For 3,291 reviews, this publication has graded:
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2% same as the average critic
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51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.9 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: | Hell or High Water | |
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Lowest review score: | Funny Games (2008) |
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Positive: 1,826 out of 3291
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Mixed: 1,165 out of 3291
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Negative: 300 out of 3291
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Alison Willmore
Elvis is bloated, hectic, ridiculous, and utterly shameless in all it glosses over to present its thesis on Presley as a talent too beautiful for this earth — the Christ of show business, sacrificed to our rapacious desires and the cruelties of capitalism at the age of 42. And you know what? I liked it, though my corneas did feel a little crunchy afterward.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
- Posted Jun 24, 2022
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Alison Willmore
Its most impressive trick is its underlying warmth, its understanding of the vulnerability and fallibility of its supposedly fearless artists and preening industry experts as well as of the downtrodden writer standing just on the outskirts, trying his best not to let anyone see how much discomfort he’s in.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
- Posted Jun 24, 2022
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Bilge Ebiri
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On is the most unassuming and delicate of movies, but don’t be shocked if it leaves you in ruins.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
- Posted Jun 24, 2022
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Bilge Ebiri
What’s ultimately so disappointing about Cha Cha Real Smooth is its shallow vision of growing up, which might explain why the protagonist does so little of it.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
- Posted Jun 23, 2022
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Alison Willmore
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande is a boundlessly generous and frequently surprising two-hander.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
- Posted Jun 17, 2022
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Bilge Ebiri
Here is a place, then, where everyone does as they’re told, and beneath its placid surfaces, its lush setting and clean spaces, lies a deep moral decay. This is a common theme in science fiction, but on film it’s rarely been presented as entertainingly and thoughtfully as it is in Spiderhead.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
- Posted Jun 16, 2022
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Alison Willmore
While the movie feels empty and pointless overall, it’s not without its scattered interesting elements.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
- Posted Jun 16, 2022
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Bilge Ebiri
Giannoli knows exactly which buttons to push and for how long. He takes what could have been a fussy adaptation of a dusty tome and turns it into something hugely entertaining.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
- Posted Jun 14, 2022
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Bilge Ebiri
Hustle works, and it works beautifully, thanks to Sandler’s commitment.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
- Posted Jun 10, 2022
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Bilge Ebiri
It’s frantic yet lifeless, chaotic yet pro forma. A thorough lack of care emanates from the screen.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
- Posted Jun 9, 2022
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Roxana Hadadi
Neptune Frost is a mission statement by way of a musical, and its defining image is a middle finger taking up the whole lens.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
- Posted Jun 6, 2022
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Alison Willmore
Seydoux may exude voluptuous sensuality, and Stewart may be performing a whispery, dystopian take on a sultry librarian, but the film itself has an aloof, clinical quality. What interests it is not the potential of our physical forms for pleasure and revulsion, but their inevitable failure.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
- Posted Jun 6, 2022
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Bilge Ebiri
To call Benediction a biopic would be giving biopics a bit too much credit. They don’t deserve Benediction.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
- Posted Jun 3, 2022
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Alison Willmore
Fire Island is, in other words, a reluctant romantic comedy that’s willing to acknowledge the genre’s shopworn pleasures while only begrudgingly indulging them itself. All of its best parts — and there are plenty — exist outside of that framing, which raises the question of why it’s there at all except as a means of wrestling with its author’s ambivalence about the conventional wisdom that a happy ending is the result of a pairing off.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
- Posted Jun 3, 2022
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Roxana Hadadi
Bob’s Burgers patently rejects cynicism, and The Bob’s Burgers Movie is no different. It’s a pleasantly unchallenging expansion of the family-friendship-loyalty worldview that Bouchard and the Belchers have made their own.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
- Posted May 27, 2022
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Alison Willmore
What it is, really, is a showbiz satire about media ownership and our nostalgia fixation, though it muddles its message before the tone gets too scathing. It is, after all, still a Disney movie, even if it takes a perverse pleasure in playing around with Disney’s vast catalogue of characters.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
- Posted May 20, 2022
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Jen Chaney
The whole movie-making story line is the most fun part of A New Era and gives Fellowes, who wrote the script, and director Simon Curtis an opportunity to do what Downton Abbey has always done best: explore class distinctions and how those boundaries are constantly changing.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
- Posted May 19, 2022
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Angelica Jade Bastien
Despite all the broken bones, the graphic deaths, and the copious amounts of blood, the driving idea behind Men is not bold enough to feel frightening. Instead, it’s remarkably tepid.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
- Posted May 18, 2022
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Alison Willmore
Thyberg clearly set out to create a hysteria-free look at the industry, taking on the challenge of critiquing structural issues without casting judgments on the idea of having sex on camera. Pleasure succeeds at this, though not without a cost. It’s a clear-eyed treatment of porn wedded to a character study that never comes to life.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
- Posted May 13, 2022
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Alison Willmore
All of the miseries that are revealed as the two men go about their day may be bleak, but the humor comes from the small indignities inflicted on them even as they try to go out with a bang.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
- Posted May 13, 2022
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Bilge Ebiri
Perhaps what’s most dispiriting about this Firestarter is how visually impoverished it is.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
- Posted May 13, 2022
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Roxana Hadadi
There is a sparseness to Hit the Road that reveals the intuitiveness of Panahi’s filmmaking, his grasp of these characters and how they tug and poke at each other, and his understanding of the ways fear, paranoia, and loss turn us into people we might not like, let alone recognize.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
- Posted May 12, 2022
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Angelica Jade Bastien
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is trying for a blend of horror and humor, something close to the heart and terror that Raimi was able to bring to bear throughout his career. But here, his craft has been hemmed in, gamified, leeched of color and vivacity.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
- Posted May 4, 2022
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Bilge Ebiri
There’s an unflinching, near-clinical relentlessness to the picture, but therein lies its compassion and empathy.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
- Posted Apr 29, 2022
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Bilge Ebiri
In the end, Memory’s greatest asset might be that it knows exactly what it is — a fun combination of sleazoid action and surprising emotion. It’s the best kind of B-movie.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
- Posted Apr 29, 2022
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Bilge Ebiri
In its broad strokes, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is a fairly by-the-numbers action comedy, one that sometimes wears Cage’s presence like a talisman against the bad juju of slipshod storytelling. But the talisman works because the film never loses sight of its touchingly nutty premise and because Cage remains a compelling actor.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
- Posted Apr 24, 2022
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Alison Willmore
The mechanics of Sciamma’s film are simple, but they’re realized so delicately, and with the help of such unaffected child performances, that they feel miraculous.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
- Posted Apr 24, 2022
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Alison Willmore
The Northman doesn’t invite its viewers into its world, but instead dares them to try to catch up.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
- Posted Apr 24, 2022
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Alison Willmore
If the series was conceived as a way to hold on to the fans of the original books and movies who are now grown, what’s clear in practice is it’s a children’s story staggering to support a few ambitious and deeply underdeveloped themes.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
- Posted Apr 15, 2022
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Angelica Jade Bastien
Ambulance, the latest from director Michael Bay, is a film powered by the jittery force of will and blissful confidence that comes with doing cocaine. Lots of cocaine.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
- Posted Apr 13, 2022
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