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For 20,269 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 5% same as the average critic
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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: 9,377 out of 20269
  2. Mixed: 8,428 out of 20269
  3. Negative: 2,464 out of 20269
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  1. The Addams Family 2
    Where it could lean into the typically bone-dry Addams family humor, this film more often relies on poop jokes, explosions and the musical talents of Snoop Dogg. It’s sure to entertain little ones, but parents may find themselves itching for something more impish.
  2. Enormous: The Gorge Story
    [A] friendly and entirely uncritical documentary.
  3. Coming Home in the Dark
    While the whole thing is ruthlessly well done, it also sometimes seems to lean into a kind of moral relativism.
  4. Falling for Figaro
    [A] thoroughly generic and often monotonous romance.
  5. Mayday
    For a film about misandrist revolutionaries, Mayday lacks the courage of its convictions — it sets up boogeymen as targets only to shoot them point blank, in broad daylight.
  6. Bingo Hell
    Despite the generally humorous vibe, Bingo Hell quietly accumulates an unignorable pathos.
  7. Black as Night
    The special effects are fine, if unremarkable, but the actors are into it and the script manages to be thoughtful without dampening the fun.
  8. Karen Dalton: In My Own Time
    An excellent documentary directed by Richard Peete and Robert Yapkowitz.
  9. The Many Saints of Newark
    In the end, the best thing about “The Many Saints of Newark” is that it makes you think about “The Sopranos,” but that’s also the worst thing about it.
  10. Venom: Let There Be Carnage
    Let There Be Carnage flourishes in high-energy moments and feeds off low expectations; it’s the mold in the Avengers’ shower.
  11. Old Henry
    Old Henry makes a solid, honorable go of proving once again that the foursquare western isn’t dead, though in paying homage to its forebears, it inevitably stands in their very long shadows.
  12. Stop and Go
    Everton and Call are charming enough, and Everton is a particularly magnetic physical performer, but their high jinks . . . are hit-and-miss. But mostly miss.
  13. The Guilty
    Essentially a one-man show, The Guilty necessarily vibrates to the rhythms of its lead.
  14. Titane
    For all its reckless style and velocity, Titane doesn’t seem to know where it wants to go.
  15. No Time to Die
    The overall vibe — a look that is both opulent and generic; a tone that mixes brisk professionalism with maundering self-pity; an aggressive, exhausting fusion of grandiosity and fun — is more superhero saga than espionage caper.
  16. No One Gets Out Alive
    The movie has not bothered to connect its ideas.
  17. Birds of Paradise
    Structured around a countdown to the ultimate prize, the story is a soapy slog of sabotage and betrayal. Sex and drugs are as prevalent as pliés, the absence of a likable character as irksome as the constant conniving.
  18. Dear Evan Hansen
    Treacly and manipulative, Dear Evan Hansen turns villain into victim and grief into an exploitable vulnerability. It made me cringe.
  19. Intrusion
    It’s an exercise in watching someone have the world’s slowest revelation.
  20. The Village Detective: a song cycle
    Morrison, who is the producer, director and editor of this strangely intoxicating film, is a cinematic investigator of the first stripe.
  21. The Starling
    Blatant product placement, unconvincing bird effects and awful soundtrack selections all undermine a potentially wrenching, difficult premise with utter bogusness.
  22. East of the Mountains
    In a star’s turn, Skerritt reveals the tiniest fissures of vulnerability in his unfaltering portrayal of a cardiologist who is ailing and grieving — and fed up with both.
  23. My Little Pony: A New Generation
    However generic (just this year, “Raya and the Last Dragon” depicted a similar treasure hunt geared toward bringing together diverse groups), the film’s messaging about unity and the need for a new generation to band together against misinformation and rabble rousing isn’t the worst thing.
  24. I'm Your Man
    Edging now and then into the surreal, this unusual and tender little movie gingerly interrogates the gulf between digital and biological wiring.
  25. El Planeta
    This is a dry comedy that elicits amused recognition rather than belly laughs, and Ulman, as a first-time feature director, makes canny decisions to set a wry tone.
  26. The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
    Andresen’s determination to rise above misfortune, and his hopes for himself, make this movie less than a total tragedy. But it’s an often shudder-inducing cautionary tale.
  27. Everybody's Talking About Jamie
    Jonathan Butterell’s film, now streaming on Amazon, is a charmer, every bit as sunny, confident and ultimately compelling as Jamie himself.
  28. In Balanchine's Classroom
    There is a beautiful act of translation that this documentary observes, as Balanchine’s former students — now wizened teachers themselves — attempt to render his movements into speech.
  29. Los Últimos Frikis
    The film’s enduring hook is the spectacle of a self-proclaimed revolutionary government that can’t abide the rebellion of rock without bureaucratic oversight.
  30. Saint-Narcisse
    For the most part, LaBruce tries to maintain fidelity to the idea that camp is best performed straight. If keeping up the pretense of unwinking entertainment causes the pace to drag at times, at least this movie never fails to follow through on its scandalous promise.
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