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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. Outside In
    Lynn Shelton's film firmly resists supplying its main characters with easy, you-can-have-it-all answers.
  2. Zappa
    The documentary is determined not to be a typical rock-god story with predictable rise-and-fall arcs.
  3. Peter Pan
    Peter Pan, in retrospect, seems much more a footnote among the studio’s 1950s output.
  4. The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
    It brims with empathy and righteous outrage at the treatment of trans people, but with only a vague organizational structure, it ultimately feels scattershot, passionately covering a number of important issues without quite unifying them into a coherent whole.
  5. Flight
    A unique, audacious studio movie, kicking off as a star-driven spectacle before whittling itself down to a raw and riveting character study.
  6. 99 Homes
    Ramin Bahrani's talent for orchestrating sequences of tightly wound tension is in full bloom here, as is his complementary knack for quieter grace notes.
  7. The Trial of the Chicago 7
    It pulses with relevancy in a time when debates over authoritarianism, protests, and the necessity of radicalism are convulsing America.
  8. Cloud
    Kurosawa Kiyoshi is an empathetic yet pitiless poet of the modern void.
  9. A Cop Movie
    Alonso Ruizpalacios voices a profound sense of powerlessness on the part of the police without sentimentalizing the abuses and biases of the profession.
  10. Flora and Son
    Flora and Son is far more invested in making its characters likable and cute rather than risking audience sympathies.
  11. The Lunchbox
    The patience in mercurially presenting the characters' backstories and desires is matched by the film's genuine curiosity about the healing power of sharing stories.
  12. This Ain't California
    While the film is deeply romantic and nostalgic, possessing a genuine reverence for youth and rebellion, it's also something of a tragedy.
  13. Tokyo Waka: A City Poem
    Its discursiveness does have the intriguing effect of leaving behind a myriad of impressions about its subjects rather than settling on pat interpretations.
  14. The Death of Louis XIV
    Catalan prankster Albert Serra's film ultimately emerges as a compact, improbably riveting viewing experience.
  15. Rebel Ridge
    Rebel Ridge never rises to the panic-infused heights of its opening, but Jeremy Saulnier is still able to maintain a baseline of oppressive tension as we watch a man navigate the deep-seated corruption of a sundown town.
  16. The Cranes Are Flying
    One of the greatest films of the Soviet era.
  17. Cartel Land
    A stunning work of war reportage nestled within a creaky study of ideological purity.
  18. We Grown Now
    The film is held together by the universal strength of its performances, particularly James and Smollett, and the elegance with which it veers between dreamy interludes and poetic flourishes stemming from Malik’s imagination and the more quotidian presentation of the small world he lives in, warts and all.
  19. The Meaning of Hitler
    Though uneven, the film is clever about avoiding age-old conundrums regarding the disavowal of the language of horror.
  20. The Price of Everything
    The film understands that money is a defining element of art-making, whether or not we wish to admit it.
  21. The Mother of All Lies
    Through her use of recreation, Asmae El Moudir suggests that the act of documentary filmmaking can turn historical truths into fiction, in which everyone becomes an active participant.
  22. Housebound
    You grow to feel as if you're arbitrarily changing the channel back and forth from a diverting horror film to a promising odd-couple comedy.
  23. Hail Satan?
    The documentary shrewdly illustrates how media savvy can turn a fledgling protest into an international cause célèbre.
  24. Amrum
    Fatih Akin’s Amrum is a delicate coming-of-age parable tracking national identity and violence to their most intimate origin points during the waning days of the Third Reich.
  25. The Whistlers
    Corneliu Porumboiu’s film is very much a genre exercise, and a particularly Soderberghian one at that.
  26. The Dog
    It's informed with a subtle but disquieting subtext that insists on the pitfalls of allowing ideology to steer you away from common sense.
  27. Zola
    Janicza Bravo prioritizes character and personal eccentricity, in the process truly earning the screenplay’s cutting observations about how social media encapsulates culture’s ability to commercialize anything, especially ourselves.
  28. Talk to Me
    The film has a free-floating, nearly intangible sense of unease that greatly serves it.
  29. Midnight Special
    It starts off as a dynamic parable about faith before wilting into a glum and rather disingenuous paean to the family.
  30. Spa Night
    It recombines elements of the emigrant saga and the coming-of-age story into a searching, fresh-faced portrait.
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