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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. Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
    By acknowledging and publicizing its subjects’ writing, the film proves a stirring tribute to those who fight; in their stories, it offers a potent reminder that war is a hell suffered both externally and—more permanently—internally.
  2. Once Upon a Time in America
    As a magnum opus, Once Upon a Time in America falls just a few point tragically shy of greatness.
  3. Straw Dogs
    Sitting through Peckinpah’s controversial classic is not unlike watching a lit fuse make its slow, inexorable way toward its combustible destination—the taut build-up is as shocking and vicious as its fiery conclusion is inevitable.
  4. Encanto
    Encanto doesn’t steer away from the inevitable happy ending one expects from most animated films geared toward children, but it subverts expectations by bringing humanity to even its most flawed characters.
  5. Don't Blink - Robert Frank
    Like the work it illuminates, the doc feels formally impeccable yet utterly unstaged, a vivid distillation of a distinct and precious life.
  6. Yourself and Yours
    Yourself and Yours‘s commitment to its various extreme ambiguities is a crucial facet of the film’s success.
  7. The Bad Kids
    Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe's documentary raises important questions about the limits of pedagogy.
  8. Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
    Writer-director Joseph Cedar charts Norman's rise-and-fall arc with the attention to detail of a procedural.
  9. A Family Affair
    Throughout A Family Affair, time is continually collapsed to the point where events separated by many years bleed into one another.
  10. Ascent
    Fiona Tan’s comprehensive project discriminates against no particular era or pedigree of imagery.
  11. Ghost Trail
    Jonathan Millet’s film is unconvincing and unnaturally contorted into its shape.
  12. Mistress America
    Mistress America is both the most concentrated and antic film in Noah Baumbach's unofficial New York trilogy.
  13. The Hottest August
    The documentary represents a city ground down by inequality and division, where millions of selves who have by and large given up on one another.
  14. OBEX
    Albert Birney knows that fantasy is a potent force, that it can lead you deep into the worst parts of yourself, or, with the right influences, lead you back to life.
  15. Patience (After Sebald)
    A wide-ranging piece of literary criticism brought to vivid cinematic life, bursting with ideas and inspired visual translations of them.
  16. Border
    The film’s slow reveal of its fantastical elements, which evoke the erratic, dreamlike strangeness of folk tales, makes them all the more unsettling.
  17. Waiting for August
    The distinct lack of domestic drama is precisely what makes the doc so gratifying as a portrait of a family averting turmoil in spite of challenging circumstances.
  18. Ali & Ava
    Ali & Ava once again showcases Clio Barnard’s uncanny ability to capture the insoluble complexities of life.
  19. Emily the Criminal
    The film may not suffer from didacticism, but it’s at its most volcanic when it promises to blossom into a study of a generation’s financial difficulties.
  20. Frank
    The film boldly raises the unanswerable question of whether it's better for an artist to safely isolate his work or tweak it a bit so as to share it with the world.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Easy Money
    The humanization of these antiheroic outlaws doesn't feel forced, but it does feel engineered, and there's never a viewer investment to match the story's wide expanse.
  22. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
    One of the subtlest and most extraordinarily fluid of American horror films, Kaufman crafts textured scenes, rich in emotional and object-centric tactility, that cause our heads to casually spin with expectation and dread.
  23. Pow Wow
    Its tension between ethnographic ensemble study and thesis-oriented docu-essay is irreconcilable.
  24. The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire
    This film essay grapples with the ethical and political considerations raised in the effort to retrieve Césaire from oblivion.
  25. The Naked Gun
    The Naked Gun is of a piece with the “joke in every frame” approach that Zucker, Abrams, and Zucker brought to their best work.
  26. What Happened, Miss Simone?
    It utilizes Maya Angelou's claim as tantalizing bait rather than the starting point for a feature-length thesis statement.
  27. Bodied
    The anti-P.C. scorn that establishes a white boy's nervous entry into rap gradually becomes a sincere, if hilarious, treatise on the impossibility of reducing art to value judgments.
  28. Sleepless Night
    After a few turns in the modest narrative, an unlikely sense of structural resilience begins to emerge.
  29. The Load
    Chromatically, The Load makes Saving Private Ryan look like The Band Wagon. Yet Glavonic still manages to convey the devastation and numbness that results from atrocity without resorting to exploitation. Trauma is approached obliquely, more a subliminal fact of life than a single psychological rupture to be confronted and mended.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Ruben Brandt, Collector
    The film doesn’t apply the necessary touch and precision to balance its sleek, chromed parts into a revving whole.
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