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For 11,478 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 0 Dolittle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,014 out of 11478
  2. Mixed: 3,069 out of 11478
  3. Negative: 2,395 out of 11478
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  1. Songbird
    I’ll say one other nice thing: The film isn’t terribly long. You’ll keep waiting for the suspense to kick in. Spoiler alert: It never really does, except feebly, after about an hour and 15 minutes. And then, unceremoniously, it’s over.
  2. Let Them All Talk
    It takes us someplace, yes, but the trip is just this side of transporting.
  3. 40 Years a Prisoner
    So many of our problems remain, but 40 Years a Prisoner presents a valuable primer on what mistakes not to repeat.
  4. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
    Wolfe keeps the production simple, albeit with attractively rich visual values and gorgeous costumes, allowing the performances to exert their mesmerizing force. And nowhere is that magnetism more palpable than when Davis and Boseman are going toe to toe, their energies repelling one another one moment and fusing the next.
  5. Mayor
    What Mayor lacks in terms of wiki-esque biography it more than makes up for in immediacy and exquisite timing.
  6. 76 Days
    Devoid of muckraking sensationalism, it instead evolves into something more tactful, and compassionate, as teams of exhausted medical professionals do anything to save their patients’ lives, or at least grace their final moments with gestures of caring and connection.
  7. Sound of Metal
    It’s a small film made larger by Ahmed’s ability to take something so interior — hearing loss — and make it so visible, so palpable.
  8. The Croods: A New Age
    The anarchic spirit of the film suggests the screenwriters (brothers Kevin and Dan Hageman, Paul Fisher and Bob Logan) may also have been a little high on bee venom when they wrote this thing.
  9. Small Axe: Lovers Rock
    McQueen’s vocabulary is on particularly glorious display in this lambent gem of a film.
  10. Zappa
    Zappa gives its subject his well-earned due within the rock firmament. But even more valuable, Winter gives Zappa pride of place among the most important composers of the 20th century, sharing some extraordinary performances of his little-known classical work.
  11. My Psychedelic Love Story
    Luckily, Morris caught up with Harcourt-Smith before she left for the next stop: She’s the best thing about My Psychedelic Love Story, and a far more sympathetic and compelling character than the man she almost risked her life for.
  12. Mank
    A movie made for critics, cinephiles and deep-dive film historians.
  13. Collective
    Directed by Alexander Nanau with an alert eye for character and detail, this alternately illuminating and infuriating portrait of everyday bureaucratic corruption becomes a much larger, and more disturbing, portrayal of structural incompetence, indifference and moral rot.
  14. The Last Vermeer
    It’s the film’s exploration of the ethical bartering conducted by van Meegeren — not his expertise as a copyist or his skill as a swindler — that linger after the closing credits.
  15. The Life Ahead
    The Life Ahead might be a familiar story, but as a showcase for Loren’s sensuality, star power and unfailing instincts, it feels both classic and exhilaratingly new. She’s still got it, and as this performance reminds us at every turn, she always did.
  16. Ammonite
    Rather than a movie that breaks the mold, it looks like Anning has inspired one we've seen before.
  17. Freaky
    Don’t think about it too hard. Freaky isn’t AP Bio. It’s a shop class project: a couple of mismatched planks cobbled together well enough to get a passing grade.
  18. Hillbilly Elegy
    The movie leaves us, like J.D.’s family, with only a mounting pile of baloney excuses for bad behavior.
  19. Come Away
    There are moments when the fanfic speculations of “Come Away” feel too forced and downright cockamamie; the plot, probably inevitable, becomes schematic and the near-constant state of magical thinking too sticky-sweet for words. But the enterprise is ennobled by Chapman's sense of style and a consistently strong set of performances, especially from Jolie and Oyelowo.
  20. City Hall
    With City Hall, Wiseman brings his quiet observational skills to the day-to-day operations of local government, which is why the film is so well-timed for this particular moment.
  21. Let Him Go
    Surprisingly gripping and moving modern western.
  22. Come Play
    Despite the subtext of screen addiction, it is still essentially a by-the-book monster movie, despite some better-than-average jump scares and clever rendering of Larry, who for the most part can be seen only through the camera lens of a cellphone or tablet device.
  23. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
    It’s a comedy of outrage and horror that elicits laughter not as a cure for what ails us, or even a temporary balm, but a close cousin of the feeling you get — sharp pain followed by relief — when a Band-Aid has been ripped off an open wound.
  24. American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself
    If Pelosi’s preoccupation with extremes gives short shrift to the majority of Americans who don’t see everything through a political lens, her wide range and curiosity provide a portrait that is vivid, textured and deeply disheartening.
  25. Bad Hair
    Bad Hair is a good idea buried within a scattershot, ultimately mediocre movie.
  26. Rebecca
    Rebecca is nice to look at, inoffensive, competently executed and utterly unnecessary when once, it was so much more.
  27. David Byrne’s American Utopia
    In American Utopia, Lee brings the same insight and sensitivity to Byrne’s stage show, which bursts forth with an exuberant mixture of optimistic joy and wistful nostalgia.
  28. Honest Thief
    A little bit itchy, maybe, and smelling of mothballs, but deeply, inexplicably comforting, in these uncertain times.
  29. Totally Under Control
    Matters of objective science and empirical observation have now become so mired in partisanship, authoritarian narrative and conspiracy blather that even a film this judicious and straightforwardly informative feels doomed to reach no further than its own self-selected constituency.
  30. 2 Hearts
    It’s wholesome but starchy fare: a story of sacrifice and good fortune that feels less like a movie than a marketing vehicle for the power of divine providence.
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