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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. A Glitch in the Matrix
    Rodney Ascher is a sly master of mining potentially jokey or gimmicky subjects for the alienation they primordially express.
  2. Beautiful Something Left Behind
    Katrine Philp’s documentary boldly argues for a clear-eyed frankness in talking to bereaved children about loss.
  3. Film About a Father Who
    Throughout, Lynne Sachs undercuts the image of the past as simpler or more stable than the present.
  4. PVT Chat
    Ben Hozie’s wry, observational film positions a young man’s repressed sexual paranoia as a reflection of a more general social malaise.
  5. Bad Tales
    Narration, as the film reminds us, isn’t only a diversion but a form of authority, of power, and when authority is least conspicuous, it’s often at its most insidious.
  6. Captain Blood
    Errol Flynn’s wicked, wicked charm helps keep this high seas adventure afloat.
  7. Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
    Questlove’s Summer of Soul is as much an essential music documentary as it is a public service.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Scum
    One of director Alan Clarke’s most uncompromising docudramas.
  9. Passing
    A sickened rage and psychological nuance courses through every meticulously arranged frame of the film.
  10. Pleasure
    The film fiercely homes in at the moral perversity of an industry at a particular intersection of capitalism, patriarchy, and digital-age spectacle.
  11. The Sparks Brothers
    The film embodies the idiosyncratic, tongue-in-cheek sensibilities of Ron and Russell Mael’s long-running cult American pop band.
  12. Strawberry Mansion
    Strawberry Mansion playfully and delightfully draws parallels between the creative agency of dreams and the waking creativity of filmmaking.
  13. We're All Going to the World's Fair
    Throughout, Jane Schoenbrun reveals themself to be adroitly plugged into both the current technological and sociological landscape.
  14. The Wanting Mare
    It’s as if Nicholas Ashe Bateman is commenting on a distinctly American suburban malaise, using a fictional place, digitally made, to get at a real, painful truth about being stuck in a place you didn’t choose, amid circumstances you didn’t create.
  15. Gremlins 2: The New Batch
    It’s a giddy, diabolical, and terminally underappreciated sequel to the film that made Joe Dante’s career.
  16. Test Pattern
    The film strikingly punctuates the detachment of realist drama with the expressionism of psychological horror.
  17. Sin
    Andrei Konchalovsky’s film is fascinated with the creation of great art in the midst of socio-political turmoil.
  18. My Darling Supermarket
    If the world outside the Supermercado Veran is rife with poverty and crime, we wouldn’t know it from inside this little cocoon.
  19. Enforcement
    The film is both a lurid urban thriller and an earnest parable about (almost literally) walking a mile in someone else’s shoes.
  20. Hope
    Maria Sødahl’s considers the extreme emotions provoked by a medical emergency with an impressive force of clarity.
  21. A Shape of Things to Come
    The film suggests a fusion of an eco-doc and acid western, and this disparity between genres results in a mysterious tension.
  22. Come True
    The film offers a glimpse of a world where screens are pores in the boundary between dreams and waking life.
  23. Violation
    Violation impressively pushes against the typically straightforward trajectory of the rape-revenge film.
  24. The Fever
    In the film, Manaus is a place of irreconcilable tension between the lush natural world and the cold, metallic world of industrial modernity.
  25. The Inheritance
    The film’s throwback nature is in sync with Ephraim Asili’s interest in wanting to keep the legacy of black activism alive.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    To Catch a Thief
    Hitchcock and screenwriter John Michael Hayes posited voyeuristic spectacle as the essence of cinema in Rear Window; in To Catch a Thief they validate their thesis with plenty of spectacle to be voyeuristic over.
  27. A Cop Movie
    Alonso Ruizpalacios voices a profound sense of powerlessness on the part of the police without sentimentalizing the abuses and biases of the profession.
  28. Swan Song
    The disconnect between the realities of different generations of gay men is one of Swan Song’s most unexpectedly joyful through lines.
  29. The Beta Test
    Underneath the film’s seeming casualness is an astute portrait of alcoholism, as well as a knowing glimpse of how micro tensions affect macro power plays, from pissing contests between men to sexual violations.
  30. Cry Macho
    The film achieves the nourishing simplicity of a fable, and its devotion to the quotidian elements of mythical small-town western life is nearly religious.
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