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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. Il Buco
    The film meticulously evokes a 1961 speleological expedition, but its search for thematic resonance is frustratingly general.
  2. Blue Jasmine
    One of Woody Allen's strongest and most pointed films in over a decade despite mildly falling victim to his recent propensity for clunky narrative development, cynicism, and stereotypical characterizations.
  3. The Innocents
    Anne Fontaine's film is an allegory for women's condition more generally, in times of war or peace.
  4. The Shadowless Tower
    The characters’ generational angst humanizes the film’s view of a nation at a crossroads.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Dry Leaf
    Alexandre Koberidze reminds us that not seeing is sometimes a way of seeing the world differently.
  6. It Comes at Night
    The film’s minimalism is rigorous, but its every moment of barebones craftsmanship is accompanied by plodding drama and an unsustainable heap of unanswered questions.
  7. Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
    The film abounds in honest and at times disarmingly off-the-cuff moments that are borne out of character contrasts.
  8. Rocks in My Pockets
    This inventive animated feature about depression and familial roots suggests NPR's "The Moth" storytelling series by way of Persepolis, mixing mesmerizing memoir monologue with whimsical animation.
  9. Breathe
    Aside from the innate understanding of female friendship dynamics, it's hard to see exactly what else Mélanie Laurent brings to this overly familiar story.
  10. Predator: Killer of Killers
    Killer of Killers only gives us just enough to get by, get invested, and get to the goods.
  11. John Wick: Chapter 4
    In the gradual development and expansion of the Wickaverse, the filmmakers seem to have lost the thread of what makes the first and, at times, second film in the series work so well.
  12. Enys Men
    Enys Men might have been called A Blueprint for Revival: an attempt to restore to horror something that Jenkin feels has been lost. If only it didn’t lack the power to truly frighten us, it may have flourished.
  13. Barracuda
    It's anchored by a pair of dynamic, intuitive performances which mine the psychological complexities of an understandably troubled relationship.
  14. The Grief of Others
    This a much leaner film in terms of narrative incident than In the Family, though it paves the way for Patrick Wang to step into new artistic terrain.
  15. Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
    It’s Morgan Neville’s impression of Bourdain as a time bomb existing in plain sight that allows Roadrunner to be more than a greatest-hits rundown of the man’s life.
  16. Becoming Bulletproof
    The trust that Bulletproof's filmmakers have in their cast and their talent is humanely and succinctly illustrated throughout.
  17. Queens of the Qing Dynasty
    Ashley McKenzie’s film blossoms into a moving story about two people trapped by the institutions that they’re beholden to.
  18. High Flying Bird
    Steven Soderbergh’s film considers modern media as a vehicle for revising white patriarchal capitalism.
  19. Reflection in a Dead Diamond
    Right out of the gate, the filmmakers’ filtering of a James Bond-esque espionage tale through a grindhouse sensibility exists in such a state of emphatic stimulation that each shot feels punctuated with an exclamation point.
  20. The Humans
    Throughout The Humans, Stephen Karam orchestrates the highs and lows of a family reunion with Chekhovian subtlety.
  21. The Card Counter
    Paul Schrader’s film grows more heated and crazed as the chaos of the past bleeds into a repressed present.
  22. Near Dark
    A romance, a western, and a totem to lost youth in an era ravaged by infection and addiction, it’s a high-water mark in a decade filled with exemplary genre fare. Borrowing from, and surpassing, the exceptional chemistry of Aliens’s tightly knit cast, the melancholic Near Dark is gorgeous even in its savagery, and one of pulp cinema’s greatest achievements.
  23. Babette's Feast
    This impeccably plated set is as savory as the brains sucked out of a quail’s head by Jarl Kulle’s General Löwenhielm.
  24. 5 Broken Cameras
    The documentary provides a birdsong of perseverance in the face of irrational violence, immense historic anger, and grim, seemingly insurmountable realities.
  25. One of Us
    It's incisive in its condemnation of the oppression innate in the social structure of Brooklyn's Hasidic communities.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Chungking Express
    To Wong, love isn't something you can talk about; words are inadequate, empty, inevitably reductive. Love is something you see, sense, feel, and Chungking Express is one of Wong's purest evocations of its excitement and heartbreak.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    In Between
    In Between is most affecting when its characters are at their least guarded, but as Nour, Salma, and Laila are hurt by those closest to them, Hamoud's film pulls back toward more formulaic expressions of conflict.
  28. The Summit of the Gods
    While the film intermittently stuns in revealing Everest’s topographical mystique, its expedition into what makes climbers tick struggles to get off the ground.
  29. Oceans Are the Real Continents
    With the film, Tommaso Santambrogio puts neorealism in the service of dream.
  30. Wings
    Seen today, Wings impresses mostly with its enormous scale—its appearance of having been made with obscene amounts of money.
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