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For 3,961 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 47% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Hell or High Water
Lowest review score: 0 Daddy's Home 2
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,220 out of 3961
  2. Mixed: 1,378 out of 3961
  3. Negative: 363 out of 3961
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  1. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
    Among the most enraging (documentaries) I've ever seen, and while it's fine and heartfelt and I commend it to those of you with strong constitutions, it is the film that has finally broken me.
  2. Anvil! The Story of Anvil
    The documentary is solid as … as … an anvil. And if you can forget Spinal Tap (hard), it's also rather touching the way these 50-year-olds still have the forged-in-fire fortitude.
  3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    The most powerfully entrancing children's film in years. Of course, a true kid's classic is just as magical for adults.
  4. Michael Clayton
    Clooney is as good as he has ever been.
  5. Knives Out
    A production designed to within an inch of its life, Knives Out always seems on the brink of being cleverer than it is, never quite shaking off its cobwebs and entering the present tense.
  6. The Spectacular Now
    Most teen movies are cocktails of melancholy and elation. This one is best at its most un-transcendent —when it most evokes that period when we never knew what we were supposed to do with the pain.
  7. Apocalypse in the Tropics
    It’s rich and dense, but it’s also propelled along by current events, accelerating as things reach their fearsome climax with the assault on Brasília — on those very federal buildings that 60-plus years ago held such promise. The terror and the tragedy on display are matched by the beauty of Costa’s filmmaking.
  8. Let the Right One In
    It's a genuine genre vampire picture; and it's Swedish, winter-lit, Bergmanesque.
  9. Taxi to the Dark Side
    It’s the equal of "No End in Sight" in its tight focus on the nuts and bolts of incompetence, and it surpasses any recent melodrama in the empathy it evokes for both its victims and--surprisingly--victimizers.
  10. Challengers
    Like the film Challengers itself, Zendaya is a star who still operates on the surface of things.
  11. Pig
    As it proceeds, it expands its vision and compassion, even as it de-escalates the tension. It’s not about the thing it’s about, except that it ultimately is totally about the thing it’s about.
  12. Marjorie Prime
    The sci-fi chamber drama Marjorie Prime is exquisite — beautiful, intense, shivering with empathy.
  13. Sorry We Missed You
    Well-researched and highly detailed in how it lays bare the empty promises of the gig economy and the ruthless techno-feudalism of e-commerce, Sorry We Missed You is a movie that will infuriate you. But what makes it one of Loach’s best isn’t just its rage (which is plentiful) but its compassion (which is overwhelming).
  14. Steve Jobs
    The first act is a thing of beauty and the second, good enough. Shame about that third act, though, and the ending that retroactively diminishes everything that preceded it.
  15. Touching the Void
    As a piece of inspirationalism about human stamina, Touching the Void is peerless, but what it doesn't--perhaps can't--explain is why people place themselves in such peril.
  16. The Agronomist
    Free speech isn't merely a shibboleth in The Agronomist. As embodied by Dominique, it's a fire-breathing force.
  17. The Holdovers
    There are surprises to be found in The Holdovers, but they come from the characters, not the story — from the ways each of the three main figures reveals new depths and confounds expectations.
  18. Embrace of the Serpent
    It’s another in a long, honorable line of films that chart the poisonous effects of colonialism on indigenous populations and their ecosystems, but with an unusually invigorating perspective, like a reverse-angle "Heart of Darkness."
  19. Da 5 Bloods
    It is one of the greatest films Spike Lee has ever made.
  20. The Last Black Man in San Francisco
    This is a film of shifting moods and occasionally contradictory narratives. It’s as much about delusion as it is about gentrification, and as much about friendship as it is about solitude.
  21. Days of Glory
    Indigènes is a stupendous work--and why that new title stinks to heaven.
  22. Isle of Dogs
    It’s a series of moving paintings, tableaux vivants, a goofy dog comedy, a grim totalitarian allegory. It’s sui generis. It’s the damnedest thing.
  23. Read My Lips
    Devos is especially fine as a woman whose inner solitude carries depth charges.
  24. The Return
    The hurt and rage flying back and forth have primal power, like Russian-flavored Eugene O'Neill. It's rare for a movie to work as effectively as this one does on such parallel tracks.
  25. Mysteries of Lisbon
    In Mysteries of Lisbon, the prolific Chilean-born director and egghead Raúl Ruiz has achieved something remarkable, at once avant-garde and middlebrow: the apotheosis of the soap opera.
  26. Certain Women
    Certain Women turns out to be a study in women’s uncertainties, in the experience of pain that leads not to action but acceptance. It’s a slow go — but you get there.
  27. Derek DelGaudio’s In & Of Itself
    Sadly, DelGaudio’s showmanship doesn’t always translate to its new medium — now you feel it, now you don’t. But DelGaudio’s oddly yearning text still has power on TV. He hides thorns among the card tricks, prickly questions about identity that don’t disappear with the next shuffle.
  28. Fjord
    Mungiu has a lot more on his mind than tepidly insisting both sides can be bad. For all the political pole reversal that happens in Fjord, the movie stealthily argues what’s really going on here is that old standards about assimilation and cultural uniformity have just been given a socially acceptable gloss.
  29. Frozen River
    All in all, Frozen River is gripping stuff. Except it's also rigged and cheaply manipulative.
  30. Love Is Strange
    I think this tale of woe can principally be seen as a plea for a heightened sense of community. It takes a village to keep us all afloat.
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