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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. Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
    It exists less as a meaningful extension of its world than as a fan-service deployment device.
  2. Last Men in Aleppo
    Feras Fayyad's film is broadly concerned with portraying the titular Syrian city as a community of neighbors and colleagues.
  3. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
    The film doesn't so much bring us closer to the serial murderer as it reminds us of our culpability as spectators.
  4. Private Property
    Private Property abounds in inventive low-budget filmmaking while stress-testing a pulpy, dime-store premise.
  5. Union
    The level of detail with which the filmmakers depict the unionization process is eye-opening.
  6. White God
    It affects a general air of artistically inclined realism, but it's mostly concerned with building tension via a steady accumulation of flatly conceived misery.
  7. Freaks
    Today, hardcore fans have a way of trivializing the film’s moral significance, some calling it a mere “masterpiece of shock cinema.” This is to seriously underplay the film’s blistering humanity and the audacious aesthetic and philosophical lengths to which Browning goes to challenge the way we define beauty and abnormality.
  8. 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.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Mill and the Cross
    Every bit as visceral an experience as Cave of Forgotten Dreams, and with a lead actor whose face radiates the same eternal quality as that of the late Klaus Kinski, The Mill and The Cross also feels a lot like live theater.
  10. Lean on Pete
    As sharply as it delineates an America of spotty, informal economies, the film avoids articulating most of the people who live and work in these spaces.
  11. Claire's Camera
    Hong Sang-soo's film is governed by a narrative circle that suggests relief as well as entrapment.
  12. Last and First Men
    The push and pull between gradual buildup and apocalyptic rupture allows the film to infiltrate the mind and recalibrate our sensitivity to time.
  13. Bergman Island
    The film never sacrifices its ambiguity as it brings various threads about ghosts, relationships, art, and gender to a head.
  14. Barbie
    The film is at once a journey of self-actualization and a testament to female solidarity.
  15. We the Animals
    In We the Animals, director Jeremiah Zagar sustains a tone of wounded nostalgia, fashioning a formalism that appears to exist simultaneously in the past and present.
  16. Wild Rose
    Tom Harper’s film empathetically probes the growing pains of self-improvement.
  17. Strange Darling
    Strange Darling is a cunningly devised thriller that wields our assumptions against us like a sharp implement, delighting in making us squirm.
  18. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
    Like few modern films, Alfredo Garcia seems to not only be a product of a director’s singular vision, but a virtual window into one man’s fractured, tortured soul.
  19. Boy and the World
    One wonders how receptive young audiences should be to a film that puts its storytelling secondary to its message-making.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Room 237
    The doc positions The Shining as a comparably coiled, thematically overflowing microcosm--standing in for cinema, for history, for obsession, for postmodern theory buckling under the film's heft.
  21. The Eternal Daughter
    The film is honest and poignant in its kaleidoscopic refractions of the frustration inherent in a process that’s only just beginning.
  22. The Settlers
    The film is a blistering laceration of the contradictions and hypocrisies of European racism.
  23. The Beast
    Bertrand Bonello uncannily utilizes burdensome signs and wonders for maximum insight and agitation.
  24. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
    Marielle Heller takes a script that many filmmakers would turn into cringe-inducing treacle and interrogates the sentimental trappings.
  25. The Forty-Year-Old Version
    Radha’s remaking of herself contains an uplifting, unpretentious truth about aging: It’s never too late to make a new start.
  26. 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.
  27. Compartment No. 6
    Juho Kuosmanen’s film interestingly thrives off of an ironic juxtaposition of character and environment.
  28. Lucky
    John Carroll Lynch's Lucky is an impeccably acted yet sentimental film that’s bashful about said sentimentality.
  29. Sleep
    Jason Yu’s film may not reach its full potential, but it offers a devious commentary on the all-too-human desire for easy explanations.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Irma Vep
    The post-modern compulsions on display here may bring movies together, but they also keep people apart. Irma Vep is a picture of missed connections and tenuous relationships, most touchingly in the scenes between Cheung and Zoe (Nathalie Richard), her smitten costume designer.
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