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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. Tears of Gaza
    There's no coddling the audience in Vibeke Løkkeberg's verité heave of disgust as the full consequences on the Palestinian people of Operation Cast Lead are made sickeningly clear.
  2. They Call It Myanmar: Lifting the Curtain
    The images and interviews Robert H. Lieberman and his crew have managed to capture are eye-opening enough to justify the dangerous effort.
  3. Tales of the Night
    Michel Ocelot's recent cartoons cleverly advance Lotte Reiniger's prototypical stop-motion technique into the digital age.
  4. Headshot
    This "Buddhist film noir," as writer-director Pen-ek Ratanaruang calls it, is surprisingly slow-moving and soulful for a film full of double-crosses and cold-blooded killing.
  5. The House I Live In
    The mixture of different techniques and varied views results in a rich, multi-faceted look at one of America's most misguided policy initiatives.
  6. In My Mother's Arms
    Throughout, it becomes clear that both the film and its subject are defined by the necessity of multitasking.
  7. Two Years at Sea
    The stillness and silence with which we look upon Jake Williams ranges from curious to unnerving to fascinating.
  8. Simon & the Oaks
    The film is at its best when it lingers on intimacy and the characters' incompetency to manage it.
  9. My Worst Nightmare
    The hilarity of the film creeps up slowly and from every angle, not through the facile immediacy of short-lived laughter.
  10. The Revisionaries
    Scott Thurman captures not only the fear and anti-intellectual resentment and insecurity that govern the dictations of the far right, but also the rampant unchecked egotism.
  11. Any Day Now
    Its most redeeming quality is that it isn't so quick to neuter its queer characters into a package-friendly "gay couple" aesthetic a la Modern Family.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Ginger & Rosa
    With Ginger & Rosa, Sally Potter manages to avoid nearly every pratfall of such period pieces, focusing on extreme alienation rather than enlightenment, and wringing a powerful and jaundiced coming-of-age story from the decade's less trod corners.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Citadel
    Citadel is stripped down and no-nonsense, fixating on Tommy's emotional and psychological struggles with an intensity that's harrowing.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A Man Vanishes (1967)
    The earthiest of Japanese New Wave directors, Shohei Imamura goes fascinatingly meta in this 1967 hybrid of investigative tract and ruminative experiment.
  15. Beware of Mr. Baker
    Jay Bulger's seemingly erratic documentary formally channels Ginger Baker's almost defiant refusal to lead a life that adheres to a linear narrative.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Frances Ha
    Noah Baumbach's film feels like too perfect a portrait of quarter-life malady, down to the rushed redemptive endnotes and Greta Gerwig's idealized heroine.
  17. 56 Up
    The series is both a testimonial to the vagaries of chance and an endlessly cyclical study into the implications of being studied.
  18. Black Rock
    Layered conflicts mount as this lean film treks on, and they're not limited to gender politics.
  19. Only the Young
    Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims refuse to use their subjects as test cases for any sort of larger thesis.
  20. Tchoupitoulas
    The overall experience is entirely immersive, thanks not only to the filmmakers' handheld camera, but also to the illusory nature of the staging.
  21. The Loving Story
    Perhaps the strongest aspect of the documentary is that it allows the Lovings to tell their story in their own words.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Barbara
    Most compelling in Christian Petzold's latest is the way the filmmaker adeptly conducts his tides of Cold War paranoia.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Spring Breakers
    One of the effects of Harmony Korine's feverish, hypnotic style is that the whole thing feels like a fantasy—or rather a nightmare perversion of the American dream.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Hors Satan (Outside Satan)
    Bruno Dumont's employment of his bucolic French backdrop here attends to Hors Satan's muddying spiritual ambiguity.
  25. Mud
    The film ultimately succeeds thanks to small details, from its deep-fried lingo and the swampy texture of its location photography to its uniformly expert cast.
  26. A Place at the Table
    More difficult to convey are the web of moral and political issues that surround the hunger crisis, and A Place at the Table proves its worth most by how it treats this wider set of problems.
  27. Supporting Characters
    Glides from a mildly off-putting opening across several scenes that waver between sitcom superficiality and sudden, unexpected gusts of feeling, ultimately ending on a note of perfectly judged emotional ambivalence.
  28. Yossi
    The film is at its finest as a catalogue of Yossi's unspoken ache, less so when it begins to flirt with the clichés of the love story.
  29. Nana
    Its meta-cinematic "think piece"-ness is redeemed by the slinky symmetries drawn between Massadian's own auteur-ship and the protagonist's narrative role.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Trance
    The film draws out Danny Boyle's less dazzling commercial side, not to mention his penchant for whirling excess.
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