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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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    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Damned
    Roberto Minervini’s camera ably conjures the melancholy and alienation that afflict his characters across scenes that merge documentary and neorealist techniques, but it’s far from realistic to expect a troop of soldiers to act aloof around each other when they’re all in the shit.
  2. Wild Diamond
    The film is at its best when it’s keyed to its main character’s breakneck energy.
  3. Intercepted
    The film’s most effective material comes in its analysis of how the military state’s permission structures for inhumanity traumatize citizens in order to harden them and focus their hatred.
  4. The Surfer
    When The Surfer does break out of the sun-addled fugue state that marks its midsection, it delivers a gonzo finale that lets Nicolas Cage rev himself up into his most manic, meme-able self.
  5. The Woman in the Yard
    The film is a slow-burning tale of very real traumas suffered by a woman far out of her element and forced to process a tragedy on top of it all.
  6. Black Phone 2
    Throughout, Scott Derrickson collapses dreams, reality, past, and present sidelong into a singular cinematic haunted space.
  7. The Seed of the Sacred Fig
    Often blunt and unwieldy, Mohamed Rasolouf's film is nevertheless impactful.
  8. Gazer
    The main character’s condition feels like a dramatically dubious attempt to shroud the somewhat spindly nature of the film’s plot.
  9. Sacramento
    The film’s strength is that it knows how to keep things moving.
  10. The Knife
    The overriding suspense here is largely created by watching truth become negotiable, and through the small, plausible distortions of the truth that people come up with when survival instincts kick in.
  11. Only the River Flows
    The craft brought to bear on Only the River Flows is captivating, but when it comes to matters of story, it cultivates a frustrating air of disinterest.
  12. Happy Campers
    Amy Nicholson’s empathy for her subjects is undeniable.
  13. The Sparrow in the Chimney
    The film seems to insist upon the idea that intimacy and isolation are ultimately two sides of the same coin.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Goodrich
    Goodrich is a moving and warmly humanist story of a vaguely unseemly, mostly harmless guy trying to be a better person.
  15. Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
    The film paints a vivid portrait of what life was like for Black South Africans under apartheid.
  16. Sonic the Hedgehog 3
    The hedgehogs are the stars here, and after three delightfully breezy good times at the theater, it’s no longer a surprise as to why that is.
  17. Drowning Dry
    Drowning Dry offers something akin to a cinematic concussion as it begins warping the experience of time.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Pavements
    Alex Ross Perry’s Cubist portrait finds a fitting balance between reverence and mischievousness.
  19. The Last Showgirl
    The film is less a character study than a numbly tragic workaday fantasia held aloft by Pamela Anderson in a performance that seems to grasp beyond the bleary-eyed edges of Gia Coppola’s screen for larger truths about the choices women make to feel seen.
  20. Bring Them Down
    Bring Them Down uncovers an organic affinity between the genre mainstay of vengeance taking on a life of its own and the force exerted by paternal tradition.
  21. The Order
    The Order illuminates the pipeline from economic insecurity and racial anxiety into outright white nationalism without casting a sympathetic eye toward the eponymous group’s tenets.
  22. Relay
    Set to the rhythms of a pulsing, ultramodern New York milieu, the film, at its best, wrings real tension and excitement out of the simple exchanging of clandestine messages and sensitive information.
  23. The Assessment
    The Assessment works its way through intriguing conundrums about the motivations and qualifications of parenthood, as well as the power dynamics at play between parents and children.
  24. The Quiet Ones
    The Quiet Ones is a reminder of the simple pleasures of a caper film with ice in its veins.
  25. Better Man
    Walking a dizzying line between the stupid and the profound, this exuberant, positively unique biopic is as hard to resist as it is to believe that it got made in the first place.
  26. Harvest
    The film is a handsomely mounted production in which much of the filth feels stage-managed.
  27. Wicked: For Good
    The film is stretched out, breathless, and never really emotionally affecting, even on the level of nostalgia.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Stranger Eyes
    Lee Kang-sheng’s performance is the emotional and physical lodestone of a film about the fraught ambiguities of seeing through a one-way mirror.
  29. Juror #2
    Juror #2 casts a morally inquiring side-eye at the American legal system, questioning whether it’s reasonable to convict anyone on the basis of something so fallible as memory.
  30. When Fall Is Coming
    The film is a bit too muddled to bring its main character fully into focus, despite Hélène Vincent’s best efforts to do so.
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