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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. Caesar Must Die
    Deceptively modest on nearly all accounts, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's Caesar Must Die employs seemingly minor directorial contrivances to ruminate on a unique quarrel.
  2. Muppets Most Wanted
    Freed from the burden of starting anew, the film restores the Muppets' rightful place as stars of their own show.
  3. Night Across the Street
    It's a final film in the specific sense of Raúl Ruiz designing the larger part of it around a metaphorical contemplation of his own, imminent demise.
  4. Porfirio
    Alejandro Landes's Porfirio is an ugly movie to watch, but it's not without purpose.
  5. No
    A singular biopic and a snapshot of a society renewed, No unaffectedly celebrates faith in democracy, and, surprisingly, truth in advertising.
  6. The Jeffrey Dahmer Files
    Teasing out a subversive portrait of a complex and rather subdued monster, The Jeffrey Dahmer Files unfolds with the same meticulousness exemplified by the eponymous serial killer.
  7. 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.
  8. Simon Killer
    The film has many elements of a thriller, but ultimately Antonio Campos's interest lies much more in profiling, yet never over-determining, his moody protagonist.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Evil Dead
    Raimi's script is riotously deadpan, his compositions undeniably breathtaking and inventive. [6 March 2002]
  10. The East
    It showcases the evolving interests and talents of Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling, but expands them and channels them into a more traditional thriller framework.
  11. Greedy Lying Bastards
    What Craig Scott Rosebraugh's film lacks in originality, it makes up for in comprehensiveness.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Tristana (re-release)
    There are more than a few striking images and intriguing ideas to be extracted from Tristana. [10 Oct. 2012]
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Genius on Hold
    Though overstuffed, his film eschews pop-doc conventions by opting for in-depth analysis over superficiality.
  14. Electrick Children
    Rebecca Thomas's debut feature is a sensible and humane exploration of youthful curiosity.
  15. The Unspeakable Act
    Writer-director Dan Sallitt's fourth feature moves with confident boldness from the incestuous gauntlet its prologue impishly hurls down.
  16. Pavilion
    George Washington this isn't, but there's enough heft here that the comparison can be tastefully made.
  17. The Source Family
    The research and elucidating synthesis on display effectively illuminate the pernicious aura of a lifestyle pursued by the yearning, lost souls of the time.
  18. V/H/S/2
    A welcome contrast to the first film's snuff-y atmosphere and general mean-spiritedness, featuring more humor, fewer hateful characters, and occasional twinges of relatable human emotion.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    108 (Cuchillo de Palo)
    Renate Costa's doc gradually simplifies into an elaborate seesaw between general, journalistic scoopery and unabashedly personal confrontation.
  20. American Hustle
    Formally ostentatious and unrepentantly messy, the film manages to implicitly convey the overdriven, coked-up confusion that many '70s period pieces make painfully overt.
  21. Maniac
    Its audio-visual overload testifies to a group of filmmakers' belief that some films are made to be remade.
  22. Come Out and Play
    Makinov's film expertly crafts a sense of dawning madness that hinges on its villains' unspoken fury at their elders.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A Hijacking
    Tobias Lindholm's hostage-negotiation drama that wields its verité style for maximum tension.
  24. 20 Feet from Stardom
    This joyous documentary leaves us wanting to immediately seek out the incredible, sometimes unfamiliar music we've just heard.
  25. Stranger Things
    Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal's film is a tasteful, well-orchestrated drama that never reaches beyond its humble means.
  26. Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner
    Perhaps the most valuable insight that the film provides about its subject is that he acts even as he directs.
  27. Finding Dory
    Finding Dory follows its predecessor in being broadly concerned with comforting notions of home and family.
  28. One Direction: This Is Us
    Some of the film's most memorable moments involve Niall and Liam looking down on oceans of screaming devotees in the street, and controlling their cheers like orchestra conductors.
  29. Only God Forgives
    It takes the basic form of the revenge flick and dips it in tar, making for a movie that comes out sticky, nasty, and black.
  30. Paradise: Love
    It often seems more intent on spelling out its awareness of the politics involved than in lingering on the aching human engaged in the libidinal transactions.
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