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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. Robot Dreams
    Pablo Berger's film effortlessly brings a sense of universality to its story.
  2. Anselm
    Anselm is ultimately an extension of Kiefer’s “protest against forgetting,” as it reminds us that art is an act of remembrance.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Close Your Eyes
    Where once Victor Erice's films defined the unknown as a life not yet experienced, Close Your Eyes interprets it as a life already lived, slowly dissolving into memory.
  4. Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
    The protagonist may feel cut off from the world, but the film is deeply in harmony with it.
  5. La Chimera
    In this rueful film about all things unseen, the importance of time is seemingly felt by everyone.
  6. The Settlers
    The film is a blistering laceration of the contradictions and hypocrisies of European racism.
  7. Users
    The film’s triumph is keeping us on our toes by sending us into an ether where fear and wonder live hand in hand.
  8. The Gullspång Miracle
    The film is a philosophical account of the shaky ground that human existence stands on.
  9. The Public Enemy
    There’s little denying the power of Cagney’s presence, from the first moment he’s on screen, he radiates such a brash Fenian cockiness you can imagine kids at the time flocking out of the theater and cocking their caps just like him. It’s a performance so perfect in its intensity that any other quibbles about the film ultimately recede into insignificance.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Boy and the Heron
    The true tragedy of The Boy and the Heron seems not to be that the blemishes of its fantasy mirror those of its reality, but that any one person should think themselves capable of sanitizing either.
  11. Minamata Mandala
    The film understands how atrocity is perpetuated, fanning a maddening sense of injustice.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
    The film further confirms Radu Jude as one of the most idiosyncratic, uncompromising, and intellectually vigorous of living filmmakers.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Winter Kills
    Even if you don’t go in with a conspiratorial mindset, one viewing of this riotously entertaining, chillingly perceptive film could leave you wondering if some larger force is at play, protecting the targets of this should-be New Hollywood classic by keeping it in the dark after all this time.
  14. Eureka
    The genre trappings are familiar, but this isn’t any old horse opera.
  15. Oceans Are the Real Continents
    With the film, Tommaso Santambrogio puts neorealism in the service of dream.
  16. Io Capitano
    The film builds on a docudrama realism while also reaching toward the mythological.
  17. Gasoline Rainbow
    The film is rich in compositions that seem to cut to the essence of the characters’ yearnings.
  18. Nosferatu
    Robert Eggers’s sublimely severe remake of the oft-told tale of a bloodsucker wreaking unholy havoc is less a composition for full ensemble and more a moody piece of chamber music, equally as orchestrated as the Murnau, but uncomfortably intimate in its effects.
  19. Civil War
    Frightening, even-tempered, and disarmingly humane, Civil War is intelligent precision filmmaking trained on an impossible subject.
  20. I Heard It Through the Grapevine
    Dick Fontaine and Pat Harley’s documentary makes the political personal at every turn.
  21. The Brutalist
    Brady Corbet builds on celluloid what Adrien Brody’s László Toth does with concrete: an unvarnished monument to the authentic American character.
  22. A Different Man
    The film’s overarching dramatic irony leaves one to ponder the deliberately discomfiting question of whether it’s possible to extricate the experience of disability from the way spectators define its essence.
  23. The Substance
    The humanity of Demi Moore’s performance, the greatest of her career, gives Coralie Fargeat’s boldest ideas an emotional backbeat.
  24. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
    Tim Burton’s belated sequel to 1988’s weird, wild, and hilariously macabre Beetlejuice abounds in morbid, nauseating delights.
  25. Kill
    Kill continually finds clever ways to defy our expectations through the particular placement of dramatic beats, surprising shifts in tone, and even just the way it keeps flipping the geography of the action.
  26. Between the Temples
    A wealth of contrasting stimulation gives the film a singular and intimate atmosphere, in which scenes can last little eternities while still leaving you feeling as if you’re struggling to keep up with a stream of secrets and in-jokes.
  27. Exhibiting Forgiveness
    True to its name, the film puts the concept of forgiveness on display and asks us to spend some time in front of it and consider it from all angles.
  28. A Real Pain
    The film is levitated by a truly joyful sense of humor that puts up a good fight against the story’s darker moments without trying to joke them into irrelevance.
  29. In a Violent Nature
    Think of Chris Nash’s film as Béla Tarr doing an unholy doc-fiction hybrid about Crystal Lake.
  30. Ghostlight
    Directors Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson are extraordinarily perceptive in highlighting the instances where stagecraft informs everyday life.
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