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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 Instigators
    Like a well-executed heist, the film knows how to get in and get out with minimal fuss.
  2. The Grab
    The Grab makes a clear choice to conclude not just with doomsaying, but with a call to action and a look at the things that can still be done to avert a global crisis.
  3. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
    Rugano Nyoni’s critique of her native country’s gender-based discrimination is as acerbic as it is unforgiving.
  4. Caught by the Tides
    Jia Zhang-ke’s Caught by the Tides attests to the fact that making art under the most adverse conditions can prove to be serendipitous.
  5. M3GAN 2.0
    Imagine John Waters at the helm of a Terminator 2 remake and you have an inkling of just how wild a pivot M3GAN 2.0 is from its predecessor.
  6. Drop
    The film knows that when the stakes are sky high, the emotions need to be firmly grounded.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Misericordia
    Misericordia finds Alain Guiraudie revisiting old standbys under a relatively conventional set of aesthetic strategies. Fortunately, the ideas roiling under the former wildman’s newly placid surfaces are as potent as ever.
  8. Eephus
    Carson Lund treats the power of a shared interest with profound, elegiac empathy.
  9. Rumours
    The film is winningly defined by its peculiar admixture of national pride and self-deprecation.
  10. Universal Language
    Though juxtaposing Canada’s drabness and relative lack of heritage with Iran’s millennia of unbroken tradition brings out the former aspects particularly clearly, Universal Language is aiming beyond mere satire or culture-clash playfulness.
  11. Souleymane's Story
    Petty humiliations accumulate into a quietly blistering indictment of a culture that’s conditioned immigrants to hustle, wait endlessly, and smile through it all, as if their sanity weren’t constantly under strain.
  12. Samsara
    The film exemplifies Lois Patiño’s ongoing efforts to complicate docufiction approaches with otherworldly reveries meant to communicate states beyond our immediate reality.
  13. The Nature of Love
    The Nature of Love engages with the stylings and bubbly tonality of the classic rom-com in ironic fashion, along the way exploring complex aspects of human behavior.
  14. Bugonia
    The film unearths new depths of existential anxiety engendered by the increasingly tumultuous 2020s.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Vulcanizadora
    Joel Potrykus looks without flinching at the ultimate consequences of permanent adolescence.
  16. Look Into My Eyes
    Leave it to a documentarian to find subjects who profess a similar faith in the power of ecstatic rather than merely objective truth.
  17. Sweet Dreams
    The film captures the putrefaction of colonial rule with a morbid sense of humor.
  18. Family Portrait
    If the edge of Kerr’s scalpel is blunted somewhat by the sheer number of other films that show the “dark underbelly of suburbia,” Family Portrait stands out for its profound mistrust, not just of images but of the sense of sight altogether.
  19. Buck and the Preacher
    For all of Buck and the Preacher’s serious attempts to function as a revisionist western by centering Blacks in the narrative and examining the critical role they played on the frontier, it’s also a wildly entertaining film.
  20. Smile 2
    Parker Finn, like his entity, is interested in getting his bony fingers into those sticky tender parts we’d rather hide away, slurping our pain like ambrosia and confronting us with the fact that more often than not, the enemy staring back is you.
  21. The Monkey
    The mayhem that the monkey doles out makes The Monkey closer in spirit to Evil Dead than Final Destination, as the film is less a Rube Goldberg contraption of overdesigned chaos than it is a Looney Tunes-esque spectacle of quick and dirty violence that hits like a punchline.
  22. Heretic
    Heretic intriguingly plays with our expectations of who the heroes and villains are in this scenario.
  23. Last Hurrah for Chivalry
    Not yet a master, Woo here nonetheless demonstrates far more than mere potential as he starts to lay the foundations for his breakout successes.
  24. The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
    The film’s open affection for the Looney Tunes franchise has a restorative quality.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Murder by Decree
    It’s a heady brew of highly improbable extraction that would go on to inspire Alan Moore’s graphic novel From Hell.
  26. F1: The Movie
    F1 succeeds for many of the same reasons that Top Gun: Maverick does: for elevating familiar material with old-school filmmaking swagger.
  27. The Tales of Hoffmann
    If The Tales of Hoffmann fails as an emotional journey, it is sensational as a music video.
  28. Memoir of a Snail
    Adam Elliot, whose work is no stranger to despondency, never allows the film to fully succumb to despair.
  29. Bookworm
    Ant Timpson’s heartwarming Bookworm is an effulgent love letter to ’80s kid cinema laced with a distinctly quirky, Kiwi dryness.
  30. Dillinger
    This rough, lurid, pointedly un-preachy work of macho outlaw cinema, one of the best of the many John Dillinger movies, deserves to be better known.
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