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For 4,829 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.8 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Days of Being Wild (re-release)
Lowest review score: 0 Oh, Ramona!
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,013 out of 4829
  2. Mixed: 1,308 out of 4829
  3. Negative: 508 out of 4829
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  1. Proxima
    A film that takes so much care to spend time on a different perspective—on the woman juggling ambition and love without sacrifice—feels vital. At the same time, during the restrained and contemplative journey that precedes liftoff, “Proxima” often feels like it is waiting for a more devastating threat – you can do all the preparation in the world, and it still won’t prevent the fallout of the big leap when it happens.
  2. Synchronic
    The kind of brainy, absorbing, all-out thrilling cinema that’s in dangerously short supply these days.
  3. Downton Abbey
    There are enough subplots to fill every room in the estate, but none of these stories are fleshed out.
  4. Color Out of Space
    Stanley ratchets up the off-kilter humor while playing down the deep melancholy present in the short story’s original text. This observation could be seen as a knock on the director’s approach, but for audiences going in with zero expectations beyond a good time, the interlaced humor feels like nothing more than playing to Cage’s unique strengths.
  5. Disappearance at Clifton Hill
    Tonally confusing ... For all its strange and specific flavor, "Clifton Hill" is too tame and tepid to truly work as weird noir.
  6. True History of the Kelly Gang
    Kurzel’s prismatic view of Kelly’s life and times goes to gnarlier and more vivid places than superficially similar period pieces.
  7. The Personal History of David Copperfield
    Unfortunately, Iannucci and Blackwell are so intent on making every quip funny, they lose the story.
  8. Ema
    Larraín’s Ema will grate some. Even so, it’s one of the most ambitious and visually stunning films of the year.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Guest of Honour
    While the non-linear structure of Guest of Honour makes for a more thrilling watch than if it had played out chronologically, the story can be uneven and unsatisfying in places.
  10. Endings, Beginnings
    It’s a mighty snoozy affair, in which we discover that Doremus’s cinematic style —intimate, personal, and improvisation — has not so much solidified as cauterized.
  11. Babyteeth
    Given the subject matter, it’s difficult not to stray into mawkishness of some kind. But even with mistakes, the power of the main narrative is hard to erode.
  12. Jojo Rabbit
    Taika Waititi’s self-proclaimed “anti-hate satire” “Jojo Rabbit” exists in service of a single idea, a notion so desperately idealistic that it lands somewhere between naïveté and disingenuousness.
  13. Hope Gap
    The problem, unfortunately, is that Hope Gap is based on Nicholson’s play “The Retreat from Moscow” and the proceedings never really leaves the theater. Despite the director’s attempts to throw in [a few] drone shots to break up the drama and make the affairs inherently more cinematic, there are few scenes that don’t seem as though they would be more intriguing played out in front of a live audience.
  14. The Goldfinch
    Perhaps the pieces could have held together with the right leading man as glue. Elgort is, assuredly, not that.
  15. Dolemite Is My Name
    In playing a man who was so clearly among his comic ancestors and influences, we see, for the first time in a long time, Murphy’s sheer joy of performance, the thing that made his early work in films like “48 HRS.” and “Beverly Hills Cop” so electrifying.
  16. Just Mercy
    It’s just uninspired, a by-the-books courtroom drama, full of big speeches about justice and equality and Doing What’s Right, moved along by montages and fake-outs.
  17. Blackbird
    The picture’s biggest flaw is that it’s so mellow it occasionally veers into inertia.
  18. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
    Around the two men, Heller creates a world that blurs the lines between every form of communication to serve the panoramic impact of her sensitive, almost magical design.
  19. Knives Out
    The genre maestro has his audience in good hands, “good” in this instance meaning both “skilled, capable, expert” and “decent, ethically sound.” He’s assembled a dazzling contraption that, if twisted in just the right way, pops open to reveal a nugget of wisdom crystallized by the cathartic final shot: we only really own what we earn.
  20. Hustlers
    What elevates Hustlers from an entertaining con job flick to something noteworthy is that the racket isn’t inherent to the story Scafaria wants to tell. Many filmmakers will say their film tackles female empowerment, but few do the legwork to make an integral and authentic part of the story.
  21. Ms. Purple
    Chu’s performance is astonishing.
  22. Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
    The beauty of Lina Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice is the sound of other voices.
  23. First Cow
    First Cow is faint, deliberately paced filmmaking where you can often hear a pin drop. But in its tiny way, the modest and gentle little film is moving and poetic.
  24. The Assistant
    Clinical in nature and matter-of-fact (but still affecting), The Assistant is essentially a procedural about being a personal assistant to a powerful Hollywood man and all that entails.
  25. The Aeronauts
    A hodgepodge of a story that only really works when Glaisher and Wren are in the sky. And when they are it’s absolutely gorgeous.
  26. The Two Popes
    Somehow the filmmakers found lightheartedness and – gasp – laughs in a story of political intrigue at the top of the notoriously buttoned-up Catholic Church.
  27. The King
    In spite of all the reasons that this film should have been another "Outlaw King" – silly and self-important – it manages to cleverly duck and dive around nearly all of them. It’s a feat that speaks to the deftness and intelligence of the approach that Michôd and Edgerton take with their writing and direction, giving us an epic period piece that actually fulfills much of that ambition.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    It: Chapter Two
    Despite some misplaced comedy, a few questionable creative decisions, and tonal inconsistencies, It: Chapter Two brings it all home with a remarkable third act that provides one of the most relatable, moving, and emotionally satisfying conclusions.
  29. The Perfect Candidate
    It may be too gentle to leave a deep impression, but its sweetness is also well-earned and nice to savor.
  30. Wasp Network
    There’s intricate, and then there’s messy. In a story of unspooling complexity and multiple double-crosses, the biggest trouble with Wasp Network is that it can be flat-out confusing.
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