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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. Uppercase Print
    The film metatextually insists that we not be taken in by new, more sophisticated methods of obfuscation.
  2. An Unmarried Woman
    Mazursky finds the politics in the wrinkles of human behavior, rather than contriving behavior to suit his politics.
  3. Copshop
    With its pulpy thrills, hyperbolic dialogue, charismatic scumbags, and a score heavy in electronic effects and percussion, the film effortlessly coasts on a gnarly old-school vibe.
  4. Huda's Salon
    Formally, Huda’s Salon is nothing if not effective, sustaining the unrelenting tension of its opening scene for the duration of its runtime.
  5. The Wonder
    The Wonder coheres as a powerful study of the way in which people are cloistered by their own stories.
  6. Broadcast Signal Intrusion
    Jacob Gentry’s film punches through all the layers of homage to arrive at a place of true horror.
  7. Mad God
    Mad God offers a dense cornucopia of genre-fueled outrageousness that’s gradually united by a concern with cycles of warfare.
  8. Memory House
    Memory House, much like Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Donnelles’s recent Bacarau, makes no secret of its disgust for neocolonialism, capitalism, or fascism, though it’s more skeptical of violent resistance even when exercised in self-defense.
  9. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
    Dean Fleischer-Camp’s Marcel the Shell with Shoes On convincingly proves that bigger sometimes is better.
  10. Intregalde
    Întregalde is a sharply drawn and subtle fable about the meaning of charity and the limits of altruism.
  11. Neptune Frost
    The film thrillingly captures the social, economic, political, and material character of Rwanda in the age of global communication.
  12. The Humans
    Throughout The Humans, Stephen Karam orchestrates the highs and lows of a family reunion with Chekhovian subtlety.
  13. Futura
    Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, and Alice Rohrwacher’s documentary rather faithfully captures the spirit of our times.
  14. Procession
    Robert Greene’s gaze is an attempt to accord his subjects the dignity of attention, utilizing cinema as a form of emotional due process.
  15. Saloum
    With expert visual precision, the film flows into each new, wild narrative wrinkle as if it were the most logical thing in the world.
  16. The Tale of King Crab
    A film that so clearly takes delight in the unfolding of a story and the unpacking of an enigmatic character is refreshing in an arthouse landscape where such narrative qualities are often relegated to secondary concerns.
  17. El Gran Movimiento
    Writer-director Kiro Rosso’s sociological, pseudo-documentary film suggests a mosaic resolving out of innumerable shards.
  18. The First Wave
    Matthew Heineman’s documentary successfully emphasizes how people’s emotions were whipsawed by an unprecedented crisis.
  19. Spider Baby or, the Maddest Story Ever Told
    This strange time capsule of late 1960s dementia more or less lives up to its oddball reputation—too unnerving to fall into the category of horror comedies but too cutesy to be labeled as a straight-up shocker a la The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. In other words, it’s unclassifiable, which has amplified its cult appeal.
  20. The Tsugua Diaries
    The Tsugua Diaries is something like Memento for an age of isolation and listlessness.
  21. I Was a Simple Man
    The film’s quietly uncanny narrative wondrously depicts not only a dying man’s reflection on his life, but also the very nature of Hawaii itself.
  22. Agnes
    The film is a thoughtful examination of the human desire for it and the accompanying hope that it may exorcise the emptiness we feel.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Quiet Man
    The Quiet Man remains one of the purest distillations of this charismatic filmmaker’s diverse artistic nature.
  24. The Body Snatcher
    Even if the narrative threads aren’t as tightly focused on exploring a complex theme as one might hope, The Body Snatcher nevertheless manages to still send chills, and predominately through Wise’s fleet direction and Karloff’s unflinching embodiment of a real-world monster.
  25. The Sleeping Negro
    Though often abstract in its imagery, the film’s blistering commentary remains firmly rooted in our present reality.
  26. You Won't Be Alone
    Throughout You Won’t Be Alone, writer-director Goran Stolevski rejects the slickness that defines so-called elevated horror.
  27. The Whaler Boy
    The film is a vivid rumination on the fuzzy border between fantasy and reality.
  28. Marx Can Wait
    Marco Bellocchio uses his film, a delicate mix of biography and autobiography, as the catalyst for long-delayed therapy.
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