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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. Now, Voyager
    Now, Voyager is the stuff of young lovers and hare-brained idealists, and if it can feel pretty foolish at times, it’s unforgettable for how sincere and affectionate it is toward one particularly time-honored cliché: that only fools falls in love.
  2. The Room Next Door
    Centering the impermanence of human existence in the euthanasia drama The Room Next Door doesn’t indicate resignation to a “late period” style so much as it suggests a natural outgrowth of Almodóvar’s formidable body of work.
  3. Sworn Virgin
    Given its nearly episodic structure, formal choices, and similar thematic inquiries, Sworn Virgin suggests an unofficial remake of Vivre Sa Vie.
  4. L'Immensità
    By turns wry and tragic, but never glib or mawkish, this is a visually rich and evocative drama about navigating the often treacherous path to adulthood.
  5. The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble
    It resonates as a portrait of artists trying to figure out their own paths toward making valuable contributions to the world.
  6. Fort Tilden
    It elegantly evolves from an absurdist comedy into a remarkably wounded and uprooted story of friends who're beginning to tire of their shared social cocoons.
  7. Prisoners
    Possibly year's most immaculate-looking drivel, a prismatically shot whodunit abundant in red herrings, but lacking in moral contemplation.
  8. I Love Boosters
    Arrhythmic, unfocused, and forgetting to breathe, this overstuffed film feels like a circus act, a well-dressed elephant on a unicycle juggling a dozen balls. It’s an impressive feat of dexterity, if not grace.
  9. The Last Circus
    Subscribes to the belief that moderation is a four-letter word, flying about with an abandon that begets exhilaration as well as exhausting messiness.
  10. The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
    The film ends on a note of courage, and a call-to-action that we "remember," naturally, but we can't completely buy it: What Freidrichs has accomplished is a portrait of unknowability.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Exit Elena
    Nathan Silver's film is a quiet and affecting micro-budgeted drama, its condensed frame evoking the claustrophobic feeling of the household it examines.
  12. Bird People
    Pascale Ferran's film isn't daring enough to fully embrace the narrative fragmentation that it sporadically assumes.
  13. A Murder in the Park
    Its wholly complex and provocative social pleas slip too frequently into the seedy realm of journalistic exploitation.
  14. Our Last Tango
    Throughout the documentary, the question of truth is equated to the essence of the tango.
  15. 'Til Madness Do Us Part
    Wang Bing intends to give back to the inmates the opportunity for individual expression that society has robbed them of.
  16. My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It To
    Jonathan Cuartas’s film vividly diagnose a sickness of insularity endemic to middle-class America.
  17. The Whaler Boy
    The film is a vivid rumination on the fuzzy border between fantasy and reality.
  18. Best Wishes to All
    The film is comic yet vicious and cynically bleak in its portraiture of Japan’s silent plague.
  19. Inside
    Charles Williams’s feature-length directorial debut, Inside, centers on a trio of dangerous men who are forced into each other’s orbit, leading to an outcome that’s both violently chaotic and tragically predictable.
  20. Theater Camp
    The film feels like sitting through extended acting exercises where everyone is giving it 110% every take.
  21. Where's My Roy Cohn?
    This sharp, to-the-point portrait of the crook, fixer, and right-wing pitbull resists the urge to darkly glamorize him.
  22. The Walk
    In order to make the walk, and in order for it to matter to him, Philippe Petit has to comprehend it as real and impossible. Zemeckis teaches us the same lesson.
  23. Veni Vidi Vici
    The film’s humor is a clenched-fist assault on runaway greed and systemic corruption.
  24. Dior and I
    Bolstered by deft editing that keeps the proceedings moving at a light, graceful clip, this behind-the-runway look at one of fashion's legendary brands has a sleek, efficient stylishness in keeping with its subject.
  25. Plan 75
    Because so much of Hayakawa’s film is given over to depictions of the procedures, formalities, and impersonal administration that define Plan 75, even the tiniest spark of feeling comes as a relief.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Companion
    The film trenchantly satirizes 21st-century romance while delivering the gory genre goods.
  27. A Complete Unknown
    The bevy of documentaries, narrative films, and books about Bob Dylan’s breakout, ascent, and impact on the 1960s pop zeitgeist could fill a library, which makes this oversimplified retread of the same topic all the more tedious and superfluous.
  28. Long Way North
    Even if Long Way North's narrative makes for a bland frame, there’s no denying the beauty of the picture it holds.
  29. Maidentrip
    A coming-of-age journey of self-realization, made immensely more involving by virtue of being seen through its subject's first-person perspective.
  30. Manon of the Spring
    This tonal shift transforms Manon of the Spring from a caustic morality play into something more reflective, an elegy to a way of life whose residents did not fully appreciate until they themselves had helped to end it.
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