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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. A Family Tour
    Ying Liang’s film is righteously and vigorously angry about injustices committed by the Chinese government.
  2. 9 Fingers
    Despite all its confoundments, 9 Fingers works as a unified whole thanks to F.J. Ossang's playful sense of humor.
  3. Electro-Pythagorus: A Portrait of Martin Bartlett
    Luke Fowler allows us to access some of the intimate details of Bartlett’s life in intriguingly indirect ways.
  4. The Unicorn
    The documentary illuminates how art and artists live together in a symbiotic existence, each giving as well as taking.
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    • 75 Critic Score
    Manta Ray
    Manta Ray functions as an oblique portrait of writer-director Phuttiphong Aroonpheng’s anger about the Rohingya refugee crisis in Thailand.
  6. Wall
    So much of the film is given over to highlighting David Hare’s confusion as a tourist in a conflict he can never fully comprehend.
  7. Hyenas
    Djibril Diop Mambéty’s 1992 film resonates primarily for its lacerating comedic writing and pacing.
  8. The Garden
    Derek Jarman’s 1990 film isn’t without hope that we can regrow a paradise.
  9. A Bigger Splash
    Jack Hazan’s portrait of David Hockney stands between documentary and fictional film, reality and fantasy.
  10. Ága
    Milko Lazarov seems driven to record the inner workings of a singular slice of Inuit culture before it goes the way of the reindeer.
  11. The Miracle of the Little Prince
    In a world increasingly resistant to cultural exchange, the miracle of The Little Prince is how it’s become so universally beloved, and Boonstra’s film is a worthy homage to its passionate translators who’ve been so inspired by Saint-Exupery’s story .
  12. Say Amen, Somebody
    Throughout, artists intermingle in scenes that have been rendered with an Altman-esque sense of personal panorama.
  13. Duet for Cannibals
    Susan Sontag’s debut film serves as an intriguing cinematic extension of her more well-known written work.
  14. Empty Metal
    The film is greater in its confrontational force than the sum of a dozen festival breakthroughs lauded for their fearlessness.
  15. Just Don't Think I'll Scream
    This intimate found-footage memoir is driven by a frantic internal monologue that will feel painfully familiar to many cinephiles in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.
  16. Come and See
    It suggests that a war’s horrors were the ultimate unassimilable experience of the shadowy depths of the human mind.
  17. The Trouble with Being Born
    In the end, the film suffers from the same issue as its moody androids: enervation borne out of repetition.
  18. Saudi Runaway
    Camera, character, and cameraperson are one throughout, and the effect is exquisitely suffocating.
  19. The Carnivores
    The characters don’t exist solely to affirm the film’s various themes, and as a result, their humanity gets under your skin.
  20. Days of Cannibalism
    The film ultimately depicts a world in which people are left with no other option but to devour their own.
  21. Nafi's Father
    The film vibrantly articulates all that’s lost when people are held under the draconian decree of warlords.
  22. Slaughter High
    Despite the pretense of commentary, the film asks no underlying questions about the society that produces slasher films and revels in its narrative’s basic premise to numbing ends.
  23. Picture of His Life
    Amos Nachoum has a vulnerability that he manages to locate in animals without diminishing their capacity for violence.
  24. The Calming
    Song Fang’s latest moves glacially along in a largely unchanging emotional register, always keeping us at a distance.
  25. Blood on the Wall
    Sebastian Junger and Nick Quested’s prismatic look at a devastating new chapter in the War on Drugs lacks for cohesiveness.
  26. Atarrabi & Mikelats
    A challenge inherent to a parable of this sort is that evil, being so seductive, can make good seem dull or prissy by comparison.
  27. Survival Skills
    While mostly pulling off this tricky balancing act of humor and real-life horror, the film doesn’t quite go far enough in its critiques.
  28. Fear of Rain
    The film portrays mental illness with all the nuance and insight of Jared Leto in Suicide Squad.
  29. A Shape of Things to Come
    The film suggests a fusion of an eco-doc and acid western, and this disparity between genres results in a mysterious tension.
  30. Funhouse
    Throughout, it’s difficult to sort the contrivances that writer-director Jason William Lee is parodying from those he’s indulging.
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