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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. Diplomacy
    The film isn't really fooling anyone into feeling doom-laden suspense (Paris, after all, is still standing), but the principal performers sell the momentousness of the drama.
  2. Crime After Crime
    It not only makes for riveting cinematic drama (all the more impressive given that it relies so heavily on recounted words rather than illustrated actions), but for first-rate muckraking.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Smithereens
    Much more than a punk artifact, Smithereens is a landmark that showcases how the urge of self-creation and the seduction of reveling in self-destruction dance side by side.
  4. In the House
    It's buoyant and titillates, striking that distinctly Ozonian balance between the beautiful and the sinister, but it doesn't resonate.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Hal
    Just before the documentary slips into hero worship, Amy Scott pries beneath the calm surface of her bearded and bespectacled subject to reveal the silent rage that fueled his work.
  6. A Face in the Crowd
    Strong performances and a fiery aggressive tone keep things moving, but A Face in the Crowd is dated and not particularly deep.
  7. City of Gold
    The film affectively defends food critic Jonathan Gold's assertion that it's ultimately cooking that makes us human.
  8. Rejoice and Shout
    One is left wondering what exactly the now moldy "anything is possible" sentiments of our 44th president have to do with a music whose history and cultural meaning we've just spent the last two hours not learning nearly enough about.
  9. In Bloom
    The foreclosure of possibilities provided by the use of the long take assists in the indictment of chauvinism and patriarchal brutality that underpin, directly and indirectly, many moments in the film.
  10. All That Jazz
    All That Jazz may be Fosse’s finest cinematic achievement.
  11. M3GAN
    There’s enough sardonic humor to keep the proceedings edgy enough, but it’s hard not to wish that the filmmakers would’ve taken a cue from their eponymous villain and really pushed things past the boundaries of good taste.
  12. Always Shine
    The film undermines the unity of its characterizations, redirecting into garish phantasmagoria.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    King Jack
    Harsh punishments are dished out in a way that jolts the material away from coming-of-age cliché.
  14. Mickey 17
    Though Mickey 17 can feel like a mixtape of Bong’s greatest hits, it may actually be his most refined and articulate anti-capitalistic critique to date.
  15. Blow the Man Down
    Without Margo Martindale, the film would be a sharp and tightly constructed nautical noir. With her, it becomes a memorable one.
  16. Happy End
    Happy End reveals itself as something vacuous and cold, a bizarrely seductive pseudo-thriller lacking a thoroughly worked-out payoff.
  17. His House
    Throughout, Remi Weekes forcefully, resonantly ties the film’s terror to the inner turmoil of his characters.
  18. Burden
    The film dispenses with sensationalism, engaging with Chris Burden's most notorious work on its own terms.
  19. Steve Jobs: Man in the Machine
    A work of arduous assemblage that values information over affect and zip over conviction in its ramshackle historicizing of Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
  20. On the Silver Globe (1988)
    It becomes a bleak comic spit into the face of organized religion, organized society, and even organized narrative.
  21. Princess Cyd
    Stephen Cone's Princess Cyd is distinguished by a dramatic complexity that would seem to run counter to its remarkably even-tempered tone.
  22. Big Fish & Begonia
    In the sly exchanges between the teenage protagonists and their elders, the film reflects a nation's shifting tides.
  23. Bone Tomahawk
    One wishes that S. Craig Zahler had more explicitly faced the cultural demons lingering within his premise, attempting to exorcise them.
  24. Risk
    Laura Poitras doesn't indulge in score-settling cheap shots, but seriously grapples with her contradictory subject.
  25. Farewell, Herr Schwarz
    The sobering quality that informs both the documentary's aesthetic and content largely suppresses any spontaneity or much-needed moments of levity.
  26. Let Them All Talk
    Steven Soderbergh’s signature formal gamesmanship enlivens what could have been a stodgy scenario.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Zipper: Coney Island's Last Wild Ride
    Amy Nicholson's documentary feels warm and fuzzy about its subject, but at the same time depersonalized.
  28. Phantasm
    What makes Phantasm special is the way it captures a boy's life in 1978. [Remastered]
  29. 7 Boxes
    The film is ripe with powerful subtext, specifically how greed, celebrity, and technology help to form a misguided sense of opportunity that keeps the working class downtrodden.
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