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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. Tito and the Birds
    The Brazilian animated feature offers relief from the impersonal assault of contemporary pop culture.
  2. On Her Shoulders
    The film is most interested in homing in on the ways Nadia Murad's fragility and self-doubt arise as collateral damage from her fame and steadfast activism.
  3. The Price of Everything
    The film understands that money is a defining element of art-making, whether or not we wish to admit it.
  4. Rambo: Last Blood
    The Looney Tunes nature of Rambo’s murder spree tempers much of the script’s ideological offense.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Fox and the Hound
    A wounded and unresolved movie free of the expected Disney cutesiness and complacency.
  6. Of Fathers and Sons
    The film's verité approach risks humanizing Abu Osama, but we eventually gain a complex understanding of the banality of his evil.
  7. Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes
    Alexis Bloom’s keenly insightful and deeply depressing documentary is probably best viewed not as a record of the past but a document of what’s to come.
  8. The Vanishing
    The Vanishing seems truly troubled by its action violence in a way that many similar thrillers aren’t.
  9. Electro-Pythagorus: A Portrait of Martin Bartlett
    Luke Fowler allows us to access some of the intimate details of Bartlett’s life in intriguingly indirect ways.
  10. Where's My Roy Cohn?
    This sharp, to-the-point portrait of the crook, fixer, and right-wing pitbull resists the urge to darkly glamorize him.
  11. This One's for the Ladies
    There’s a surprising sense of communal exchange between the male strippers and their fans in Gene Graham’s documentary.
  12. All Is True
    It’s an unfussy, intimate chamber drama that’s fearless in confronting the attitudes of its exalted subject.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Basket Case
    Henenlotter’s consistent blurring of the line between horror and comedy is one of the more perverse side effects of his warped sensibility, keeping viewers off balance, so that they never know whether the punchline to one of Basket Case’s many gags will be just that, a crude joke, or the sight of someone getting their face ripped to shreds.
  14. Kagemusha
    The film vibrates with a profound respect for historical veracity, the busy intersection between political sociology and psychology, and grunting, portentous masculinity.
  15. Lifeforce
    Watching Lifeforce now is to be reminded that even big-budget films were once allowed to be adventurous and idiosyncratic, even in the 1980s, and that American horror movies were once capable of being fun, sexy, and subversively empathetic.
  16. The Venerable W.
    The Venerable W. is at times downright dowdy, but there’s an ever-present sense of rage and despair burbling beneath its placid surface.
  17. Hard Times
    Hard Times feels most like a brilliant prerequisite to the cinema of Michael Mann, a focused neo-western where the last man standing is the one truest to himself.
  18. Rolling Thunder
    Essentially a liberal vigilante film that’s rife with all the contradictions that description implies, Rolling Thunder has a pared, weirdly principled grace that still packs a punch.
  19. Styx
    The film is a penetrating an indictment of the bureaucratic obstacles placed in front of refugees.
  20. An Elephant Sitting Still
    The film’s gritty, mundane agonies come to feel like a series of moral tests with genuinely unpredictable outcomes.
  21. Knives Out
    The actors’ hammy performances only compound the amusement of watching a dynasty propped up by largesse fall to pieces at the very thought of actually having to earn their way in life.
  22. The Hole in the Ground
    The film gradually becomes something more than a mixtape of horror gimmicks as it homes in on a frightening real-world subtext.
  23. The Batman
    The film stands apart for thoughtfully suggesting that Batman might actually one day make Gotham a better place, and not merely a safer one
  24. The Suicide Squad
    Throughout the film, James Gunn renders the half-grim, half-absurdist nature of the Suicide Squad with delightfully bloody abandon.
  25. Clemency
    Chinonye Chukwu’s film is a morality play with a true sense of contradiction and melancholia.
  26. Cold Case Hammarskjöld
    The film is about a mystery that isn’t solved, and how that inconclusiveness spotlights the insidious functions of society.
  27. The Death of Dick Long
    Daniel Scheinert’s film finds a very human vulnerability lurking beneath the strange and oafish behaviors of its male characters.
  28. Honey Boy
    In Alma Har’el’s film, Shia LaBeouf’s plays an avatar of his father as an expressionistic act of self-therapy.
  29. Knock Down the House
    Rachel Lears’s film is a rebuttal to the position that Alexandria Ocasio Cortez's election victory was an incidental event in American politics.
  30. Light From Light
    Only in focusing so thoroughly on the normal does Paul Harrill’s film stumble upon the paranormal.
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