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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. Luce
    On the whole, the film is an unvarnished reflection of the ugliness of American attitudes toward assimilation.
  2. Midnight Family
    It’s the mix of the humane and the calculating that gives the film its empathetic power.
  3. The Brink
    Alison Klayman’s fly-on-the-wall documentary cuts Trump’s Rasputin down to size but doesn’t completely dismiss his power.
  4. The Italian Job
    The Italian Job isn’t the first movie to take car chases into strange and new environments, but it sure is creative.
  5. One Child Nation
    Rich in intimate detail, the film attains a more epic power as it burrows deeper into the effects of China’s one-child policy.
  6. The Gospel of Eureka
    The documentary is uniquely attuned to the fickle whims of history, politics, and biographical circumstance.
  7. Giant Little Ones
    Keith Behrman’s film comprehends the malleable, often inscrutable nature of desire.
  8. The King of Staten Island
    Throughout, Judd Apatow dramatizes the ideal of community with an almost Eastwoodian sense of rapture.
  9. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
    The film is a showcase for preposterous (and mostly practical) action and an unabashed sentimentality that Ethan feels for the makeshift family of spies he’s assembled over the course of the series.
  10. Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
    Dirty Mary Crazy Larry is the rare exploitation film whose few redeeming qualities make up for its numerous shortcomings.
  11. The Driver
    A visceral symphony of screeching tires and crushing metal.
  12. Two-Lane Blacktop
    America exploded in the ’60s; Two-Lane Blacktop is the post-apocalyptic road trip.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Burning
    Notable mostly for its prime-era Savini bloodshed and a few quick glimpses of a young Holly Hunter (uttering about as many lines of dialogue as won her an Oscar a dozen years later for The Piano), returning to The Burning three decades later is like contemplating any summer at camp: Peel away your nostalgia, and you’ll be left with 20-second sex bouts and insect bites.
  14. The Competition
    Claire Simon knows that the best way to capture the anxiousness of a moment is to leave it unembellished.
  15. Driveways
    The film’s devotion to the belief that kindness can be a balm for almost any hurt is deeply moving.
  16. I Was at Home, But
    Angela Schanalec’s film configures itself most potently in hindsight as a punch to the gut.
  17. Cutter's Way
    One of the final triumphs of the New Hollywood era, Cutter’s Way belongs on the shelf of fans of both Cassavetian hyperreal melodrama and Pakula-esque political thrillers.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Police Story (1985)
    Like many of the most compelling martial-arts movies, the Police Story films more closely resembles a dance picture than any kind of action blockbuster, with meticulously choreographed fight sequences standing in for fan-baiting musical numbers.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Police Story 2 (1988)
    Though ostensibly sub-Hitchcockian wrong-man mysteries, with a liberal serving of cop-drama clichés rounding out the narrative framework, the films are better enjoyed as purely cinematic catalogues of set pieces and sight gags, spectacles of breathless physical excess.
  20. Booksmart
    It's an R-rated teen comedy that proves that you can center girls’ experiences without sacrificing grossness, and that you can be gross without being too mean.
  21. Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy
    In this time of peril and chaos, Elizabeth Carroll’s documentary is a balm for the soul.
  22. The Juniper Tree
    The Juniper Tree’s peculiar pedigree as an American indie fueled by European arthouse tropes and constructed with a flair for the avant-garde and the handmade marks it as a welcome rediscovery.
  23. MS Slavic 7
    In its balance of a wispy narrative and long, quiet episodes of textual close reading, the film feels incomplete in a productive way.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Manta Ray
    Manta Ray functions as an oblique portrait of writer-director Phuttiphong Aroonpheng’s anger about the Rohingya refugee crisis in Thailand.
  25. Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes
    The documentary proves that the history and mythology of American jazz is as intoxicating as the music itself.
  26. The Chambermaid
    Lila Avilés’s film reserves the possibility of flirtations with disaster to turn into acts of emancipation.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    El Dorado
    Pangs of déjà vu might strike while watching El Dorado, as it’s a thinly-veiled remake of an earlier John Wayne film directed by Howard Hawks and co-written by Leigh Brackett for Warner Bros., 1959’s Rio Bravo. Though the stories are similar, El Dorado feels sharper, bolstered by Harold Rosson’s brilliant photography with scenes seemingly painted on celluloid.
  28. Wild Rose
    Tom Harper’s film empathetically probes the growing pains of self-improvement.
  29. Blow the Man Down
    Without Margo Martindale, the film would be a sharp and tightly constructed nautical noir. With her, it becomes a memorable one.
  30. Clementine
    There’s a hint of Jane Campion’s own uncanny perversion of the banal throughout Lara Jean Gallagher’s film.
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