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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. Casino Royale
    Casino Royale is one of the good ones and not just for the way it wittily recontextualizes several series touchstones.
  2. Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts
    Jeffrey Wolf’s documentary is a spry and inventive account of extraordinary transcendence.
  3. Xala
    Widely regarded as Ousmane Sembène’s finest achievement, Xala is a cutting morality tale that equally blames the corruption of Senegal’s sociopolitical environment on Euro-centricity and African auto-destruction.
  4. Concerning Violence
    Here is a film that isn't afraid to risk didacticism in order to put across its vision of the debilitating physical and psychological effects of colonialism.
  5. Cane River
    The film’s awkwardness is expressive of the pain and confusion of wrestling with truths that shake one’s conception of identity.
  6. The Citizen
    It adheres too rigidly to news-cycle replications of barbaric governmental acts, and without putting them into greater perspective.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    3:10 to Yuma
    The offhand wryness of Elmore Leonard’s original story is nicely captured in Halsted Welles’s adaptation.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Strange Little Cat
    As pleasant and effortless as Ramon Zürcher makes his formal persnicketiness and Akermanian aesthetic rigor seem, his film feels lightweight.
  9. Drowning Dry
    Drowning Dry offers something akin to a cinematic concussion as it begins warping the experience of time.
  10. Ad Astra
    In a future where the plagues of civilization have only evolved into new shapes and sizes, it asks, in a roundabout way, if there’s anything worthier of exploration than our own relationships.
  11. On the Beach at Night Alone
    Hong Sang-soo simultaneously positions filmmaking as the ultimate act of atonement and evasion, eviscerating himself so that he may live to stage several more films about the futility of getting hammered and worshipping and bedding gorgeous young women.
  12. Love & Mercy
    Bill Pohlad seems never to have met a metaphor he couldn't bludgeon into its most rudimentary and literal interpretation.
  13. Story of My Death
    True to its title, the film approaches death as both narrative endpoint and formal focus, its initial vivacious mischief giving way to a Manichean fable about the waning of the light.
  14. Chess Story
    Philipp Stölzl craftily melds the genres of period drama and psychological thriller, not for the purposes of reheated nostalgia, but to shed a cold light on the recursions of historical trauma.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo)
    Across the film, Joel Alfonso Vargas delivers an intimately observed portrait of Rico and the Bronx’s Dominican community, folding warmth into the very real pressures that define daily life.
  16. Natchez
    With so many engaging voices on offer, Suzannah Herbert wisely chooses to let the locals tell the story rather than providing any explicit narration of her own.
  17. American Honey
    This is a patchwork dystopia of white poverty whose facets are both difficult to deny and to prove exist precisely as depicted.
  18. You Hurt My Feelings
    The film deals forthrightly with the question of purpose and whether or not it can be found in a career.
  19. Monrovia, Indiana
    As always with Frederick Wiseman, it’s the quotidian gestures that haunt one in Monrovia, Indiana.
  20. Peter and the Farm
    Peter and the Farm is a warts-and-all portrait that asserts its subject's sense of purpose even as it seems to slip out of his grasp.
  21. Mystery Train
    Mystery Train is a singularly enthusiastic American anthem that trenchantly interprets the cult of audiophilia as filthy gas stoves roasting marshmallows, raspy radio DJs hawking fried calamari, and ill-equipped racial armies ignorantly clashing by night.
  22. A Hidden Life
    Terrence Malick’s film means to seek out souls caught in the tide of history, but which move against its current.
  23. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
    Noah Baumbach has made a cunning and frequently hilarious film about exhuming the past and finding no diamond in the rough.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Arrebato (1979)
    Arrebato is an arresting feat of self-aware filmmaking, lashing together experimental tendencies with the tropes and trappings of genre cinema.
  25. I Wish
    I Wish has a tough time balancing the heartfelt with the saccharine and too often feels slight.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    What Richard Did
    The film's structure as a character study helps to subtly underscore the flawed justifications of a privileged kid's thought patterns and unchallenged value system.
  27. End of the Century
    Castro’s feature-length directorial debut is a profound and casually artful expression of the lengths to which people go in order to not have to embody their desires.
  28. Lady Snowblood
    A rape-revenge narrative so streamlined that even the gimmick of its achronological editing never muddies the progression of Yuki’s journey.
  29. Housekeeping for Beginners
    In spite of the too-muchness of their performances, the actors wrestle for expressiveness and subtlety against the script’s more obvious and schematic telegraphing of not-quite-nuclear discontent and, ultimately, reconciliation.
  30. Iris
    Albert Maysles's portrait of Iris Apfel gradually emerges with cathartic clarity without compromising her inherent mystery.
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