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For 7,772 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: 4,346 out of 7772
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7772
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7772
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  1. April and the Extraordinary World
    The film provocatively has audiences see the world's current ecological concerns in a different and unexpected light.
  2. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
    Order may be restored to the Circus, the "bad" elements weeded out, but in the jaundiced world the film has spent the last two hours so effectively delineating, the barriers between good and evil have been shown to be essentially meaningless.
  3. The Wild Robot
    The film’s discernible brushstrokes serve as a reminder of the literal hands, the labor, it takes to raise someone, mold them into a survivor, and to carry love with you wherever you go.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Harakiri
    Structured with intricacy and precision, the storyline alternates between present and past, using its extended flashback sequences to delay and then detonate narrative revelations like so many time bombs.
  5. A Poet
    This finely shaded character study of a recalcitrant social pariah feels more than anything else like an existential parable.
  6. Support the Girls
    The film celebrates the unrecognized willpower and perseverance that undergirds low-wage service work in this country.
  7. Cat People
    This subtle, glancing trust in our ability to read the true story between the lines is pivotal to Cat People’s sense of being simultaneously vague and explicit, succinct yet freighted with baggage.
  8. The Fabulous Baker Boys
    The Fabulous Baker Boys ultimately soars on the strength of its three perfectly cast stars, who collectively wed studies of glamour (Jeff Bridges and Pfeiffer) with ruminations on the pain of life as an everyman among stars (Beau Bridges).
  9. Return to Homs
    The film is a testament to the power of video to document resistance to corrupt and abusive regimes, but it's also a witness to the limits of that power.
  10. The Asphalt Jungle
    Blood and trauma make an irresistible mix in John Huston’s The Asphalt Jungle.
  11. Hero
    Hero is elliptical, primal, radically disjointed, and female-empowering. Everything a wu xia should be…and then som
  12. Alcarràs
    As a tribute to farmers’ way of life, its effective and at times moving, but as an exposé of the potential losses that a business-centric green revolution is in the process of incurring, it wants for a stiffer punch.
  13. Hale County This Morning, This Evening
    Hale County dwells on the beauty of the everyday as it recognizes the fragility of individual lives.
  14. The Taste of Things
    The film views the love of food and romance as all one singular desire for everything beautiful and fleeting in life.
  15. In Front of Your Face
    The film is an obsessive rumination on the little squabbles and inconveniences and pleasures that add up to the bulk of our lives.
  16. 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.
  17. Passing
    A sickened rage and psychological nuance courses through every meticulously arranged frame of the film.
  18. My Life as a Zucchini
    The film circumvents bleakness with a thoroughgoing commitment to understanding and intimacy.
  19. In the Same Breath
    In Wang Nanfu’s extraordinary documentary, contemporary political structures are as much of a disease as Covid-19, and, in the long run, the deadlier foes.
  20. Atlantis
    The film’s use of scale to drive home the absurdity of its characters’ actions sometimes calls to mind Werner Herzog’s tragicomic existentialism, as well as early silent cinema.
  21. Honeyland
    As the world continues to suffer ever-increasing mass die-offs of honeybee colonies, Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska’s film reminds us that there’s indeed a better way to interact with our planet—one rooted in patience, tradition, and a true respect for our surroundings.
  22. The Beasts
    The film is as much about the beastliness of outmoded machismo as it is about the perseverance and fortitude of women in opposition to it.
  23. Holy Motors
    Léos Carax's maddening, self-satisfied, though never smug, game of spot-the-reference seems intended only for a particular type of cinephile.
  24. 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.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Kaili Blues
    Bi Gan's film is a soulful depiction of China's increasingly rapid pace of cultural and economic transformation.
  26. Unforgiven
    Unforgiven brought the revisionist revenge film into the 1990s and, by extension, the 21st century
  27. The Wages of Fear (1953)
    Henri-Georges Clouzot’s The Wages of Fear now seems much less like Salt of the Earth-as-a-potboiler and a lot more like the spiritual godfather to every testosterone-fueled thrill ride since.
  28. Everybody Wants Some!!
    Richard Linklater's film luxuriates in a world that's the platonic ideal of youthful indulgence.
  29. Two Prosecutors
    The film is a satiric look at Stalinism and bureaucracy with shades of Kafka, Orwell, and Gogol.
  30. The Past
    Farhadi navigates his complicated narrative thicket with an apparent ease that confirms yet again that he's an amazing talent, but here he isn't able to blend the brushstrokes as he has in prior films.
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