For 6 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 66% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 34% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 16.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Caroline Cao's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 82
Highest review score: 95 Saint Omer
Lowest review score: 70 Coma
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
6 movie reviews
    • 83 Metascore
    • 85 Caroline Cao
    At first, you might not detect the tonal deception seeded into Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Evil Does Not Exist. Yet, seemingly innocuous nature shots unfold into a thriller.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Caroline Cao
    Even if the bird rescuers' efforts are merely a "Band-Aid" against an ever-engulfing miasma, Shaunak Sen provides a worthy arc for the audience to grasp an elegant understanding of the brothers' ecological purpose.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Caroline Cao
    An amorphous film that flashes the middle finger to conventionality from its launch, Coma blossoms into a metaphorical and allegorical Rorschach test.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 95 Caroline Cao
    Saint Omer peels back the curtain on how society formulates judgments according to a person's race and cultural background while absolving itself of the systemic flaws.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 75 Caroline Cao
    It's in favor of observing an artist, busy with her projects and her family life, like slowly sipping a warm cup of tea. In doing so, it strikes a — not quite steady but a work-in-progress — equilibrium of the personal life and the artistic priorities.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 85 Caroline Cao
    It becomes futile to resist the intoxication of Otomo Yoshihide's rock music and the visual excess. Yoshihiro Sekiya's cinematography dances with Inu-Oh's supernatural ballad, extending and sprawling across the lakes and stage. Easily, those concerts are the most enthralling and splashiest sequences, recreating the adrenaline of witnessing stagecraft, all culminating into a hell-raising musical finale.

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