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For 7,792 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 6.2 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: 4,362 out of 7792
  2. Mixed: 1,496 out of 7792
  3. Negative: 1,934 out of 7792
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  1. Black Box
    The film ruminates on how virtuality infiltrates the deepest regions of our subconscious to reprogram the inner workings of the self.
  2. The Life Ahead
    With its tough-minded characters from divergent cultures finding a common bond despite their differences, the film doesn’t deliver much in the way of surprises, but it turns out to be a starker and more honest piece of work than it might initially seem.
  3. Over the Moon
    At its most beguiling, director Glen Keane’s animated film Over the Moon mixes the unbridled free-association of playtime with an undercurrent of barbed satire.
  4. Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
    The greatest gift offered by the film is an empowering world that looks less like invention and more like real life.
  5. Black Adam
    The film has the courage of its convictions, suggesting that violence on behalf of an oppressed people isn’t only justifiable but even moral.
  6. Atarrabi & Mikelats
    A challenge inherent to a parable of this sort is that evil, being so seductive, can make good seem dull or prissy by comparison.
  7. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
    Too often, the film teases big, wild comedic set pieces that end up deflating almost instantly.
  8. Demons
    Demons is a coffee-table book of a horror movie, reveling in a purity of transcendent revulsion that marks it as something that’s really only suitable for the truest and most devoted of aficionados. It’s a snob’s objet d’art, disguised as a blood offering.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Thing Called Love
    Such strained touches notwithstanding, The Thing Called Love charms and touches, not the least for revealing Bogdanovich as a rare filmmaker still interested in human behavior, keeping the action mostly in medium shots and extended takes to better catch the emotional nuances from character to character.
  10. The Night
    It’s at the juncture between horror and philosophical surrealism that Kourosh Ahari’s film is at its most provocative.
  11. The Stand In
    The film allows the scion of one of Hollywood’s most notable families to interrogate her relationship with celebrity in self-aware fashion.
  12. Koko-di Koko-da
    Nothing hinders surrealism more than the sense that its creators are actively working for it, though Koko-di Koko-da is nonetheless difficult to dismiss.
  13. The United States vs. Billie Holiday
    The film finds its purpose most pointedly when it zeroes in on the unambiguous relationship between Holiday and “Strange Fruit.”
  14. Little Fish
    The film gets at the profound truth that our relationship with another person is, at its core, a collection of shared memories.
  15. Survival Skills
    While mostly pulling off this tricky balancing act of humor and real-life horror, the film doesn’t quite go far enough in its critiques.
  16. The Legend of Hell House
    The Legend of Hell House is a regrettably just-competent adaptation of a great American horror novel.
  17. Cryptozoo
    Dash Shaw’s deceptively simple animation regularly descends into phantasmagoria that delivers on his story’s strange premise.
  18. Flee
    The film effectively immerses us in the wrenching details of Amin’s story, but it keeps us just a bit too far removed from the man himself.
  19. How It Ends
    The film is so economical in its momentum, and its tone of comic wistfulness so uniform, that its string of tableaux rarely feels jerky.
  20. Mass
    In the hands of its cast, Mass gives such precise and profound expression to the totality of grief that it comes to feel downright palpable.
  21. On the Count of Three
    Jerrod Carmichael is a volatile director and an electric actor, but Ari Katcher and Ryan Welch’s screenplay routinely force the characters into formulaic, trivializing scenarios.
  22. Cusp
    At its best, the documentary’s aura of desolation suggests a verité version of Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show.
  23. Together Together
    Ed Helms and Patti Harrison’s wonderful rapport helps to keep the film grounded in the recognizably real.
  24. Hive
    A layer of ambivalence facilitates our identification with Fahrije but also makes her a distinct character and not just an archetype.
  25. Werewolves Within
    The film becomes unexpectedly, effectively violent just when you’ve written it off as a glorified SNL sketch.
  26. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
    After a while, it’s hard not to feel like Radu Jude is simply shooting fish in a barrel.
  27. Next Door
    Unlike Malcom & Marie, Daniel Brühl’s feature-length directorial debut proves to be authentically self-castigating.
  28. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
    The film is an offbeat epic informed by a reverence for the past and a delicate wariness toward the future.
  29. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
    Despite this clever setup, Tom Gormican’s film isn’t the self-reflexive skewering of Hollywood that one might expect.
  30. The Man Who Sold His Skin
    Art, commerce, and immigration are inextricably bound in Kaouther Ben Hania’s playful and gently moving, if uneven, film.
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