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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. Phenomena
    The whole of Phenomena is less than the sum of its parts, but the parts are often terrifying and exhilarating.
  2. Elizabeth Harvest
    Sebastian Gutierrez's film creates an incestuous atmosphere that's reminiscent of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe.
  3. Studio 54
    The documentary nurtures our sympathy for Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager without shortchanging their hypocrisies.
  4. Cut Throat City
    Cut Throat City is still an ambitious and volatile film, an atmospheric survey of the thankless world of the rich and the damned.
  5. The Poseidon Adventure
    A nightmarishly schematic fantasia of guiltless discomfort.
  6. Green Book
    Peter Farrelly manages to respect the severity of the characters’ social context while ensuring that Green Book never steps outside its protagonists’ relationship, a delicate balancing act that credibly makes a feel-good, effervescent comedy out of its thorny subject matter without ever sanitizing it.
  7. The Brood
    Undoubtedly [Cronenberg's] best from this period and also the most troubling.
  8. Southern Comfort
    Southern Comfort is a thriller that twists one up in knots, whipping the audience up to a point where they may wish that director Walter Hill would just spring the damn gore already so as to relieve the tension he masterfully coils.
  9. They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
    Morgan Neville understands Orson Welles's art to pivot on an ongoing quest to bring about self-destruction so as to contrive to transcend it.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    8 Million Ways to Die
    It’s a fine swan song for Ashby.
  11. Hale County This Morning, This Evening
    Hale County dwells on the beauty of the everyday as it recognizes the fragility of individual lives.
  12. Our Time
    The film elides politics in order to earnestly consider whether love is necessarily an act of possession.
  13. Notorious
    Love is a dark, corroded obsession in Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious, a black-velvet biocide brimming with notes of tabloid titillation, spy-versus-spy nonsense, and romance as rotten as a half-eaten Granny Smith left out in the summer sun.
  14. A Quiet Place Part II
    John Krasinski is most in his comfort zone when the importance of family and legacy drives the film’s tension.
  15. Cold Pursuit
    It’s the way the film’s humor specifically subverts its genre’s expected emotional valences that makes it so effective.
  16. Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable
    Sasha Waters Freyer forges a poignant portrait of an artist attempting to transcend the limitations of his art by refusing to see the process through.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    306 Hollywood
    Elan and Jonathan Bogarín's film blends various tones and visual styles with confidence and infectious exuberance.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Stranger
    As distinctively Wellesian as Citizen Kane, and packing nearly as many technical wonders.
  19. A Land Imagined
    Writer-director Yeo Siew Hua suggests that becoming another person is as easy as dreaming it.
  20. Greta
    Neil Jordan’s deft control of pace and tone elevates Greta past mere gimmickry, resulting in a comic thriller whose goofy humor only compounds its mastery of suspense.
  21. In Fabric
    Strickland’s film is another fetish object that rues the perils of fetishism.
  22. Caniba
    Throughout Caniba, there’s a singularly disquieting relationship between the filmmakers’ formal experimentation and their subject.
  23. Critters 2
    Critters 2: The Main Course offers a heaping helping of everything that’s missing from the first film: a reasonably intelligent and witty script, a supple and unchained playfulness, and an anarchic mélange of diverse genre riffs.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Exorcist III
    Few people love William Friedkin, John Boorman, and Paul Schrader as much as I do, but in my book, of the six or so films that have tried to turn that tortured title into a continuing franchise, Blatty’s The Exorcist III is the best, hands down.
  25. The Return of the Living Dead
    Suffice to say, this small offering from the horror genre is a hoot to watch, with never a dull moment.
  26. Happy Death Day 2U
    Happy Death Day 2U pushes further than even matters of life and death into a realm in which stakes don’t even really apply anymore, concerned as it is not with how we live our best lives, but with how we can be the best possible versions of ourselves.
  27. Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki
    Kaku Arakawa's documentary is a candid snapshot of a great artist as an old man.
  28. Tyrel
    Sebastián Silva never indulges platitude, and so the qualified hope of the film’s ending isn’t merely affirming but also miraculous.
  29. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
    This is the most disturbing spin on the invasion premise, because it still permits the simple, classical predator/parasite interpretation, but, at the same time, makes the infiltration total, because the snatchers don’t just take your body, your memories, your brains—they take you. All of you.
  30. Night of the Living Dead
    So yeah, if you can’t tell already, my giddiness has by this point evaporated, but my staunch belief in this muddled little gem has not yet substantially wavered.
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