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For 7,775 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 33% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 64% lower than the average critic
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: 4,349 out of 7775
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7775
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7775
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  1. Tharlo
    In the logic of the film, for the camera to move at all would feel like a betrayal of its contemplative hunger.
  2. Miss Hokusai
    It condenses everyday interactions, memories, and dreams into a potent mix of all the major ingredients of a well-lived life.
  3. Scarred Hearts
    Despite the film's bleak premise, writer-director Radu Jude finds dark humor within the certainty of death.
  4. I Called Him Morgan
    Director Kasper Collins imbues this documentary with an ambiguous, unsettlingly empathetic emotional force.
  5. My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea
    The film buzzes with hand-drawn creativity that's precious in both the pop-cultural and material senses.
  6. The Untamed
    Each brief glimpse of the creature’s fleshy, slithering mass imbues the character drama with an aching sexual desire and, as the violent potential of the entity becomes clear, a mounting sense of dread.
  7. The Bad Kids
    Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe's documentary raises important questions about the limits of pedagogy.
  8. Yourself and Yours
    Yourself and Yours‘s commitment to its various extreme ambiguities is a crucial facet of the film’s success.
  9. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
    The film doesn't so much bring us closer to the serial murderer as it reminds us of our culpability as spectators.
  10. Paddington 2
    A wilder, weirder, funnier, more heartfelt and eye-popping, and, above all, more fully realized representation of director Paul King’s eccentric sensibility.
  11. I Am Not Your Negro
    The film makes no concessions about its dissatisfaction with the whole rotten lot of so-called western democracy.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Tampopo
    At bottom, Itami’s film is a zesty, albeit wholesomely satisfying, concoction concerned with the virtues of community and cooperation. Nonetheless, Tampopo also explores some darker regions in a number of vignettes that illuminate the often surreal intersections of sex, death, and other human appetites.
  13. Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo
    Very few films accept the contradicting velocities of gay desire, and present them in such blunt yet graceful fashion, the way Paris 05:59 does.
  14. Mudbound
    As striking as Mudbound's combat scenes are, they largely exist as setup for the postwar-set second half of the film, which scrutinizes the way that the atrocities witnessed in Europe laid bare the unsustainable hypocrisy in America's own bigoted divisions.
  15. God's Own Country
    Writer-director Francis Lee captures not only what masculinity does and how it comes undone, but the complex apparatus that keeps it into place: the family’s surveillance, the silence, the shame.
  16. Marjorie Prime
    Mapping the intersection between history and emotion, Michael Almereyda finds himself in Alain Resnais terrain.
  17. Whose Streets?
    The film’s rhythmic editing contextualizes Ferguson’s streets for their relevance to a black populace’s want for stability and peace.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Orlando
    Rarely have source material, director, and leading actress been more in alignment than in Orlando.
  19. Actor Martinez
    Mike Ott and Nathan Silver's film has a ghostly, tremulous quality that eats under the skin.
  20. Les Hautes Solitudes (1974)
    Trading on the already-resonant associations engendered by a famous face, Garrel's film responds by forging a new, deeper connection between an actress and her public, resulting in that rare moment of cinematic alchemy where the line between fact and fiction has not only blurred, but ceased to matter entirely.
  21. Apprentice
    Writer-director Boo Junfeng casually reinvigorates the prison drama, boiling its elements down to their primal essence.
  22. By the Time It Gets Dark
    Anocha Suwichakornpong earnestly and ambitiously attempts to redefine cinema’s conventional grasp of consciousness.
  23. Gemini
    With Gemini, Aaron Katz does his cover of the Los Angeles-set murder mystery, homing in on the genre's evocative loneliness.
  24. The Work
    In its visceral purity, Jairus McLeary's film drags male toxicity up into the light, offering it as a cure for itself.
  25. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
    The film is the finest balance yet of Martin McDonagh's bleak sense of humor and offbeat moral sincerity.
  26. Summer 1993
    The film's screenplay is impressive for how crucial plot points emerge as backdrops to the explicit purpose of a scene.
  27. Stalker
    Subscribing to the belief that the eyes are the windows to the soul, Tarkovsky locates Stalker’s spiritual center in his protagonists’ weathered countenances.
  28. The Day After
    As with most Hong Sang-soo films, it engages in intellectual gamesmanship while courting emotional pathos.
  29. Good Time
    The Safdies play with time like it’s an accordion, stretching out notes of bliss and anxiety while compressing the daily lives of their characters in order to convey the constant state of hustle and stresses necessitated by being poor and hungry for drugs, cash, or a bite to eat in New York City.
  30. Ta'ang
    The film follows its refugee subjects closely but with a physical and narrative distance that respects their independence.
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