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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. 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.
  2. Murderous Maids
    Never inspires more than an interested detachment.
  3. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
    Seems more like a subtle, elegiac tone poem than an indictment of human banality and the evil that men do.
  4. Last Orders
    The temporal jumps between the present and varying points in the past deprive the film of a sense of completeness; the transitions from scene to scene are largely disorienting, leaving you struggling to find your bearings.
  5. Afghan Star
    One of the more surreal docs to come down the pike in some time.
  6. The Aura
    The film is a sure winner for arthouse audiences enamored of the new Argentine cinema, but it has crossover appeal for venturesome viewers in search of a good mystery, as well.
  7. Logan Lucky
    Heartfelt felicitations to Soderbergh on his rebirth of the cool.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 89 Critic Score
    James and the Giant Peach
    I hope we don't have to wait another quarter-century for the next great Dahl adaptation, but for a film as good as this one, I'll wait.
  9. The Starling Girl
    Parmet’s ability to repackage a story that oftentimes can feel exploitative and gritty through a more mature and compassionate lens is quite sincere – a challenging film that’s worth the effort.
  10. High Life
    High Life is a meandering mess of symbolism, half-thoughts, ponderous exchanges, and emotional dead ends, one that confuses ambiguity for an unengaging air of vagueness.
  11. Nosferatu
    There’s nothing erotic about this wheezing, rotting, carnivorous corpse, and Eggers rebuts the “sexy vampire” nonsense by depicting a supernatural abusive relationship. If you think that there’s anything sexy about how he rips the throats from babes, that’s on you.
  12. 2046
    A riot of sight and sound that, however baffling, has an irresistible, elemental pull.
  13. A Quiet Passion
    A Quiet Passion’s manneredness overwhelmed me at times, but it is very effective – chilling, even – in its charting of one woman’s disappointed journey to the rhetorical coda of her own life: “Why has the world become so ugly?”
  14. My Darling Vivian
    Riddlehoover's greatest insight is in letting the daughters tell the story.
  15. Kung Fu Hustle
    It's a short, sharp, shock to the cinematic system that's virtually impossible to dislike, and if you don't leave the theatre grinning your face off, then buddy, movies just aren't for you.
  16. Apollo 13
    It's a riveting, nail-biting, two-buckets-of-popcorn return to form for Howard.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 89 Critic Score
    Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan
    Julien Temple gave Shane MacGowan exactly the documentary he deserves – unruly and full of heart.
  18. Meru
    A remarkable documentary in its own right.
  19. The Personal History of David Copperfield
    The entire cast gleefully digs into their parts with a relish not seen in an ensemble in quite some time. Even my screening partner, who has a notorious aversion to British period pieces, was helplessly beguiled by The Personal History of David Copperfield.
  20. Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
    The film, anchored by interviews with Moreno and her co-stars and contemporaries, positions Moreno as a trailblazer, a barrier-breaker, and a role model, but more interestingly, it ultimately tracks a journey of self discovery.
  21. Clemency
    This is Woodard’s show, and her Bernadine is mesmerizing as she navigates her life of meting out justice while grappling with the price of it.
  22. Panic
    Hopefully find the audience it deserves.
  23. My Own Private Idaho
    It's a daredevil's ride that keeps you glued with fascination.
  24. The Aviator
    It’s bravura, classic Hollywood filmmaking, and you like to think that Hughes himself would have viewed it, if not appreciatively, then at least with a sense of kinship.
  25. Till
    While it can get rightfully goose-bumpy at times, what distinguishes Till from most other well-intentioned films telling similarly themed stories set during this tumultuous era of American history is the absence of white saviors. It’s about time.
  26. Ratcatcher
    An inner-city tragedy that plays its story simply, sorrowfully, and beautifully.
  27. Have a Nice Day
    It wants so hard to be "Pulp Fiction," but it ends up "8 Heads in a Duffel Bag."
  28. Zero Days
    Anything but dull, Gibney’s clarion call whipsaws along like a combo Jason Bourne/007 thriller minus all that running. Unnerving and likely to give viewers some bitter food for thought, Zero Days is Gibney’s most important work yet.
  29. Nope
    Nope is spectacular and intriguing, but also frustratingly incomplete.
  30. Finding Dory
    Where "Finding Nemo" capitalized on the awesome splendor and danger of the ocean, this follow-up shifts much of its action to an aquatic park and becomes broader and sillier, or at least reality-busting, for it.
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