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For 7,778 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: 4,352 out of 7778
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7778
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7778
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  1. I Wanna Hold Your Hand
    Everything in I Wanna Hold Your Hand is pushed right up to the breaking point of absurdity. The lunacy of pop-culture infatuation is lent the undying fervor of a fever dream.
  2. Trauma
    Trauma is both an underachieving Deep Red and an unpolished facsimile of Stendhal Syndrome, and where Tenebre invites active spectatorship, Trauma is convoluted to the point of distraction, worth savoring solely for Argento’s excesses of gore.
  3. Gladiator II
    Like so many latter-day Ridley Scott films, Gladiator II at once feels half-baked and overstuffed, and the lack of internal consistency robs its action of sustained tension and its comedy of bite.
  4. Nobody
    The film offers chaos by the yard with no real stakes or emotional reverberations.
  5. The Ballad of Lefty Brown
    For what it's worth, Jared Moshe seems genuinely interested in the role of unflagging decency in a sullied world.
  6. Finding Fela!
    Alex Gibney uses archival and Broadway footage so seamlessly that telling the difference between reality and recreation becomes not only difficult, but one of the film's central metaphors.
  7. Greenland
    There are enough left turns here to allow us to shake the impression that we’ve been to this rodeo before.
  8. The Mountain
    For all its emotional restraint, Rick Alverson’s film builds to a point of remarkable pathos.
  9. Kinds of Kindness
    The abstraction is presented with cloying cuteness, the sadism is juvenile and purposeless, and the humor is stomach-turningly glib.
  10. Dreamin' Wild
    The elegantly underplayed performances ensure that the film never succumbs to melodrama.
  11. Futuro Beach
    It masks depleted drama under a progression of long takes, various music cues, and a three-chapter structure that grows successively tedious.
  12. Ready Player One
    It's a boldly attempted strike against the monolithic corporatization of fan service, and arguably one of the few films that defines dystopia as nothing less than a marketplace of trademarked, cross-promotional intellectual property. In other words, our here and now.
  13. In a Valley of Violence
    The film communicates a sporadic sense of violation—of pastiche unpredictably giving way to a raw and primordially intimate emotional realm.
  14. Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki
    Kaku Arakawa's documentary is a candid snapshot of a great artist as an old man.
  15. The Lodge
    It’s best appreciated not with the parts of your brain responsible for reason and judgment, but in the unthinking terror centers, where the film’s style of God-fearing fanaticism also resides.
  16. Watership Down
    Martin Rosen’s eloquent, wondrous film offers a deceivingly simple yet powerful view of a war-ridden rabbit society.
  17. Café Society
    As clarified potently by the film, most of life is spent distracting oneself from matters of the closest personal significance.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Nymphomaniac: Volume I
    But whereas female sexuality was borderline vampiric in Antichrist, this time we're in more ambiguous, contextually richer terrain, where desire is complicated not only by love, but also by a deep need for self-determination, and pride.
  19. Dementia 13
    Dementia 13 has always been a chilling and confident horror mixtape, fashioned by a man who was a few years away from consecutively producing four of the most famous of all American movies.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Conversation Piece
    Conversation Piece, as a “last will and testament” (as many have come to indentify it), feels both like a stylistic and thematic reconciliation on the filmmaker’s behalf, and as such a work of important insight into one of the cinema’s great anomalies.
  21. Last Call at the Oasis
    Both an informative bit of agitprop and an ultra slick and slightly self-satisfied bit of entertainment.
  22. The Apprentice
    Perhaps there are limits on how deeply a film can explore the psyches of people who so nakedly show us their worst qualities.
  23. Greyhound
    With no vividly drawn humans on display, the action feels like rootless war play.
  24. The Paradine Case
    This all-star courtroom thriller is also an underrated study of a master artist’s social demons, embodying the very essence of the auteur theory.
  25. Cupcakes
    Eytan Fox opts for a thoroughly hollow rumination on pop-culture mechanics as they pertain to young, aspiring professionals.
  26. Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans
    The film forsakes all ambiguity regarding McQueen's psychology by stubbornly defining him as a determined, charismatic womanizer.
  27. The Grey
    There's little in Joe Carnahan's previous films, marked by their frenetic, fanboy-friendly overindulgences, to predict the cold blast of The Grey, an old-fashioned, neatly arrayed survival story that almost reads like a reaction to the excesses of his past work.
  28. Mifune: The Last Samurai
    In many ways, Toshirô Mifune the man remains just as mysterious after watching Steven Okazaki's film as he was before.
  29. The History of Sound
    The film movingly conjures the feeling of music’s creation of a suspended present tense.
  30. The Long Dumb Road
    Director and co-writer Hannah Fidell's film never finds the right mix of meaningful parable and sophomoric romp.
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