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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. Funhouse
    Throughout, it’s difficult to sort the contrivances that writer-director Jason William Lee is parodying from those he’s indulging.
  2. Short Vacation
    The film, lacking in conflict and danger, is guided by the poignant belief that there’s no end to the world.
  3. Friends and Strangers
    The film’s tonal and situational shapeshifting doesn’t go to the surrealist lengths of Luis Buñuel’s The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, but James Vaughan similarly indulges in burlesquing upper-middle-class complacency.
  4. The Ancient Woods
    The film brings us somewhere where we aren’t, and probably could not be, but nevertheless feels tangibly real.
  5. Against the Current
    Against the Current’s style imposes a generic visual language onto a subject who’s anything but generic.
  6. Kid Candidate
    The film doesn’t leave us with a complex sense of Hayden Pedigo as a person and political candidate trying to take on an unjust system.
  7. Softie
    Writer-director Samuel Theis’s film is a noteworthy repurposing of the coming-of-age social drama.
  8. Bruno Reidal, Confession of a Murderer
    Vincent Le Port’s grim morality tale depicts a society caught between differing norms of discipline, punishment, and sex.
  9. 499
    The film raises pertinent questions about Mexico’s mixed cultural heritage and the contested representation of reality.
  10. What We Left Unfinished
    Mariam Ghani’s documentary spurs audiences to consider the politics that underlies any artistic activity.
  11. Broadcast Signal Intrusion
    Jacob Gentry’s film punches through all the layers of homage to arrive at a place of true horror.
  12. Dug Dug
    The film is marked by an empathetic understanding of the inkling of belief that can be exhumed from even the most rational of minds.
  13. The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation
    The film persuasively sheds light on the grievances of the Palestinian people that have long fallen on deaf ears.
  14. El Gran Movimiento
    Writer-director Kiro Rosso’s sociological, pseudo-documentary film suggests a mosaic resolving out of innumerable shards.
  15. The Sleeping Negro
    Though often abstract in its imagery, the film’s blistering commentary remains firmly rooted in our present reality.
  16. Expedition Content
    The issue of racism sits nestled under both this sequence and the field of anthropology as a whole, giving Expedition Content a nakedly ontological dimension that interrogates how images are produced and who produces them.
  17. Leonora addio
    Leonora Addio is a wrestling with memory and history through a deeply personal, if at times indulgent, lens.
  18. That Kind of Summer
    That Kind of Summer never quite resolves into any one stance on its subjects, an equanimity that’s to its credit.
  19. Los Conductos
    A collage-like tale of vengeance told with an often impressionistic elusiveness, the film can also be bewildering in its juxtapositions.
  20. They Came Back
    It’s rather amazing how far the film is able to coast on its uniquely fascinating premise, even if it isn’t much of a stretch for its director: Campillo co-authored Laurent Cantet’s incredible Time Out, a different kind of zombie film about the deadening effects of too much work on the human psyche, and They Came Back is almost as impressive in its concern with the existential relationship between the physical and non-physical world.
  21. Missing
    The film ties itself into many knots as it chases the superficial sugar high of a big reveal.
  22. The Old Town Girls
    The Old Town Girls never seems to have a strong enough sense of the kind of film it wants to be to pull together its more interesting elements into a coherent whole.
  23. Iron Butterflies
    Roman Liubyi’s documentary is nothing if not self-consciously obsessed with its own making.
  24. When It Melts
    When It Melts is a film that lives and dies on the games that it plays with audiences.
  25. Hunt Her, Kill Her
    Hunt Her, Kill Her simply isn’t tight enough to maintain the tension that it seeks to create.
  26. #Manhole
    Kumakiri Kazuyoshi counters the comic absurdity with a genuinely discomfiting sense of the manhole’s atmosphere, and threads of intrigue that are already mostly spun by the time you see them.
  27. The Plough
    The sort of gravitas that seems necessary for the most satisfying of French clichés to amount to playful reworkings, not tired repetitions, only makes a few appearances throughout the film.
  28. in water
    Connoisseurs of Hong Sang-soo’s cinema will no doubt be fascinated by the transcendent minimalism of the film, which suggests Picasso knocking off a sketch on a piece of paper in a matter of seconds.
  29. Arnold Is a Model Student
    Even at its most confrontational, the film maintains a carefully controlled deadpan tone.
  30. Passion
    Passion already finds Hamaguchi Ryûsuke to be a superb orchestrator of moods and tones.
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