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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. You Hurt My Feelings
    The film deals forthrightly with the question of purpose and whether or not it can be found in a career.
  2. Past Lives
    Diverging from romances in which lovers are expected to move heaven, earth, and themselves in order to make a moment of love last forever, Past Lives asks us to embrace the changes that come with time.
  3. birth/rebirth
    Birth/Rebirth serves as a perverse correction, recalibrating decades of dilution to reemphasize the moral weight and emotional anguish at the heart of Shelley’s novel.
  4. Shortcomings
    Shortcomings is a mostly comedic but fitfully insightful examination of a character type familiar to indie cinema: the solipsistic guy who fills the gap left by emotional underdevelopment with intense opinions delivered at bad times.
  5. Talk to Me
    The film has a free-floating, nearly intangible sense of unease that greatly serves it.
  6. Fancy Dance
    Erica Tremblay’s granular attention to place makes sure that you take note of the root causes of the defeat felt by the Native characters.
  7. Beyond Utopia
    The searing images of various gulags, public executions, and private beatings will not be easily forgotten.
  8. The Disappearance of Shere Hite
    With its determination to retrace the largely forgotten steps of a feminist trailblazer, The Disappearance of Shere Hite is an essential work of archival savvy, blending popular and academic conversations with ease and precision.
  9. Bottoms
    The film’s unique blend of deadpan and absurdist humor, and its tendency to occasionally push the boundaries of good taste, shows that Emma Seligman is comfortable working on both ends of the comic spectrum.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    3:10 to Yuma
    The offhand wryness of Elmore Leonard’s original story is nicely captured in Halsted Welles’s adaptation.
  11. Biosphere
    Mel Eslyn’s film is a thoughtful drama about life, gender, and male friendship.
  12. Air
    Air is shot through with an infectious energy, but it’s more poignant for the way that it rhymes the histories of its actors in the public eye with all that Nike’s creatives were struggling to reconcile when they were chasing after Jordan.
  13. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
    For devotees of the franchise, Nia Vardalos's film will be a surprisingly emotional trip home.
  14. BlackBerry
    By emphasizing the people in its tech tale, and the comedic possibilities in their mismatch, rather than the gee-whiz factor, Matt Johnson frees BlackBerry from the need to convince its audience how important the invention at its center was.
  15. Manodrome
    While John Trengrove’s skill is apparent in the slow build of tension, it also stands out in the arguably more impressive way that he holds Ralphie’s view of the world separate from that of the film’s.
  16. Reality
    The film interrogates both the state of our world and the lines between fiction and document.
  17. The Survival of Kindness
    An epic adventure in the guise of an arthouse flick, The Survival of Kindness makes up in visual power and moral clarity what it lacks in subtext.
  18. Carmen
    By stripping the story back to its most elemental form, Benjamin Millepied makes it feel mythic, poetic, and captivatingly romantic.
  19. The Killer
    David Fincher dabbles in the pleasures of genre without ever allowing the outlandish scenario to be treated with more respect than it deserves.
  20. Stonewalling
    Stonewalling is an attentive, engaged character study, an uncommonly candid (for China) women’s picture, and a film of dense and considered sociopolitical implications.
  21. Limbo
    The cinematography solidifies the film’s status as a noir grappling with corruption and probing moral grey areas, while at the same time echoing visually the stark divisions between white and Indigenous people in Australian society.
  22. #Manhole
    Kumakiri Kazuyoshi counters the comic absurdity with a genuinely discomfiting sense of the manhole’s atmosphere, and threads of intrigue that are already mostly spun by the time you see them.
  23. Music
    Initially, more than mere fun, Angela Schanelec’s approach to storytelling is surprisingly affecting, but once you’ve figured out how to play, the game begins to feel a bit, well, ancient.
  24. The Shadowless Tower
    The characters’ generational angst humanizes the film’s view of a nation at a crossroads.
  25. The Sterile Cuckoo
    Alan J. Pakula’s directorial debut takes a done-to-death story template and revitalizes it with intelligence, maturity, and tenderness.
  26. The Teachers' Lounge
    While Ilker Çatak’s The Teacher’s Lounge makes full use of the dramatic possibilities inherent in its setting, it doesn’t exceed its remit by turning the story into a referendum on society.
  27. in water
    Connoisseurs of Hong Sang-soo’s cinema will no doubt be fascinated by the transcendent minimalism of the film, which suggests Picasso knocking off a sketch on a piece of paper in a matter of seconds.
  28. The Innocent
    The innocent, it turns out, isn’t a single character but the person inside us all, playing at the version of ourselves we’d rather be.
  29. Under Capricorn
    Though Under Capricorn’s dark and twisty narrative eventually unearths everyone’s secrets, it’s the swooning camera that most fully taps into the class and sexual tensions that consume the characters.
  30. Orlando, My Political Biography
    Orlando, My Political Biography languishes in an undefinable interstitial space, floating between fiction and essay film.
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