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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. Southside with You
    The film may not announce itself as hagiography, but it’s hero-worshipful to its core.
  2. Bottoms
    The film’s unique blend of deadpan and absurdist humor, and its tendency to occasionally push the boundaries of good taste, shows that Emma Seligman is comfortable working on both ends of the comic spectrum.
  3. Wild
    Director Jean-Marc Vallée has created a film out of Cheryl Strayed's beloved 2012 memoir that never quite matches the blunt audacity of its simple title.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Beastie Boys Story
    Often feels like a cross between a TED talk and a memorial service, but one gets the sense that Diamond and Horovitz are finally getting years’ worth of grief off their chests. The cumulative effect is, at the very least, touching.
  5. Daaaaaalí!
    Quentin Dupieux melts the frames that separate dream, film, and reality until they become one plate of tangled spaghetti.
  6. On the Count of Three
    Jerrod Carmichael is a volatile director and an electric actor, but Ari Katcher and Ryan Welch’s screenplay routinely force the characters into formulaic, trivializing scenarios.
  7. Bombay Beach
    Rather than bringing out the symbolic inner lives of the characters, these sequences seem like the intrusion of an aggressive authorial personality on a film whose subject-as well as the fact of Har'el's outsider status-demands that the filmmaker simply sit back and observe.
  8. Gagarine
    The film is at its most effective and engaging when simply capturing the vibrancy of a world onto its own.
  9. Raya and the Last Dragon
    On its own gorgeously depicted terms, this film sticks the landing as a celebration of hope, a manifestation of what unfettered trust in our shared humanity could look like.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga
    The film becomes akin to variations on a theme, executed with visual finesse, and enhanced by its many rich textures.
  11. Scarlet
    The film drifts so far into weightless fantasy that it practically dissipates before one’s eyes.
  12. The Burial
    This flashy legal melodrama is fitfully stirring but too flabby to deliver the walloping blow that it needs.
  13. Porfirio
    Alejandro Landes's Porfirio is an ugly movie to watch, but it's not without purpose.
  14. Jawline
    The film is refreshing for its lack of pearl-clutching, its ambivalence in assessing what it’s like to be a commodity with a will and a nervous system.
  15. Polisse
    Polisse has been compared to "The Wire," but beyond a shared interest in the Sisyphean nature of police work, the two are mostly comparable as inverses of each other.
  16. Miracle Mile
    Miracle Mile is one of the most fascinating curios of the ’80s, a disaster movie that turns the decade’s optimism back onto itself.
  17. Smoking Causes Coughing
    Smoking Causes Coughing isn’t just an anti-superhero superhero film, but, thanks to Tristram Shandy-like levels of discursivity, something akin to an anti-film.
  18. Fake It So Real
    Fake It So Real has been made with considerable more polish than other do-it-yourself documentaries such as "Total Badass," but the sensibility is similar.
  19. Catherine Called Birdy
    In simplistic and self-congratulatory fashion, the film renders its main character as a sort of feminist crusader who undermines the sexist traditions of her time.
  20. Mary and The Witch's Flower
    This is a film about the adolescent pangs to belong that also mines its tale of magic and malevolence for an imaginative allegory about the excesses of scientific inquiry.
  21. The Measure of a Man
    It exhibits the spry subtlety of Jean and Luc Dardenne's films, and, consequently, it's possible that it will be similarly mistaken for a work of “naturalism.”
  22. Liv & Ingmar
    The documentary not only humanizes Ingmar Bergman as the absent lover-cum-father of everyday life, but works as a priceless oral history of cinema.
  23. Like Crazy
    Restless, at times even chaotic, the film often seems to be replicating the experience of having a manic episode.
  24. My Old Ass
    The world of My Old Ass retains a lived-in quality, in large part due to the shrewd, sensitive way in which it treats the emotional struggles of its teenage characters.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Where Are You Taking Me?
    The documentary revels in the simple joys of finding something that captures the eye and paying attention to it.
  26. The Cakemaker
    The film binds its narrative to fascinating explorations of national identity, sexuality, and, of course, food.
  27. Jackass Forever
    To see the old-timers pass the torch to their acolytes cements the improbable importance of Jackass in American pop culture.
  28. Computer Chess
    A movie which sits at the nexus between spoken and written language, the latter mostly of the programming variety.
  29. Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo
    Very few films accept the contradicting velocities of gay desire, and present them in such blunt yet graceful fashion, the way Paris 05:59 does.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Nostalghia
    Perhaps Tarkovsky’s most opaque film, Nostalghia is nonetheless one of his most personal.
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