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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. The Guilty
    The Guilty is a taut chamber thriller dominated by the flinty yet highly emotive visage of actor Jakob Cedergren.
  2. Mandy
    Panos Cosmatos's film is a profoundly violent and weirdly moving poem of male alienation.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Double Indemnity
    Visually drab and flabby around the edges. Its seamy tale of murder is not layered in any way; what you see (or, in Wilder’s case, hear) is what you get.
  4. Mohawk
    Ted Geoghegan's Mohawk is a survival-of-the-fittest film that's charged with a thunderous urgency.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Shag
    As for Fonda, the camera certainly loves her (to quote a famous line by Howard Hawks), but an actor needs a part that will make her a star, and few films since Shag have seen fit to play to her strengths, specifically that perky blond American sass of hers that found perfect expression here.
  6. Outside In
    Lynn Shelton's film firmly resists supplying its main characters with easy, you-can-have-it-all answers.
  7. Steel Magnolias
    MacLaine grabbing Dukakis by the bangs, shoving her head back with a sneering “Have your roots done,” radiates more feminine fellowship than a dozen sisterhoods of the travelling pants. Not bad for a movie that alternates the tragedy of dying young and beautiful against the comedy of growing old and bitter.
  8. Hondros
    Chris Hondros sought to reconcile peerless beauty with unfathomable atrocity, and Greg Campbell’s film follows suit.
  9. Where Is Kyra?
    Terror gradually leaks into the narrative, transforming Where Is Kyra? into a haunting non-traditional thriller.
  10. The Heiresses
    Ana Brun’s performance as Chela anchors our attention where Marcelo Martinessi’s understated visuals might otherwise lose it.
  11. Touch Me Not
    Touch Me Not‘s commingling of narrator and narrative, character and actor, fiction and documentary suggests that cinema itself is capable of being a manner of touch, the site of a nebulous and freeing encounter between people.
  12. Werewolf
    The film achieves a strange irony, as its formal abstractions serve to heighten our emotional connection to the characters.
  13. Unfriended: Dark Web
    The film is preposterously conceived, but writer-director Stephen Susco so tightly, excitingly executes it that you hardly notice.
  14. The Guardians
    The film captures the pictorial beauty of old-fashioned farm life, but director Xavier Beauvois is careful not to romanticize hard labor for its own sake.
  15. 12 Days
    With a tender and respectful gaze, 12 DAYS (@distribfilmsus) sheds light on the relationship between the French state and the mentally ill.
  16. Wild Nights with Emily
    The film’s playful tone is a corrective to a century of scholarship that insisted on projecting the image of a moody spinster onto Emily Dickinson.
  17. Death Becomes Her
    Death Becomes Her is one of the few mainstream comedies that you don’t feel even had to try to be outlandish. It was simply born that way.
  18. Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami
    The effect of Sophie Fiennes's unmoored approach to her subject is to take us out of normal time and put us on Grace Jones time.
  19. Winter Brothers
    If nothing else, the film is a feat of formal conception and craftsmanship.
  20. Cocote
    Nelson Carlo de Los Santos's first fiction feature is a dazzling collage of styles and approaches in which every scene feels different from the one that came before.
  21. Revenge
    Fetishism, parody, and various registers of violence propel a livewire thriller that mines the free-floating hostility existing between genders.
  22. Big Fish & Begonia
    In the sly exchanges between the teenage protagonists and their elders, the film reflects a nation's shifting tides.
  23. My Beautiful Laundrette
    Thatcherism yielded results that are arguably typical of conservative ideology: high-class flourishing at the expense of the lower class proletariat, who’re left underpaid (at best), over-taxed, adrift, and profoundly resentful of their limited opportunities. My Beautiful Laundrette is a moving, tonally elastic study of this environment’s socio-political ground floor.
  24. Hitler's Hollywood
    Rüdiger Suchsland’s film is a master class in the relationship between image production and ideology writ large.
  25. The Towering Inferno
    In nearly every reasonable sense it’s the far more accomplished of the two famed Allen disaster epics.
  26. The Escape
    It deals with a very ordinary emergency with deftness of touch, and the power of a singular performance.
  27. Clash of the Titans
    These fantastical He-Man epics were common in the early ’80s (Legend, Conan the Barbarian, and The Beastmaster were all variations of the same theme), and while Clash of the Titans remains one of the genre’s homelier entries, there’s no faulting a film this lovingly and aptly arcane.
  28. McQueen
    As Ian Bonhôte's documentary reveals, Alexander McQueen's suicide was perhaps the all-too-predictable ending to a history of violence.
  29. United Skates
    The documentary brings to the foreground a fascinating and, moreover, beautiful culture lurking in the background of other stories.
  30. Island of the Hungry Ghosts
    The film is a haunting portrait of the island as a purgatorial realm between the poles of isolation and liberation.
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