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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. The Colors Within
    The film is able to suggest great depths by withholding so much, by having characters express what they feel only in abstract terms during a fraught, transitional period of their lives.
  2. The Roaring Twenties
    Climaxing with a tableau that’s as iconic as it is melodramatic, The Roaring Twenties revels in a relativism that keeps its momentum fresh and elusive.
  3. They Drive by Night
    They Drive by Night never coalesces into a coherent whole, but as far as sturdy ’40s Hollywood melodramas go, it’s a pretty sweet two-for-one movie deal.
  4. The Virgin of the Quarry Lake
    Laura Casabé abstracts the typical emotions of tortured teens, only to then amplify them.
  5. The Perfect Neighbor
    Geeta Gandbhir’s trenchant documentary takes incendiary material and aims it at a larger target.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Fishing Place
    Rob Tregenza is always questioning what can be accomplished with the simple building blocks of cinema.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Tall Target
    As in Reign of Terror, Anthony Mann fashions a noir mini-masterpiece out of incongruous period reconstruction.
  8. Reflection in a Dead Diamond
    Right out of the gate, the filmmakers’ filtering of a James Bond-esque espionage tale through a grindhouse sensibility exists in such a state of emphatic stimulation that each shot feels punctuated with an exclamation point.
  9. Take Out
    Economic anxiety is rarely spoken about in the film, but the life-and-death importance of dollars and cents is felt in every frame.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Henry Fonda for President
    If Fonda was an avatar of American liberalism’s tolerance and self-scrutiny, the film suggests, so, too, does he represent its complicity in the nation’s sins and its failure to change its course in the direction of justice.
  11. It Came from Outer Space
    Inspired by an outline by Ray Bradbury and modified for the screen by Harry Essex, It Came From Outer Space remains the granddaddy of the ’50s atomic-scare pictures.
  12. Die My Love
    To dismantle the mythologies of maternity, Lynne Ramsay's tool of choice is the sledgehammer rather than the scalpel.
  13. The Chronology of Water
    The beauty of Kristen Stewart’s focus is how she excavates the profound from the mundane.
  14. Sound of Falling
    The past comes off in Mascha Schilinski’s film as an onerous, if unseen, weight on the present.
  15. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
    The film pokes fun at the conventions of detective stories but never becomes so self-aware that you stop taking it seriously.
  16. Diciannove
    In line with his protagonist’s ever-shifting whims, a spirit of restless reinvention characterizes director Giovanni Tortorici’s aesthetic approach.
  17. Father Mother Sister Brother
    More than any other Jim Jarmusch film, Father Mother Sister Brother is haunted by mortality and the inevitable passage of time.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Two Seasons, Two Strangers
    In beautifully quiet ways, Two Seasons, Two Strangers captures its characters in the realm of the ineffable, making the mundane utterly sublime.
  19. Blue Heron
    There’s a low-key warmth to Romvari’s painstaking portrait of quotidian family life, as her documentarian attention to detail creates an intoxicatingly vivid rendering of 1990s suburbia.
  20. Cover-Up
    Cover-Up is a sweeping, if tempered, tribute to investigative journalism, attesting to its enduring importance at a time when resources for it have substantially declined.
  21. What Does That Nature Say to You
    Hong Sang-soo’s aesthetic is key to the resonance of his latest examination of an artist’s life.
  22. His Girl Friday
    One of the greatest and most mercenary of all American comedies.
  23. The Currents
    While The Currents can certainly be read as a portrait of a woman coming apart at the seams, it also offers a more expansive view of mental illness as a sensitivity not wholly pathological, but rather capable of reframing and refreshing the world.
  24. Mistress Dispeller
    The film is sensitively attuned to how people’s feelings are shaped by cultural norms.
  25. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
    This endlessly playful, humorous, and mirthfully gory film is pure Jane Schoenbrun.
  26. Josephine
    Beth de Araújo’s sophomore feature is a harrowing chronicle of a premature maturation.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    My Wife Cries
    The film starts off as an ostensibly simple tale of infidelity before it begins to grapple with even more anxious themes as it shuffles its characters into a series of memorable tableaux.
  28. In a Whisper
    Leyla Bouzid’s ability to capture the complexities and contradictions of familial affection is what makes In a Whisper so impressive.
  29. Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
    From its rigorous and deliberately distancing structural gambit to its restless stylistic experimentations, Thirty Two Short Films proves that biopics needn’t color within the lines to effectively portray their subjects.
  30. The Diary of a Chambermaid
    The influence of Brecht and Godard is plain to see, but any distancing effect is counterbalanced by Radu Jude’s earthy black humor and especially by the main character, who gives the film its strong emotional core.
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