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For 7,772 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 3% same as the average critic
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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. Diane
    Every moment in Jones’s film is so precisely textured that it becomes fantastical.
  2. The Magician
    This piquant control over cinematic grammar doesn’t quite rescue the film from a laughably zombie-tinged climax and an anomalous deus ex machina denouement, but it makes The Magician one of Bergman’s more accessible failures, and collapses any suspicious connection between him and the fretful Vogler.
  3. Point Blank
    Though Point Blank is rife with existential malaise, it is also one of the most ferociously sexy crime movies ever made.
  4. Tangerine
    Its triumph is primarily a matter of style, a visionary revelation every bit as expressionistic as its main character's electric sense of shade.
  5. To Be or Not to Be
    Many of the film’s pleasures, then, derive from watching these characters successfully use the tools of the stage (improvisation, sense memory, prosthetics) to successfully subvert the Nazis.
  6. Room
    The film, never sensational or saccharine, is a tough but tender tribute to the creative power of maternal love.
  7. An Elephant Sitting Still
    The film’s gritty, mundane agonies come to feel like a series of moral tests with genuinely unpredictable outcomes.
  8. The Wolf House
    The film’s animation leans into its most jerky, artificial qualities, all the better to enhance the atmosphere of bizarre unreality.
  9. Anatomy of a Fall
    At its best, Anatomy of a Fall is nothing less than a rigorous modern treatise on the knotty interpersonal dynamics of long-term relationships and how conveniently they can be distorted when exposed to public scrutiny.
  10. Nebraska
    In the film, Alexander Payne's overview of America is extraordinarily, multifariously profound.
  11. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
    It achieves the rarest of feats of any tentpole Hollywood release, animated or not: gleefully matching exhilarating stylistic experimentation with a multi-tiered narrative of equal ambition.
  12. Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
    We're simply presented a person in trouble, and we're allowed to recognize his problems as extreme embodiments of universal issues of terror, confusion, and loneliness.
  13. Black Narcissus
    Black Narcissus impishly keeps watch over the Archers’ canon with a sunken, rabidly prismatic eye.
  14. Hard Boiled
    There’s a moral “quality” to the bloodshed that you won’t find in your average Hollywood action film.
  15. Last Days in Vietnam
    For American viewers who don't know, the doc will be a worthy footnote to a long bout of deliberate cultural amnesia, but it's too telling that the Vietnamese remain in the background.
  16. Krisha
    It rams home the main character's relentless downward spiral though an incessant parade of grandstanding stylistic flourishes.
  17. Dawson City: Frozen Time
    Throughout, direcgor Bill Morrison mixes documentarian detail with an ecstatic sense of poetry.
  18. Shadows
    At 80 minutes, its cinematic flash fiction, and a suitable entry point into the lively body of work Cassavetes made.
  19. Rebecca
    A key film in Alfred Hitchcock’s evolution as a master explorer of sexual neuroses.
  20. Josephine
    Beth de Araújo’s sophomore feature is a harrowing chronicle of a premature maturation.
  21. The Inheritance
    The film’s throwback nature is in sync with Ephraim Asili’s interest in wanting to keep the legacy of black activism alive.
  22. The Babadook
    Its horrors go beyond any single raggedy phantom, reaching back to the primordial fear of death and loss: of a child, of a loved one, of one's own sense of self.
  23. Little Men
    Director Ira Sachs transforms the smallest blip on life's radar, a childhood friendship, into a momentous occasion.
  24. Welcome to Chechnya
    David France’s most remarkable accomplishment emerges from an aesthetic commitment of a very particular kind.
  25. The Great Escape
    The Great Escape is that rare war film that doesn’t fully indulge in assumed nationalism, save for the fact that everyone speaks English. Sturges never touches on the essential hollowness and cruel pageantry of war, but he does the next best thing by depicting an international effort where victory, no matter how short-lived, depends on the cooperation of myriad talents, rather than the gruff can-do attitude of an unbreakable chosen one.
  26. What Now? Remind Me
    The repetitive rhythms of Joaquim Pinto's daily routines provide the film with a feeling of serenity that stands in contrast to the man's underlying anxiety.
  27. Manakamana
    Filmmakers Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez insist that altered spectatorship, particularly patience and duration, is the foundation of cinematic edification.
  28. Our Land (Nuestra Tierra)
    The film is less a portrait of one martyred man than a mosaic of a resistant community.
  29. Carrie
    Carrie, on the other hand, is frighteningly feminine, a slap in the face of those charging De Palma with misogyny as fierce as the one Betty Buckley whales across Nancy Allen’s face.
  30. The Red Turtle
    A pointed simplicity governs Michael Dudok de Wit's The Red Turtle, one that’s traditional of many survival tales.
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