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On average, this publication grades 4.4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
Lowest review score: 0 Pixels
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,579 out of 5179
  2. Mixed: 1,334 out of 5179
  3. Negative: 266 out of 5179
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  1. Good Boy
    It’s easy to ascribe the success of Good Boy to the power of its canine star, but the film refuses to let Indy feel like a cheap gimmick.
  2. One of Us
    One of Us offers a rare window into a highly insular community that is often misunderstood, or tacitly sanctioned for fear of stoking anti-semitism.
  3. Kedi
    Kedi is a playful and poignant look at the complex nature of the creatures and their inherent appeal to humankind.
  4. At Eternity's Gate
    Schnabel fuses form and content in a way that’s rarely attempted and even more rarely achieved; in risking the same derision with which Van Gogh was sometimes met, he transcends the limitations of the conventional biopic and creates something that feels genuinely new.
  5. Between Dreams and Hope
    This is a film that should make us all more sensitive, more attuned, more questioning of our biases. The fact that it’s such a riveting experience makes it all the more powerful in that regard.
  6. The Last Black Man in San Francisco
    Talbot has a gift for making twee material feel true, but his grip weakens during the pivotal home stretch of his debut, and as a result the ending doesn’t land with the emotion it deserves.
  7. Sirât
    It’s always visually transportive and grimly sublime, focusing on simple plots and conflicts that provide ample space for philosophical and existential contemplation. And “Sirât” is undoubtedly his most fully realized work in his regard, notable too for folding in the visceral pleasures of contemporary genre and even blockbuster cinema.
  8. The Imperialists Are Still Alive!
    The first-time director's refreshingly credible portrait of a boho character with Middle Eastern origins rectifies the aforementioned canonical gap in a witty, naturalistic generational snapshot.
  9. Mars One
    Martins strikes a delicate balance that’s unusually satisfying from a narrative perspective. It’s refreshing to witness characters grow outside the traditional beats of most American dramas. There is an abundance of heroes’ journeys in waking up every day and pushing past surviving to thriving.
  10. On Swift Horses
    On Swift Horses is a stunning tableau of almost-romances, weaving together ephemeral moments of magic with the pain that inevitably follows when the universe takes them away.
  11. Mr. Nobody Against Putin
    In the wave of documentaries about the Ukraine War that have come out over the past two years, there hasn’t been one that’s offered what David Borenstein’s Mr. Nobody Against Putin does — and certainly not with such wit, verve, and insight: The view inside Russia.
  12. She Dies Tomorrow
    Seimetz has conjured a beguiling narrative so tapped into the current worldwide panic that it might have been made in its aftermath.
  13. Good Time
    After such powerful momentum, the brothers don’t quite stick the landing, but it’s a thrill to watch them try.
  14. We Are the Best!
    Despite the unruly music at its center, the filmmaker has crafted a uniformly gentle ode to growing up.
  15. Museum Hours
    With a keen eye for the capacity of fine art to address a complex range of attitudes and experiences, Museum Hours effectively applies Cohen's existing strengths to a familiar scenario and rejuvenates it by delivering a powerfully contemplative look at the transformative ability of all art.
  16. High & Low: John Galliano
    Macdonald has crafted one of the most riveting rise-fall-redemption story arcs in documentary format in recent memory, with Galliano himself as his unreliable — but never less than compelling — guide.
  17. Chappaquiddick
    Jason Clarke opts for a more low-key approach to Teddy Kennedy, eschewing a big accent or showy mannerisms, and fully disappears into the role. It’s his finest work yet, and proof of his ability to excel given the right material.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Elena
    Shot like a dream, spoken like an elegy, it takes nonfiction where it seldom wants to go – away from the comforting embrace of fact and into a realm of expressionistic possibility.
  19. Dark Night
    At every turn, the movie casts a haunting spell.
  20. Attenberg
    With its persistent inventiveness and a lack of unearned sentimentality, the movie provides an antidote to a lot of lazily produced dramas about death, American or otherwise.
  21. Film Socialisme
    Film Socialism is a weighty, intentionally cryptic product that's easy on the eyes and heavy on the mind.
  22. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
    Though movie references and Cage quotes abound, there’s something for everyone in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. It’s one of the funniest movies of the year.
  23. Beginners
    Mills fashions the set-up for an overwrought, thoroughly depressing character study into an oddly charming comedy. It's a midlife crisis gently portrayed with sympathy rather than grief.
  24. Reality
    Inching towards its grand reveal through surreally awkward conversation, “Reality” is gripping and deceptively layered, delineating both the FBI’s queasily ingenious interrogation tactics and Sweeney’s extraordinary range.
  25. Weekend
    Weekend builds into a powerful encapsulation of an identity crisis over the course of three passionate days.
  26. Athlete A
    Through even-handed reporting and a series of emotional first-person accounts, Athlete A excavates one of modern sports’ most horrific abusers and systems. It doesn’t do that by being preachy or shrill, instead working from one key belief: It must have started somewhere. Hopefully, Athlete A can contribute to ending it for good.
  27. Inside Out
    Pull back from the moment-to-moment thrill of Inside Out and it gets very deep: The scenario implicitly questions standard definitions of free will by suggesting that we're all slaves to ghosts in the machine.
  28. Homebound
    Homebound is a resounding triumph.
  29. Human Flow
    Human Flow is an epic portrait of mass migration that understands how a lack of empathy often stems from a failure of imagination.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Pictures of Ghosts
    This nostalgic and melancholy trip is also a celebration.
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