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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. Bergman Island
    The film never sacrifices its ambiguity as it brings various threads about ghosts, relationships, art, and gender to a head.
  2. Lingui, The Sacred Bonds
    The material realities of being a woman in Chad are expressed with profound sympathy in Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s film.
  3. Belle
    For all of the film’s visually striking action and musical set pieces, it’s the generosity of spirit with which it approaches the modern teenage experience that’s its most impressive attribute.
  4. Brighton 4th
    The film unfolds at a pace that is unhurried yet self-assured, submerged in the rhythms that govern its characters’ lives.
  5. Raising Cain
    Rather than clarifying, De Palma’s technique with Raising Cain effectively obliterates the audience’s bearings. Which gives the film’s final sequence—on the surface a shameless swipe from Dario Argento’s killer reveal at the climax of Tenebre—a nasty twist.
  6. Eyimofe (This Is My Desire)
    Arie and Chuko Esiri’s film is understated in its attunement to the challenges of trying to escape a stagnant existence.
  7. Sabaya
    The film’s terseness could make it too cryptic for some, but that doesn’t blunt the impact of its most visceral or tender moments.
  8. Mandabi
    Through it all Sembène maintains a steady, humanist touch.
  9. Bullet Train
    David Leitch’s film pulls off the notable feat of making human beings out of cartoonishly violent psychopaths.
  10. From Beyond
    The functional plot and Gordon’s non-flashy directorial style aren’t what make From Beyond such a memorable cult item; as with Re-Animator, it’s more the audacity of staging elaborate sequences that mix up steamy sexual proclivities and monster madness.
  11. The Boys in the Band
    The sizzle of the bon mot-tossing ensemble, intact from the stage original, is bracing and fuels the film’s momentum, along with Crowley’s lacerating dialogue.
  12. Pig
    Nicolas Cage, in full martyr mode here, seems to get off on the perversity of, well, caging his brand of operatic hysteria.
  13. Prayers for the Stolen
    There’s a haunting beauty to Tatiana Huezo’s depiction of the gradual cross-contamination of childhood innocence and criminal aggression.
  14. The American Sector
    The film accomplishes a restoration of sorts, allowing us to see how historical objects can confer meaning on a new context.
  15. Brain Damage
    This gnarly gem of 1980s-era punk horror still looks and sounds a little rough, but the film and the supplements justify the plunge.
  16. The Story of Film: A New Generation
    The films collected in A New Generation speak for themselves even when they don’t necessarily slot neatly into Mark Cousins’s curlicue thinking.
  17. Nitram
    Implicit in the film’s bleak but sympathetic portrait of a disturbed and shunned young man is that sometimes it takes a village to make a monster.
  18. Drive My Car
    At its most accomplished, the film unfolds with a voluptuous slowness and a sense that narrative endpoints are irrelevant.
  19. Compartment No. 6
    Juho Kuosmanen’s film interestingly thrives off of an ironic juxtaposition of character and environment.
  20. Between Two Worlds
    Even when the film becomes something like a spy thriller, it never loses sight of its political themes.
  21. Vortex
    Merciless but affecting, Vortex suggests that one respite from the loneliness of life lived in the shadow of death is the realm of dreams.
  22. Unclenching the Fists
    Unclenching the Fists is a tale of how the desolation of a nation inhabits and engraves a woman’s body.
  23. Hondo
    Hondo is a mash of the usual tropes, a whirlwind of Native American war paint, cavalry stripes, a sawdust-saloon poker game, a few fistfights, plenty of gunfire, and every moral equation coming to a satisfactory balance by the time the credits roll.
  24. One Second
    One Second is as much a tribute to the struggles of a man whose life has stolen from him as it is to a bygone way of looking at movies.
  25. How Green Was My Valley
    Maybe because How Green Was My Valley doesn’t delve as deeply into the heart of darkness as Ford did in his earlier The Grapes of Wrath, it remains one of his most curiously underrated films.
  26. Nope
    The film’s fantastical meta-commentaries don’t completely cohere but have a winning go-for-it audaciousness.
  27. Bring Your Own Brigade
    Lucy Walker’s absorbing study of California’s 2018 wildfires consistently goes in illuminating and surprising directions.
  28. Happening
    This period drama manages the difficult task of speaking to our current moment without being didactic or preachy.
  29. Official Competition
    Official Competition is another film about filmmaking, but it escapes hermeticism by homing in on actors and acting.
  30. Spencer
    Pablo Larraín’s film readily conjures a paranoia-suffused atmosphere of fear for what might happen at any moment.
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