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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 4% same as the average critic
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On average, this publication grades 7.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Hooligan Sparrow
Lowest review score: 0 Followers
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,708 out of 11162
  2. Mixed: 4,553 out of 11162
  3. Negative: 1,901 out of 11162
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  1. A Silent Voice
    It has some interesting visuals, but A Silent Voice demands investment in the redemption of someone who’s impossible to root for.
  2. Never Here
    Up through the ambiguous ending, Thoman withholds the story’s bigger puzzle pieces, which is satisfying when the focus is on Miranda’s quietly traumatic unraveling. Yet as a mystery, Never Here teases too much naturalism to get away with the haunting abstruseness Lynch does in his masterful return to Twin Peaks.
  3. Killing Gunther
    It’s little more than a diverting sketch, but its characters justify its ninety minutes, and Killam’s unremitting enthusiasm is occasionally contagious.
  4. Jungle
    While the horror director successfully distills Ghinsberg’s spare prose into a succession of terrifying images, McLean can’t seem to help straying into the tackier elements of horror.
  5. Tragedy Girls
    If Scream and Heathers shacked up and had murderous, millennial offspring, it might look a lot like Tragedy Girls.
  6. One of Us
    The film is a nuanced and moving illustration of the dilemma facing doubting members of the growing Hasidic community in New York City.
  7. Tempestad
    Huezo’s approach situates us right there beside Miriam — it’s as if a new acquaintance is unburdening herself to trek south together.
  8. Tom of Finland
    The film is jammed with incident and detail but there’s little flow to the storytelling.
  9. Breathe
    The film lives up to its own characters’ thesis: that disability need not define a person — or even the film about that person.
  10. Wonderstruck
    There is so much packed in here; Wonderstruck is simultaneously the densest and loosest film Haynes has made. And, like many stories based on books for children, much of it makes more emotional than logical sense.
  11. Human Flow
    You’re right not to trust a film critic who calls a movie “stunning.” But let me say this about Human Flow, the epic new documentary surveying the scope of the global refugee crisis, from Chinese artist-activist Ai Weiwei: It stunned me, in the truest sense of the word.
  12. Jane
    There are no loose ends or wasted time; everything builds to a rising crescendo that makes you feel like your heart is going to burst. The immense strength of this remarkable woman is on such powerful display that, twenty minutes into the film, tears welled from my eyes and did not stop, even after I left the theater.
  13. Wasted! The Story of Food Waste
    As with many recent environmental documentaries, the filmmakers’ call to action is simple and upbeat: This isn’t so hard, people, we can do it if we try!
  14. Te Ata
    Nathan Frankowski’s biopic has the saccharine, deliberate feel of a Hallmark movie, that doesn’t make the woman at its center any less inspirational.
  15. Monogamish
    Instead of finding one answer to his question, Ruspoli takes the film’s title to heart, ending Monogamish on a big ¯_(ツ)_/¯.
  16. Sylvio
    Birney and Audley have an impressive visual sense — the smart framing and thrifty, ingenious production design (by Peter Davis) at times suggest a Wes Anderson–directed installment of Between Two Ferns — and also the good sense to lean on Birney’s nuanced physical performance.
  17. Marshall
    Even in this glossy pulp fictionalization, Marshall is filled above all else with truths that still demand telling.
  18. B&B
    Ahearne deftly builds the suspense, raising the stakes before steering the story into surprising new directions. Despite its modern premise, B&B feels classic — a Hitchcockian nail-biter without a platinum blonde in sight.
  19. Diamond Island
    Maybe this is a mood more than a movie, but it is a haunting one.
  20. The Departure
    Wilson’s film, a quiet wonder, emphasizes the courage it takes to choose the hard work of living.
  21. Thy Father's Chair
    This immersive, richly detailed snapshot of hoarders undergoing a mandated apartment cleaning is equal parts horror film and existential howl.
  22. 78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene
    This doc could have been a mess, frankly. But Philippe has put the film together smartly, taking us from the general to the particular.
  23. For Ahkeem
    Levine and Van Soest (who are both white) deserve credit for eliding or treating obliquely a number of seemingly obvious narrative beats.
  24. Professor Marston & the Wonder Women
    The most exceptional element of Professor Marston and the Wonder Women might actually be its comforting, radical normalcy.
  25. Only the Brave
    Only the Brave is a visually splendid, spellbinding, and surreal movie that also happens to be an emotionally shattering, over-the-top ugly-cry for the ages.
  26. Lucky
    Lynch has crafted an almost proudly minor work, a hangout movie whose reason for being is Stanton’s presence.
  27. The Florida Project
    Though Moonee’s story may not have a Hollywood happy ending when she’s grown and the world has been cruel, Baker has created an indomitable character who’s at least got a fighting chance.
  28. Una
    There’s nothing wrong with stylization and opening things up (usually, these are good things), and Andrews has impressive command of his frame. But here, the extra-cinematic adornments seem somewhat unnecessary, as Una’s chief power lies in its two striking lead performances.
  29. The Mountain Between Us
    Despite some frightening (and effective) scenes of slippery slopes and aggravated wildlife, the film’s heart lies in watching these characters discover in themselves and each other the will to press on.
  30. Better Watch Out
    It’s only October, but Christmas has come early for horror fans.
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