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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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    • 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.
  2. Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank
    Beautiful loneliness, as the film suggestively reveals, is a texture that Frank knows all too well.
  3. Bringing Up Baby
    Bringing Up Baby has some delightfully comic sequences, for sure. But I’m less inclined to remember the dynamics of the gag than Grant and Hepburn’s timing.
  4. Mike Wallace Is Here
    Much like its subject, Avi Belkin’s documentary knows how to start an argument.
  5. Sea of Shadows
    Richard Ladkani’s Sea of Shadows, which bristles with drama and a panicky sense of righteous anger, uses the potential extinction of one little-known species of whale to symbolize a far larger and potentially globe-spanning problem.
  6. The Raft
    The film uses Santiago Genovés’s experiment to scrutinize memory and capture the feeling of life under a very curious sort of dictatorship.
  7. 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.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    El Cid
    There’s no denying El Cid‘s lucid grandeur as it reaches its famous climax, a simultaneously triumphant and tragic portrait of the warrior as corpse that, like the best of Mann’s work, never neglects the human toll of heroism.
  9. A Bigger Splash
    Jack Hazan’s portrait of David Hockney stands between documentary and fictional film, reality and fantasy.
  10. The Queen
    A quaint portrait it’s not, and aside from the conditions of the rat-trap midtown hotel where the competing queens are put up in, it’s hardly fly-on-the-wall either. While it presents its subjects at arm’s length, The Queen consistently recognizes the constraints they face.
  11. Jay Myself
    Jay Maisel’s former home suggests a bastion of creativity in a neighborhood whose rough edges have been completely sanded down.
  12. Freaks
    Today, hardcore fans have a way of trivializing the film’s moral significance, some calling it a mere “masterpiece of shock cinema.” This is to seriously underplay the film’s blistering humanity and the audacious aesthetic and philosophical lengths to which Browning goes to challenge the way we define beauty and abnormality.
  13. Rojo
    It masterfully sustains a sense of “wrongness” that will be felt even by those unfamiliar with Argentina’s history.
  14. Gloria
    Cassavetes and Rowlands lend a screwball energy to this thriller, ably playing conflicting moods of suspense and silliness off each other to complicate an otherwise straightforward genre film.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Rollerball
    Director Norman Jewison’s Rollerball remains a poignant and unusually prescient vision of our world as defined by Walmart and Exxon-Mobil.
  16. My Dinner with Andre
    The fact that people don’t talk like this in real life isn’t a flaw in the film: It’s a tragic social deficiency.
  17. The Personal History of David Copperfield
    It’s not hard to parallel David/Dickens’s head-spinningly intricate descriptors with Iannucci’s own prodding, poetically vulgar rhetoric.
  18. Hustlers
    The film is remarkable for capturing a brewing conflict between women while also celebrating their connection.
  19. Walkabout
    Roeg shoots every figure in the film like an instructional visual subject, and it levels the philosophical playing field—whether man, or ant, or echidna, or gnarled tree stump, they’re all fodder for the experimental interplay of light, shadow, and space.
  20. Aquarela
    At heart, Victor Kossakovsky's Aquarela is a war film: a cacophonous survey of the global battle between man and water.
  21. End of the Century
    Castro’s feature-length directorial debut is a profound and casually artful expression of the lengths to which people go in order to not have to embody their desires.
  22. Marriage Story
    Throughout, the subtle glimpses of a couple’s lingering affection for one another complicate the bitterness of their separation.
  23. The Last Duel
    Ridley Scott’s medieval saga insightfully revels in the complexities of its competing storylines.
  24. Bad Education
    Rather than a simplistic, straightforward parable of greed, Bad Education depicts its true events with a surprising amount of depth and ambiguity.
  25. The Burnt Orange Heresy
    The film allows that we are complicit in privilege for our fascination and envy.
  26. Los Reyes
    The film is a quietly radical attempt to view the world from a non-human perspective.
  27. Genèse (Genesis)
    Lesage pulls focus onto the aftershocks of trauma rather than the traumatic events themselves.
  28. Greener Grass
    In the film’s world, there can be no real resistance, as the suburbs have already won.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Duellists
    The Duellists explores its own unique thematic terrain and limns its characters’ psychology with a perspicacity that’s all its own.
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