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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 Burn Me
    Matías Piñeiro’s film is an intimate, impressionistic meditation on love and desire, death and memory, silence and expression.
  2. Long Day's Journey Into Night
    Ed Harris and Jessica Lange electrifyingly bring so many of their characters’ emotions to the surface, even as they convey that James and Mary are burying so much more beneath it.
  3. Young Hearts
    The film truthfully hints at the sharp whirs behind the smooth façade of everyday life.
  4. Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
    The film offers a joyous throwback to the optimistic feeling of the early internet creator era.
  5. Miracle Mile
    Miracle Mile is one of the most fascinating curios of the ’80s, a disaster movie that turns the decade’s optimism back onto itself.
  6. Clown in a Cornfield
    Eli Craig’s film works precisely because it plays things straight.
  7. The Threesome
    The film effortlessly melds its sadcom properties with more predictable rom-com traditions.
  8. LifeHack
    LifeHack is consistently intriguing for the conflicting emotions with which it looks back on its chosen moment in tech and time, characterized by cutthroat scamming and cynicism, as well as empowerment and camaraderie for the young and quick-witted.
  9. Here Comes Mr. Jordan
    Death is a many-splendored thing in Here Comes Mr. Jordan, which treats the possibility of an afterlife not with somber religious symbolism, but a keen sense that a human being’s mortal end must be understood for its corporeal difficulties.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Christophers
    The film brims with hilarious dialogue, lightly satirical observations of a culture that treats art as a commodity, and satisfying payoffs to a number of story elements planted early on.
  11. Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
    By acknowledging and publicizing its subjects’ writing, the film proves a stirring tribute to those who fight; in their stories, it offers a potent reminder that war is a hell suffered both externally and—more permanently—internally.
  12. The Naked Gun
    The Naked Gun is of a piece with the “joke in every frame” approach that Zucker, Abrams, and Zucker brought to their best work.
  13. Direct Action
    We sorely need documentaries like Direct Action that can show not only the real leverage that militant mass movements can exert, but how that power can be redirected from protest to the building of autonomous communities and back again.
  14. Eddington
    Eddington is especially pointed in the way that it views our online connectedness as a social cancer rather than an engine for progress.
  15. 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.
  16. Predator: Badlands
    The action is horrifying, inventive, and heart-pounding, but it’s also the least surprising part of Predator: Badlands.
  17. Mountainhead
    If there’s a moral here, it might be that the only thing worse than a competitive billionaire is a bored one.
  18. Young Mothers
    Young Mothers is a welcome return to form for the Dardenne brothers, balancing social observation with character study.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Miroirs No. 3
    Christian Petzold has crafted yet another sneakily trenchant commentary on How We Live Now.
  20. Left-Handed Girl
    In a young girl’s face is all of Left-Handed Girl, as Nina Ye, like Shih-Ching Tsou behind the camera, translates the immensity of this sprawling saga into immediate, intimate detail.
  21. The Bride!
    The Bride!’s aims to show that being good in a cruel world is as foolish as falling in love—as foolish as attempting to be out and proud freaks in a repressive society. Guillermo del Toro might be brave enough to let his monsters fight and fuck in their own defense, but Gyllenhaal and her monsters do it nastier, sloppier, and louder as an act of magnificent defiance.
  22. The Long Walk
    This ferocious adaptation of Stephen King’s 1979 novella as a passion play about class solidarity.
  23. Blackmail
    While the film lacks the feverish, autocritical neuroses of Hitchcock’s mid- and late-period masterpieces, it often superbly plumbs notions of guilt and vulnerability, all the while cheekily satirizing Scotland Yard as a swayable arbiter of justice.
  24. Megadoc
    Mike Figgis’s anthem of aspiration and struggle leaves no doubt about Francis Ford Coppola’s beliefs.
  25. The Paradine Case
    This all-star courtroom thriller is also an underrated study of a master artist’s social demons, embodying the very essence of the auteur theory.
  26. The Secret Agent
    More broadly appealing than Kleber Mendonça Filho’s past films, The Secret Agent is still unmistakeably the work of an artist who’s deeply fascinated with the ways in which cinema, politics, and personal history co-mingle.
  27. Predator: Killer of Killers
    Killer of Killers only gives us just enough to get by, get invested, and get to the goods.
  28. Urchin
    Harris Dickinson imbues the film with a singular style, as well as a self-awareness that’s introspective without stooping to outright self-flagellation.
  29. Sirât
    The film is a vivid meditation on human possibility in the face of fate and nature’s tumultuous might, ending in a fog of ambiguity that mirrors that characters’ bewilderment.
  30. Two Prosecutors
    The film is a satiric look at Stalinism and bureaucracy with shades of Kafka, Orwell, and Gogol.
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