For 387 reviews, this publication has graded:
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74% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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24% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.5 points higher than other critics.
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Average Movie review score: 69
Highest review score: | Spencer | |
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Lowest review score: | Red Notice |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 283 out of 387
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Mixed: 75 out of 387
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Negative: 29 out of 387
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Josh Spiegel
This is neither a uniquely marvelous film nor a teeth-gnashing pain. It’s OK in the moment, and it evaporates as soon as the end credits roll.- Polygon
- Posted Jun 30, 2022
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Robert Daniels
This is a story written and directed by a 23-year-old. That reality defines Cha Cha Real Smooth’s truest virtue (blissful naïveté) and its grandest flaw — a blithering unawareness of reality. It’s a film defined by its myopic, narrow bandwidth.- Polygon
- Posted Jun 17, 2022
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Tasha Robinson
It’s appropriately goofy given the premise and the structure, but a brisk pace and a committed cast turns it into a diverting indie horror-movie spin on a familiar gimmick.- Polygon
- Posted Jun 17, 2022
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Tasha Robinson
Lightyear is so clearly calibrated to be something more: a thoughtful meditation on the passage of time. And on that level, the film never hits as hard as it’s meant to.- Polygon
- Posted Jun 13, 2022
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Katie Rife
In spite of the dystopian premise, Kosinski brings a light touch to Spiderhead. Colorful cinematography and spirited editing contrast with the characters’ tragic backstories and bleak living conditions, and highlight the disparity between the chemically induced highs and nightmarish lows of Abnesti’s experiments.- Polygon
- Posted Jun 13, 2022
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Jesse Hassenger
If we have to wade through some silly, pandering nostalgia to get to this pleasingly vast dinosaur playground, so be it.- Polygon
- Posted Jun 8, 2022
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Robert Daniels
Between the sincerity shared by Sandler and Hernangomez and the high-level craft, Hustle provides enough diversions to hoist our hearts high, even if we wind up craving more specificity from these characters and their travails.- Polygon
- Posted Jun 8, 2022
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Joshua Rivera
The animation is gorgeous and crisp, and the script keeps its referential nature low-key. This could easily be someone’s first Bob’s Burgers experience, and it remains likable enough throughout that it probably wouldn’t be their last.- Polygon
- Posted Jun 3, 2022
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Jesse Hassenger
Its creepy unease lingers, and just as in It Follows and The Guest, Monroe is the face of that unease. That’s the power of a great scream queen.- Polygon
- Posted Jun 3, 2022
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Tasha Robinson
It’s a movie that may look a lot better in the rearview mirror than it does in the moment.- Polygon
- Posted Jun 3, 2022
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Jesse Hassenger
The movie gets livelier every time Stewart appears, as if on a contact high from her intoxication. Crimes of the Future needs those extra jolts of weirded-out star power. In spite of its arresting imagery, it’s sometimes more engaging to think about than to actually watch.- Polygon
- Posted Jun 2, 2022
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Tasha Robinson
Vogt makes deliberate, thoughtful choices that amp up the story’s drama and horror without ever turning it into the kind of action-centric special-effects showcase Americans have come to expect even from their low-budget superpower stories.- Polygon
- Posted May 19, 2022
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Petrana Radulovic
More importantly, the jokes are sharp, and a lot of them lean on adult sensibilities — though in the way the union bit in Shrek 2 does, instead of being crude or cruel.- Polygon
- Posted May 17, 2022
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Katie Rife
Firestarter 2022 is a marginal improvement on the ’84 original, if only because it has a handful of redeeming qualities rather than virtually none at all.- Polygon
- Posted May 13, 2022
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Oli Welsh
It’s a slavish tribute to the first Top Gun. But it’s also a better film, and perhaps more importantly, a much nicer one: more grown-up, more generous, and more lighthearted, in line with its more mature star.- Polygon
- Posted May 12, 2022
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Austen Goslin
[Rob Jabbaz] can’t find the proper measure of finesse and shamelessness to marry his grotesque gore and violence to, given the moral lessons he seems to think he’s obligated to offer.- Polygon
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Tasha Robinson
Men is nearly unique as a horror movie in Harper’s specific response to the threats she faces. But even as she parts ways with the usual wailing victim image, the film still holds onto its sense of the uncanny and horrific. Even seasoned body-horror fans may be shaken by where this film goes in terms of its bloody physicality.- Polygon
- Posted May 9, 2022
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Robert Daniels
Sy and Lafitte still carry the day. They give the story a kinetic energy and a loose rhythm, which makes the narrative’s meandering more palatable, even as it fails to break out of the familiar action-flick mold.- Polygon
- Posted May 6, 2022
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Katie Rife
While efficiency and originality are both pluses in genre filmmaking, neither of them should come at the expense of creating an immersive world that sparks the imagination, or characters the audience actually cares about. With both of those qualities so woefully underdeveloped, Escape the Field feels not only like a midseason episode, but a premature series finale.- Polygon
- Posted May 6, 2022
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Katie Rife
Shepherd is more of a bandwagon-jumping exercise in arthouse horror films about grief than a truly bone-chilling example of one.- Polygon
- Posted May 5, 2022
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Oli Welsh
It might leave audiences feeling brutalized, exhilarated, amused, annoyed, or all of the above, but will it leave them feeling like they want to drop a thousand dollars on a handbag? They will certainly feel like they’ve just watched a Gaspar Noé film.- Polygon
- Posted May 5, 2022
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Raimi’s cinematic wizardry lends loads of dazzle to the pack of references and callbacks that make up a large part of the film’s middle. But strip away all the sparks, and Multiverse of Madness is simply leaning on the same cross-referential thrill-of-recognition joy-button that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been frantically pressing for more than a decade now.- Polygon
- Posted May 3, 2022
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Joshua Rivera
It’s worth remembering this era of cinema, and everything it says about specifically male fantasies and male rage. But it isn’t necessarily worth remembering Memory itself.- Polygon
- Posted Apr 28, 2022
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Kambole Campbell
Bubble is tender, even meditative. But its best ideas are sadly swept away amid a wave of half-formed ones.- Polygon
- Posted Apr 28, 2022
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Oli Welsh
There are no stakes, and there’s little that’s offensive, except to the art and craft of cinema. It’s funny. It’s glossy. It’s a fantasy. It’s safe. It’s soft.- Polygon
- Posted Apr 27, 2022
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Oli Welsh
The warmth and tenderness with which the film explores the relationship between Brian and his creation are real.- Polygon
- Posted Apr 25, 2022
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Petrana Radulovic
Sometimes the acting is stiff and sometimes the plot points are routine, but overall, it’s a transformative magic act, taking the familiar and using a few flourishes and sparkles to turn it into something magical.- Polygon
- Posted Apr 22, 2022
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Jesse Hassenger
Even when The Bad Guys resembles other movies, it’s stealing from them gracefully, with its own sensibility and energy.- Polygon
- Posted Apr 22, 2022
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Katie Rife
Petite Maman is the work of an unusually sensitive filmmaker, and it speaks to Sciamma’s skill as a director that she’s able to express the nuances of this complicated dynamic through such simple actions and words.- Polygon
- Posted Apr 21, 2022
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Joshua Rivera
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair isn’t just a movie about connecting, it’s about becoming. It’s a powerful acknowledgement of how confounding and frightening young adulthood can be. But it’s also a film about hope.- Polygon
- Posted Apr 15, 2022
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