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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. Have a Nice Day
    The film's pale-hued, Flash-like animation is abundant in detailed backgrounds that make the characters stand out like placards, allowing for Jian's critique of modern China to land with maximum force.
  2. 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.
  3. Nakom
    Kelly Daniela Norris and T.W. Pittman's film immediately announces itself as a modest triumph of world-building.
  4. Win It All
    There's an artisanal scruffiness to Win It All that testifies to Joe Swanberg’s quiet fluidity as a filmmaker.
  5. The Land of Steady Habits
    Nicole Holofcener's The Land of Steady Habits often suggests the film that American Beauty might have been if the latter had been pruned of its smug hysteria.
  6. Like Me
    Like Me is exhilarating because of Robert Mockler’s willingness to deviate from his satire so as to surprise himself with seemingly spontaneous emotional textures and tangents.
  7. White Sun
    Deepak Rauniyar may be more skilled dramatist than inspired image-maker, but his admirably balanced and humane social and political perspective is bracing nevertheless.
  8. Hounds of Love
    Hounds of Love builds to a crescendo that earns its emotional catharsis while staying true to its roots as a truly chilling and intense thriller.
  9. SHOT! The Psycho-Spiritual Mantra of Rock
    Throughout, the content and tenor of certain stories told by Mick Rock ambitiously inform the film’s style.
  10. The Death of Louis XIV
    Catalan prankster Albert Serra's film ultimately emerges as a compact, improbably riveting viewing experience.
  11. The Disaster Artist
    James Franco's The Disaster Artist perfectly conveys the surreal hell of what the production of Tommy Wiseau's The Room must have been like.
  12. Porto
    It grapples with emotional enigma of infatuation, and the question of how such a mighty force can also be so fleeting.
  13. Annette
    The musical format proves a natural fit for Leos Carax’s love of the visual fantasies created by the cinema’s most basic means of illusion.
  14. Most Beautiful Island
    Many genre movies in which bad things happen to women end with them fighting back, but here, as people surely would in real life, they just take the money and run.
  15. The Dreamed Path (Der traumhafte Weg)
    That the film adheres, upon close scrutiny, to the rough shape of a classical romantic tragedy—a seemingly intuitively understandable genre—only confirms the extreme degree to which Schanalec’s idiosyncratic manner of storytelling skirts and frustrates expectations.
  16. Karl Marx City
    Petra Epperlein's personal ties to the subject matter provides the documentary with a necessary anchor point.
  17. Stronger
    David Gordon Green zeroes in on the intricacies of Jeff Bauman and Erin Hurley's dysfunctional relationship, offering up an unassuming portrait of wounded love and solitude reminiscent in its sense of detail of the filmmaker's early work, like All the Real Girls.
  18. One Week and a Day
    The film is a comedy that depicts the difficult period of transition from mourning back into normal life.
  19. i hate myself :)
    Few documentarians give themselves to their work as literally as Joanna Arnow.
  20. Last Men in Aleppo
    Feras Fayyad's film is broadly concerned with portraying the titular Syrian city as a community of neighbors and colleagues.
  21. Glory
    The film's rough-hewn naturalism belies an exquisite sense of pace and a sneaky breed of gallows humor.
  22. Heal the Living
    The film allows the sorrows of losing a life and the joys of saving it to remain congruent.
  23. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
    Noah Baumbach has made a cunning and frequently hilarious film about exhuming the past and finding no diamond in the rough.
  24. Violet
    Devos's impressive debut bores into the mourning process and its piquant combination of emotional numbness and sensory vulnerability, rigorously avoiding finding an easy way out of this quagmire.
  25. The Cage Fighter
    The Cage Fighter isn't sentimental about the notion of an aging sports hero who needs one more day in the proverbial sun, recognizing that desire as macho folly.
  26. November
    Rainer Sarnet is as invested in telling a convoluted story that feels rooted in millennia-old folklore as he is in unabashedly experimenting with form and style for the sake of visual pleasure alone.
  27. The Kid Who Would Be King
    Joe Cornish’s film is vigilant in its positivity and hope for the future at nearly every turn.
  28. Widows
    For all its flaws, Widows is McQueen’s most fascinating, bracing feature to date, a demonstration of the filmmaker embracing his commercial instincts instead of trying to pass them off as weighty and important.
  29. Leaning Into the Wind
    The film has a wandering, lonely purity. We feel as if we've been allowed to fleetingly swim through Andy Goldsworthy's psyche.
  30. A Gray State
    Erik Nelson's film straddles a fine and admirable line between lurid sensationalism and sober humanism.
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