren’t quick enough.
  13. The Prodigy
    The movie’s occasional chills do little to obscure the thin plotting, problematic pacing and a central mystery that’s left aggravatingly vague.
  14. High Flying Bird
    The intellectual virtuosity on display is somehow both ostentatious and casual. The performances — Holland’s in particular, full of sadness, guile and audacity — feel the same way.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dear Ex
    It is a remarkably affecting and cogent picture.
  16. One Million American Dreams
    This documentary makes a powerful case that the city’s lost dead are due more honor than what Hart Island currently extends.
  17. Berlin, I Love You
    Most of this movie, which is almost entirely in English, is taken up with tone-deaf humanist tales.
  18. Under the Eiffel Tower
    The film is yet another ode to the restorative magic of wine country sunshine, which apparently also has the power to expose the story’s egregious midlife-crisis clichés.
  19. Untogether
    There’s scarcely a behavior or line reading in this exasperating relationship drama that doesn’t feel like affectation. Fraudulence might be a plot point, but only the writer and director, Emma Forrest, knows why it has to permeate the entire movie.
  20. The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot
    There is something admirably perverse about a movie that treats the killings of Hitler and Bigfoot as secondary to a character study of a crusty old man and his regrets, but that doesn’t make the film less dull or deflating to watch.
  21. The Gospel of Eureka
    Favoring the superficial over the substantive, The Gospel of Eureka keeps skirting opportunities to excavate experience.
  22. Lords of Chaos
    Akerlund, a veteran music-video director who intersperses Lords of Chaos with mildly surrealistic bursts, never establishes a coherent or interesting point of view. The tone unproductively veers from the goofy to the creepy, which creates a sense that he was still figuring it out in the editing.
  23. The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part
    The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part isn’t as distractingly fun, shiny and bright as the more satisfying franchise installments. It drags and sometimes bores, which makes it easier for your mind to drift elsewhere.
  24. Everybody Knows
    Farhadi’s choreography of the shift from rowdy celebration to frantic desperation is the most effective part of the movie, and he keeps the suspense going on several fronts.
  25. Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga
    The makers of the Bollywood movie Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga have a touching, if slightly demented, belief in the transformative power of art. How to combat ugly stereotypes and entrenched beliefs? Put on a show!
    • 19 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Polar
    If Polar were a teenager, it might be content to chug Mountain Dew while playing first-person shooter games and trolling innocents online. Unfortunately, Polar is a movie, and if it has any redeeming qualities, it chooses to keep them a secret.
  27. They Shall Not Grow Old
    Peter Jackson has taken a mass of World War I archival clips from Britain’s Imperial War Museum and fashioned it into a brisk, absorbing and moving experience.
  28. Daughter of Mine
    Ardent and primal, Daughter of Mine addresses complicated ideas with head-clearing simplicity.
  29. The Unicorn
    Robert Schwartzman’s direction is blah, his story labored and the supporting characters one-note.
  30. Piercing
    The movie gains momentum as it indulges in hallucinogenic phantasmagoria. Whatever you make of its intentions, it’s certainly exceptional in its visual distinction.
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