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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. Personal Shopper
    The film explores the extent to which Olivier Assayas’s characters have always found, and lost, their identities through the aid of their surroundings.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Neighboring Sounds
    The images, while beautiful, are sentimental, as if Kleber Mendonça Filho is trying to negotiate too much.
  3. Ailey
    Not even Alvin Ailey’s peers can articulate the innovations and soulfulness of his choreography half as well as his work itself.
  4. The Teacher
    There's a Tarkovskian layer of social despair in the web of corruption joining the child and the adult, the bedroom and the nation.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Tatami
    The film limply gestures at ideas around women’s rights and athlete boycotts.
  6. Babyteeth
    It incorporates addiction, age-inappropriate romance, mental illness, and terminal disease into its plot without collapsing into a movie-of-the-week black hole.
  7. The Jungle Book
    Jon Favreau draws heavily on his film's animated predecessor for plot, characterizations, and more, but doesn't know how to fit these familiar elements into his own coherent vision.
  8. Zulu
    A good platter for a great, underappreciated classic of British cinema (under the direction of American expatriate Cy Endfield)—light on supplements but strong in presentation.
  9. Slalom
    The film’s real subject is a young woman awakening to her oppression, rendered poignant in all its awkwardness by Noée Abita.
  10. The Hunting Ground
    Kirby Dick's films don't go far enough in explaining how a culture of rape can pervade in vastly different institutions, but they're ruthless about holding them accountable.
  11. While We're Young
    Noah Baumbach lobs jokes with hectic editing and a Sturgesian velocity, but much of this cross-generational comedy is frantic and wearisomely superficial.
  12. Urchin
    Harris Dickinson imbues the film with a singular style, as well as a self-awareness that’s introspective without stooping to outright self-flagellation.
  13. Mediterranea
    The film is unwaveringly attentive to problematizing the dividing line between predator and prey.
  14. Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius)
    Sly Lives! pays appropriate credit to its subject’s greatness by not devolving into pity even after depicting Stone at his lowest points.
  15. Dallas Buyers Club
    Conventional but never sanctimonious, it balances out its familiar recovery angle with a healthy measure of sardonic wit.
  16. Better Man
    Walking a dizzying line between the stupid and the profound, this exuberant, positively unique biopic is as hard to resist as it is to believe that it got made in the first place.
  17. Prophet's Prey
    One watches the film with an escalating sense of disbelief and horror, as Warren Jeffs is steadily revealed to be an even greater monster than we initially take him for.
  18. The Imposter
    The film shrewdly opts not to proffer its own hypothesis about the true reasons behind the Gibson family buying Frédéric Bourdin's story.
  19. The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography
    Errol Morris films Dorfman and her work with a rapt attentiveness that maps the nostalgic and regretful stirrings of her soul.
  20. Dead Lover
    The can-do spirit of Dead Lover, as evidenced by the way it couples goofy sound effects with cuts and camera movements, takes it a long way.
  21. Left-Handed Girl
    In a young girl’s face is all of Left-Handed Girl, as Nina Ye, like Shih-Ching Tsou behind the camera, translates the immensity of this sprawling saga into immediate, intimate detail.
  22. Güeros
    A good story, full of life and related with intelligence and a sense of humor.
  23. Win It All
    There's an artisanal scruffiness to Win It All that testifies to Joe Swanberg’s quiet fluidity as a filmmaker.
  24. The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed
    The film embodies the alienating angst of millennial life in all its nakedly neurotic glory.
  25. Fort Buchanan
    Benjamin Crotty's film is content to drift free-associatively through the intricacies of group mechanics via an expressive free-form structure.
  26. The Promised Land
    Even when it’s painting its story in broad strokes, the film plays expertly to audience emotion.
  27. My Brilliant Career
    If the narrative is slightly schematic in the way it sets up a binary between Harry and freedom, it’s never didactic. That’s thanks to Armstrong’s clear-eyed direction, which never feels the need to underline its points, relying on selections from Schumann’s “Scenes from Childhood” to lend the film a mood of droll wistfulness.
  28. The Harder They Come
    The Harder They Come’s greatest asset may still be its soundtrack, which makes such a stirring impact because it provides a cathartic release from the grim realities depicted on screen.
  29. Ornette: Made in America (1985)
    Shirley Clarke's portraiture eschews cohesive biography and often spirals off into lyrical dissonance.
  30. Introduction
    The film is a modern melodrama of grit, beauty, jagged edges, and resonant dead ends and false starts.
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