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For 8,783 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 57% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 58
Highest review score: 100 The Searchers
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,778 out of 8783
  2. Mixed: 2,558 out of 8783
  3. Negative: 1,447 out of 8783
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  1. Spencer
    Co-fabulists Pablo Larraín and writer Steven Knight have made a film that marries the former’s elliptical, experimental style with the latter’s penchant for alternative histories stuffed with archetypes. But it is Stewart’s performance at the center of it all that is the most startling aspect of Spencer. She brings a theatricality in the way she moves and speaks that transcends impersonation yet falls thankfully shy of camp.
  2. War for the Planet of the Apes
    A glorious, action-and-pathos packed capstone to the rebooted Apes franchise.
  3. The Fearless Vampire Killers
    It's almost dreamlike in its weird little tone, a Manischewitz hangover of a nightmare that's giddy enough to usher chuckles and is thoroughly unique.
  4. The Bikeriders
    While some filmmakers fade into obscurity during their time away from the screen, The Bikeriders is a welcome reminder that Nichols’ thoughtful explorations of economic tension and toxic masculinity are more relevant now than ever.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 89 Critic Score
    A Shot at Glory
    It's worth seeing the action scenes on the big screen, and to get in the mood for the World Cup opener later this month.
  6. Kandahar
    While Kandahar is undoubtedly spectacular war cinema, it's also a weighty meditation on the seeming impossibility for some of walking away from conflict.
  7. Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
    It may feel somewhat slight when it’s all said and done, but Apollo is packed with Linklater’s unique voice and breezy attitude that makes you feel right at home.
  8. Drugstore Cowboy
    Certainly one of the best drug movies ever made.... Great performances make this dispassionate study a memorable experience.
  9. Woman at War
    Despite its probe of deep moral questions, Woman at War (a multiple award winner on the festival circuit as well as having been Iceland’s entry for Oscar consideration last year) maintains a light feel and concludes with a sense of uplift as we watch human beings forge ahead despite the floodwaters rising around them.
  10. The Menu
    Soup to nuts, The Menu is satisfying and rich, yet lean and cutting.
  11. Totally Under Control
    Its core, depressing, and unavoidable question is simple: How did one of the most advanced and wealthiest countries on the planet so completely fail in its response?
  12. MaXXXine
    The pleasures are in watching Maxine navigate through the bloodshed to the denouement she deserves, and watching West cut into the seductive allure of cinema.
  13. Chasing Amy
    More emotionally complex than even I had thought possible, Chasing Amy is the sound of burgeoning genius on the fast track to maturity.
  14. The Substance
    Revenge proved that Fargeat can combine astonishing, lurid, hyperpsychosexualized visuals with incisive social commentary. Yet there’s a vibrant audaciousness to The Substance that’s matched and complemented by her cool examination of the cost of youth and beauty. She can swing between cerebral drama and body horror, but this is definitely not a Cronenberg knockoff.
  15. You Hurt My Feelings
    Overall, You Hurt My Feelings is a sweet, warm, and funny rumination on the delicate nature of our interpersonal relationships. It’s also full of great performances and asks questions other films couldn’t broach without getting too self-important.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 89 Critic Score
    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
    Could easily have tipped over into melodrama, but Schnabel is too much an artist to let that happen; he realizes that in order to make his hero truly substantial, and not just sympathetic, he has to present him as an ordinary man making the best of extraordinarily lousy circumstances. By doing so he’s created a character we not only marvel at but identify with.
  17. The Eel
    It's no wonder Imamura has now collected not one but two Palmes d'Ors; The Eel is a flash of quiet brilliance that resonates long after the images have faded from the screen.
  18. Star Trek
    It's not necessary to be a longtime fan of the Star Trek universe to appreciate the sheer emotional punch and swagger of this rough and randy Enterprise crew.
  19. Alléluia
    Dueñas and Lucas give knockout performances as two twisted souls seemingly locked in a match to the death to determine who is the madder one. I’ll call it a tie, and I’ll also say Alleluia is a grotesque masterpiece. L’amour fou, indeed.
  20. Black Hawk Down
    Absolutely harrowing, shocking in its sudden revelatory immediacy, and very, very well done, Black Hawk Down is one of the best depictions of the outright lunacy inherent to battle I have ever seen.
  21. Monster
    Doesn’t provide any answers, and that’s both its strength and weakness.
  22. Bright Star
    Campion’s story of a tubercular poet and his lady love recasts the hackneyed old stanza in refreshing new verse.
  23. Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
    Yet it's really Phoenix that binds the whole piece together. In him, Callahan is self-piteous and sardonic, wildly inappropriate and desperate to please.
  24. A Hero
    Farhadi takes a seemingly simple idea and threads holes and complications into it, creating a pressure cooker of intensity based on a handful of white lies and distrust. It’s a tragedy of simple misunderstandings, and misgivings.
  25. The Outrun
    Picture scenes of excess followed by degradation, shame, teary promises of “never again,” resolve to start anew. Then the record skips and we’re right back to the beginning of the song, and it doesn’t sound any better on repeat listen. The Outrun hits similar beats, yet manages to do so in ways that feel novel at first, and ultimately transcendent.
  26. Boy and the World
    Perhaps the best way to sum up Boy and the World is by saying it is what it is and what it is, is absolutely remarkable.
  27. Charlotte's Web
    The Hanna-Barbera animation is better than the studio’s usual bare-bones mediocrity, and the voice cast is superb.
  28. Peter Hujar's Day
    Peter Hujar’s Day is a monument to the thrillingly mundane minutiae of living. I found it almost indescribably moving.
  29. Happy Together
    Thanks largely to the raw bravery and intensity of the two leads' performances, Happy Together takes a quantum leap forward in terms of visceral power.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 89 Critic Score
    Titus
    A spectacularly imaginative piece of Shakespearean cinema.
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