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For 7,772 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 6.4 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: 4,346 out of 7772
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7772
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7772
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  1. The Gold Rush (1925)
    Some accuse the director of succumbing to sentimentality, but he’s never less sublime than when he reaches for ridiculous, grandiose highs in romance, coincidence, and naked emotion.
  2. American Hustle
    Formally ostentatious and unrepentantly messy, the film manages to implicitly convey the overdriven, coked-up confusion that many '70s period pieces make painfully overt.
  3. The Age of Innocence
    Martin Scorsese captures the exquisite agony and pleasure of passion that’s forced to remain theoretical.
  4. Paris Calligrammes
    While Ulrike Ottinger accesses the most consequential of decades through nostalgia, she does so with humility.
  5. 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.
  6. The Overnighters
    If it ultimately can't reconcile all that's presented in its too-brief runtime, that's largely because its situation, much like the dissonance between those involved, is comprehensibly irresolvable.
  7. Whiplash
    The thrill of watching Fletcher and Neyman's fray unfold is intensified by Damien Chazelle's attention to the craft and challenge of musicianship.
  8. Two-Lane Blacktop
    America exploded in the ’60s; Two-Lane Blacktop is the post-apocalyptic road trip.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    63 Up
    Throughout, the remaining participants take stock of private and career successes as well as perceived failures.
  10. Minding the Gap
    Zack and Keire's stunts are action scenes that are imbued with the gravity of the participants' youth, revelry, and need to prove themselves.
  11. Two Days, One Night
    The Dardennes believe in human value and social order being rooted in a sense of solidarity, a staggering consciousness of community that brims with a sensitivity to place, movement, and emotion.
  12. Killers of the Flower Moon
    Killers of the Flower Moon is a three-hander on an epic canvas, a corrosive analysis of America’s colonialist and capitalist excesses as refracted through a marital melodrama in the vein of George Cukor’s Gaslight or Alfred Hitchcock’s Suspicion.
  13. National Gallery
    In the style of an ambling, yet entirely focused visitor, the film continually circles back to pictures, protagonists, and situations to furnish them with new meanings, alter their perception, or even directly challenge their previous presentation.
  14. Force of Evil
    Garfield’s likably unlikable protagonist provides Force of Evil with a semblance of cohesiveness, even if the film often feels like the product of dueling fetishes and pet symbols.
  15. White Heat
    White Heat’s ultimate message: love’s a bitch…even crypto-incestuous love.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Hidden Fortress
    Kurosawa most often did his finest work when combining his idiosyncratic and popular sensibilities into humane, broadly accessible entertainments; it just so happens that The Hidden Fortress remains more unabashedly entertaining than most.
  17. Elle
    This is a film that isn’t afraid to inhabit the maddening ambivalence of pleasure, recognizing that desire simply doesn’t recognize good manners.
  18. Gangs of Wasseypur
    This insane masterpiece shows the self-destructive properties of myth making and how they overlap with the downfall of a community damned from the beginning of time.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
    Lee foregoes useless speechifying, opting instead to create an epic document of New Orleans’s struggle, death, abandonment and subsequent reconstruction (a requiem in four acts) that should prove instructive for years to come, if not in facts than for its emotional scope: an up-close, deeply empathetic and soulful journey through the stories that make up this catastrophe.
  20. Minari
    The film’s orderliness of plot somewhat undermines the sense that the family at its center is steeped in a truly messy situation.
  21. The Farewell
    The film taps into universal truths about the passage of time, the inevitability of loss, and how we prepare one another for it.
  22. Marty Supreme
    Marty Supreme rapturously reprises a siren song that transcends any single American era, beckoning hustlers to heed its call.
  23. The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
    The soft colors, graceful movements, and clean lines together embody the ineffable beauty of life on Earth that is one of the film's main themes.
  24. Captain Blood
    Errol Flynn’s wicked, wicked charm helps keep this high seas adventure afloat.
  25. Great Freedom
    In Great Freedom, the question of love is refreshingly never too far from bodily intimacy, irrespective of what kind of love that is.
  26. A Star Is Born
    Despite A Star Is Born’s musty jabs at movieland decadence in the wake of satires like Sunset Blvd. and The Bad and the Beautiful, it was the craft found in Cukor’s alternately splashy and shadowy mise-en-scène, and displayed by Mr. James Mason, that most greatly aided Mrs. Sid Luft.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    It's a Wonderful Life
    Without overlooking It’s a Wonderful Life‘s lapses into populist bathos, it’s necessary to rescue the Frank Capra film from its status as an untouchable American “classic.”
  28. Phoenix
    Christian Petzold never luxuriates in all this film history, but rather channels the artifice and affect it embodies into new insights.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Magellan
    The film bluntly puts its historical horrors on display, but it’s careful not to explicitly posit their causes.
  30. Gunda
    By the time the credits roll on the film, we realize we’ve been watching not so much a sketch of the lives of farm animals as a threnody for their deaths.
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