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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. The Crash Reel
    It compellingly captures a family wrestling mightily with the riddles and contradictions of a culture that promotes achievement at all costs with little thought as to what that actually means.
  2. Hitchcock/Truffaut
    A buoyant tribute, even if the pedigree of the project implies something more paradigm-shifting.
  3. Hotel by the River
    A story of a poet, Hotel by the River comes to resemble a poetry collection itself, abounding in emotional currents and grace notes that are bracingly allowed to hang, free of reductive explication.
  4. Feels Good Man
    That the democratization of the internet has opened a doorway for fascist ideologies to openly quash democratic ones is an irony that isn’t lost on the film.
  5. El Mar La Mar
    The film's approach to exploring the Sonoran Desert and topic of immigration often veers toward the avant-garde.
  6. Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio
    The film is marked by wild flashes of invention, all born of painstaking craft and devotion.
  7. Dune: Part Two
    Denis Villeneuve’s film, like its predecessor, offers an object lesson in the visual splendor made possible by meticulously storyboarded minimalist maximalism.
  8. Drive
    A lot of critics will talk about how the movie is a stripped-down, "pure" genre piece, and there's a lot of truth to that. What may not get as much press is the way stripped-down-ness is an affectation, and always has been.
  9. Film About a Father Who
    Throughout, Lynne Sachs undercuts the image of the past as simpler or more stable than the present.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The American Friend
    From its engagement with genre tropes (particularly film noir), to its tangibly grimy urban backdrops, to its archetypal hero/villain dramatic dichotomy, there’s no mistaking the film’s American influence.
  11. Jodorowsky's Dune
    This is a fanboy movie, one more engaged with the excitement of possibility than that of reality, and whatever the noxious connotations of that form of film appreciation, this particular project does a pretty fantastic job of stirring up enthusiasm.
  12. Beasts of No Nation
    Cary Joji Fukunaga’s artistry registers less as psychological imprint than as a measure of his professional bona fides.
  13. Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
    Apollo 10½ ultimately suggests that memory distorts and amplifies just as much as it preserves.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Gandhi
    Though Kingsley’s saturnine poise is much more interesting in roles which call for varying degrees of slipperiness, he nevertheless manages to bring shades into the inherently monochromatic saintliness of the role with life-sized, profoundly felt gravity and dignity, all while executing that marvelous, peculiarly British trick (remember Robert Donat in Goodbye, Mr. Chips) of seeming to age from within.
  15. Look Into My Eyes
    Leave it to a documentarian to find subjects who profess a similar faith in the power of ecstatic rather than merely objective truth.
  16. Tu Dors Nicole
    Lafleur denies Nicole the angsty treatments given similar characters in films like The Graduate and Frances Ha by refusing to saturate the film with an undergirding sense of charm, where the issues being faced are merely points of spasmodic uncertainty that will erode over time.
  17. The Venerable W.
    The Venerable W. is at times downright dowdy, but there’s an ever-present sense of rage and despair burbling beneath its placid surface.
  18. Petrov's Flu
    Kirill Serebrennikov’s blackly comedic fantasia paints a none-too-rosy picture of Russia, or its Soviet past festering just beneath the surface.
  19. An Angel at My Table
    Jane Campion upends staid genre convention with an impressionistic approach to character.
  20. Girls Will Be Girls
    The film is one that fully recognizes the power of a lingering gaze, a suppressed smile, the slightest movement of the littlest finger, and one which uses them all to maximum effect.
  21. Monster
    Across the film, you can feel the push and pull between a master technician who built his career on the patient, delicate plucking at our heartstrings and his newfound desire to please a wide audience with the broadest of affective strokes.
  22. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
    In their best films, the Coens mine the depths of loneliness and egotism and frailty and solipsism. But in THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS there's a noticeable lack of deeper insinuation, a lack of curiosity.
  23. Fourteen
    Dan Sallitt recognizes that even the sturdiest of friendships are inevitably tested by time and the evolution of personal responsibility.
  24. Green Room
    The film is an unambiguous endorsement of violent revolt as the only effective response to such inhuman savagery.
  25. The Plague
    The Plague is vividly, terrifying attuned to the way children create a social order that resists sensible adult intrusion and influence.
  26. The First Slam Dunk
    The First Slam Dunk is able to throw a relentless series of new gambits, twists, and reversals at the screen that will keep even seasoned sports film fans on the edge of their seat.
  27. Colliding Dreams
    The filmmakers' perspective is firmly aligned with the views of liberal Zionism, as the leftist peace activists are given the most screen time.
  28. In Our Day
    For Hong Sang-oo, In Our Day is a gesture toward recognizing the beautiful, awful, and uncanny.
  29. Deceptive Practices: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay
    It never bothers to attempt the one thing we'd expect and hope from a documentary about Ricky Jay: It doesn't try to bamboozle us.
  30. How to Have Sex
    How to Have Sex winds up delivering on the promise of its title, as this is a truly instructive film about sexual politics, though a remarkable one for largely leaving emotions unresolved and relationships feeling messy.
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