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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. Babygirl
    It’s not a film about saying the right thing so much as it’s about people mutually arriving at the right place—no matter the untidiness involved in getting there.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
    Grau eschews the claustrophobia and siege mentality of George A. Romero’s film, instead playing out some of his more disturbing set pieces against the painterly verdure of the British countryside, as well as making the most of the uncanny atmosphere provided by the Gothic Revival architecture of the film’s locations.
  3. Transformers One
    A realm without physical limits is truly where the Transformers belong, but it doesn’t stop the film from delivering some surprising pathos while it’s there.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
    Soi Cheang richly draws the city as both prison and refuge, where brutal exploitation sits alongside the residents’ deep sense of solidarity and cooperation.
  5. House
    Equal parts brilliant, baffling, ridiculous, and unwatchable.
  6. Blue Sun Palace
    Blue Sun Palace’s tale is filled with quiet spaces, and the way the texture of this quiet changes over the course of the film is a testament to its power.
  7. Youth (Hard Times)
    The second installment in Wang Bing’s trilogy of documentaries about garment workers similarly leans into durational extremes but eventually and sneakily reveals a broadened scope.
  8. Holy Cow
    The rhythms and structure of Holy Cow embody the swirling confusion and contradictions of adolescence itself.
  9. Things Will Be Different
    In many ways, the film feels like a micro-budget rendition of Tenet, as our heroes discover that they’ve been caught in a “vice-grip” between past and future that functions much like that film’s famous “temporal pincer.”
  10. The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
    The film combines cutting-edge Japanese animation with the audiovisual language established by Peter Jackson’s original trilogy of films.
  11. April
    April’s frames seek to embody a dizzying span of human experience, even if Dea Kulumbegashvili occasionally strains to corral it.
  12. 40 Acres
    40 Acres continually finds clever ways to either subvert familiar story beats or to make them land with extra impact.
  13. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
    There’s an alive-ness that emanates from the characters, in large part due to all those visible fingerprints and indentations on their skins—a tactile counterbalance to a story about humanity’s over-reliance on technology.
  14. Friendship
    The film plays right into Tim Robinson’s sweet spot of surrealistic and satirical comedy.
  15. Kill the Jockey
    Kill the Jockey’s originality consists not just in taking the clichéd metaphor of rebirth literally, but in casually ratcheting that literalness to ever more fantastical degrees.
  16. Cloud
    Kurosawa Kiyoshi is an empathetic yet pitiless poet of the modern void.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Bonjour Tristesse
    The film finds a state of grace in that torrential pull between the familiar and the new.
  18. Went Up the Hill
    Samuel Van Grinsven’s Went Up the Hill is characterized by a starkly precise aesthetic and withholding approach to the ghost story.
  19. From Ground Zero
    The film is a stirring testament to art as a tool of survival, to the power of community art-making to affirm life in the face of omnipresent death, and to a nationless people’s desire to be seen by and engage in dialogue with the community of nations.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    My Uncle
    Mon Oncle is not Jacques Tati’s most ambitious film, nor his most democratic. It is quite possibly, however, his most didactic and depressing.
  21. Afternoons of Solitude
    In the absence of any overt commentary, the film’s more open-ended choices in editing and music take on added significance.
  22. Flow
    Gints Zilbalodis’s animated feature is movingly attuned to its characters’ primal instincts.
  23. 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.
  24. My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow
    The drama is all surface, in other words. And what a surface, for sure. A literal life and death struggle that’s exceedingly of this moment. Yet the best documentaries tend to have formidable underlying narratives working in concert with their overlying ones.
  25. The Sacrifice
    In Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Sacrifice, the distance from hope to despair is a short jump—a chasm crossed with the help of something so immediate as a television transmission.
  26. One Of Them Days
    The film revives Friday’s spirit while bringing its own flavor, and taking the current state of the world into full account.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
    Like his stand-up, Pryor deftly mixes humor and tragedy, subtly tweaking familiar tales from his routines.
  28. Lilo & Stitch
    Here, “ohana” doesn’t just mean family but community, and the film does moving and spirited work in showcasing how crucial it is for us to lift each other up.
  29. 28 Years Later
    The film’s conception of the future, perceptively, looks back to humankind’s primeval past.
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