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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. Slay the Dragon
    The film is suitably direct, clear-eyed, and exhaustive in documenting the massive impacts that gerrymandering has, particularly on communities of color.
  2. Witching and Bitching
    Álex de la Iglesia has a real flair for wild action sequences that remain exhilaratingly coherent and sensical.
  3. By the Time It Gets Dark
    Anocha Suwichakornpong earnestly and ambitiously attempts to redefine cinema’s conventional grasp of consciousness.
  4. Julieta
    Pedro Almodóvar’s object-oriented approach ends up blocking off the deeper emotional access that Alice Munro's stories so effortlessly attain.
  5. Ferrari
    That liminal space between the peaks and the valleys of a person’s life is what Michael Mann is most interested in exploring.
  6. News of the World
    The film sanctimoniously suggests that ignorance or distrust of the news is nothing new, but rather the bedrock of America’s formation.
  7. Summer Pasture
    The faces of the culture - a group of nomadic Tibetans who raise yak and harvest caterpillar dung from ramshackle tents in the Chinese mountains - resist all but the most vague of ecological or political calls-to-action.
  8. Whores' Glory
    While Michael Glawogger does make overtures in the wrong directions, he usually seems to know where to steer his material.
  9. Good Boy
    A horror tale told from the perspective of a dog, Ben Leonberg’s Good Boy is the sort of film that was always destined to live and die by the strength of its central gimmick.
  10. Planet of Snail
    Even with the heaviness of some of its subject matter, the documentary remains limpid and unsentimental until the very end, in keeping with its subject.
  11. Girl
    Lukas Dhont isn't really concerned with Lara's journey to find peace and balance, as he's interested only in her downward spiral of crisis.
  12. The Square
    While Ruben Östlund’s mastery of visually amplifying social unease is still very much intact, he’s partially undone here by his own thematic ambition, which, in scene after exquisitely staged scene, threatens to put too fine a point on otherwise thrillingly indeterminate situational comedy.
  13. They Drive by Night
    They Drive by Night never coalesces into a coherent whole, but as far as sturdy ’40s Hollywood melodramas go, it’s a pretty sweet two-for-one movie deal.
  14. The Club
    Pablo Larraín's thematic interests shift toward constructing a didactic tongue-lashing against the Catholic Church disguised as speculative fiction.
  15. Journey's End
    Director Saul Dibb has infused his adaptation of R.C. Sherriff's play with a striking sense of urgency.
  16. Both Sides of the Blade
    The studied ambiguity of what’s going on in Fire doesn’t keep it from often achieving the suspense of an accomplished erotic thriller.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Rope
    A crime for most, a privilege for some is how Rupert classifies murder, but Hitchcock's eye-am-a-camera technique in Rope is after more than Nazi-superman residue still lurking after WWII.
  18. Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
    The documentary is just more of what we've come to expect from director Richard Linklater's expanded fanverse.
  19. A Borrowed Identity
    It lacks a formal rigor to match its thematic heft, preferring a digestible naturalism that serves its plot points in plain, uncomplicated sight.
  20. Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
    Alex Gibney's latest lacks a certain cinematic depth, but that doesn't take away from its admirable reporting.
  21. Megadoc
    Mike Figgis’s anthem of aspiration and struggle leaves no doubt about Francis Ford Coppola’s beliefs.
  22. Battle of the Sexes
    Battle of the Sexes sacrifices some of its innate appeal by making ham out of the supposed relics of a less enlightened era.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
    The Mission: Impossible franchise seems almost crudely mercenary in its formula for success.
  24. Hive
    A layer of ambivalence facilitates our identification with Fahrije but also makes her a distinct character and not just an archetype.
  25. Cold in July
    While Jim Mickle's compositions lose much of their verve in the film's later half, his regard for the analog does not--and at the expense of perspective into his characters' emotional torque.
  26. Suburbia
    In the end, Suburbia’s greatest strength lies in its assertion of youth as a political state of mind.
  27. Mandabi
    Through it all Sembène maintains a steady, humanist touch.
  28. The Inspection
    The film is too invested in treacly cinematic optimism for its character dynamics to feel sketched out beyond their basic narrative function.
  29. The Devil's Bath
    Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala depict Agnes’s plight with empathy but with a horror maven’s sense of ratcheting unease and encroaching doom.
  30. Zootopia 2
    Zootopia 2 provides plenty of food for thought for its young audience, making a more expansive statement on the dangers of intolerance than the first film, and without sacrificing any of its charm, humor, or visual ingenuity along the way.
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