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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 Image You Missed
    The film finds Dónal Foreman exploring the suggestive gaps that exist between his own biography and that of his father.
  2. Monica
    Monica is an unsentimental exploration of its main character’s search for personal fulfillment through human connection.
  3. Microbe and Gasoline
    Microbe and Gasoline is enervating for both relishing whimsy and looking behind it to absorb the yearnings of youth and its attendant complications in all their nakedness.
  4. Trainwreck
    The script doesn't revel in Amy's quite harmless flaws, or at least examine them in the spirit of benevolence.
  5. Emily
    The film takes advantage of the leeway for speculation afforded by its subject’s reclusive nature.
  6. 10,000 km
    It ends up feeling like an unsatisfying cautionary tale on how much detachment is too much detachment.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Orlando
    Rarely have source material, director, and leading actress been more in alignment than in Orlando.
  8. When Lambs Become Lions
    Think Michael Mann’s Heat but in East Africa and with real-world stakes.
  9. Origin
    Thanks to Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor’s unflappable performance, the theories that Isabel Wilkerson laid out in her book emerge with an emotional clarity that can be forceful, but the film’s often inelegant, choppy structure also works against that clarity.
  10. Rebuilding
    If there’s any sense of motion in the film, which is largely defined by its patient camerawork and editing, it’s in Dusty’s gradual recognition of and response to the emotions that accompany his corporal yearning to remain in place.
  11. Point Blank
    Fred Cavayé shoots his action with both vigorous propulsion and visual lucidity. Unfortunately, however, his story's revelations, all of which are related to a recent corporate bigwig's assassination, arrive at least two-to-three scenes after they've already become obvious.
  12. Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words
    It highlights the potent dichotomies that, combined with Bergman's relatively unmediated beauty, made the actress luminescent both on and off screen.
  13. 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.
  14. Blast of Silence
    Haunting, remote, and workmanlike, Blast of Silence may be the only film I’ve ever seen with a trip on the Station Island Ferry in which I expected a tumbleweed to flit across the deck.
  15. A House of Dynamite
    Kathryn Bigelow’s nerve-shredding A House of Dynamite stares down impossible questions about an unthinkable scenario.
  16. Okja
    In Okja, a transporting protest fantasy becomes another shrill dust-up in the waging of the culture wars.
  17. The Great Flood
    Even in comparatively conventional mode, Bill Morrison's work still benefits from the poetic potential of nature's repossession of its own elements.
  18. Happyend
    Sora Neo struggles to balance the immediacy of adolescent angst with the long-range outlook of using the students’ experience as a canary in the coal mine for society at large.
  19. Omar
    What Omar best portrays are the limitations that result from having an occupation, and the fight to overthrow it, dominate a person's entire life.
  20. Manhunter
    Mann’s focus is so esoteric that he slowly turns the garish thriller into a kind of poetry.
  21. Titane
    Titane wildly expands on Julia Ducournau’s idiosyncratic interest in the collision of flesh-rending violence and familial reconfiguration.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Scheherazade Tell Me a Story
    Inescapably and poignantly colored by the revolutionary events that would take place in Egypt in the years since its making, Scheherazade brims with faith in storytelling as art's great way of lifting society's veils.
  23. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
    It can't resist winking at how this franchise manages to defy the limits of both human endurance and its superstar's rickety public status.
  24. In the Last Days of the City
    By diagramming a vastly complicated metropolis like Cairo from an unabashedly first-person perspective, In the Last Days of the City interrogates middle-class privilege in a time of crisis as a series of either-ors: leaving for Europe or staying in Cairo, hiding at home or protesting in the streets, filming blindly or seeking retrenchment in broad certainty.
  25. Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara
    The story is kept at a stress-inducing simmer, with occasional surges of operatic emotion.
  26. Frozen
    The film's empowering themes of feminine strengths and bonds eventually flourish in novel fashion.
  27. They Died with Their Boots On
    Even if historical erroneousness intermittently undermines the film’s outlandish attempts at lionization, They Died with Their Boots On endures as one of the finest Flynn-de Havilland collaborations, providing a grand stage for the duo’s playful, poignant rapport.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
    That undeniable off-screen friction only helps grease the wheels of the film’s compulsive forward momentum, supplying a crackling energy to scenes wherein, among other gothic horrors, pet birds are served up for supper with relish.
  29. Hatching
    The ham-handed allegorical construction, generically titled characters, and self-serious tone in its final third drains the story of the specificity that might have resulted in a more incisive critique of the perils of perfectionism.
  30. Bitter Money
    Wang Bing's documentaries are angry, raw testaments to the human spirit in the face of social injustice. In this regard, his latest, the harrowing, soulful Bitter Money, is fortunately no exception.
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