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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. Candyman
    Candyman doesn’t merely note the connection between fear and remembrance, it also interrogates it from every possible angle.
  2. Mank
    The film's most haunting sequences are self-contained arias in which characters grapple with their powerlessness.
  3. Shirley
    Every scene in Josephine Decker’s film operates at a maximum frenzy fraught with subtext.
  4. Palm Springs
    The film smuggles some surprisingly bleak existential questioning inside a brightly comedic vehicle.
  5. Possessor Uncut
    Though Possessor favors nihilist spectacle to existentialism, Brandon Cronenberg is more interested in exploring emotional dislocation than Christopher Nolan.
  6. The Night House
    The film upends the clichés that practically define the ghost story in surprising and intriguing ways.
  7. Dick Johnson Is Dead
    Dick Johnson Is Dead is very much a film about its own making, one which repeatedly exposes its artifice.
  8. Kajillionaire
    The precarity and itinerant lifestyle of the central figures in Kajillionaire can be seen as a logical next step in Miranda July’s filmmaking trajectory.
  9. On the Record
    Russell Simmons’ victims’ sense of their own complex relations to historical power structures emerges from the film’s lucid recounting of the sexual assault allegations against him.
  10. The Painter and the Thief
    Throughout the documentary, Benjamin Ree upsets conventions, offering a moving portrait of two lost souls.
  11. Cuties
    Maïmouna Doucouré has a remarkable grasp of the irrationality and volatility of middle-school social dynamics.
  12. Black Bear
    Shot through with darkly existentialist humor, the film finds Aubrey Plaza throwing a gauntlet to filmmakers who have typecast her in the past.
  13. Cane River
    The film’s awkwardness is expressive of the pain and confusion of wrestling with truths that shake one’s conception of identity.
  14. The Forty-Year-Old Version
    Radha’s remaking of herself contains an uplifting, unpretentious truth about aging: It’s never too late to make a new start.
  15. Boys State
    The film suggests that our political system is a popularity contest that functions for no one but those jockeying for power.
  16. Welcome to Chechnya
    David France’s most remarkable accomplishment emerges from an aesthetic commitment of a very particular kind.
  17. His House
    Throughout, Remi Weekes forcefully, resonantly ties the film’s terror to the inner turmoil of his characters.
  18. Heimat is a Space in Time
    Thomas Heise’s documentary seeks to excavate real human thought and feeling beneath the haze of larger political structures.
  19. The Father
    The film approximates the dislocation of its main character’s mind with a frighteningly slippery ease.
  20. The Glorias
    The film weaves its refreshingly unpredictable web as the strands of Steinem’s life spiral around each other through snippets of scenes that work efficiently and never preachily.
  21. Tesla
    A profound sense of restlessness and loneliness haunts Michael Almereyda’s film, which reinvigorates the biopic genre.
  22. The Bob's Burgers Movie
    Throughout the film, the quick-hit jokes from the show’s rich cast of oddballs serves to suggest a vibrant world outside of the Belchers.
  23. Happiest Season
    The film translates the often difficult realities of a specific kind of marginalized love into a story with broad appeal.
  24. Benedetta
    Throughout Benedetta, Paul Verhoeven builds up a heady, campy mix of religious imagery, corporeal abjectness, and masochism.
  25. My Life as a Dog
    My Life as a Dog and its sublime vision of childhood will always be there to remind us of the filmmaker Hallström once was, and potentially could be again.
  26. Funny Face
    Tim Sutton is a deft cartographer of how environments can shape its inhabitants.
  27. Kill It and Leave This Town
    Mariusz Wilczyński’s animation style strikes an unlikely balance between the childlike and the proficient.
  28. Last and First Men
    The push and pull between gradual buildup and apocalyptic rupture allows the film to infiltrate the mind and recalibrate our sensitivity to time.
  29. Mogul Mowgli
    The film’s poignancy derives from its profound understanding of its main character’s identity crisis.
  30. The Woman Who Ran
    Hong Sang-soo invests the ironic, despairing theme of the film with humor and empathy—an empathy that he suggests he cannot extend to the women of his life.
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