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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. Season of the Witch
    Romero’s own Belle du Jour, a tale of a lonely, neglected housewife whose discontent and suppressed erotic desires are efficiently conveyed in a series of bondage-tinged dream sequences.
  2. Brad's Status
    The film is less contemptuous of Brad than compassionate: brutally honest about his faults, yet ultimately understanding of them.
  3. Machines
    Rahul Jain’s film conveys with revelatory force the mechanization of people in an industrialized milieu.
  4. Rememory
    The film successfully argues that it’s through sensory details that we access the deeper aspects of our lives.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Downhill Racer
    In scenes such as the anti-hero’s visit to his resentful father (“World’s full of them,” the old man snaps of his son’s desire to become a champion), Downhill Racer stands as lean condemnation of the calculating underdog clichés Rocky would bring make the norm.
  6. I Spit on Your Grave
    One can’t mistake I Spit in Your Grave for anything other than a raging political text, a rigorous reminder to the power of a disturbed imagination, be it victimizer or victim.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Sicario: Day of the Soldado
    Day of the Soldado's strained credulity in the last act has an undercurrent of kooky exhilaration, as the plot takes leaps that feel as reckless as they are refreshing in such a doleful film of terminal prognoses.
  8. Strong Island
    Yance Ford’s film builds into an emotionally, intellectually, and aesthetically complex work of essay and memoir.
  9. 78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene
    78/52 comes to life when riffing on the psychosexual perversity of Psycho, which changed cinema's relationship with sex and violence.
  10. Brawl in Cell Block 99
    Brawl in Cell Block 99 rarely drags, even when delivering exposition, and the economy of the storytelling is as efficiently brutal as the eventual skull-crackings.
  11. Time Bandits
    Good as the cameos are, however, the lasting draw of the film is its exceptional aesthetic. Gilliam keeps his camera low in a child’s perspective, and wide-angle lenses only exacerbate the magnified sense of scale that everything has.
  12. 1922
    Zak Hilditch's 1922 informs Steven King's pulp feminism with primordial, biblically ugly force.
  13. One of Us
    It's incisive in its condemnation of the oppression innate in the social structure of Brooklyn's Hasidic communities.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Red Dawn
    What if Reagan’s America got a taste of her own interventionist foreign policies? Apocalypse, wow.
  15. 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.
  16. Disobedience
    In the end, Disobedience is less about the subjugation of the self to the group than the courage to embrace uncertainty if one were to break out of the prison of a world one has been born into.
  17. Foxtrot
    Icy absurdism and sorrowful ironies abound throughout Samuel Maoz's Foxtrot, whose laughs stick in your throat like the silent screams of its Job-like protagonist.
  18. Mom and Dad
    Writer-director Brian Taylor's Mom and Dad invests a hoary conceit with disturbing and hilarious lunacy.
  19. On Chesil Beach
    The film’s imaginative daring springs from its willingness to render repression sexy, even if it will prove to be the seed of a young couple’s dissolution.
  20. Nico, 1988
    The unflashy, austere visual style of the film is but a veneer over writer-director Susanna Nicchiarelli's deceptively radical treatment of the musical biopic.
  21. Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
    The film poignantly reveals that the secret history of Hollywood is really an alternate history of America.
  22. Sweet Country
    The film is a meticulous examination of how the dehumanization of Australia's native population bred an environment of cyclical violence and mistrust.
  23. The Third Murder
    In The Third Murder, as in his other films, Hirokazu Kore-eda informs tragedy with a distinctive kind of qualified humor that's realistic of how people process atrocity.
  24. The Future Perfect
    The Future Perfect has the texture of a novella that keeps reworking the same idea in successively intricate ways.
  25. The Outlaw Josey Wales
    The remnants of war are fractious and far-flung in Clint Eastwood's impressive revisionist western.
  26. Cool Hand Luke
    Newman remains watchable and glamorous throughout, bloody, muddy or coated in torso-flattering sweat, but the film’s efforts to sentimentally humanize him by psychological revelation are clumsy.
  27. Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous
    Throughout, Christopher Doyle acknowledges that time and reality are often marked by a slippery subjectivity.
  28. Western
    The absence of anything traditionally "painterly" reflects an ambivalent attitude toward the kind of capitalistic pro-growth machinations on display in the film.
  29. Autumn, Autumn
    The film is a record of everyday spaces and the emotionally charged human dramas that pass through them.
  30. Bugs
    It begins as a gleeful deadpan comedy and ends up as an exasperated cri de cœur against our current system of industrialized food production and distribution.
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