Vox's Scores
- Movies
For 373 reviews, this publication has graded:
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50% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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47% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.2 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 69
Highest review score: | Past Lives | |
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Lowest review score: | Geostorm |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 236 out of 373
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Mixed: 115 out of 373
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Negative: 22 out of 373
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Alex Abad-Santos
It challenges ideas about great power and responsibility, stories about the worlds we live in and the things we’re searching for, and our concepts of heroism and morality. And it does so with a gorgeous, imaginative animated style that makes each world seem limitless.- Vox
- Posted Jun 1, 2023
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Alex Abad-Santos
Somehow, in this fantasy of mermaids and magical spells and a world compelled by curiosity, there’s a frustratingly fastidious commitment to terrestrial dreariness. And it’s not a world I’m longing to be a part of, not even for two hours.- Vox
- Posted May 30, 2023
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Alissa Wilkinson
Emotional complexity, the manifold feelings her character is experiencing, and her well-trained attempts to stay cool, flash across Sweeney’s face. We start to really see what she’s thinking, and that leads to a bigger, more unnerving demonstration of the abject failure of the systems meant to protect us to do anything like that.- Vox
- Posted May 30, 2023
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Alissa Wilkinson
Dial of Destiny is loaded with related ironies, though they’re mostly extratextual. On the screen, it’s fairly straightforward: a sentimental vehicle, one that hits familiar beats and tells familiar jokes, comfort food to make you feel like a kid again for a little while.- Vox
- Posted May 25, 2023
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Alex Abad-Santos
When I say that Guardians Vol. 3 is the best Marvel film since Endgame, however, I mean it as a genuine compliment: The movie is great and not just the best house on a bad block.- Vox
- Posted May 4, 2023
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Alex Abad-Santos
What you see — the bright, beautiful sweetness of it all — is what you get. Just like the video game. And it doesn’t yearn to be much more than that.- Vox
- Posted Apr 10, 2023
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Alissa Wilkinson
Showing Up is a knowing nod at everyone who finds making creative work a nearly impossible task amid the mundane distractions of ordinary life.- Vox
- Posted Apr 10, 2023
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Alissa Wilkinson
Watching Air, I found myself thinking that maybe what Hollywood needs is a movie like this: fresh, fun, full of movie stars doing their movie star thing without the aid of capes or pre-chewed IP, opening only in theaters. A story about risk-taking that could prove the reward was worth it. A weird, wild sneaker of a movie, if you will.- Vox
- Posted Apr 7, 2023
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Alissa Wilkinson
The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future is mysterious and elegiac, a tale of warning about a collapsing ecosystem and about deep family wounds.- Vox
- Posted Mar 30, 2023
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Alex Abad-Santos
Yibo’s performance seals Hidden Blade’s status as an unexpected pleasure. Once finally assembled, its cinematic intricacies yield infinite rewards.- Vox
- Posted Mar 10, 2023
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Alissa Wilkinson
There are no easy answers, but Simon Lereng Wilmont’s careful camerawork and clear rapport with the children lead to uncommonly candid footage and, occasionally, a sense of hope.- Vox
- Posted Feb 21, 2023
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Alissa Wilkinson
It’s a gorgeous film, and Chou’s camera moves in a way that frames and heightens Freddie’s emotion. This is a mood piece, at times one with almost abstract aims, and it’s a joy to be swept away in it.- Vox
- Posted Feb 17, 2023
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Alissa Wilkinson
The Pod Generation foregrounds Rachel and Alvy’s relationship, exploring how technologies change our most intimate connections and raising questions from a world not so unlike our own.- Vox
- Posted Feb 2, 2023
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Alissa Wilkinson
It’s hard to imagine Past Lives not being one of 2023’s most talked-about films, and it richly deserves the honor.- Vox
- Posted Jan 25, 2023
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Alex Abad-Santos
M3gan takes the idea of a kid knowing too much about the world and grafts it to an extreme premise, stretching it to the point of absurdity. But the kernel of fear that it begins with isn’t as alien as it seems.- Vox
- Posted Jan 23, 2023
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Alissa Wilkinson
Weeks after I saw it, I cannot quite decide if Babylon is a good film. But I’m entranced, and moved, and frustrated, and transported — which is what Hollywood has built its business on accomplishing from the very beginning.- Vox
- Posted Dec 28, 2022
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Alissa Wilkinson
Its plot is hacky; it’s got some really clunky characters; the dialogue is, at times, unthinkably stupid. (“The way of water connects all things” is the kind of line that sounds profound until you really think about it.) But this new Avatar filled an awe-shaped void in my heart, and for that, I thank James Cameron.- Vox
- Posted Dec 20, 2022
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Alissa Wilkinson
The film works on two levels: one is about the massacre; the other is about the psychology employed not only by perpetrators, but by the powerful forces that back them up.- Vox
- Posted Nov 29, 2022
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Alissa Wilkinson
The joy of Glass Onion is that you can read into it, or just let it flow over you and enjoy the ride.- Vox
- Posted Nov 23, 2022
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Alissa Wilkinson
The break between Colm and Pádraic works on its own terms, but it’s also a startlingly violent fight between men who are basically brothers, a fight that has a logic to it and yet is heartbreaking precisely because of the depth of history between them. It’s the conflict in microcosm.- Vox
- Posted Oct 25, 2022
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Alissa Wilkinson
What Descendant demonstrates is how ignoring the real story — the ship sunk to the bottom of the river by people who find its truths uncomfortable — doesn’t just steal people’s history from them. It impoverishes the future. More than that: without facing the past with courage, exploring it without succumbing to emotional panic, there is no future.- Vox
- Posted Oct 21, 2022
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Alissa Wilkinson
To watch Tár properly requires mental recursion. The surface of each scene is perfectly legible, but the full import of what you’re watching is elusive till the end of the scene, or even the sequence. The end of the film recasts everything that’s come before it. It’s like Kierkegaard’s old saw, embodied: Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.- Vox
- Posted Oct 17, 2022
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Alissa Wilkinson
The film shows the birth of the militarization of police in America.- Vox
- Posted Sep 30, 2022
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Alissa Wilkinson
If Bullet Train is a hit, this may be the cause; it’s pure escapism at its finest, with no message or lesson at its core.- Vox
- Posted Aug 9, 2022
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Alissa Wilkinson
By the end of the story, the film’s aims are clear: to show what an absolute miracle the rescue was, and to honor the extraordinary cooperation and selflessness of those who came to help. Yes, that’s inspirational. But it also quietly counters a Hollywood history besotted with lone rangers and mavericks. Everyone matters.- Vox
- Posted Aug 2, 2022
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Alissa Wilkinson
Nope is a big, very loud, very effects-driven spectacle. It’s a movie with a thousand references to the past. It’s also a riotously entertaining thrill ride that owes portions of its plot to some of Hollywood’s most successful summer blockbusters, Jaws and Independence Day. It’s part of the culture; it can’t stand outside of it. But it functions at least a little bit as a warning, or maybe a prophecy, or a call for a reboot, or a reminder to care about what, or who, gets our attention.- Vox
- Posted Jul 25, 2022
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Not Okay is not the first film to satirize the age of influencers, but it is easily the most unsettling.- Vox
- Posted Jul 25, 2022
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Constance Grady
It’s hard to overstate just how bad Netflix’s Persuasion is, and in how many ways.- Vox
- Posted Jul 21, 2022
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Alex Abad-Santos
Lightyear itself is a sweet musing on the value of friendship, an origin story that gives the titular character a sense of purpose, and a zippy ride through an often-gorgeous cosmic world.- Vox
- Posted Jun 17, 2022
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Alex Abad-Santos
Booster and Ahn understand that the world their characters live in isn’t always generous or kind. Their wistful film also shows that despite gay life’s cruelties, it doesn’t ever mean it’s lacking in love.- Vox
- Posted Jun 10, 2022
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