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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. The Hottest August
    The documentary represents a city ground down by inequality and division, where millions of selves who have by and large given up on one another.
  2. The Disappearance of My Mother
    It’s fascinating to see Benedetta Barzini in academic action, like an ethnographer of the patriarchy herself, bringing back news from its most glamourous yet rotten core.
  3. Sometimes Always Never
    The film unites its seemingly disparate strands of somber drama and deadpan comedy into a surprisingly cohesive whole.
  4. Celebration
    Olivier Meyrou’s ironically titled documentary weaves a tightly constructed story about success, power, and mortality.
  5. Redoubt
    Matthew Barney re-instills nature with some of the mystic aura that modernity, with its technologies and techniques of knowledge, has robbed it of.
  6. When Lambs Become Lions
    Think Michael Mann’s Heat but in East Africa and with real-world stakes.
  7. Betty Blue
    If only Beineix could have imagined an existence for his star-crossed protagonists beyond the source material (the question of whether successful maternity would have sobered Betty yelps for an impossible sequel), he may have managed a sultry masterpiece.
  8. Duet for Cannibals
    Susan Sontag’s debut film serves as an intriguing cinematic extension of her more well-known written work.
  9. Candyman
    Rose’s dizzy, Jungle Fever-ish romanticism is juxtaposed against his cold, Cronenbergian dystopia to create Candyman‘s uniquely baroque use of modern urban blight, subtle political undercurrents, and hints of fallen woman melodrama. It creates a startlingly effective shocker that gains power upon further, sleepless-night reflection.
  10. I See You
    The film’s tone is extremely eerie, with creeping camera movements, striking imagery, abrupt edits, and a delicately sinister score.
  11. Antebellum
    This is a film that employs imaginative twists to illuminate the racism that’s entrenched in American history and society.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Call of the Wild
    The film’s avoidance of cruel Gold Rush realities is more than made up for by its spirited kineticism and by its deepening of the man-dog bond that forms the heart of London’s story.
  13. Emma.
    This lively adaptation plays up the novel’s more farcical elements, granting it a snappy, rhythmic pace.
  14. Feast of the Epiphany
    Its sensitivity to how something as seemingly ordinary as food can have an immense emotional impact is consistently and unobtrusively profound.
  15. Incitement
    Admirably, Yaron Zilberman’s film focuses on the cyclical nature of violence in a decades-old conflict.
  16. Promising Young Woman
    The film’s empowerment fantasy of a woman who steamrolls male egos is as stylish and fun as its portrait of gender relations is dire.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Brewster McCloud
    What saves the film from curdled, wise-ass whimsy is the control Altman brings to the freewheeling material, to say nothing of the undercurrent of despair that keeps its absurdism bold and beguiling.
  18. Empty Metal
    The film is greater in its confrontational force than the sum of a dozen festival breakthroughs lauded for their fearlessness.
  19. John Lewis: Good Trouble
    The film is well-outfitted with telling, thematically rich shards of historical information.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The American Friend
    From its engagement with genre tropes (particularly film noir), to its tangibly grimy urban backdrops, to its archetypal hero/villain dramatic dichotomy, there’s no mistaking the film’s American influence.
  21. Crimes of Passion
    Russell’s wild style and shameless exhibitionism places it on a par with the contemporary work of Brian De Palma in terms of its vicious satire of ‘80s kitsch and repression.
  22. The Vast of Night
    Director AndrePatterson never breaks the film's incantatory spell with pointless freneticism, patiently savoring the great thrill of genre stories: anticipation.
  23. Acasă, My Home
    The film is at its most moving when it lingers on the face of children who are impotent to return to the world they used to call home.
  24. Inferno
    Dario Argento undervalues his material, but his set pieces are glorious enough that the film’s plot contrivances can be forgiven.
  25. Corpus Christi
    It’s within the murky realm of self-doubt and spiritual anxiety that it’s at its most audacious and compelling.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    And Then We Danced
    Levan Akin offers up a swooning gay romance as the centerpiece from which all of his other ideas radiate.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Zombie
    Taken on its own terms, it works quite agreeably as a visceral blow to the breadbasket, with one of the most outrageous and apocalyptic final scenes in the entirety of the subgenre.
  28. Dick Tracy
    A highly impressive effort.
  29. Suburbia
    In the end, Suburbia’s greatest strength lies in its assertion of youth as a political state of mind.
  30. The Amusement Park
    With The Amusement Park, George Romero holds a cracked (funhouse) mirror up to a callous and ultimately terrified society.
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