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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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    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Only Lovers Left Alive
    As is so often the case in Jim Jarmusch's films, simply spending time in the company of his creations proves engrossing.
  2. In a World...
    Lake Bell holds the thing together through sheer charisma, and in fact the foibles of the movie only start to show when she absents herself for extended stretches of time.
  3. Celebration
    Olivier Meyrou’s ironically titled documentary weaves a tightly constructed story about success, power, and mortality.
  4. Selma
    What will make the film essential for future generations isn't mere flashpoint topicality, but the way it aligns an old struggle with a current one.
  5. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
    The film attests to George Miller’s enduring aptitude for utilizing the ridiculous to achieve the sublime.
  6. Poltergeist
    Poltergeist's most canny conceit is how it takes the concept of a haunted house—up to that point a gothic, remote icon (you practically had to accept a dare and then drive halfway across the state to ever find yourself in one)—and plops it in the middle of the most mundane of all possible locations: American suburbia.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Tabu
    The pangs of romance, eroticism, anguish, and longing (both for the stolen moments of private passion and for the sense-making schematics of Empire) transcend any period of cinema Tabu may evoke.
  8. Walking Out
    Walking Out is modest in scope, its concerns limited to man’s attempts to live both morally and harmoniously with nature.
  9. The Thoughts That Once We Had
    Thom Andersen attempts to establish unity by effectively bridging vast swaths of film history into one cohesive body of work.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    For All Mankind
    If not the screen’s ultimate portrait of space travel, For All Mankind remains a peerless planetarium show.
  11. The Assistant
    With The Assistant, writer-director Kitty Green offers a top-to-bottom portrait of incremental dehumanization, and, on its terms, the film is aesthetically, tonally immaculate.
  12. Underground
    Underground is a unique blend of lowbrow slapstick and sophisticated war commentary, earning it well-deserved comparisons to Ernst Lubitsch’s brilliant To Be and Not To Be (possibly the funniest movie ever made) and the films of Abbott and Costello.
  13. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
    This is a summer blockbuster contingent on grand bargains, tactical retreats, and a ferocious, inevitable shock-and-awe campaign.
  14. The Untouchables
    Steeped in De Palma's glorious violence and sinuous cinematography, but stripped of his tricky sensuality and his anarchic self-reflective wit, The Untouchables boils down to a lot of talk.
  15. Kokomo City
    The film’s most significant accomplishment is the mood it crafts with its cool black-and-white images, fast-paced editing, unorthodox camera angles, handheld camera, and overall jazzy atmosphere.
  16. Ghost Elephants
    Ghost Elephants shows that Werner Herzog is fiercely determined to explore new frontiers while they still exist and capture the poetic phenomena of nature and the unshakeable dreams it continues to instill in mankind.
  17. Hustlers
    The film is remarkable for capturing a brewing conflict between women while also celebrating their connection.
  18. Let the Sunshine In
    Claire Denis finds the inexorable beauty (and sadness) in that most corrosive and fugacious of feelings.
  19. Life of Pi
    The second act shifts the film from a lazy and comfy litany of introductions to a riveting fantasia of pure cinema, wherein Lee paints an oft-wordless picture of nature's harshness and grace, the perfect arena for Pi to have a Christ-like coming of age.
    • 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.
  21. Return to Dust
    The film is best in moments when the bond between two outcasts is made corporeal and fully present.
  22. Fences
    Danzel Washington honors the manna of the play's being: the micro of romantic longing, self-loathing, and nostalgia.
  23. Kimi
    The film extend into impactful hyperbole the tensions inherent in the situation of being subjects of and subjects to incessant surveillance.
  24. The Witness
    The film presents Kitty Genovese's identity as an afterthought, turning her living days and nights into incidental details.
  25. One Second
    One Second is as much a tribute to the struggles of a man whose life has stolen from him as it is to a bygone way of looking at movies.
  26. Twinless
    The film is a bizarrely moving and darkly comic story about feeling like you’ve lost something you never had.
  27. Keep the Lights On
    More than just a relationship drama of striking specificity, this is a naked confession about addiction.
  28. Fill the Void
    The film unfolds in unhurried dramatic terms that come to take on an almost fatalistic force.
  29. Hermia & Helena
    It may be Piñeiro’s most inspired and thrilling work to date, exhaustive in its means of keeping the viewer off balance and yet rich in its emotional implications.
  30. Suspiria
    Argento’s deliriously artificial horror film owes as much to Georges Méliès and German Expressionism (specifically The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) as it does to Jean Cocteau and Grimm fairy tales. =
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