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For 7,792 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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. Cat Person
    Cat Person only succeeds when it stays in a space of mystery and unknowing.
  2. Cassandro
    Like any good fighter film, Cassandro builds to the sort of incredible final bout that makes your hairs stand up and the rest of your body want to.
  3. Sometimes I Think About Dying
    The film is an imperfect but affecting portrait of social isolation that captures both the pain and the warmth that comes with finally letting others in.
  4. A Little Prayer
    The film patiently illustrates how places imprint themselves upon us and guide our actions.
  5. Kokomo City
    The film’s most significant accomplishment is the mood it crafts with its cool black-and-white images, fast-paced editing, unorthodox camera angles, handheld camera, and overall jazzy atmosphere.
  6. Full Time
    Full Time doesn’t have much to say about organized labor, or labor in general, other than that work can be really stressful.
  7. The Civil Dead
    Clay Tatum’s film is wholly and refreshingly uninterested in tugging at the heartstrings.
  8. In Viaggio: The Travels of Pope Francis
    The film unfolds at an excessive remove from its subject matter, and it becomes less an incisive thesis about the pope than an occasion for Gianfranco Rosi to flex his stylistic muscles.
  9. The Adults
    The Adults affectingly captures the uniquely American ennui provoked by the banalities of a hometown and the lost utopia of childhood.
  10. Damsel
    At its best, Damsel suggests a dark fantasy riff on Neil Marshall’s The Descent.
  11. Femme
    Femme fascinatingly taps into the radical possibilities of the sartorial as narrative device, exploring the tabooed nuances of queer subjectivity and muddying the lines between gay and trans in the way that lived experience tends to do.
  12. On the Adamant
    Unwilling to risk subjectivity or authorial input, and also lacking in the forensic detail that might have provided a more in-depth analysis of the Centre de jour l’Adamant and its functioning, On the Adamant ultimately feels half-formed.
  13. Sansón and Me
    Sansón and Me has a way of frustratingly pulling focus away from its ostensible subject.
  14. The Lesson
    It’s a testament to the skills of the cast and filmmakers that The Lesson’s mysteries, while easy to foretell, are worth unraveling.
  15. The End
    Perhaps the script is deliberately harking back to a storytelling mode that was characteristic of Hollywood cinema for dramatic effect, but the musical aspect, while a neat gimmick, isn’t memorable or cohesive enough to make the homage, well, sing.
  16. Matter Out of Place
    Consisting largely of long takes sans music or commentary, the film uncovers the paradox that trash, so apparently devoid of meaning or use-value, needs little commentary.
  17. Gran Turismo
    What the film lacks in connective tissue, it makes up for in sheer vibes.
  18. I Used to Be Funny
    The nimble way that Rachel Sennott hops between the two versions of her character easily makes up for the odd narrative misstep that I Used to Be Funny makes along the way.
  19. 20,000 Species of Bees
    The film blooms in moments where, instead of literally addressing Coco's gender trouble, we’re simply allowed to inhabit it.
  20. The Out-Laws
    The Out-Laws shines when it spotlights the committed performances of its cast.
  21. Padre Pio
    Offering visceral immediacy over meticulous construction, Padre Pio bristles with arresting images.
  22. Monster
    Across the film, you can feel the push and pull between a master technician who built his career on the patient, delicate plucking at our heartstrings and his newfound desire to please a wide audience with the broadest of affective strokes.
  23. The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed
    The film embodies the alienating angst of millennial life in all its nakedly neurotic glory.
  24. Youth (Spring)
    Twenty years on from Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks, we return with Wang Bing to the factory floor, but this time he doesn’t muster the formal strategies or the narratological scope that once allowed him (and us) to imagine broader implications for China’s future.
  25. Terrestrial Verses
    The sense of repetition that the film leans into in order to acknowledge the inescapable grip of the state is as much a feature as it is a bug.
  26. Cyclo
    An extraordinarily imaginative director, Tran fashions Cyclo into a sensualist nightmare.
  27. The Amateur
    The Amateur is a relaxed and pleasurable throwback to the spy pulp of the 1970s and ’80s, yet told with a (mostly) honest appraisal of the C.I.A.’s ethical failings.
  28. Priscilla
    Priscilla’s delicate mystique struggles to free itself from an oppressive mood board imposed from without by six decades of history.
  29. The League
    At its most engrossing, the film vibrantly sketches out the historical roots of the Negro baseball leagues.
  30. Irma la Douce
    If not exactly an endearing experience on the whole, Irma la Douce is a fine example of Billy Wilder’s mid-career eccentricity and cosmopolitan curiosity.
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