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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. Only the Brave
    Joseph Kosinski's Only the Brave displays a kinship to Howard Hawks’s hard-nosed, old-fashioned pragmatism.
  2. The Commuter
    The final optimism of the film's worldview lands with a conviction that's rare in contemporary Hollywood cinema—a resilience that's strong enough for Liam Neeson to ride out on.
  3. Coco
    The film brings Pixar's customary emotional directness to a festive, reverent, and wide-ranging pastiche of Mexican culture.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    We Are the Flesh
    The film establishes a hypnotic rhythm through razor-stropped editing and a reverberant sound design that later scenes will disrupt with alarming impunity.
  5. Tempestad
    This is a heartfelt essay film that digs into several instances of trauma occasioned by Mexico's drug war.
  6. Starless Dreams
    Mehrdad Oskouei avoids sentimentalizing the girls or tritely lamenting their stolen innocence.
  7. Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire
    Cohen here is ever the model of grace and dignity around his peers, if not exactly entirely at peace with himself.
  8. All These Sleepless Nights
    Director Michal Marczak's film finds a unique vitality in its densely constructed environment.
  9. The Little Hours
    For all its hip ludicrousness, The Little Hours has a point: to almost earnestly riff on how atheism has taken hold of 21st-century America, by rooting our nation’s moors in a time of great austerity, sexism, classism, and persecution.
  10. Donald Cried
    Finding the drama and humor in everyday situations like these isn't easy, but Avedisian makes it look as natural as swinging on a vine.
  11. The Big Sick
    The film is always at least gut-rumbling and keeps its humor in situations that are morose and awkward.
  12. Ingrid Goes West
    Ingrid Goes West recalls Fear and Single White Female — two films right in the sweet spot of mid-'90s nostalgia that Ingrid's peers love to recall — but is more indebted to Alexander Payne's social comedies, which dwell in the backwash of the American dream.
  13. Call Me by Your Name
    Call Me by Your Name is a fairly straightforward coming-of-age story that's at its finest in moments when the relationships take on larger meanings than their literal context implies, and Luca Guadagnino finds evocative aesthetic expressions for them.
  14. Berlin Syndrome
    Until its hasty climax, Cate Shortland's film is rewardingly patient and psychologically cogent.
  15. A Hidden Life
    Terrence Malick’s film means to seek out souls caught in the tide of history, but which move against its current.
  16. City of Ghosts
    The director’s apparently frank and intimate relationships with the RBSS’s heroic journalists help sustain City of Ghosts‘s undeniable urgency, which culminates in a final image of appropriate, irresolvable anguish.
  17. Menashe
    Striking throughout are the seemingly caught-on-the-wing moments that subtly enrichen the film’s characterizations.
  18. My Happy Family
    It casually lays out the domestic space where the story’s events takes place with acutely detailed cultural specificity.
  19. To the Bone
    One of the film’s great qualities is its casualness and willingness to be simply human and to not let sociological politics dominate.
  20. Long Strange Trip
    The film plays like one of the Grateful Dead's seminal concerts: protracted and digressive, yet intricate in its design.
  21. Dina
    We come to understand the camera’s distance from its subjects as an act of respect that allows the complex, funny, and indomitable personalities to shine through.
  22. Chasing Coral
    What makes it play as more than just another activist doc is its focus on the power of images as a way to inspire change.
  23. Keep Quiet
    The filmmakers astutely reveal how a culture can eat another alive and somehow live with itself.
  24. The Island Funeral
    The film rolls political commentary into the template of a “lost highway” horror film by forgoing ironic distancing.
  25. David Lynch: The Art Life
    Throughout the documentary, the undisguised regret and longing of David Lynch's reminiscences are often startling.
  26. On the Beach at Night Alone
    Hong Sang-soo simultaneously positions filmmaking as the ultimate act of atonement and evasion, eviscerating himself so that he may live to stage several more films about the futility of getting hammered and worshipping and bedding gorgeous young women.
  27. As You Are
    The outline of Miles Joris-Peyrafitte’s As You Are is certainly well-worn, but this coming-of-age film nonetheless stands out for its nuanced sense of detail and the sympathy it extends to its main characters.
  28. Logan Lucky
    Logan Lucky is both a Robin Hood fantasy and a uniquely Soderberghian lark, an ensemble comedy that’s simultaneously effervescent and cerebral.
  29. On Body and Soul
    On Body and Soul's fusion of romance, comedy, ultraviolence, and political commentary has the logic of a lucid dream.
  30. The First Purge
    Especially early on, Gerard McMurray often rejects the exhibitionist slaughter that James DeMonaco established as the Purge series’s modus operandi in favor of violence that’s rawer and realer.
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