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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. Dario Argento Panico
    It’s Argento who consistently makes the most compelling and incisive on-screen presence throughout Simone Scafidi’s documentary.
  2. Freaky Tales
    For all of its spiritedness, Freaky Tales wants for the sense of invention that defines the films that it references and whose moves it often falls back on borrowing.
  3. My Old Ass
    The world of My Old Ass retains a lived-in quality, in large part due to the shrewd, sensitive way in which it treats the emotional struggles of its teenage characters.
  4. The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
    There’s considerable emotional truth on display throughout Benjamin Ree’s documentary.
  5. Dìdi
    The film speaks unflinchingly to the unique anxieties and frustrations of early teenhood.
  6. It's What's Inside
    The camera, the cuts, the needle drops, and story twists all contribute to the feeling of a machine that’s spinning faster and faster until finally it careens right out of control.
  7. Your Monster
    Melissa Barrera’s Laura may be full of rage, but the kind of monster she is doesn’t line up with where her rage leads her.
  8. Eternal You
    The film approaches a new tech frontier with an objective, responsibly apprehensive, eye.
  9. Sujo
    Befitting the unseen forces that seem to drive the characters, writer-directors Fernanda Valadez and Astrid Rondero bring a haunted, dreamlike undercurrent to the film similar to sequences from their prior collaboration, Identifying Features.
  10. Immaculate
    The film’s final act contains some of the most twisted, gory violence this particular subgenre of horror has seen in years, ultimately recalling nothing less than the films of the ultra-violent New French Extremity movement.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Invisible Fight
    Writer-director Rainer Sarnet’s deliriously weird The Invisible Fight would be irksome if it weren’t crafted so lovingly and with a charming earnestness.
  12. Longlegs
    This is a sturdily constructed horror film with a foundation sneakily built on shifting sands.
  13. The Room Next Door
    Centering the impermanence of human existence in the euthanasia drama The Room Next Door doesn’t indicate resignation to a “late period” style so much as it suggests a natural outgrowth of Almodóvar’s formidable body of work.
  14. The Deliverance
    Lee Daniels does such a good job investing us in the human drama of The Deliverance that it almost feels unnecessary when the supernatural elements inevitably take over in the final act.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Piano Lesson
    This film feels at times like the earnest result of a group of artists paying tribute to a great playwright rather than a fully realized work of its own.
  16. Mother, Couch
    Other than a sort of wistful quirkiness, it’s not clear what Mother, Couch gains by skewing away from a more straightforward, streamlined family drama.
  17. La Cocina
    La Cocina goes further than recasting the American dream as a nightmare and the much sought-after visa as a ticket to infinite exploitation.
  18. Another End
    Despite its initially familiar trajectory, Another End disarmingly and purposefully sweeps us away on a wave of apathy not unlike that which plagues its main character, challenging our sense of who we fundamentally are as humans.
  19. Seven Veils
    The film’s pleasures are ultimately more textural and academic than those of Tár.
  20. Crossing
    Crossing is never less than nobly intent on showing trans people as worthy of dignity, safety, and love.
  21. A Traveler's Needs
    Hong Sang-soo’s films have tricky narrative juxtapositions and symbols that often render potentially mundane moments transcendent.
  22. Omen
    The patchwork structure of Omen is suited to the complexity a setting where characters switch between French, Swahili, and English depending on who they want to keep in the dark. Yet it’s difficult to shake that there are too many threads for a film of this length to do them justice.
  23. Blood for Dust
    The film is held together by the intensity of its haunted-looking cast and the dour atmosphere.
  24. LaRoy, Texas
    While it never quite reaches the hilarious heights or existential depths of the Coens’ finest work, it does offer similarly enjoyable mixture of the macabre and the absurd.
  25. Red Island
    Red Island is at once lackadaisical and urgent, relaxed but with a clear eye for how swiftly everything will end for the characters at its center.
  26. Bob Trevino Likes It
    It has its very powerful moments, but the oddly linear, untroubled journey of its two main characters robs the film of some of its emotional authenticity.
  27. Love Hurts
    The film is startlingly earnest in its affection for Ke Huy Quan and making him play both to and against type.
  28. Oddity
    Thanks to its expert staging, the film doesn’t lose much in the way of immediacy.
  29. Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu
    Mandalorian and Grogu is, basically, four Mandalorian episodes wearing an IMAX trench coat.
  30. Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
    The film lays out an impassioned case for the nearly unique greatness of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s body of work.
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