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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. Original Cast Album: Company
    Throughout, Pennebaker’s camera moves in as close as it can to capture every moment of doubt, disappointment and rage in Stritch’s face. That even still viewers debate whether Stritch was playing up the drama of the moment for the cameras only underlines how deftly Pennebaker’s brief and unassuming film resides at the heart of the interplay between work, art, and performance.
  2. Saint Maud
    Rose Glass utilizes a provocative scenario for a vague and deadly serious art exercise.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Misericordia
    Misericordia finds Alain Guiraudie revisiting old standbys under a relatively conventional set of aesthetic strategies. Fortunately, the ideas roiling under the former wildman’s newly placid surfaces are as potent as ever.
  4. Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
    The film lays out an impassioned case for the nearly unique greatness of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s body of work.
  5. Mustang
    The film punctuates the sisters' confinement with various episodes united by their contrivance.
  6. Palm Springs
    The film smuggles some surprisingly bleak existential questioning inside a brightly comedic vehicle.
  7. James White
    It confronts the hard realities of a world in which few make it to maturity without their share of scars, and no one makes it out of adulthood alive.
  8. It Follows
    Though visionary, David Robert Mitchell's film abounds in undigested ideas and dubious sexual politics.
  9. Driveways
    The film’s devotion to the belief that kindness can be a balm for almost any hurt is deeply moving.
  10. Blue Sun Palace
    Blue Sun Palace’s tale is filled with quiet spaces, and the way the texture of this quiet changes over the course of the film is a testament to its power.
  11. Don't Think Twice
    It displays an intimate chemical understanding of the exhausting and unrelentingly impotent agony of failure.
  12. The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki
    This is a sports tale in which the character building has almost nothing to do with the sport.
  13. Charade
    Shot by Charles Lang, one of the greatest American cinematographers to ever live, Charade is some sort of miraculous entertainment, self-aware and self-parodying yet never distancing or detached. Hepburn is the audience’s funny and flighty proxy, allowing us the great pleasure of being seduced by Grant’s unpredictable charmer.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Intervista
    Here, Fellini effortlessly weaves together various registers, aesthetic and otherwise, continually undercutting whatever level of “reality” seems to be in front of the camera(s) at any given time.
  15. Souleymane's Story
    Petty humiliations accumulate into a quietly blistering indictment of a culture that’s conditioned immigrants to hustle, wait endlessly, and smile through it all, as if their sanity weren’t constantly under strain.
  16. Holy Cow
    The rhythms and structure of Holy Cow embody the swirling confusion and contradictions of adolescence itself.
  17. Sanjuro
    Sanjuro is still a lesson from a master in mounting choreography and sustaining momentum, though it remains more of an exercise rather than a work of flesh and blood.
  18. In the Summers
    One of the film’s great strengths resides in Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio’s confidence in her details to speak for themselves, without the need of plot gimmickry.
  19. Court
    Chaitanya Tamhane's grand canvas is Indian society as represented by its legal system, and what it reveals is none too flattering.
  20. Locke
    The literalizing of Ivan Locke's hidden self and his inability to master it ultimately exposes the film as the squarest kind of theater: drama therapy.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    20,000 Days on Earth
    While the film is seemingly accessible as a portrait of an artist who seems particularly attuned to his own creative process, and particularly adept at describing this attunement, it's unlikely that many who aren't already whole-hog Bad Seeds fans would be able to stomach much of Cave's self-styled pomposity.
  22. The Woman Who Left
    It suffers by resembling arty, didactic bloat when it most begs for a more sophisticated dramatic touch.
  23. Neptune Frost
    The film thrillingly captures the social, economic, political, and material character of Rwanda in the age of global communication.
  24. Dos Estaciones
    For all its lush cinematography, capturing regional custom and dramatic panoramas alike, this is a film about repression, an inhibition that no amount of tequila can take away.
  25. Creed
    One of the Ryan Coogler film's greatest traits is its reticence, its refusal to say 10 words when two will do, or to say one word when silence says it all.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Memories of Murder
    The film is overlong at 132 minutes, but never dull or predictable, especially in delivering an ambiguous ending that goes against the grain of most Hollywood slasher films. One wishes it strayed even further from the land of the Hannibal Lecter, then we’d really have something.
  27. Monsieur Lazhar
    There's great potential for the kind of issues that are taken on, but nothing is resolved, and the biggest questions, of guilt and shame, the gulf of understanding between the first world and the third, remain unengaged.
  28. Transit
    Christian Petzold’s lean, rigorous filmmaking proves essential as the story begins to run, deliberately, in circles.
  29. Dear Comrades!
    It’s in its depiction of the communist party’s response to a peaceful demonstration that Andrei Konchalovsky’s latest is at its most effective.
  30. The Academy of Muses
    It's a shame that the José Luis Guerín film's verbal qualities far outpace its formal attributes.
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