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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. Breaker Morant
    A time-jumping narrative that’s rooted inside the linear temporal unfoldings of a pre-determined trial, Breaker Morant is like a conventional bloke in art—house clothing—but oh, what garb he has.
  2. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
    At its finest, this psychedelic, horror-strewn romp’s artistry perfectly reflects the intensity of Strange navigating endless alternate realms.
  3. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
    Marielle Heller takes a script that many filmmakers would turn into cringe-inducing treacle and interrogates the sentimental trappings.
  4. Uncut Gems
    In the film, a man's individual tragedy illuminates the emptiness of the systems that define him.
  5. Ema
    In the film, the literal union of bodies is the only logical means of conveying the reestablishment of emotional bonds.
  6. Saturday Fiction
    The hegemony of history is rigid, but Lou Ye is still able to disrupt it in the form of its representation.
  7. The Painted Bird
    Václav Marhoul’s film is at its most magnificent when it lingers on the poetry of its images.
  8. Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
    Over 40 years after its release, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song still retains its shock value, but even more so, it remains distinct as a work that cannot be squarely placed within a singular category.
  9. About Endlessness
    Rather than eliciting surprise and wonder, Roy Andersson channels his full stylistic arsenal in search of something far more delicate: a recognition of the sublime in the prosaic.
  10. The Long Goodbye
    The film is simultaneously an act of revisionism as well as a parody of then-revitalizing neo-noir.
  11. Eating Raoul
    A delirious rejoinder to the post-sexual revolution counter-culture wars, director Paul Bartel’s script crosses the let’s-get-down-to-social-brass-tacks satire of Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, which was respectfully vindictive of Los Angeles’s middle-class hedonism, with the straight-faced über-misanthropy of Kind Hearts and Coronets.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    One Million Years B.C.
    One Million Years B.C. ends where the story of humanity begins: in a seemingly endless saga of strife and solidarity that resonates down to the present day.
  13. Black Sabbath
    Black Sabbath speaks to the vastness of Bava’s abilities in the realms of the terrifying and the supernatural.
  14. Depraved
    Larry Fessenden diagnoses the rot of our era through the shifting personalities and power dynamics of solipsistic men.
  15. Rashomon
    The film is still one of the most glorious testaments to the frustrations and exhilarations of chasing an unvarnished truth.
  16. Say Amen, Somebody
    Throughout, artists intermingle in scenes that have been rendered with an Altman-esque sense of personal panorama.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Bonfire of the Vanities
    For all its polish, Bonfire of the Vanities neither sustains the feverish, revolutionary energy nor reaches the visceral peak of Hi, Mom! But as major Hollywood pictures go, it can become stunningly hot-tempered, a quality most journalists are too quick to ignore.
  18. The Killers
    The Killers redux packs one lasting, significant, retrospective jolt of perversity that far eclipses any possible artistic intentions on the part of its creators though: the sight of future American President Ronald Reagan playing a baddie in his last film role before entering politics.
  19. Nosferatu the Vampyre
    Herzog’s idiosyncratic horror classic remains a vital conversation between two distinct generations of brilliant German filmmakers.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    63 Up
    Throughout, the remaining participants take stock of private and career successes as well as perceived failures.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Black Christmas
    Black Christmas just may be the perfect antidote to the saccharine sweetness of most Christmastime fare.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Fright Night
    What makes Fright Night such a hoot to this day, on top of the great performances, is the deft blending of humor and suspense that Holland manages to build in his story.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Night of the Creeps
    Night of the Creeps is the “I Love the ‘80s” of moviemaking. It has every element and cliché ever put into a film made in the greatest decade.
  24. Pom Poko
    Takahata’s wondrous film is itself at constant interplay between the unsentimental realities of human progress (and expansion) and the unbound thoughts and creative perspectives that fantasy can entertain without necessarily being reduced to mere entertainment.
  25. Chinese Portrait
    The simplicity of bodies barely moving before a camera that brings their quotidian temporality into a halt is nothing short of a radical proposition in our digital era.
  26. The Matrix Resurrections
    Where the love story was a means-to-an-end afterthought in the first Matrix, it’s now the crux of the tale, and the emotional undercurrents are so intoxicating that it more than makes up for the relative inelegance of the action scenes.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Never Rarely Sometimes Always
    Driven by the potency of its social intentions, the film is so authentically felt that it becomes hyper-real, a nightmarish disquisition about how entire systems are rigged against women that would feel academic if it didn’t play out against earnest performances of tender teenage emotions.
  28. Watership Down
    Martin Rosen’s eloquent, wondrous film offers a deceivingly simple yet powerful view of a war-ridden rabbit society.
  29. A Boy and His Dog
    A Boy and His Dog is an unruly daydream capped with a surprisingly jet-black acknowledgment of humankind’s genetic destiny to ruin itself.
  30. 1900
    Bernardo Bertolucci’s film is a living, fluid organism that spans the distances between several poles of extremity.
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