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For 7,772 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 6.3 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. Watchers of the Sky
    This is, to put it mildly, a lot of information for one documentary, which inevitably devolves to resemble not so much an anthology as a slideshow of genocide's greatest hits.
  2. The Eternal Memory
    Maite Alberdi’s film slowly reveals the personal loss of the ability to remember as inextricably linked to the loss of national memory.
  3. The Handmaiden
    With The Handmaiden, Park Chan-wook has made a gigantic leap as an artist, but he retreats to lurid cartoonishness just as he’s earned your trust.
  4. Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
    The film synthesizes the nihilistic tone of The End of Evangelion with the more hopeful terms of the anime’s original intended finale.
  5. EO
    EO feels freed of plot, free of expectation, driven only by the need to honor its own internal, poetic drive.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Black Is King
    Out of a dazzling fusion of the hottest trends of American R&B and Afrobeat, this visual album proposes a pan-African vision of legacy, abundance, and unity, making it Beyoncé’s most wide-reaching and ambitious effort yet.
  7. The Work
    In its visceral purity, Jairus McLeary's film drags male toxicity up into the light, offering it as a cure for itself.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Giant
    Sitting through it is like cramming a decade’s worth of daily television-watching into a single sitting.
  9. 76 Days
    The documentary may be the defining portrait of the dawning of the Covid-19 pandemic.
  10. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
    The sense that they don’t make mass entertainments like this anymore is palpable.
  11. The Truffle Hunters
    The film’s reminder of the fragility of agrarian traditions in the face of a merciless profit motive is delivered with tact and subtlety.
  12. Judas and the Black Messiah
    Shaka King’s film, anchored by two sterling lead performances, complicates the expected narrative of martyrdom.
  13. Husbands and Wives
    Allen bravely posits one’s fear of change and the comfort in finiteness. In the end, Husbands and Wives becomes a mirror of false illusions, relentlessly held up by Allen before the faces of anyone who has ever looked for a reason to leave only to sheepishly stay behind.
  14. Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood
    The film is Quentin Tarantino’s magnum opus—a sweeping statement on an entire generation of American popular culture and an almost expressionistic rendering of the counterculture forming at its margins, gradually growing in influence.
  15. After the Storm
    The stock character types that Hirokazu Kore-eda employs across the board are pretty much open books from the start.
  16. Moonrise Kingdom
    Although the film remains continually fanciful, it always reminds us of the stakes in which precocious childhood rubs up against the possibility of a childhood denied altogether.
  17. Horse Money
    Costa's storytelling is illusory at best, but Horse Money's self-contradictions are communicated not via plot half as much as in scenography, even in the costuming.
  18. Sinners
    Sinners is one of the most distinctive, confident mainstream films of the modern era, but it nonetheless leaves an audience with the tacit reminder of the limits of art to set one free in a system that profits as much off its exploitation as that of manual labor.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Limelight
    A beautiful, melancholy meditation on aging and inspiration, and a personal film that, on account of Chaplin’s own diminishing popularity and prospects stemming from accusations of supposed communist sympathies, exudes a very real weight in each of its rich, elegant images.
  20. 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.
  21. McQueen
    As Ian Bonhôte's documentary reveals, Alexander McQueen's suicide was perhaps the all-too-predictable ending to a history of violence.
  22. Earth Mama
    Despite Earth Mama’s bleak subject matter, it exudes a beatific warmth, in large part because Leaf takes remarkable pains to dramatize a web of solidarity between a group of Black women alongside her depiction of the very system that disenfranchises them.
  23. Booksmart
    It's an R-rated teen comedy that proves that you can center girls’ experiences without sacrificing grossness, and that you can be gross without being too mean.
  24. Wise Blood
    Huston’s Wise Blood is a sharp, busy canvas that, like a man with a good car, doesn’t need to be justified.
  25. The Friends of Eddie Coyle
    Mitchum doesn’t remotely overshadow the film’s first-rate ensemble of character actors.
  26. Reality
    The film interrogates both the state of our world and the lines between fiction and document.
  27. Marx Can Wait
    Marco Bellocchio uses his film, a delicate mix of biography and autobiography, as the catalyst for long-delayed therapy.
  28. BPM (Beats Per Minute)
    In between raids, in between the meetings with ACT UP members and those who hold the keys to their possible survival, BPM is at its most intimate when observing the exchange of war stories.
  29. Sirât
    The film is a vivid meditation on human possibility in the face of fate and nature’s tumultuous might, ending in a fog of ambiguity that mirrors that characters’ bewilderment.
  30. The Seed of the Sacred Fig
    Often blunt and unwieldy, Mohamed Rasolouf's film is nevertheless impactful.
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