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For 16,524 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 38% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Sand Storm
Lowest review score: 0 Saw VI
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8,698 out of 16524
  2. Mixed: 5,809 out of 16524
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16524
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  1. Theeb
    it's Nowar's ability to tell his tale so firmly from the viewpoint of his quickly growing-up protagonist, and to elicit so unforced a performance from Eid, that may be the most impressive achievement of this intimate, well-paced film.
  2. A Bigger Splash
    [Guadagnino's] made the rare movie that, for all its delight in its own beautiful surface, turns out to be altogether less shallow than it appears.
  3. Prophet's Prey
    Prophet's Prey is a sobering reminder that tyrannical monsters who hide behind religion can be homegrown too.
  4. The Family Fang
    For a project that is a showcase for his talents as both actor and director, Bateman never gets too showy on either front, keeping the emotions of the film at something of a restrained simmer.
  5. Maggie's Plan
    The writing crackles, and Miller doesn’t waste time getting right at the meat of the story.
  6. A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story
    With simple storytelling, the film allows its star, Velasquez, to shine, and with her endless reserves of positive energy, eloquent speaking and willingness to be vulnerable, it's no wonder millions of people have already found her inspirational.
  7. The Childhood of a Leader
    The Childhood of a Leader is a chilly — and chilling — political thriller by way of a provocative domestic chamber piece. Strikingly mounted, lighted, shot and scored, this tense, decidedly arty film marks a bravura feature directing debut for young American actor Brady Corbet.
  8. Evolution
    A striking and maddening delivery system for art house creepinesss.
  9. From Afar
    A tightly coiled, beautifully acted relationship study that occasionally swerves in the direction of a gangland thriller.
  10. Into the Forest
    Rozema has a careful but unflinching eye when it comes to presenting the physical and emotional traumas the sisters experience. Even when some of the events escalate to operatic, nearly mystical levels, the direction feels assured and solidly rooted.
  11. Neon Bull
    The languid pace and barnyard earthiness won't be to everybody's taste, but it's hard to deny Mascaro's vision. Where some look at a rodeo and see sweat and dirt, he sees a poignant struggle, which he illustrates meticulously.
  12. Rabin, the Last Day
    An unusual work that mixes genres to at times awkward but always powerful effect.
  13. Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words
    A surprisingly intimate film, a completely involving look inside the life of a gifted and complex woman.
  14. A Monster with a Thousand Heads
    Although the title might suggest cheesy sensationalism, A Monster With a Thousand Heads serves as a sobering, all-too-relatable indictment of the bureaucratic Hydra that is the medical insurance industry.
  15. Saving Mr. Wu
    As can be gleaned from snippets of news footage shown during the end credits, Ding has done an outstanding job re-creating the events and conveying the complexity and prudence of the cops' investigative chess moves.
  16. Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
    Winter on Fire never takes its eye off the story's underlying and very dramatic theme, and that would be nothing less than revolution.
  17. The Treasure
    Deadpan, determinedly low key and deeply absurd, the films of Corneliu Porumboiu are very much a particular taste, and The Treasure is no different.
  18. Cars 3
    This warmly sentimental G-rated film about facing new realities and recapturing lost dreams has, despite its relatively adult story line, a beguilingly effortless feeling to it, as if it had nothing to prove.
  19. Ant-Man and the Wasp
    Ant-Man and the Wasp is a movie of deliberately low stakes and, for that very reason, enormous charm.
  20. Censored Voices
    Censored Voices is a soul debriefing of sorts. The soldiers' tales of killing the captured and uprooting entire villages lead them to question whether the war was more about expansion than survival.
  21. Godzilla vs. Kong
    After so many tentpoles that have insisted on being metaphors for this or that, the abundance of sound and fury here — take a bow, Tom Holkenborg, composer of the majestic synth score — blissfully signifying nothing, qualifies as a colossal, giddily escapist relief.
  22. Bridget Jones's Baby
    Zellweger plays Bridget just as charmingly as she always has -- flawed but endearing; just right in her own idiosyncratic way.
  23. Of Men and War
    The access that Bécue-Renard got, reportedly after five months of being there without a camera, is remarkable.
  24. Sembene!
    A richly crafted documentary that serves as an enlightening tribute to the filmmaker who masterfully tapped into the medium's wide-reaching socio-political potential.
  25. Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong
    The immensely likable Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong is a freshly contemporary change-up on the traditional cross-cultural romantic-comedy.
  26. Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
    Lisa Immordino Vreeland deftly choreographs the story in her vibrant documentary Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict, at once a capsule history of Modernism and a poignant personal portrait.
  27. The Diplomat
    A rich, occasionally stirring and ultimately plaintive ode to the craft of velvet gloves, iron fists and how to point with either or both.
  28. Frame by Frame
    The filmmakers' approach is inherently positive.
  29. Bikes vs Cars
    Although the film qualifies as an advocacy documentary, director Fredrik Gertten has put in the time to capture how these cities' unique scenarios unfold to mount a compelling case against the powerful automotive, oil and construction lobbies.
  30. TransFatty Lives
    A raucous, weird, occasionally fascinating entry in the genre of disease-documenting, a portrait of raw nerve in the face of deteriorating nerves.
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