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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. Shiva Baby
    Emma Seligman’s film effectively builds tension from what is a relatively familiar, low-key scenario.
  2. The Prom
    Ryan Murphy’s vibrant film adaptation makes a closer-to-seamless whole of the story’s disparate parts.
  3. Wildfire
    The structure of Wildfire’s narrative doesn’t emerge out of a simplistic progression from strife to reconciliation, as writer-director Cathy Brady has her characters follow a realistically erratic trajectory.
  4. 76 Days
    The documentary may be the defining portrait of the dawning of the Covid-19 pandemic.
  5. Tragic Jungle
    It operates in an ambiguous register, suggesting that a woman is working in unison with nature to dole out revenge for their exploitation.
  6. Beginning
    The low-key, serene natural beauty of Beginning’s setting provides a counterpoint to the often-disturbing events of the film.
  7. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
    In his final role, Chadwick Boseman meticulously charts the breakdown of a man discovering, within the mirages of 1920s blackness, that pursuit and escape, fleeing from and running toward, are inextricably intertwined.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Witches
    At the center of Roeg’s stylistic excess is Houston, balancing effortlessly between high camp and horror.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Sands of Iwo Jima
    Allan Dwan’s film is an intimate rendering of a monumental event, featuring John Wayne in one of his most emotionally complex roles.
  10. The Wolf of Snow Hollow
    Writer-director Jim Cummings reinvigorates an oft-told tale with personal, thorny preoccupations.
  11. God Told Me To
    God Told Me To is one of the key American horror films from the 1970s to mine the internally sexual, racial quandaries of a nation beset by one great civil rights catastrophe after another.
  12. The Mummy
    The Mummy is one of Hammer’s classics, cleverly fusing the human pathos of the original Universal film with the creature-centric physicality of the sequels the latter inevitably yielded.
  13. Daughters of Darkness
    Kümel’s impulse to remain on the waning edge of eroticism turns what could’ve been another cheap thrill into a genuinely unsettling examination of the human race’s most happily sanctioned form of vampirism: man-woman couplings.
  14. 8½
    8½ works best as a self-deprecating comedy, a fact revealed most forcefully in the folly of film production on display.
  15. Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan
    The film is affectingly poignant in its frequently uncomfortable presentation of Shane MacGowan’s physical ruination.
  16. Madre
    Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s feature-length Madre contemplates how memories of loss linger and distort the present.
  17. Zappa
    The documentary is determined not to be a typical rock-god story with predictable rise-and-fall arcs.
  18. America America
    Filmed with a cast of largely nonprofessional actors, America America immediately strives to impress its audience with the raw reality of its immigrant narrative.
  19. Alice in the Cities
    What makes Alice in the Cities so noteworthy is the tender, lifelike rapport cultivated between Vogler and Rottländer.
  20. The White Tiger
    Ramin Bahrani’s film is a turbulent and snarkily self-aware melodrama about breathless social climbing.
  21. The Killing of Two Lovers
    The film’s cramped compositions hauntingly underline the claustrophobic nature of its protagonist’s life.
  22. Coded Bias
    The documentary dives down the rabbit hole to chillingly, comprehensively expose how algorithms can perpetuate bias in often unforeseen and unjust ways.
  23. Hunter Hunter
    Writer-director Shawn Linden skillfully draws us into the narrative before springing a series of startling traps—of both the narrative and literal variety.
  24. The Offence
    Few genre films come as close to entering the abyss as Sidney Lumet’s The Offence, which effectively plays out as one elongated interrogation both of a single witness and the tortured psyche of Sergeant Johnson (Sean Connery).
  25. Let Them All Talk
    Steven Soderbergh’s signature formal gamesmanship enlivens what could have been a stodgy scenario.
  26. The Dig
    The Dig clearly relishes in having found so many fascinating real people arriving at one place at once.
  27. Fantastic Planet
    Fantastic Planet’s blend of straightforward, almost elementary storytelling (any missing context is filled in via a voiceover by Jean Valmont as the adult Terr) with heady themes and eroticized imagery marks the film as a relic of an era with much looser standards around the dichotomy of the children’s film and the adult drama.
  28. Black Mama White Mama
    Black Mama, White Mama became a key reference point for postmodern mash-up artists like Quentin Tarantino and Neveldine/Taylor, but the film’s socio-political jungle is not all fun-and-grindhouse games.
  29. The Reason I Jump
    The film weaves together the stories of five mostly nonverbal autistic teens to present a rich tapestry of the autistic experience.
  30. Blizzard of Souls
    The filmmakers are unafraid of the picturesque, lighting scenes so they resemble old-master canvases.
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