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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. When Boys Leave Home
    Its bizarre melding of moral-panic melodrama with the filmmaker’s signature wrong-man theme is fascinating.
  2. Three Thousand Years of Longing
    George Miller’s film is a passionate exploration of how image-making is inextricable from storytelling.
  3. The Five Devils
    The film is a thorny exploration of how individuals’ personal ordeals can quickly merge into an impenetrable thicket of irreparable relationships.
  4. Holy Spider
    Holy Spider trickily manages to bridge the gap between social realism and exploitation cinema in a way that hints at how both are rooted in a similar place of gritty authenticity.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Showing Up
    Deftly, Showing Up leaves unresolved the familial, creative, professional, and interpersonal matters at its core, staying true to its vision of an artistic environment perpetually caught between modest comfort and precariousness.
  6. Crimes of the Future
    Gradually, Crimes of the Future becomes a surprisingly thorough and anticipatory working draft of the prototypical Cronenberg body-horror film, dramatizing, with characteristically repulsed fascination, a series of biological mutations that usher in a micro-culture given to cannibalism, pedophilia, and other practices that indicate a looming erasure of personal identity.
  7. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
    Weird accordingly (or is it accordion-gly?) takes everything to new heights of glorious ridiculousness.
  8. Stars at Noon
    In Claire Denis’s film, sex is the great equalizer, or at least the act that allows people to defer taking a firm moral or ethical stance.
  9. Smoking Causes Coughing
    Smoking Causes Coughing isn’t just an anti-superhero superhero film, but, thanks to Tristram Shandy-like levels of discursivity, something akin to an anti-film.
  10. Corsage
    Writer-director Marie Kreutzer’s boldly restive biopic imagines Empress Elisabeth of Austria as a deeply restless soul chafing against the social limitations of her day.
  11. The Eight Mountains
    The film is a meditative, slow crescendo of wounded feelings and quiet epiphanies.
  12. EO
    EO feels freed of plot, free of expectation, driven only by the need to honor its own internal, poetic drive.
  13. La Cage aux Folles
    Though its politics are still quite progressive, La Cage aux Folles is ultimately a work of classicism, crafted with precision and efficiently paced.
  14. Mother and Son
    Léonor Serraille’s Mother and Son is a lovely film about feminine strength that also refuses to glorify motherhood.
  15. The Worst Ones
    Part of what makes The Worst Ones tick with a pace close to that of a thriller is its self-reflexive relationship to genre and knack for referentiality.
  16. Revoir Paris
    The film is a quietly gutting ode to Paris’s resilience in the post-Bataclan era.
  17. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
    The glue holding it all together is the same that gave the earlier Hunger Games films an edge over its YA brethren: the steadfast portrayal of the cynicism and emotional neglect required to regard other human beings as numbers and meat that have to be placated to be useful.
  18. Paddington In Peru
    While it’s never didactic or heavy-handed about its messaging, Paddington in Peru also offers an idea of Britishness that’s multifaceted and modern.
  19. Smile
    Everything Smile is doing is familiar enough at this point to be considered old-fangled, but the striking precision of its craft sloughs away any sensations of déjà vu.
  20. On the Come Up
    Jamila C. Gray lends credibility to Brianna Jackson, who happens to be searching for just that. She plays the damn role.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Plan 9 from Outer Space
    Plan 9 stands as a testament to sincerity run amok, and as a passionate display of artistic limitations, it’s as glorious as it is flabbergasting.
  22. The Good Boss
    In the end, Fernando León de Aranoa’s film suggests that there may not be a lot of daylight between a good boss and a true villain.
  23. Thunderbolts*
    Faced with oblivion, our third- and fourth-string MCU characters choose life, all while the film hammers home that there’s no reason why they should.
  24. Causeway
    It’s to Jennifer Lawrence and Brian Tyree Henry’s credit that what lingers is their characters’ uncertainty.
  25. Sanctuary
    This is a theatrical story told in a purposefully and self-consciously theatrical manner.
  26. Original Cast Album: Company
    Throughout, Pennebaker’s camera moves in as close as it can to capture every moment of doubt, disappointment and rage in Stritch’s face. That even still viewers debate whether Stritch was playing up the drama of the moment for the cameras only underlines how deftly Pennebaker’s brief and unassuming film resides at the heart of the interplay between work, art, and performance.
  27. They Came Back
    It’s rather amazing how far the film is able to coast on its uniquely fascinating premise, even if it isn’t much of a stretch for its director: Campillo co-authored Laurent Cantet’s incredible Time Out, a different kind of zombie film about the deadening effects of too much work on the human psyche, and They Came Back is almost as impressive in its concern with the existential relationship between the physical and non-physical world.
  28. A Couple
    A Couple ultimately constitutes not so much a footnote to Frederick Wiseman’s storied career as a beguiling little doodle in its margins.
  29. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
    The warm, rueful, and sometimes angry All the Beauty and the Bloodshed accomplishes the goal of any documentary worthy of its genre by shining an insightful light onto what informs an artist’s vision.
  30. The Eternal Daughter
    The film is honest and poignant in its kaleidoscopic refractions of the frustration inherent in a process that’s only just beginning.
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