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For 7,772 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 6.3 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: 4,346 out of 7772
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7772
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7772
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  1. How Green Was My Valley
    Maybe because How Green Was My Valley doesn’t delve as deeply into the heart of darkness as Ford did in his earlier The Grapes of Wrath, it remains one of his most curiously underrated films.
  2. Azor
    With its elegantly restrained cinematography, exquisitely understated performances, and quietly sumptuous production design, Azor embodies the same well-mannered urbanity as its protagonist.
  3. Paddington 2
    A wilder, weirder, funnier, more heartfelt and eye-popping, and, above all, more fully realized representation of director Paul King’s eccentric sensibility.
  4. The Little Mermaid
    The Little Mermaid is the story of one packrat pre-tween princess whose undersea kingdom is only matched in depth by her remarkable sense of consumer-minded entitlement.
  5. City Hall
    Its provocations can seem savage at a glance, but they emerge from an observational tranquility that is uniquely Frederick Wiseman’s own.
  6. The Death of Stalin
    Armando Iannucci satirizes the manner in which political power is accorded to those who can mask cutthroat ambition behind an outward projection of bland inoffensiveness.
  7. Strangers on a Train
    Strangers on a Train is also simply a great thriller, yet another illustration of Hitchcock’s awe-inspiring ability to convey more with a single image than most directors can with minutes upon minutes of belabored set pieces.
  8. About Dry Grasses
    Above all, the film captures how easy it is to deposit too much hope on the few who represent dissent, or freedom, when one is trapped.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Hard Truths
    Even at its funniest, Hard Truths finds Marianne Jean-Baptiste channeling an anger that feels excruciatingly real.
  10. In Transit
    The film's thematic organization suggests the cinematic equivalent of a short-story collection, with haunting tangents and stray notes of poetry.
  11. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
    The film is the finest balance yet of Martin McDonagh's bleak sense of humor and offbeat moral sincerity.
  12. Au Revoir les Enfants
    Part dream, part nightmare, the film vividly remembers a traumatic moment in time that cannot be forgotten.
  13. Things to Come
    The film is further confirmation of Mia Hansen-Løve’s delicately devastating ear and touch as a filmmaker.
  14. The Grand Budapest Hotel
    As always, Wes Anderson places his trademark precision in direct confrontation with the chaos and confusion menacing his beloved characters.
  15. Train Dreams
    The film’s mythologizing is refreshingly measured, and it offers an appealingly earnest take on the American story.
  16. Winter Sleep
    Staring deep into the darkness of an apparently static character, Nuri Bilge Ceylan again exhibits his gift for making interesting stories out of predetermined plots, locating small eddies of change in the midst of eternally fixed dynamics.
  17. A Star Is Born
    Bradley Cooper understands that a message is only as resonant as its messenger, so he surrounds himself with collaborators, old and new, who can sell even the hoariest cliché.
  18. Citizenfour
    Laura Poitras teaches by example, providing a privileged insight into Edward Snowden's personality and motivation while keeping the focus on government spying.
  19. Hamilton
    The show offers testimony to the power of communal storytelling, just as mighty on screen as on stage.
  20. The Father
    The film approximates the dislocation of its main character’s mind with a frighteningly slippery ease.
  21. Foxtrot
    Icy absurdism and sorrowful ironies abound throughout Samuel Maoz's Foxtrot, whose laughs stick in your throat like the silent screams of its Job-like protagonist.
  22. Sweet Country
    The film is a meticulous examination of how the dehumanization of Australia's native population bred an environment of cyclical violence and mistrust.
  23. Leave No Trace
    In Leave No Trace, director Debra Granik continues to refine a style of tranquil intensity. The film's images have a rapt and pared-down power, with emphases that are never quite where you expect them to be.
  24. Fargo
    Fargo, more than any of the Coens’ other work, is a study in contrast, namely in the sense that it’s made by two people who were clearly at one time insiders, but who have now taken the opportunity to see the Midwestern template from the outside. As such, every interaction in the film registers as a direct reflection of incongruous elements and repressed tensions.
  25. Parallel Mothers
    The film is a ghost story as well as a story of transference, which Pedro Almodóvar understands to be one in the same.
  26. Hell or High Water
    As with Sicario, the broad strokes of the film's Southwestern stereotypes gradually sharpen into focus as the story pivots to a look at the systemic forces that shape the characters.
  27. Shirkers
    Sandi Tan's view of what the original Shirkers represented, and what her new film should be, proves surprisingly expansive.
  28. Mildred Pierce
    Though its craft is accomplished, the film never gets deep under one’s skin the way it ought to.
  29. Poor Things
    As imaginative as the film’s comedy can be, its greatest asset is Emma Stone’s ability to situate Bella Baster first as jester, then as the emotional foundation upon which the whole of Poor Things is built.
  30. Tootsie
    The film, as a whole, isn’t quite up to the phenomenal dexterity of its lead’s exertions. But there’s a legitimate reason people love this movie so much: Pollack syphoned Hoffman’s ecstatic electricity off into a popular and old-fashioned romantic-comedy formula, bringing it back to life. Tootsie is a remarkably gentle and human pop movie that informs the term “escapism” with an almost cleansing sense of decency.
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