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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. Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
    The film synthesizes the nihilistic tone of The End of Evangelion with the more hopeful terms of the anime’s original intended finale.
  2. Jackass Forever
    To see the old-timers pass the torch to their acolytes cements the improbable importance of Jackass in American pop culture.
  3. Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts
    Jeffrey Wolf’s documentary is a spry and inventive account of extraordinary transcendence.
  4. Spring Blossom
    Throughout her directorial debut, Suzanne Lindon paints a concise and truthful portrait of her protagonist’s feelings of estrangement.
  5. Sisters with Transistors
    Much of the film’s power comes from a series of deft, often wry juxtapositions between video and audio.
  6. Paris Calligrammes
    While Ulrike Ottinger accesses the most consequential of decades through nostalgia, she does so with humility.
  7. Red Moon Tide
    Lois Patiño’s Red Moon Tide is a work of unmistakable horror, one predicated on such ineffable dread that the impact of climate change becomes a sort of Lovecraftian force.
  8. Faya Dayi
    The documentary’s aesthetics strikingly channel the euphoric feelings induced by Ethopia’s top cash crop.
  9. The In-Laws
    The In-Laws never makes deeper, sustained sense of its premise and seems content to revel in the more basic pleasure of seeing Falk and Arkin interact with one another.
  10. Azor
    With its elegantly restrained cinematography, exquisitely understated performances, and quietly sumptuous production design, Azor embodies the same well-mannered urbanity as its protagonist.
  11. Short Vacation
    The film, lacking in conflict and danger, is guided by the poignant belief that there’s no end to the world.
  12. A Hero
    The film is a demonstrative examination of the way our raising of heroes onto social media pedestals diminishes the messy, sometimes impenetrable truth of human lives.
  13. The Man Who Knew Too Much
    Produced in England in 1934, The Man Who Knew Too Much was perhaps the first of Alfred Hitchcock’s films to openly attempt the autonomously cinematic, aggressively syntactic perfection with which he would later become synonymous.
  14. Beckett
    It’s thanks to a kind of tug of war between background and foreground that Beckett succeeds as a piece of entertainment.
  15. Slow Machine
    The film navigates a tricky space between pathos and absurdity and often turns on a dime from one to the other.
  16. La Piscine
    La Piscine is, more than anything else, a work of vivid sensory delights.
  17. Romeo Is Bleeding
    Romeo Is Bleeding projects an aura of obsessive self-consciousness that occasionally suggests the superior film that eluded its creators.
  18. No Sudden Move
    With One Sudden Move, Steven Soderbergh mixes an old-school 1950s noir with a modern sense of social self-consciousness.
  19. Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
    It’s Morgan Neville’s impression of Bourdain as a time bomb existing in plain sight that allows Roadrunner to be more than a greatest-hits rundown of the man’s life.
  20. A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks
    John Maggio’s documentary is workmanlike in presentation but scintillating in its content.
  21. Les Nôtres
    The film is a j’accuse aimed at those complicit in oppressing the most vulnerable in order to protect the powerful.
  22. The Witches of the Orient
    The film’s fanciful archival montages shrewdly demonstrate the ways in which memory and art seamlessly combine to document reality.
  23. The Real Thing
    The film reveals Kôji Fukada to be playing a patient, very resonant long game, underscoring the struggle to wrest oneself out of social vices.
  24. The Ancient Woods
    The film brings us somewhere where we aren’t, and probably could not be, but nevertheless feels tangibly real.
  25. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
    A prisoner-of-war drama as fever dream, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence fascinates mostly for the hit-and-miss alchemy of its discordant elements: in performance, pop-star charisma versus British actorliness; in narrative style, genre expectations coming up against modernist psychosexual undercurrents.
  26. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is a film that feels ripped right out of a high school art-class notebook, and sounds like a Twitch stream.
  27. The Year of the Everlasting Storm
    These shorts capture everything from how fear of the unknown can rewire relationships to the natural world exerts its pull on us all.
  28. Cow
    Throughout Andrea Arnold’s film, a kind of affective connection is formed between animal and the cinematic apparatus.
  29. Titane
    Titane wildly expands on Julia Ducournau’s idiosyncratic interest in the collision of flesh-rending violence and familial reconfiguration.
  30. The Power of the Dog
    The film looks at times like a stiff-jawed period piece, but it ripples underneath with a prickly modern sensibility.
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