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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. American Fiction
    Without spoiling its increasingly ludicrous (and ludicrously believable) escalations, American Fiction ultimately gets off scot-free clinging doggedly to the middle ground.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Leviathan
    Leviathan is a titanic achievement, a visceral overload whose impact registers immediately and with great force.
  3. Sweetie
    Sweetie’s brilliance stems from how Campion inventively explores the relationship between inanimate objects and personal memory, Sally Bongers’s static camera lingering on the precipice of a family unit brimming with secrets and lies.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Variety Lights
    With its tale of a peripatetic band of low-rent theater types, Variety Lights incorporates many, if not most, of Fellini’s signature themes.
  5. The Things You Kill
    Alireza Khatami’s third feature is a subtly enigmatic examination of the nature of masculinity.
  6. Bring Your Own Brigade
    Lucy Walker’s absorbing study of California’s 2018 wildfires consistently goes in illuminating and surprising directions.
  7. No
    A singular biopic and a snapshot of a society renewed, No unaffectedly celebrates faith in democracy, and, surprisingly, truth in advertising.
  8. Riders of Justice
    Ultimately, Anders Thomas Jensen cannot reconcile the fact that a mature story of men in crisis doesn’t coherently mesh with suspense scenes in which his protagonist viscerally annihilates a violent gang.
  9. In Fabric
    Strickland’s film is another fetish object that rues the perils of fetishism.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Django Unchained
    While the rush toward a conventional climax is confusing, and more than a little disappointing, there's an undeniable pleasure that emerges in seeing Tarantino juggle the dynamite of his ideas, even when they prematurely pop off in his face.
  11. Sister
    Ursula Meier's film is sustained by a sturdy emotional engine and some intrepidly thoughtful characterization.
  12. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
    To dismiss it as simply an act of hipster appropriation is to cop out, because appropriation is the film's thematic meat.
  13. Us
    Even though it’s not as tidily satisfying as Get Out, the new film is both darker and more ambitious, and broader in its themes.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Big Short
    Its fourth-wall-breaking wags a finger at the perceived facile nature of celebrity-driven mass culture even as it ultimately condescends to audiences.
  15. Closed Curtain
    The next step in Jafar Panahi's personal cinema of captivity, a fully fictionalized, wildly bewildering work which imagines a man at war with his own creative impulse.
  16. Moana
    Compared to your average Disney princesses, Moana is neither selfishly rebellious nor simplistically innocent.
  17. The Wailing
    Na Hong-jin's The Wailing is a work of thriller maximal-ism, a rare case of more actually being more rather than less.
  18. The Empty Hours
    Aarón Fernández captures one of the most heartening elements of sex: that it doesn't always oblige our rules or expectations.
  19. White Sun
    Deepak Rauniyar may be more skilled dramatist than inspired image-maker, but his admirably balanced and humane social and political perspective is bracing nevertheless.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Gimme the Loot
    A nose-to-the-ground portrait of two believably aspirational protagonists and their constant hustle to make good on the movie's eponymous demand.
  21. Two Trains Runnin'
    Sam Pollard's documentary teeters on reaching a higher plane of meaning simply through the efficiency of its information.
  22. Tchoupitoulas
    The overall experience is entirely immersive, thanks not only to the filmmakers' handheld camera, but also to the illusory nature of the staging.
  23. Cousin Jules
    It's a bit reductive in terms of a personal portrait, but this is a film that's not concerned with telling the story of a man, instead making him a representative symbol of a mostly bygone way of life, a reminder of both the fleeting nature of individual experience and the steady patterns of a broader human existence.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Skyfall
    Bond's latest is a remarkable high watermark for the series: at once solemn and deeply funny, sexy and sad, self-conscious without all the rib-bruising elbowing.
  25. Thunder Soul
    Forcefully traditional and sentimental, Thunder Soul benefits most from the cinematic turn of the actual events it documents, which allowed the beloved teacher's life to end on a perfectly bittersweet note.
  26. Amanda
    Carolina Cavalli’s film consecrates a ferocity as refreshing as it is infectious.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Consuming Spirits
    Not only a monstrous visual achievement, but one of the most uniquely humanistic animated features of all time.
  28. Memoir of a Snail
    Adam Elliot, whose work is no stranger to despondency, never allows the film to fully succumb to despair.
  29. A Fantastic Woman
    Superficial when it means to be elliptical and regressive in its attempts to promote pride and tolerance, Sebastián Lelio’s film is beautiful but vacant, the type of melodrama that reminds us that they shouldn’t always make them like they used to.
  30. Your Name.
    Even at its most outrageously bizarre, Your Name is bound together by a passionately romantic core.
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