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For 7,777 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 33% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 64% lower than the average critic
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: 4,351 out of 7777
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7777
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7777
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Love in the Buff
    The film has an exhilarating tossed-off quality that characterized many of the most entertaining works of the French New Wave.
  2. Take Me to the River
    It's difficult to believe in Ryder's gullibility, if not willingness to be caught in his uncle's strange web of provocations.
  3. High-Rise
    The film's notion of a caste system is crudely reductive in the manner of a routine future-shock thriller.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Young Sherlock Holmes
    As a work of fictional imagination, Holmes is simply fascinating, and Young Sherlock Holmes attempts to unlock the source of that fascination. The film re-imagines the first encounter between Holmes and Watson from within the dusty honeycombs of a boarding school buried deep within the folds of Victorian London. What one finds there are fascinatingly incomplete portraits.
  5. Paradise: Love
    It often seems more intent on spelling out its awareness of the politics involved than in lingering on the aching human engaged in the libidinal transactions.
  6. Good Night Oppy
    Ryan White’s documentary is cute to a fault and filled with a rapturously uncomplicated glee about the joys of exploration.
  7. The Boys in the Band
    The sizzle of the bon mot-tossing ensemble, intact from the stage original, is bracing and fuels the film’s momentum, along with Crowley’s lacerating dialogue.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
    Like his stand-up, Pryor deftly mixes humor and tragedy, subtly tweaking familiar tales from his routines.
  9. Hockney
    After a nearly virtuoso opening, it reduces passages of the painter's life into multiple montages of pop pabulum.
  10. Entertainment
    It conjures a menacing perspective on how the titular occupation hulls out empathy and cultivates a particularly unsettling strain of cynicism.
  11. Twisters
    The film proceeds as a jumble of poorly sketched backstories and subplots, half-hearted topical references, and tepid fan service.
  12. Strange World
    While Strange World’s examination of generational tension is tender and inspiring, as well as nicely tied to its theme of the necessity of adapting to changing times, the film’s sci-fi elements and environmental message are more half-baked in their execution.
  13. Oh, Canada
    There’s a sense here of Paul Schrader wanting to pare back his customary aesthetic even further than it’s already been parred over the last several films and speak plainly, with as little scrim between the audience and himself as possible.
  14. Ali
    Ali‘s narrative laxness comes at the fault of boxing time (a good one-third of the film’s three-hour time span is spent inside the ring). You say: But Mann knows how to direct a fight. But I say: So what?
  15. Knuckle
    A documentary of bareknuckle fights among feuding Irish Traveller clans can't give the participants' self-perpetuating, dead-end rivalry the scope of tragedy.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    We Women Warriors
    Looks and sounds considerably better than nearly every other independent documentary of its kind, forming an argument that's clear and cogent and virtually free of obvious manipulation or pandering.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Samsara
    Ron Fricke's film is a brightly hued bauble, fit for rapturous contemplation.
  18. Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art
    The absence of a central narrator for the most part prevents the film from devolving into gratuitous pedagogy.
  19. The Transfiguration
    The film is at its strongest when navigating the story's uneasy relationship to its genre.
  20. The Projectionist
    Where The Projectionist ultimately excels ... is as the kind of cultural microcosm that makes Ferrara’s other documentaries feel at once urgent and incredibly rich in their broader implications.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    El Topo
    Alejandro Jodorowsky’s El Topo remains an enduring cult-film experience.
  22. Alice, Darling
    The emotional crux of Alice Darling is less the manner in which it lays out a roadmap for an exit from an abusive relationship and more its attentiveness to the profound ramifications of such relationships for the women in them.
  23. Drop
    The film knows that when the stakes are sky high, the emotions need to be firmly grounded.
  24. Nuisance Bear
    Nuisance Bear is at its most powerful when its message has been condensed down into a single image.
  25. The Good Nurse
    For a while, the work on the part of the performers is nuanced enough to distract us from the film’s implausibilities.
  26. Magazine Dreams
    Magazine Dreams melds the alluring and the horrific in an unsettling mixture suited to its account of the peril of pursuing physical perfection.
  27. Transformers One
    A realm without physical limits is truly where the Transformers belong, but it doesn’t stop the film from delivering some surprising pathos while it’s there.
  28. The Black Phone
    Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill are adept enough at setting up rich, evocative horror concepts, but they don’t always know what to do with them once they’re in place.
  29. In the Fade
    In the Fade is executed with precision, particularly the third act, in which the film morphs into a tense yet unconvincing revenge thriller.
  30. The Swell Season
    Ultimately, though, they never cohere into something more than a moderately engaging for-fans-only tour diary.
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