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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. The Painted Bird
    Václav Marhoul’s film is at its most magnificent when it lingers on the poetry of its images.
  2. When I Saw You
    Like Antoine Doinel in The 400 Blows, Tarek has a way of using defiance and sarcasm to make himself seem smarter than any ostensible authority figure.
  3. The Mad Women's Ball
    The film capsizes in the absence of a compelling center for Mélanie Laurent to hang her directorial panache.
  4. The Color Purple
    The film knows the words and tunes but, with rare exception, lacks the passion and the perspective to make them truly resonate.
  5. The Lure
    Agnieszka Smoczynska's film is most poignant when it simply stares at its own strangeness.
  6. Mistaken for Strangers
    Adds up little more than an anguished man using the hook of following his famous brother in order to gaze, however critically, at his reflection for 75 minutes.
  7. Earth
    With Earth, Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s visual strategy is to wow us with tangibility and data, though he doesn’t give up aesthetic experimentation altogether in this survey of Anthropocene calamities.
  8. Babes
    By turns tender and raucous, Pamela Adlon’s feature-length directorial debut, Babes, spins the uneasy, unwelcome, weirdly cool corporeal realities of pregnancy into heartfelt comic gold.
  9. Safety Not Guaranteed
    More focused on emotion than adventure, it teases out the possibilities and perils of time travel without embroiling itself in the confusion inherent to the subject.
  10. Christine
    It largely fails to animate Christine Chubbuck's inner turmoil, focusing instead on broad, blunt externalities.
  11. Suburban Birds
    The film’s refusal to commit to its passing fancies is a highly intentional and eventually tiresome declaration of Qui Sheng’s arthouse bona fides.
  12. Saturday Church
    Writer-director Damon Cardasis follows a rather didactic approach to his 14-year-old's protagonist's plight in Saturday Church.
  13. Star Trek Into Darkness
    The film is densely plotted, occasionally bordering on the convoluted, but the clarity and inventiveness of the direction keeps the drama and the action constantly percolating.
  14. Dope
    Dope is a mess of styles and mixed signals, a pulp fiction that mostly tend to its loyalties to other cine-odysseys through the streets of Los Angeles.
  15. Queer
    In the end, Luca Guadagnino effectively turns a very complicated literary figure into the kind of blubbering, nostalgic old man you’d expect to see in a student film or a Sundance prizewinner.
  16. The Great Invisible
    It effectively demonstrates how the systemic cause of the Deepwater Horizon explosion was tied as much to society's staggering dependence on fossil fuels as to the oil industry's greed.
  17. Monkey Kingdom
    The cumulative effect is cheerily life-affirming, a bracing infusion of macaque-style joie de vivre.
  18. Bugonia
    The film unearths new depths of existential anxiety engendered by the increasingly tumultuous 2020s.
  19. Master Z: Ip Man Legacy
    The film is a reminder of the potential of these films before they became weighed down by blockbuster-ready excesses.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Brewster McCloud
    What saves the film from curdled, wise-ass whimsy is the control Altman brings to the freewheeling material, to say nothing of the undercurrent of despair that keeps its absurdism bold and beguiling.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    Pieta
    Kim Ki-duk's film makes an exaggerated, undeserved show of its cruelty, indignity, and aspirations of importance.
  22. Slow
    Slow steadfastly remains a character-driven piece, homing in on the intricacies of its protagonists’ psychologies and engaging with their subtle emotional shifts as they become more intimate with one another.
  23. Author: The JT LeRoy Story
    Jeff Feuerzeig isn't skeptical enough of Laura Albert's explanations and rationalizations.
  24. Possessor Uncut
    Though Possessor favors nihilist spectacle to existentialism, Brandon Cronenberg is more interested in exploring emotional dislocation than Christopher Nolan.
  25. Bellflower
    Evan Glodell's debut has the sweetness of a lullaby reverie and the blazing ferocity of a monster-car nightmare, a first-comes-elation, then-comes-madness structure that resembles that of "Blue Valentine," another tale focused on the commencement, and then collapse, of an affair.
  26. Blade of the Immortal
    Takashi Miike's film is a work of robust genre craftsmanship that's informed with a sly sense of self-interrogation.
  27. The African Desperate
    That The African Desperate is a send-up of art school is beyond doubt, but what’s less clear is just how far the satire goes.
  28. Who by Fire
    One of Who by Fire’s greatest assets is Philippe Lesage’s willingness to shift the tenor of the film to fit the wildly divergent narrative concerns of any given sequence.
  29. The Beta Test
    Underneath the film’s seeming casualness is an astute portrait of alcoholism, as well as a knowing glimpse of how micro tensions affect macro power plays, from pissing contests between men to sexual violations.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Evil Dead II
    Sam Raimi’s sequel/remake is full-on gore slapstick, more Tex Avery than Dario Argento.
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