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For 16,550 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 2.2 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: 8,714 out of 16550
  2. Mixed: 5,819 out of 16550
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16550
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    • 80 Critic Score
    Pavements
    Let us whisper this part as quietly as possible: Perry sincerely believes in Pavement’s era-defining greatness. And with Pavements, he’s made a film that nobly and triumphantly searches for a way to capture the band’s essence.
  2. Friendship
    Rudd and Robinson’s scenes together are great.
  3. Magic Farm
    Every scene has a delight.
  4. Rust
    There’s an elegant severity to the natural elements that share the frame with the movie’s characters, manifested in silhouettes against vast cloudy skies, delicate snowfalls, shafts of light in dark interiors and crisp air filled with smoke and dust. A testament to lives cut short, Rust is beautifully filmed and all the sadder for it
  5. Bonjour Tristesse
    One can appreciate the effort behind this well-made Bonjour Tristesse without necessarily feeling its turmoil.
  6. April
    Not quite a thriller and not quite a horror movie, April is all the more haunting for never pinning down the roots of Nina’s retreat from life while dedicating herself to improving the lives of others.
  7. The Surfer
    The grief in this film is relatable to anyone who’s realized how hard it is to go home again, whether that means a newly gentrified neighborhood or simply the security of what a middle-class wage used to afford.
  8. Thunderbolts*
    It’s mostly Pugh’s tale, a smart move as she delivers one of the better performances I’ve seen in a super suit.
  9. On Swift Horses
    Just when the central characters’ fascinating messiness achieves peak interest, you realize this movie’s earnest commercial shimmer is never going to segue into a denser, darker poetry.
  10. The Accountant 2
    This go-round, everything’s louder and more banal.
  11. Art for Everybody
    Yousef, who also edited the film, vividly dissects the artist’s complicated life with the help of strong archival and personal footage as well as candid interviews with family members, colleagues and a solid array of art-world figures.
  12. The Legend of Ochi
    Writer-director Saxon’s own virtuosity, occasionally aggressive, eventually leaves our hopes for real emotions wanting, once we’ve become attuned to the dazzle.
  13. The Shrouds
    If this ends up being Cronenberg’s last, he’ll have gone out with a worldly, weighty epitaph.
  14. The Teacher
    That spirit-crushing feeling of powerlessness is what director Nabulsi aims to fend off, admittedly through not always effective narrative means, but with emotional sincerity nonetheless.
  15. The Wedding Banquet
    The four leads are yanked not by their heart strings but by the machinations of a plot that steers them from one contrived scene to another, just so it can point to the skid marks and call them a sketch of the new American family.
  16. Sinners
    Sinners works more like a pop song than a grand statement, the kind of deceptively simple high-level craft that few people can pull off.
  17. One to One: John & Yoko
    “One to One” isn’t a salute to the Beatles’ brilliance or Lennon’s genius. Despite the large screens this film will play on, the movie renders its subjects as touchingly life-sized.
  18. Sacramento
    The film explores what’s funny — and terrifyingly truthful — about being wrenched into adulthood.
  19. Gazer
    When its cinematic influences aren’t so obvious and its story particulars aren’t distractingly fuzzy, this earnestly moody film serves notice that indie urban noir can still be a potent calling card for up-and-coming talents.
  20. Warfare
    Warfare is strictly the facts, and those alone are terrible, brave, intense, random, tedious and captivating.
  21. Drop
    So far I’ve yet to see any movie figure out how to integrate the dull activity of staring at a small black rectangle into something worthy of the screen. Landon’s approach looks a bit too much like a billboard or a meme, but I think he’s on the right track to be trying something expressionistic that circles back around to silent-movie aesthetics.
  22. The Friend
    The Friend strips the pet-movie genre from the easy appeal of mawkishness, bringing it closer to what an ongoing dialogue between lonely species stumbling into connection actually feels like.
  23. Holy Cow
    Holy Cow achieves its own special texture and flavor the more its central character boils, curdles and cools.
  24. Eric Larue
    Shannon laudably offers no easy solutions, although his sincerely crafted dead end feels insufficient in its own way.
  25. Viet and Nam
    Việt and Nam is both simple and cryptic. Its spellbinding pleasures reward a patient audience who’ll be swayed (and may well swoon) over its hypnotic wonders.
  26. The Luckiest Man in America
    The film is so much more than just an exploration of this anomalous oddball story and character who managed to outsmart the media. The focus on the control-room panic illustrates how these corporate narratives shape the myth of the American Dream, effectively deconstructing the fantasy that any of this was ever about luck at all.
  27. Freaky Tales
    It’s rousing stuff and a bit glib.
  28. A Minecraft Movie
    Half the time, Black’s dialogue is just announcing what we’re looking at, from diamond swords to flying hot air balloons that look like goth squids. But it’s the gleam in his eyes, the gusto in his delivery, that makes every line zing.
  29. Being Maria
    Palud’s directorial emphasis on that internal experience, guided by a simple shooting style trained on Vartolomei, is what keeps Being Maria afloat on its turbulent seas.
  30. The Penguin Lessons
    Perhaps we don’t need the reminder that our personal relationships with animals are some of the most special and rewarding ones that we can enjoy as human beings, but The Penguin Lessons also underscores that our relationships with people are even more important, and that sometimes animals are the best stewards for this particular journey.
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