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For 20,268 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 4.3 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: 9,377 out of 20268
  2. Mixed: 8,427 out of 20268
  3. Negative: 2,464 out of 20268
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  1. Oppenheimer
    “Oppenheimer” is a great achievement in formal and conceptual terms, and fully absorbing, but Nolan’s filmmaking is, crucially, in service to the history that it relates.
  2. Unknown: Cave of Bones
    As the team unearths evidence, the documentary offers a ripe window into the process of scientific discovery.
  3. Barbie
    Gerwig does much within the material’s inherently commercial parameters, though it isn’t until the finale — capped by a sharply funny, philosophically expansive last line — that you see the “Barbie” that could have been.
  4. Afire
    The German filmmaker Christian Petzold’s spiky and at times mordantly funny Afire is a tonic for moviegoers tired of nice, squishable, likable, relatable dull and dull characters.
  5. Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd
    It’s as comprehensive and coherent an account of Barrett’s counterculture tragedy as one could hope for. And while the film, co-directed by Roddy Bogawa, illuminates Barrett to a greater degree than any other account I’ve come across, it maintains the artist’s enigma.
  6. The Five Demands
    Schiller and Weiss’s direction is utilitarian, cutting together talking-head interviews with montages of the occupation set to era-appropriate protest songs. But to its credit, the lack of flashiness puts the students’ struggles for racial justice front and center, and ultimately serves to highlight a less-remembered aspect of the countercultural student movement.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    20 Days in Mariupol
    20 Days in Mariupol, a relentless and truly important documentary, engulfs us in the initial ferocity of Russia’s siege of a city whose name has become a byword for this war’s inhumanity: My Lai, Srebrenica, Aleppo, Mariupol.
  8. Final Cut
    Final Cut puts its predecessor’s ingredients through an unflattering Instagram filter. The shoot’s intentional shoddiness — authentically kitschy in the original — rings false, with Hazanavicius spelling out the crew’s missteps in such a way that flattens the humor and kills the momentum.
  9. Sound of Freedom
    It’s hard to tell if this movie avoids any conventionally exciting set pieces out of scrupulousness or just lack of inspiration. Oddly, the picture’s muted tone ultimately undercuts its solemn sense of mission.
  10. Earth Mama
    There are moments in Earth Mama, a drama about motherhood at its most fragile, when the movie’s quiet intensity seems to settle in your chest, as if a heavy stone had been placed over your heart.
  11. Gray Matter
    It’s not so much that Gray Matter is formula, but that it is clumsily made formula. Except, that is, for Isaac’s performance.
  12. Two Tickets to Greece
    Calamy has by far the livelier part, and the energy dissipates whenever Magalie isn’t drawing attention to herself.
  13. Black Ice
    Davis, a Canadian documentarian, zeros in on how hockey has been a vital part of his country’s identity, and what it has felt like for Canadian players of color who love the game to be told, from very young ages, that they do not belong.
  14. The Miracle Club
    The filmmakers go for too-easy laughs; the movie doesn’t seem to trust its audience to sit with the pain, much less to find the achy humor in it, as a more assured film might. The actors here are good, but they are not miracle workers.
  15. Theater Camp
    Clearly, the actors feel their characters in their bones.
  16. Bird Box Barcelona
    The result is a bleakly hopeless view of human nature that the finale, while cracking the door to a further expansion of the story, fails to refute.
  17. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
    Despite the new faces, there are, unsurprisingly, no real surprises in “Dead Reckoning Part One,” which features a number of dependably showstopping stunts, hits every narrative beat hard and, shrewdly, has just enough winking humor to keep the whole thing from sagging into self-seriousness.
  18. The YouTube Effect
    The internet moves quickly, perhaps too quickly for an overview this unfocused.
  19. Insidious: The Red Door
    The leaden screenplay would be easier to overlook if there were more spooky sequences.
  20. Once Upon a Time in Uganda
    Once Upon a Time in Uganda reminds you how the art of moviemaking can make dreams real.
  21. The Out-Laws
    The Out-Laws, directed by Tyler Spindel, is a slight comedy, but it’s also raucous and kickily violent, with several laugh-in-spite-of-your-better-judgment bits.
  22. The League
    This history has surely been well-covered elsewhere, but The League recounts it movingly.
  23. The Lesson
    Unfolding with a tonic intelligence and a slow accretion of menace, Alex MacKeith’s screenplay is smoothly in sync with the specific skills of each performer.
  24. Amanda
    Amanda is absurd and abrasive, but also sympathetic thanks to Porcaroli’s performance. She’s a flaming narcissist with a gooey core of vulnerability, a being forged by the fear of making herself known.
  25. Biosphere
    I can say without hyperbole that there are conversations in this movie that I have never heard before (and refuse to spoil). Better, I can confirm that Brown — the straight man to Duplass’s comic relief — delivers his half with conviction.
  26. Joy Ride
    Joy Ride processes all of its familiar ingredients into a sustained, sometimes near-berserk, barrage of jokes, interspersed with epic set pieces.
  27. Wham!
    Nothing here’s overthought or pumped up. To invoke the words of a different beacon of catchiness, “Wham!” is a teenage dream. You could drink it from a coconut.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Prisoner's Daughter
    Several moments within the director Catherine Hardwicke’s latest film Prisoner’s Daughter contain glimmers of promise, each one regrettably smothered by a pedestrian script from Mark Bacci.
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