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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. Warfare
    This is a formidable technical showcase and obsessive forensic recreation whose imposed formal limitations become meaning-making ends in and of themselves.
  2. Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius)
    Sly Lives! pays appropriate credit to its subject’s greatness by not devolving into pity even after depicting Stone at his lowest points.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    There's Still Tomorrow
    It’s a film about domestic violence that, while clearly intended as an homage to Italian neorealism, finds levity through choreographed musical numbers and moments of light magical realism.
  4. Riefenstahl
    If there’s still anyone uncritically repeating Riefenstahl’s narrative of naïveté, they’ll find it hard to sustain by the end credits.
  5. The Ballad of Wallis Island
    The Ballad of Wallis Island plays both its drama and comedy in decidedly minor keys, straining neither for grand emotional revelations nor big laughs.
  6. Sanjuro
    Sanjuro is still a lesson from a master in mounting choreography and sustaining momentum, though it remains more of an exercise rather than a work of flesh and blood.
  7. Dreams
    A story of hazy memories that’s also a city symphony, Dreams elegantly captures the disorienting rush of first love and the frustrations and anguish that stem from romantic fantasies colliding with reality.
  8. Lurker
    The artist and audience member are coequal—and codependent—in this perceptive drama about a parasocial relationship that enters the realm of reality.
  9. Rabbit Trap
    It’s when the film plays in the gaps between sound and image that it’s most disturbing.
  10. The Wedding Banquet
    The humor lands as if it’s coming not from the writers but through the characters by its grounding in the details of their lives.
  11. Peter Hujar's Day
    The film attests not only to the breadth of Sachs’s artistry but also to Hujar’s devotion to exploring the relationship between high and low culture.
  12. Rebuilding
    If there’s any sense of motion in the film, which is largely defined by its patient camerawork and editing, it’s in Dusty’s gradual recognition of and response to the emotions that accompany his corporal yearning to remain in place.
  13. Twinless
    The film is a bizarrely moving and darkly comic story about feeling like you’ve lost something you never had.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Mr. Nobody Against Putin
    The film starkly reveals the toll propaganda takes on everyday individuals and communities.
  15. The Ugly Stepsister
    Emilie Blichfeldt knows the exact point of queasiness to which she can push an audience and gradually tests how much further she can move that mark with each successive scene.
  16. 2000 Meters to Andriivka
    The interjections of quotidian reflection give a fullness and emotional resonance to a film that can, at times, be borderline oppressive in its depiction of war’s brutality.
  17. Zodiac Killer Project
    Zodiac Killer Project is a wicked embodiment of Marshall McLuhan’s notion of the media itself being the message.
  18. OBEX
    Albert Birney knows that fantasy is a potent force, that it can lead you deep into the worst parts of yourself, or, with the right influences, lead you back to life.
  19. Predators
    Always exhibiting a deftness of touch and willingness to continue probing a cultural taboo that’s now, more than ever, a delicate and charged topic, Obit also challenges our preconceptions of a much-maligned group.
  20. The Things You Kill
    Alireza Khatami’s third feature is a subtly enigmatic examination of the nature of masculinity.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Seeds
    Brittany Shyne’s lens is held rapt by the ramblings and insights of the elderly, but it springs to life when it’s turned toward the next generation, whose future is of utmost concern in light of the socioeconomic tensions documented by the film.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Cactus Pears
    The film is at its best when it fashions itself as a kind of ouroboros where the future and the past, death and new love, circle back on one another.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo)
    Across the film, Joel Alfonso Vargas delivers an intimately observed portrait of Rico and the Bronx’s Dominican community, folding warmth into the very real pressures that define daily life.
  24. Blue Moon
    Blue Moon, like Lorenz Hart in his day, trusts that audiences want to engage with subjects that matter through deliberate dialogue.
  25. Bring Her Back
    The film has a white-hot nerve of pain running inside it that burns right through the screen.
  26. Ne Zha 2
    Jiaozi’s film is a sprawling, hyperkinetic exercise in mythological storytelling.
  27. Living the Land
    Huo Meng’s patient, nonjudgmental study of these people tacitly reveals the ways, healthy and otherwise, in which they’ve compartmentalized and continue to process the pain of everything from hard labor to political oppression.
  28. The Ice Tower
    The Ice Tower is, ultimately, an aesthetic and nostalgic exercise.
  29. Kontinental '25
    Radu Jude’s cinema isn’t exactly absurdist, though it exposes the absurdities of a present reeling from the unresolved injustices of yore.
  30. The Blue Trail
    An empowering narrative of one woman who refuses to see age as a ceiling, the film serves as a potent warning for viewers about the marginalization of the elderly.
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