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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. Love, Gilda
    Its success is due to the way it relies on Radner's often elegant words to relay her experience of female stardom.
  2. Hidden Figures
    The central characters' dogged refusal to cede their places on a team that keeps trying to reject them is a moving display of heroism.
  3. Sylvie's Love
    The film never finds the spark that would imbue the love affair at its center with a sense of passion or urgency.
  4. The Infiltrators
    The film is never more compelling than when relying on footage of the real radical DREAMer group the National Immigrant Youth Alliance.
  5. A Gray State
    Erik Nelson's film straddles a fine and admirable line between lurid sensationalism and sober humanism.
  6. Sand Storm
    Elite Zexer weaves an impressively terse narrative of distinctly motivated characters, but the film’s core remains somewhat shapeless due to the routine dramatization.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Panic in Needle Park
    Remembered mainly as the neophyte Pacino’s launching pad into Godfather stardom, the modestly scaled, harrowing Panic in Needle Park has over the decades proven to be nearly as influential as Coppola’s blockbuster, setting a cinematic template later used by Drugstore Cowboy, Requiem for a Dream, and a good deal of Sundance Channel fodder.
  8. The Line
    The film is most interesting when observing the subtler power dynamics at play within frats.
  9. A Couple
    A Couple ultimately constitutes not so much a footnote to Frederick Wiseman’s storied career as a beguiling little doodle in its margins.
  10. Higher Ground
    Lacking both spiritual and narrative spark, Vera Farmiga's directorial debut suffers from her flat performance and a moribund, weirdly sex-joke-spiked narrative.
  11. Eternal You
    The film approaches a new tech frontier with an objective, responsibly apprehensive, eye.
  12. I Used to Be Funny
    The nimble way that Rachel Sennott hops between the two versions of her character easily makes up for the odd narrative misstep that I Used to Be Funny makes along the way.
  13. Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself
    Its looseness adequately portrays Plimpton as an inwardly conflicted figure, but it fails to make much of a case for his legacy outside of The Paris Review's still-noticeable brand.
  14. Ain't Them Bodies Saints
    The film's highly calculated beauty suffocates rather than elevates the story's emotional underpinnings.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Trials of Muhammad Ali
    Bill Siegel has made more of a Ken Burns-esque history book--that is, a medium more dry and factual--than a film.
  16. Miss Hokusai
    It condenses everyday interactions, memories, and dreams into a potent mix of all the major ingredients of a well-lived life.
  17. In Darkness
    It's the rare film that should not introduce new story elements or characters past its first act. In Darkness, a garbage movie applying for unlimited credit on the most meager collateral, is that film.
  18. The Witches of the Orient
    The film’s fanciful archival montages shrewdly demonstrate the ways in which memory and art seamlessly combine to document reality.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Suburban Fury
    Robinson Devor is less interested in reconciling Sara Jane Moore’s contradictory allegiances than in exposing how they were formed.
  20. Daughter of Mine
    Unlike My Life in Pink, Daughter of Mine sidesteps all ambiguity, as the film reveals everything about its characters straight away, leaving little room for unexpected complexities about their predicaments to develop.
  21. Ballet 422
    Jody Lee Lipes shapes the footage into an intimate symphony of poetically shaped bodies that contrast poignantly with uncertain faces.
  22. After Tiller
    It gives a true sense of how the forces of a hypocritically religious country has burdened countless young women with a lifetime of misplaced guilt.
  23. Lost in Paris
    Lost in Paris abounds in whimsy that, for the most part, isn't irritatingly precious—a feat that's harder to pull off than it appears.
  24. Sully
    It presses the case that the complexity of the human condition distracts us from the pure dignity of a noble act.
  25. Dressed to Kill
    The pleasures of Dressed to Kill flat out do not translate to print, but for what it’s worth it is the most perfectly-directed film ever, provided you, like me, bust into orgasmic laughter when De Palma’s double-shuffling editing makes it seem like the only threat Nancy Allen and a wooden cop can see boarding the subway is a 250-pound bag lady.
  26. Into the Abyss
    Underlying the occasionally harrowing, consistently mournful tone is a philosophy that, more than being explicitly anti-capital punishment, puts both family ties and the social contract at the center of people's self-worth.
  27. Interstellar
    Much like his hero, Christopher Nolan's goal seems to be to take the humor and wildness out of imagination, to see invention in rigidly practical and scientific terms.
  28. Harry Benson: Shoot First
    While it offers ample opportunity to admire Benson's body of work, it provides few aesthetic delights of its own.
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