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For 7,767 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 6.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 59
Highest review score: 100 Mulholland Dr.
Lowest review score: 0 Jojo Rabbit
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,344 out of 7767
  2. Mixed: 1,490 out of 7767
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7767
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  1. LifeHack
    LifeHack is consistently intriguing for the conflicting emotions with which it looks back on its chosen moment in tech and time, characterized by cutthroat scamming and cynicism, as well as empowerment and camaraderie for the young and quick-witted.
  2. Obsession
    Obsession’s big set-piece sequences are as chilling in their effect as they are confident in their execution.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Is God Is
    Featuring larger-than-life characters described with epithets like “monster” and “the rough one,” and blending brutal violence with themes of generational trauma, abuse, and toxic masculinity, the film ponders what one does with the bottomless hate of being wronged.
  4. Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D)
    The film doesn’t totally succeed in capturing the show’s scope or thematic through line.
  5. Mortal Kombat II
    Mortal Kombat II is done waiting around. It’s ravenous to get down to bloody business.
  6. Silent Friend
    Despite loose ends, it’s one of the most dreamily affectionate (and affectionately critical) portrayals of the natural sciences ever committed to the screen.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Python Hunt
    The at times overbearing aesthetic touch isn’t enough to diminish the film’s saliency.
  8. Blue Film
    On the whole, Blue Film’s raw, skin-crawling interrogations of aberrant sexuality and trauma ring fearless and true.
  9. The Devil Wears Prada 2
    Befitting its image-conscious milieu, The Devil Wears Prada 2 has the aspartame fake-sweetness and zero-calorie comfort of its predecessor: It’s charming enough in the moment but you’ll be hungry again half an hour later.
  10. One Spoon of Chocolate
    The slower it moves, the more obvious One Spoon of Chocolate’s deficiencies become.
  11. Two Pianos
    Arnaud Desplechin’s film only flirts with questions about the sacrifices made for art.
  12. Hokum
    Damian McCarthy threads the needle between supplying old-school scares and a richly layered character piece that also functions as a meditation on his own perspective as a storyteller.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Two Seasons, Two Strangers
    In beautifully quiet ways, Two Seasons, Two Strangers captures its characters in the realm of the ineffable, making the mundane utterly sublime.
  14. Over Your Dead Body
    Once it turns into a home-invasion thriller, the film becomes more sadistic than hilarious.
  15. Power Ballad
    Like the fraught relationship between its two musician characters, the film never finds the right groove.
  16. Michael
    The film turns the realities of a tragic, deeply complicated life into a sanitized popcorn film.
  17. Lee Cronin's The Mummy
    In lieu of any competently developed drama, we get a blitzkrieg of scares and gooey body horror that can best be described as arbitrary.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo)
    Across the film, Joel Alfonso Vargas delivers an intimately observed portrait of Rico and the Bronx’s Dominican community, folding warmth into the very real pressures that define daily life.
  19. Amrum
    Fatih Akin’s Amrum is a delicate coming-of-age parable tracking national identity and violence to their most intimate origin points during the waning days of the Third Reich.
  20. Mother Mary
    The film is a boldly theatrical pop exorcism where the wounds of the past serve as a gateway to forces that can consume or lift the possessed to ecstatic new levels of self-expression.
  21. ChaO
    The narrative is nonsense, but it’s at least an arch and sweet kind of nonsense as it jumps through its fairy-tale hoops on the way to the next splash of artful color and manically doodled creativity.
  22. Fiume o morte!
    Igor Bezinović plays up the farcical side of history in Fiume o Morte!, his innovative docudrama retelling of Italian fascist poet Gabriele D’Annunzio’s short-lived occupation of Rijeka, Croatia, in 1920.
  23. Faces of Death
    For a film that’s so well versed not only in the genre but in its tendencies to recreate and recycle itself, it’s disappointing to see Faces of Death do so in such slavish fashion.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Christophers
    The film brims with hilarious dialogue, lightly satirical observations of a culture that treats art as a commodity, and satisfying payoffs to a number of story elements planted early on.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Mermaid
    Ultimately, Mermaid shows how loneliness can un-anchor a person, and it makes you understand how any lost sailor might fall for the first thing, no matter what it is, that breaks it.
  26. Hamlet
    Aneil Karia’s Hamlet, which is nearly defined by its handheld camerawork and the medium close-ups on Riz Ahmed’s face, is one of the more intimate adaptations of Shakespeare’s play to date.
  27. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
    The film has, figuratively and literally, somehow even less gravity than its source material and predecessor. The visual language is divorced from reality and referent to the games; even Looney Tunes action is grounded in the real world—the better to subvert it.
  28. The Drama
    Kristoffer Borgli delights in creating a hypothetical trap for his lovers, but he also acknowledges that there’s something romantic about being stuck in it together.
  29. The Stranger
    François Ozon’s adaptation of Albert Camus’s novel is haunting, transportive, and tragically humanist, a worthy introduction to the text for the skeptical (or a refresher for the lapsed) and a memorably grim drama in its own right.
  30. Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice
    BenDavid Grabinski’s film is less of a crime drama than a punch-drunk comedy of errors.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    They Will Kill You
    This is a film that’s content to imitate its influences rather than build an identity of its own.
  32. Pretty Lethal
    The film is lean, mean, and feisty, even if it doesn’t quite stick the landing.
  33. Forbidden Fruits
    The film is a witchy mall comedy that mostly keeps you under its spell.
  34. Yes
    Nadav Lapid’s film locates a dire spiritual crisis facing the nation of his birth.
  35. Fantasy Life
    Amanda Peet finds layers of shading in what could have been a dull and simplistic role.
  36. Marc by Sofia
    It proves entertaining and enlightening when exploring Jacobs’ contributions to the world of fashion. But more often, it’s just like listening in on an engaging chat between two artist friends who share a fan-like admiration of each other’s craft.
  37. Late Shift
    For all its empathy, Late Shift upholds the dubious virtue of self-sacrifice that underpins the Protestant work ethic.
  38. Dead Lover
    The can-do spirit of Dead Lover, as evidenced by the way it couples goofy sound effects with cuts and camera movements, takes it a long way.
  39. Lumiere, Le Cinema!
    Thierry Frémaux’s tribute is at its best when it spotlights just how much can still be rediscovered in the Lumière brothers’ formidable filmography, over 130 years after they filmed workers leaving the factory.
  40. Reminders of Him
    Vanessa Caswill’s film feels reverse engineered to maximize emotional impact.
  41. Project Hail Mary
    Phil Lord and Christopher Miller put a comedic spin on Andy Weir’s more straightforward 2021 novel Project Hail Mary, recasting the author’s hopeful vision of productive communication with extraterrestrials as an unlikely buddy comedy.
  42. The Bride!
    The Bride!’s aims to show that being good in a cruel world is as foolish as falling in love—as foolish as attempting to be out and proud freaks in a repressive society. Guillermo del Toro might be brave enough to let his monsters fight and fuck in their own defense, but Gyllenhaal and her monsters do it nastier, sloppier, and louder as an act of magnificent defiance.
  43. Hoppers
    It falls well short of providing any satisfying exploration of its weighty theme of persuasion versus violence in the face of oppression.
  44. Heel
    By keeping some of its cards close to its chest, Heel respects our intelligence, which helps it to earn its sneakily moving ending.
  45. Erupcja
    While it isn’t an overt examination of it in the manner of The Moment, the film does feel like a natural cinematic extension of Charli XCX’s melancholy party-girl persona.
  46. Scream 7
    This surprisingly refreshing take on familiar material is unconcerned with meta discussions about where the film stands in the canon.
  47. Queen at Sea
    As much as Binoche is the backbone of Queen at Sea, Courtenay and Calder-Marshall’s raw performances are no less impressive.
  48. In the Blink of an Eye
    In the Blink of an Eye feels less like a film than a commercial for life insurance that got out of hand, or perhaps more accurately one for the kind of hollow Silicon Valley tech optimism that has been thoroughly exposed as a sham by now.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Nightborn
    Even if the film has few surprises in store for us, there’s something pleasingly unpretentious about how it leaves little room for subtext throughout.
  50. Rose
    Freudians will have a field day with Markus Schleinzer’s 17th-century-set folk tale.
  51. In a Whisper
    Leyla Bouzid’s ability to capture the complexities and contradictions of familial affection is what makes In a Whisper so impressive.
  52. Ghost Elephants
    Ghost Elephants shows that Werner Herzog is fiercely determined to explore new frontiers while they still exist and capture the poetic phenomena of nature and the unshakeable dreams it continues to instill in mankind.
  53. Wolfram
    While Wolfram might struggle to convey a depth of feeling for its characters and the brutal, dehumanizing frontier they call home, it can be an intermittently satisfying good-versus-evil period piece.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    My Wife Cries
    The film starts off as an ostensibly simple tale of infidelity before it begins to grapple with even more anxious themes as it shuffles its characters into a series of memorable tableaux.
  55. Dolly
    One senses that Rod Blackhurst knows that Dolly is undernourished, but his attempts to jazz it up by splitting it into transparently titled chapters only calls further attention to that dearth of imagination.
  56. Mouse
    This is subject matter that might sound heavy, but the difficult feelings dredged up never overwhelm the film’s gentle, character-driven approach.
  57. This Is Not a Test
    The film struggles to bring its non-zombie characters to life.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    How to Make a Killing
    John Patton Ford cultivates an old-school flair while keeping one finger on the pulse of the current moment
  59. Rosebush Pruning
    Only cheap shock value can be gleaned from the film’s cavalcade of blood, semen, animal carcasses, dick pics, and erotic toothbrushing.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Dao
    As it bounces around from conversation to conversation to paint a portrait of a community at once both fractured and reassembled thanks to these congregations, Dao comes to suggest a less sardonic version of one of Robert Altman’s hangout movies.
  61. Yellow Letters
    Yellow Letters ultimately proves to be much less than the sum of its parts, as a lack of focus prevents its political commentary and humanist drama from cohering in any meaningful way.
  62. Redux Redux
    Easy as it may be to imagine a more artful, restrained, and introspective version of Redux Redux, the one we got is satisfying enough that you may want to take it out for another spin.
  63. Crime 101
    Like Mike’s modus operandi as a criminal, the film goes through all the pro forma motions.
  64. Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
    The film offers a joyous throwback to the optimistic feeling of the early internet creator era.
  65. Wuthering Heights
    Like a particularly impressive aspic, Wuthering Heights is tantalizing to behold but not so easy to swallow.
  66. My Father's Shadow
    Hope and fear are inextricably bound in Akinola Davies Jr.’s semi-autobiographical film.
  67. By Design
    By forcing us to identify with its largely comatose protagonist, By Design arouses resentment in order to shake us out of torpor.
  68. The Strangers: Chapter 3
    It’s easy to imagine the nihilistic avenues that Renny Harlin’s trilogy capper could have gone down.
  69. Jimpa
    Jimpa’s exploration of non-binary identity ultimately proves superficial.
  70. Josephine
    Beth de Araújo’s sophomore feature is a harrowing chronicle of a premature maturation.
  71. Dracula
    Not even a typically scenery-chewing Christoph Waltz can enliven the proceedings.
  72. Nuisance Bear
    Nuisance Bear is at its most powerful when its message has been condensed down into a single image.
  73. Leviticus
    As star-crossed lovers resolve to battle their demons rather than surrender, this at times intensely creepy horror tale reveals itself to also be a potent and poignant teen romance.
  74. The Invite
    By the time The Invite burrows into the heart of its main characters and reveals the scope of their regrets and longings, it’s hard to argue that it doesn’t strike a chord of genuine emotion.
  75. I Want Your Sex
    The film gets too caught up in concern trolling about the sexual timidity of today’s youth.
  76. undertone
    Throughout Undertone, Ian Tuason delights in deploying sound to eerily suggestive ends.
  77. Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
    Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’s obviousness only makes its proximity to the real-life A.I. slop invasion more unnerving, and the extent of what humanity has accepted for convenience’s sake more abhorrent.
  78. To Hold a Mountain
    The documentary ultimately reveals itself as a paean to female strength and resistance.
  79. The Moment
    Farce and sincerity make more odd bedfellows across Aidan Zamiri’s meta mockumentary about Brat Summer.
  80. Send Help
    This is an immensely effective tropical island-set chamber drama in which two characters see their gender and labor relations start to reverse in ways that eventually reveal surprising ambiguities.
  81. The History of Concrete
    The odd and poignant The History of Concrete could be seen as a show of Buddhist acceptance on John Wilson's part of art's, and by extension life's, transience.
  82. Islands
    The film is most interesting when it's keyed to its main character's existential malaise across what plays out like a White Lotus B-plot.
  83. Natchez
    With so many engaging voices on offer, Suzannah Herbert wisely chooses to let the locals tell the story rather than providing any explicit narration of her own.
  84. A Poet
    This finely shaded character study of a recalcitrant social pariah feels more than anything else like an existential parable.
  85. The Oldest Person in the World
    Sam Green’s documentary has a knack for finding moments where we can feel the broad sweep of a supercentenarian lifespan, condensed down into a single, everyday occurrence.
  86. Mercy
    More than anything, this twisty dystopian thriller commits to the jittery anxiety of doomscrolling.
  87. Return to Silent Hill
    Christophe Gans’s film does away with all the psychosexual nuance of Silent Hill 2.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Seeds
    Brittany Shyne’s lens is held rapt by the ramblings and insights of the elderly, but it springs to life when it’s turned toward the next generation, whose future is of utmost concern in light of the socioeconomic tensions documented by the film.
  89. A Useful Ghost
    Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s defense of historical memory couldn’t be more timely.
  90. Mother of Flies
    Despite the affinity the Adams clan has displayed for spooky, goopy imagery in the past, Mother of Flies finds them reluctant to fully exercise those talents for fear of tipping their hand.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Mr. Nobody Against Putin
    The film starkly reveals the toll propaganda takes on everyday individuals and communities.
  92. The Rip
    The film's legible direction and steady escalation of tension makes for an enjoyably retro diversion.
  93. Night Patrol
    Ryan Prows’s film comes across as just straight-up exploitative.
  94. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
    The Bone Temple doesn’t pack the moment-to-moment kineticism of the prior films.
  95. Greenland 2: Migration
    Greenland 2 plays out as a much more generic thriller than its predecessor.
  96. Primate
    If only the filmmakers had put the same care and thought into their human characters, then Primate might have been worth going apeshit over.
  97. My Neighbor Adolf
    The film at once wrings this premise for whimsical absurdism and slow-burn suspense, on each side vulgarizing the memory of the Holocaust.
  98. Young Mothers
    Young Mothers is a welcome return to form for the Dardenne brothers, balancing social observation with character study.
  99. We Bury the Dead
    There’s a thoughtful zombie tale with its own distinctive personality lurking somewhere within We Bury the Dead, but it’s overridden by the film’s more generic elements, and that identity ultimately gets lost among the horde.
  100. Anaconda
    Regrettably, the one star of Anaconda that gets the shortest shrift is the most important one: the snake.
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