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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 Chronology of Water
    The beauty of Kristen Stewart’s focus is how she excavates the profound from the mundane.
  2. I, Daniel Blake
    It's pock-marked by the conservative dramatic conventions and broad political gestures that have marred much of Ken Loach's recent output.
  3. Alice in the Cities
    What makes Alice in the Cities so noteworthy is the tender, lifelike rapport cultivated between Vogler and Rottländer.
  4. The Dark Knight Rises
    Christopher Nolan's capper of his Batman trilogy is a summer blockbuster of grand inclinations in both form and content.
  5. The Lost City of Z
    The Lost City of Z links every weathered look that Percy Fawcett throws to the heart of his spiritual yearning.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Miroirs No. 3
    Christian Petzold has crafted yet another sneakily trenchant commentary on How We Live Now.
  7. Avengers: Endgame
    Every serious narrative beat in the film is ultimately undercut by pro-forma storytelling, or by faux-improvised humor.
  8. Memories Look at Me
    Worry and sadness are palpable, but so is wry humor and irony as Song ponders age and mortality with a sensitive eye for emotions and a strong sense of composition.
  9. Donbass
    The film’s collisions between the grave and the comic are crucial to its vision of a society cracking under the weight of its own inconsistencies.
  10. The Guard
    The Guard is John Michael McDonagh's caustically funny riff on cop and crime films.
  11. The Ballad of Wallis Island
    The Ballad of Wallis Island plays both its drama and comedy in decidedly minor keys, straining neither for grand emotional revelations nor big laughs.
  12. Blue Ruin
    By reducing its principals to stock figures in an extended chess game, it ends up providing steady, neatly staged thrills, but little else of substance.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The People's Joker
    Throughout The People’s Joker, Drew lampoons comedy institutions as freely as she does superhero hegemony, in effect mounting an impassioned argument for the vitality of art made at the margins regardless of classification.
  14. Pavilion
    George Washington this isn't, but there's enough heft here that the comparison can be tastefully made.
  15. Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
    The film offers a joyous throwback to the optimistic feeling of the early internet creator era.
  16. Hooligan Sparrow
    The Nanfu Wang film's noble aims are mirrored in its more frustrating and conventional qualities.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    On Dangerous Ground
    The urban harshness of the city is contrasted with the austere snowy countryside for some of the most disconcertingly moving effects in all film noir. Despite the violence and the steady intensity, a remarkably pure film.
  18. Ex Machina
    In the end, more than just the machine remains an enigma.
  19. Dragnet Girl
    Dragnet Girl features an array of seemingly debased molls and violent loners who blow off steam with punching bags in between petty wrongdoings, but it never outright vilifies any of them.
  20. Saloum
    With expert visual precision, the film flows into each new, wild narrative wrinkle as if it were the most logical thing in the world.
  21. The Tribe
    The film is more interested in performance and symbolism than in the meaning of its characters' words or their substitutive gestures.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Sisters Brothers
    The Sisters Brothers proffers a sort of Edenic vision, comedic but tinged with sadness, of a latter-day El Dorado that’s worth basking in, if only as a buffer against the inevitability of its fall.
  23. Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story
    Documentarian and subject, past and present blur together like bleeding watercolors in Raymond De Felitta's gripping memoir.
  24. Blue Moon
    Blue Moon, like Lorenz Hart in his day, trusts that audiences want to engage with subjects that matter through deliberate dialogue.
  25. Zootopia
    The film goes deeper in its allegorizing, tapping into the volatile nature of identity politics.
  26. The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
    There’s considerable emotional truth on display throughout Benjamin Ree’s documentary.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    House of Games
    His meticulous, largely self-taught directing style—dazzlingly showcased in House of Games, a master class in dramatically functional compositions and camera moves—should be mandatory viewing for any would-be filmmaker.
  28. I'm Your Man
    The film’s disarming romcom sensibilities are an unlikely yet fitting vehicle for timely ruminations on AI.
  29. The Velvet Queen
    Long stretches of the film are simply mesmerizing, but both Sylvain Tesson’s written compositions and the conversation between him and Vincent Munier often lapse into clichés about the distractions and decadence of modern society.
  30. The Eight Mountains
    The film is a meditative, slow crescendo of wounded feelings and quiet epiphanies.
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