For 5,438 reviews, this publication has graded:
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3% same as the average critic
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63% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 7.5 points lower than other critics.
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Average Movie review score: 56
Highest review score: | Zama | |
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Lowest review score: | The Eyes of My Mother |
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Positive: 2,802 out of 5438
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Mixed: 1,072 out of 5438
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Negative: 1,564 out of 5438
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Pat Brown
There isn’t anything in the bleeding-heart positions espoused by Jorge Bergoglio that complicates Pope Francis’s public persona.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Dec 3, 2019
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Diego Semerene
It’s fascinating to see Benedetta Barzini in academic action, like an ethnographer of the patriarchy herself, bringing back news from its most glamourous yet rotten core.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Dec 3, 2019
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Chuck Bowen
It’s the mix of the humane and the calculating that gives the film its empathetic power.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Dec 2, 2019
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Jake Cole
As a suspense film, it’s so sluggishly structured that it borders on the avant-garde.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Dec 2, 2019
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Derek Smith
The film is all surface, and its depiction of trauma becomes increasingly exploitative and hollow as it moves along.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Dec 2, 2019
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Steven Scaife
The film gets so lost in its affected idiosyncrasies that it stops probing any discernible human feelings.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Dec 2, 2019
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Chuck Bowen
Strickland’s film is another fetish object that rues the perils of fetishism.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 29, 2019
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Pat Brown
Its performatively extreme imagery thinly masks a rather banal view of male subjectivity and inner conflict.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 29, 2019
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Henry Stewart
The film’s tone is extremely eerie, with creeping camera movements, striking imagery, abrupt edits, and a delicately sinister score.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 29, 2019
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Pat Brown
Think Michael Mann’s Heat but in East Africa and with real-world stakes.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 26, 2019
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Chuck Bowen
Jessica Hausner confidently expresses a thorny and disturbing theme, though perhaps with too much confidence.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 26, 2019
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Jake Cole
The most thrilling and haunting details here are actively undermined by the chief technical gimmick of the film.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 26, 2019
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Individual scenes are set to the rhythm of the young women’s conversations, which at times approach Gilmore Girls-level warp speed.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 25, 2019
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Wes Greene
Its sensitivity to how something as seemingly ordinary as food can have an immense emotional impact is consistently and unobtrusively profound.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 24, 2019
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Jake Cole
For a spell, Melina Matsoukas’s film exudes the concision of an old B movie.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 22, 2019
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Throughout, the remaining participants take stock of private and career successes as well as perceived failures.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 22, 2019
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Jake Cole
It’s difficult to imagine a worse time to release Brian Kirk’s 21 Bridges than the present.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 21, 2019
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Keith Uhlich
Marielle Heller takes a script that many filmmakers would turn into cringe-inducing treacle and interrogates the sentimental trappings.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 20, 2019
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Pat Brown
Woke Disney, trying to navigate a tricky representational path, steps all over itself throughout.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 19, 2019
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Chuck Bowen
Kim Longinotto is so eager to celebrate her hero that she also glides past thornier portions of Letizia Battaglia’s life.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 18, 2019
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Pat Brown
An airport novel of a movie, Bill Condon’s The Good Liar is efficient and consumable, if a bit hollow.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 14, 2019
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Todd Haynes’s film intermittently hits upon a few original ways of representing its ripped-from-the-headlines mandate.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 14, 2019
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This kid flick is just plain smart, packed full of imagination and surprise.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 12, 2019
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All the feminist virtue-signaling in the world can’t conceal the film’s creative conservatism.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 12, 2019
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Christopher Gray
The documentary represents a city ground down by inequality and division, where millions of selves who have by and large given up on one another.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 11, 2019
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Steven Scaife
It focuses equally on moments of shared connection and incidental loss until the two feel indistinguishable.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 11, 2019
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Keith Uhlich
In the end, it can’t help but sentimentalize the better angels that supposedly reside in the land of liberty’s flawed human fabric.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 9, 2019
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Pat Brown
Clarke works hard to make the messy, perpetually flustered Kate relatable, but the film surrounds the character with a community as kitschy and false as the trinkets she sells in Santa’s shop.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 6, 2019
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Keith Watson
In the film, the Battle of Midway suggests something out of a photorealistic animated film.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 6, 2019
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Steven Scaife
Sergio Pablos’s film is essentially a metaphor for its own unique and refreshing mode of expression.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 5, 2019
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