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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. Picture of His Life
    Amos Nachoum has a vulnerability that he manages to locate in animals without diminishing their capacity for violence.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Psychomagic, A Healing Art
    Whether or not the 91-year-old Alejandro Jodorowsky makes another film, Psychomagic could easily stand as a fitting encapsulation of the themes of suffering and transcendence that have run throughout his work.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Black Is King
    Out of a dazzling fusion of the hottest trends of American R&B and Afrobeat, this visual album proposes a pan-African vision of legacy, abundance, and unity, making it Beyoncé’s most wide-reaching and ambitious effort yet.
  4. The Card Counter
    Paul Schrader’s film grows more heated and crazed as the chaos of the past bleeds into a repressed present.
  5. Mildred Pierce
    Though its craft is accomplished, the film never gets deep under one’s skin the way it ought to.
  6. Au Revoir les Enfants
    Part dream, part nightmare, the film vividly remembers a traumatic moment in time that cannot be forgotten.
  7. They Live by Night
    Ray’s plaintive artistry lends this weepy noir a melancholic beauty.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    El Topo
    Alejandro Jodorowsky’s El Topo remains an enduring cult-film experience.
  9. The Holy Mountain
    The Holy Mountain is nothing if not exuberant while cartwheeling its way through the cosmos and back through the non sequitur-strewn plains and deserts, towns and cities, ridges and ranges of Mexico.
  10. Song Without a Name
    The film is strikingly fixated on exploring loss and pain on an intimate and personal scale.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Naked Kiss
    It’s Sirk-on-a-shoestring, and twice as cynical.
  12. Sunless Shadows
    Redolent of Claude Lanzmann’s approach, Mehrdad Oskouei strips his images to their barest bones as his subjects openly speak about their traumas, as if trying to avoid aestheticizing their pain.
  13. Creature from the Black Lagoon
    A much more antic, exploitative experience than the Frankenstein/Wolfman/Mummy/Dracula pictures it stands alongside, Creature from the Black Lagoon perfectly typifies the transition from older, more European horror styles into bloodthirsty schlock and ever-cheaper thrills.
  14. Judas and the Black Messiah
    Shaka King’s film, anchored by two sterling lead performances, complicates the expected narrative of martyrdom.
  15. A Thousand Cuts
    The film uses endangered press freedom in the Philippines to illustrate the threat posed to liberal democracy by weaponized social media.
  16. Martin Margiela: In His Own Words
    Reiner Holzemer’s adulation of his subject feels most credible because he spends a lot of time focusing on the clothes.
  17. Alone
    John Hyams’s film refutes the frenetic clichés of so modern American thrillers.
  18. Pinocchio
    Matteo Garrone’s adaptation of Carlo Collodi’s story trembles with corporeal strangeness and unpredictability.
  19. Coup 53
    Once Taghi Amirani turns his attention to the coup itself, his film snaps into shape, with Walter Murch skillfully knitting together new and old interviews to lay out the story in highly dramatic form.
  20. Epicentro
    It alternates political ponderings with a loose and discursive subtext in which Hubert Sauper explores the idea of Cuba as an island paradise.
  21. Ghost Tropic
    Bas Devos’s film is a street-lit trek through the eerily empty avenues and byways of a city at sleep.
  22. One Night in Miami
    As much as the film seeks to understand how such major cultural figures navigated a political minefield, it nonetheless never takes its eyes off of its characters as people.
  23. Night of the Kings
    The film is a celebration of oral traditions as a means of giving purpose to even the most hopeless of lives.
  24. Wolfwalkers
    The storyline’s edges are frayed just enough to give it the gentle distance of a tale recalled though the gauze of myth and memory.
  25. Another Round
    Thomas Vinterberg’s latest, like The Hunt, is ultimately a parable about breaking a social contract.
  26. Enemies of the State
    The film’s concession to the fungible nature of presented reality comes across not as indecisive but courageous.
  27. Final Account
    Luke Holland’s stark and revealing documentary is a gift of memory to future generations, though it’s one that some will likely view as an unwelcome reminder of how everyday people can become complicit in incomprehensible evil.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
    One of the most striking effects here occurs whenever Herzog and Oppenheimer slow down the film’s often-hectic pace to let viewers ponder the sheer beauty of the imagery, whether that’s painterly rendered details of landscape or the natural splendor of closely observed crystals and minerals.
  29. Mandibles
    The idle one-thing-after-another-ness of Mandibles is evocative, disturbing, and moving.
  30. MLK/FBI
    The film refrains from any dubious moral calculations by giving King’s personal deceptions the same weight as his public morality.
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