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For 7,776 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: 4,350 out of 7776
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7776
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7776
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  1. Ida
    Pawel Pawlikowski shows great empathy toward the idea of illusions as a way of attaining emotional stability in even the most brutal terrain.
  2. Pioneer
    Its greatest asset, and another trait it shares with Mann and Fincher's work, is a careful attention toward the particulars of its milieu in a way that doesn't call attention to those period touches.
  3. Coherence
    The film's impression of personas is less traditionally sinister than representative of its inquiry into identity and what happens when social barriers begin to fall away.
  4. Nas: Time Is Illmatic
    While the trivia value may feel tremendous, only One9's interviews with Nas, his father, Olu Dara, and his brother, Jungle, manage to make the doc legitimately moving--a history lesson in popular culture.
  5. Why Don't You Play in Hell?
    Refusing to mourn anything, displaying a Futurist-style disdain for the past, Sion Sono imagines a world in which static adherence to old ideas leads directly to doom.
  6. R100
    The set pieces follow their own insane, unstoppable logic, with each new twist yielding its own outré surprises.
  7. The M Word
    Like a number of cult directors to emerge in the 1970s, Henry Jaglom values a party atmosphere at the expense of narrative cohesion.
  8. Whitewash
    The film benefits greatly from this bait-and-switch narrative design, as Hoss-Desmarais dials down or otherwise forgoes exposition, backstory, and character development in favor of an ambiguous, almost ethereal dramaturgical approach.
  9. Sol LeWitt
    What first feels like a neurotic avoidance of Sol LeWitt the man instead becomes a kind of mirage of his life, as though he managed to evaporate into his body of work.
  10. The Walk
    In order to make the walk, and in order for it to matter to him, Philippe Petit has to comprehend it as real and impossible. Zemeckis teaches us the same lesson.
  11. Horses of God
    Nabil Ayouch's film allows us see how young suicide bombers--"horses of God," as the man in charge of their mission calls them--might deserve our pity.
  12. The Discoverers
    It pushes itself beyond shrill predictability in its willingness to indict the public and familial histories at its core.
  13. Gebo and the Shadow
    It defines Manoel de Oliveira's late period, during which his movies have continued to shrink in size and scope while remaining thematically expansive.
  14. The Wonders
    Like a rural Fellini, Rohrwacher mixes the mundane with the absurd to create a sometimes fabulous tale that always feels palpably real.
  15. Citizen Koch
    Like their earlier Trouble the Water, Carl Deal and Tia Lessin portray men and women yearning for a simple place in society as they become casualties to the self-involvement of larger forces.
  16. It Follows
    Though visionary, David Robert Mitchell's film abounds in undigested ideas and dubious sexual politics.
  17. Wild Tales
    Each of the six vignettes that make up this unusually energetic anthology pertains to the methods of calculated mass dehumanization that are (barely) hidden beneath the practices of social institutions.
  18. The Blue Room
    The film abounds in guilt and grief, reveling in a general sense of hopelessly broken social connection.
  19. Test
    Adept as both timely character study and epochal drama, Test wonderfully manages fully formed humanism without sentimentality.
  20. Wrinkles
    In its visionary dream and flashback sequences, the film becomes a comment on the rapidly diminished state of traditional animation.
  21. Elena
    This is a film about the invisible things passed down from generation to generation, that nasty inheritance that cages us into patterns and puzzles we try to solve in someone else's name.
  22. Violette
    By focusing on the tumultuous friendship between Violette LeDuc and Simone de Beauvoir, Martin Provost creates not so much a dichotomy of femininity as a funhouse mirror of it.
  23. Master of the Universe
    Marc Bauder's documentary quietly detonates the conservative notion that our largest corporations should be allowed to duke it out in metaphorical no-holds-barred cage matches.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Burning Bush
    The decentralized narrative benefits from the film's original conception as a miniseries, with plenty of time to draw us into the morass that was the communist state.
  25. Jealousy
    Like an astutely aching ballad, the film—aptly scored with sweet, strumming beats by Jean-Louis Aubert—is pleased to ambiguously infer the interior logic of its irresolute characters without pigeonholing their motivations.
  26. The BFG
    The film, full of such quietly inventive visual magic, is perfectly content to simply revel in the stuff dreams are made of.
  27. 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.
  28. The Empty Hours
    Aarón Fernández captures one of the most heartening elements of sex: that it doesn't always oblige our rules or expectations.
  29. The Kill Team
    This is a rare War on Terror military exposé, one almost exclusively interested in the hearts and minds of low-ranking soldiers.
  30. A Life in Dirty Movies
    Wiktor Ericsson emphasizes one of the strongest and most distinctive features of Joseph Sarno's aesthetic: his concentration on female pleasure.
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