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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. Anne at 13,000 ft
    The film intimately immerses us in the psyche of a woman for whom each day is a minefield of uncomfortable interactions.
  2. Ham on Rye
    The film’s purposeful archness challenges the sentimentality that marks many a film and real-life ceremony.
  3. Call Me Kuchu
    The film provides welcome context for the semi-hysteria that recently took over the U.S. media in regard to Uganda's "Kill the Gays" bill.
  4. Berberian Sound Studio
    On the surface, Peter Strickland's film is an amusing black comedy that parodies the horror movie's continual status as the cultural black sheep of the cinematic landscape, but the filmmaker is most prominently concerned with painting a sonic portrait of alienation.
  5. Mad God
    Mad God offers a dense cornucopia of genre-fueled outrageousness that’s gradually united by a concern with cycles of warfare.
  6. Il Futuro
    A counterproductively "literary" film with no satisfying payoffs, Rutger Hauer's blind recluse notwithstanding.
  7. David Crosby: Remember My Name
    The film captures a man haunted by his past mistakes and nearly certain that he doesn’t have the time left to begin making up for them.
  8. Aquarela
    At heart, Victor Kossakovsky's Aquarela is a war film: a cacophonous survey of the global battle between man and water.
  9. The Pearl Button
    Despite the defeated tone of Patricio Guzmán's tales, a spotlight is placed on the power of persistence.
  10. The Force
    Though initially compelling, Peter Nick's documentary is fundamentally without a clear perspective on its subject.
  11. Brief History of a Family
    The film’s pregnant foreshadowing is revealed to be misdirection, the promise of a thriller offered as candy to lure us into a consideration of the tensions that can cast a pall over family life.
  12. Other People's Children
    The film’s most authentic moments are those that leave its main character breathless, cutting her plans for making up for lost time short.
  13. I Am Not a Witch
    It finds that rare nexus of the comic and the tragic, underlining the absurdity of a terrible situation without demeaning those who have been harmed by it.
  14. Deliverance
    Dickey taps into that stark mortal terror of abandoning control, where to become a wild man is somehow a form of connection.
  15. Clouds of Sils Maria
    The pleasure in watching the film becomes a linguistic one as Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart masterfully sharpen their words and hurl them at each other like projectiles out of a blowpipe.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A Still Small Voice
    The film does a fine job of holding a mirror to the experience of therapeutic practice.
  17. Demon
    Demon offers a tidal wave of unrelieved longing and regret, with a devilish streak of absurdism.
  18. Gasoline Rainbow
    The film is rich in compositions that seem to cut to the essence of the characters’ yearnings.
  19. The Ice Tower
    The Ice Tower is, ultimately, an aesthetic and nostalgic exercise.
  20. Light From Light
    Only in focusing so thoroughly on the normal does Paul Harrill’s film stumble upon the paranormal.
  21. Too Late to Die Young
    The experience of watching Dominga Sotomayor’s film is not unlike entering a stranger’s dream without an anchor.
  22. The Nature of Love
    The Nature of Love engages with the stylings and bubbly tonality of the classic rom-com in ironic fashion, along the way exploring complex aspects of human behavior.
  23. Goodbye First Love
    A poignant sense of time's unyielding forward progress and a mood of deep adolescent sorrow aren't enough to overshadow the insufferable blankness of Goodbye First Love's navel-gazing protagonists.
  24. The Endless
    Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead veer away from the deeper, even meta-cinematic, implications of their plotting.
  25. Indivisible
    Edoardo de Angelis's coming-of-age portrait is poignant when fixated on the intricacies of a complicated sisterhood.
  26. Sweetgrass
    Sweetgrass achieves a borderline abstract splendor that's furthered by the directors' avoidance of delving deeply into its human subjects, whose backstories and general circumstances are only alluded to through fly-on-wall scraps.
  27. The Old Man & the Gun
    David Lowery has a carefree, bordering on insubstantial touch, which gives rise to several rank absurdities.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Last of the Unjust
    Claude Lanzmann's film doesn't so much strive to elucidate the Shoah as to draw us into its infinite moral complexities.
  29. The Other Side of the Wind
    The Other Side of the Wind isn't a novelty item, but a work of anguished art that's worthy of its creator.
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