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For 7,769 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 6.4 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: 4,345 out of 7769
  2. Mixed: 1,491 out of 7769
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7769
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  1. All Light, Everywhere
    Theo Anthony’s film is a playful, enraging, free-associative cine-essay that both expands and eats itself alive as it proceeds.
  2. Friends and Strangers
    The film’s tonal and situational shapeshifting doesn’t go to the surrealist lengths of Luis Buñuel’s The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, but James Vaughan similarly indulges in burlesquing upper-middle-class complacency.
  3. Riders of Justice
    Ultimately, Anders Thomas Jensen cannot reconcile the fact that a mature story of men in crisis doesn’t coherently mesh with suspense scenes in which his protagonist viscerally annihilates a violent gang.
  4. Wrath of Man
    Cacophony eventually takes over Wrath of Man, stranding the actors in the process. Except, that is, for Jason Statham, who’s by now a master of presiding over Guy Ritchie’s gleeful chaos.
  5. Mainstream
    The film has the knowing swagger of something on the cutting edge but none of the self-awareness to realize it’s late to the party.
  6. The Killing of Two Lovers
    The film’s cramped compositions hauntingly underline the claustrophobic nature of its protagonist’s life.
  7. We're All Going to the World's Fair
    Throughout, Jane Schoenbrun reveals themself to be adroitly plugged into both the current technological and sociological landscape.
  8. Short Vacation
    The film, lacking in conflict and danger, is guided by the poignant belief that there’s no end to the world.
  9. Oxygen
    At its best, Oxygen successfully approximates the feel of an escape room.
  10. Things Heard & Seen
    Ultimately, the film’s most impactful terrors have nothing to do with things that go bump in the night.
  11. About Endlessness
    Rather than eliciting surprise and wonder, Roy Andersson channels his full stylistic arsenal in search of something far more delicate: a recognition of the sublime in the prosaic.
  12. Apples
    The film's rendering of the interplay of memory, identity, and grief is disappointingly vague.
  13. Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse
    The film is a disastrous amalgamation of modern-day tech-savvy thrills and Clancy’s conservative expressions of patriotism.
  14. El Planeta
    Amalia Ulman’s film is a bittersweet comedy of human behavior observed with a relaxed yet intently focused eye.
  15. Faya Dayi
    The documentary’s aesthetics strikingly channel the euphoric feelings induced by Ethopia’s top cash crop.
  16. Together Together
    Ed Helms and Patti Harrison’s wonderful rapport helps to keep the film grounded in the recognizably real.
  17. Sisters with Transistors
    Much of the film’s power comes from a series of deft, often wry juxtapositions between video and audio.
  18. Limbo
    A comedy about the migrant crisis is more daring than a coming-of-age story, and Limbo, wanting it both ways, dilutes its best instincts with sops to formula.
  19. Red Moon Tide
    Lois Patiño’s Red Moon Tide is a work of unmistakable horror, one predicated on such ineffable dread that the impact of climate change becomes a sort of Lovecraftian force.
  20. Mortal Kombat
    In spite of its occasionally engaging displays of gnarly brutality, the film too often feels like an adaptation of a player select screen.
  21. Stowaway
    By paring their story down so much, the filmmakers only end up highlighting just how little it contains.
  22. Paris Calligrammes
    While Ulrike Ottinger accesses the most consequential of decades through nostalgia, she does so with humility.
  23. The Mitchells vs. The Machines
    While the film certainly lays out the dangers of technology run amok, it also sees its power to connect people.
  24. Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts
    Jeffrey Wolf’s documentary is a spry and inventive account of extraordinary transcendence.
  25. The Banishing
    Christopher Smith’s film applies the haunted house trope in unfamiliar ways.
  26. Jakob's Wife
    Travis Stevens’s film is psychologically astute, until it gives itself over to turning subtext into extremely legible text.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Monday
    Ultimately, the film is unable to overcome the mundanity of its simple, overly familiar scenario.
  28. Hope
    Maria Sødahl’s considers the extreme emotions provoked by a medical emergency with an impressive force of clarity.
  29. Moffie
    Oliver Hermanus’s film is a rumination on the consequences of apartheid on those who benefit from it most.
  30. The Tunnel
    The film lacks for the methodically escalating stakes that makes the best examples of the genre so entertaining.
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