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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. Fantasy Life
    Amanda Peet finds layers of shading in what could have been a dull and simplistic role.
  2. Project Hail Mary
    Phil Lord and Christopher Miller put a comedic spin on Andy Weir’s more straightforward 2021 novel Project Hail Mary, recasting the author’s hopeful vision of productive communication with extraterrestrials as an unlikely buddy comedy.
  3. Invention
    Courtney Stephens’s film blends fiction and autobiography to fascinating implications.
  4. Weapons
    For every moment of electrifying horror, Whitest Kids U’ Know alum Zach Cregger cleanses the palette with equivalent comic relief.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Mastermind
    The Mastermind marks a new chapter in Kelly Reichardt’s ongoing tapestry of American life through the eyes of its eccentric outsiders, specifically capping off a trilogy about the intersection of art and commerce at differing stages of American capitalism.
  6. A Private Life
    The film’s brisk pace does partly compensate for the essential banality of the central investigation.
  7. Everything's Going to Be Great
    The human struggles at play are too dire and relatable for us to say that these people don’t deserve that level of grace, but making the audience generally sympathize with them doesn’t make spending time with them particularly pleasant either.
  8. The History of Sound
    The film movingly conjures the feeling of music’s creation of a suspended present tense.
  9. Jay Kelly
    As Noah Baumbach sells the sappiness in Jay Kelly with the same sincerity of his convictions as in his more acerbic works, the film holds together as a lightweight delight.
  10. Amrum
    Fatih Akin’s Amrum is a delicate coming-of-age parable tracking national identity and violence to their most intimate origin points during the waning days of the Third Reich.
  11. Desert of Namibia
    The film is so welded to its main character’s perspective that it, too, shies away from understanding, tragic and frustrating in equal measure.
  12. Nouvelle Vague
    There’s an apparent contradiction between the radical spontaneity that Godard chases throughout the making of Breathless and the more conventional narrative approach of Linklater’s film, though spontaneity was perhaps always incompatible with the nature of this project.
  13. Best Wishes to All
    The film is comic yet vicious and cynically bleak in its portraiture of Japan’s silent plague.
  14. Eleanor the Great
    Scarlett Johansson’s direction keeps things simple and intimate in a way that Tory Kamen’s overambitious screenplay doesn’t.
  15. The Devil Wears Prada 2
    Befitting its image-conscious milieu, The Devil Wears Prada 2 has the aspartame fake-sweetness and zero-calorie comfort of its predecessor: It’s charming enough in the moment but you’ll be hungry again half an hour later.
  16. A Useful Ghost
    Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s defense of historical memory couldn’t be more timely.
  17. The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire
    This film essay grapples with the ethical and political considerations raised in the effort to retrieve Césaire from oblivion.
  18. Frankenstein
    Guillermo del Toro reassembles a multitude of fragments, both lifted from the text and drawn from his own life, into a bloody and beautiful organ of empathy that will assuredly live on.
  19. A House of Dynamite
    Kathryn Bigelow’s nerve-shredding A House of Dynamite stares down impossible questions about an unthinkable scenario.
  20. No Sleep Till
    Uncertainty extends to the film’s mood, which fluctuates between dreamy ennui and slowly escalating dread.
  21. The SpongeBob Movie: Search for Squarepants
    If the film’s breathless pacing and rapid-fire jokes run out of steam just a tad as SpongeBob’s stay in the underworld extends, Search for SquarePants is still charming, spirited, and ludicrous enough to prove that it’s not quite time to tell this series to walk the plank.
  22. Collective Monologue
    The film reveals—and urges on—a historical shift in how we relate to other living beings.
  23. Mortal Kombat II
    Mortal Kombat II is done waiting around. It’s ravenous to get down to bloody business.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Testament of Ann Lee
    Mona Fastvold’s protean fable is tremulous, tricky, and intrepid, much like its pious protagonist.
  25. Shoeshine
    Notwithstanding the veracity of the American-occupied urban locations he captures, De Sica doesn’t innovate or subvert expectations in the manner of the contemporaneous war trilogy of Roberto Rossellini, and his plotting with principal screenwriter Cesare Zavattini doesn’t rise above the level of a vivid potboiler with a mild bent for muckraking.
  26. Hedda
    Tessa Thompson's presence is captivating, as she relishes in exploring her character's gleeful and occasionally anxious villainy.
  27. Nuremberg
    Just as Stanley Kramer’s Judgement at Nuremberg explored the Nuremberg trials against the backdrop of the emerging Cold War, James Vanderbilt’s film holds the trials up as a mirror to our current era of authoritarianism.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Dead Man's Wire
    If Dead Man’s Wire adds up to less than the sum of its vicarious jolts and sardonic jabs, it’s perhaps a result of Gus Van Sant’s style fading into the background.
  29. Islands
    The film is most interesting when it's keyed to its main character's existential malaise across what plays out like a White Lotus B-plot.
  30. The Fence
    The late Bernard-Marie Koltès’s 1979 play isn’t opened up so much as clinically dissected by the film, with every character an enfeebled pawn in situations they’re at a loss to resolve.
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