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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. The Light Between Oceans
    Derek Cianfrance's film is a beautifully sustained study in adult themes of emotional crisis.
  2. Born in Flames
    It fuses documentary and dramatic sequences into a free-form narrative that exists somewhere between essay film, political manifesto, and exploitation.
  3. The Handmaiden
    With The Handmaiden, Park Chan-wook has made a gigantic leap as an artist, but he retreats to lurid cartoonishness just as he’s earned your trust.
  4. 11 Minutes
    Jerzy Skolimowski's formal control over the material is so masterful that the textual particulars are revealed to be beside the point.
  5. Patriots Day
    As long as Patriots Day is concerned with recreating the sense of ambient chaos among sparring investigators and an anxious community, it’s immersive and thrilling.
  6. An Eye for Beauty
    Denys Arcand fashions a commandingly leisurely pace that allows us to follow these people who walk a tightrope separating ecstasy from misery.
  7. Don't Think Twice
    It displays an intimate chemical understanding of the exhausting and unrelentingly impotent agony of failure.
  8. Genius
    It makes a convincing argument for viewing Thomas Wolfe's work as a product of the excess and exuberance of the 1920s.
  9. April and the Extraordinary World
    The film provocatively has audiences see the world's current ecological concerns in a different and unexpected light.
  10. Annabelle: Creation
    Like Lights out, David F. Sandberg's previous film, Annabelle: Creation is a haunted-house horror story that plays on our primeval fear of the dark.
  11. A Cure for Wellness
    Most gratifying throughout A Cure for Wellness is the moment-to-moment anticipation of where Gore Verbinski will put his camera next.
  12. Above and Below
    The documentary lingers on silences and reveals its subjects only through moments of quotidian behavior.
  13. I Don't Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman
    The documentary is an attempt to capture something of Akerman's infectious spirit and thirst for worldly experience, as both an artist and a human being.
  14. Notfilm
    Ross Lipman's gloriously egalitarian approach to culture means that his complex argumentation never becomes inaccessible.
  15. Café Society
    As clarified potently by the film, most of life is spent distracting oneself from matters of the closest personal significance.
  16. The Shallows
    What makes the film churn so forcefully for so long is Jaume Collet-Serra's visual acrobatics.
  17. As I Open My Eyes
    Leyla Bouzid successfully dramatizes how young people eroticize peril and risk due to a lack of experience.
  18. My Big Night
    Álex de la Iglesia's film is an explosion of kitsch, an intensely formalized mixture of farce and tragedy.
  19. Our Last Tango
    Throughout the documentary, the question of truth is equated to the essence of the tango.
  20. Queen of Katwe
    The film is a mere fulfillment of familiar tropes, but it approaches sports movie's conventions with a light, funk-inflected touch.
  21. Jia Zhangke, A guy from Fenyang
    Walter Salles reinforces the impression of Jia's own art as emerging fluidly from the vagaries of his own life and socioeconomic position.
  22. What We Become
    When Bo Mikkelsen springs his traditional yet cathartic climax, it's earned because the violence matters truly as violation.
  23. Paths of the Soul
    Zhang Yang achieves an astonishing immediacy by simply allowing the prostration process to play out over and over with minimal aesthetic interference.
  24. The Innocents
    Anne Fontaine's film is an allegory for women's condition more generally, in times of war or peace.
  25. Almost Holy
    Steve Hoover's documentary affords one an unusually intimate glance at the collapsed infrastructure of the former Soviet Union.
  26. Graduation
    Cristian Mungiu's film is more than just a cry of despair toward the hopelessness of life in modern-day Romania.
  27. Loving
    Loving finds little grooves of humanity to explore in its characters, and in its milieu, in between expected plot beats.
  28. Slack Bay
    Bruno Dumont's formalism is presently charged with a spark of simultaneously controlled and spontaneous mystery.
  29. Staying Vertical
    The film changes gears whenever one is lulled into believing that it has finally settled into a recognizable narrative pattern.
  30. The Red Turtle
    A pointed simplicity governs Michael Dudok de Wit's The Red Turtle, one that’s traditional of many survival tales.
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