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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 Bikeriders
    The sheer exuberance of the story and the stylistic brio of Jeff Nichols’s direction often compensate for the film’s lack of authenticity.
  2. The Broken Circle Breakdown
    Felix Van Groeningen's film owes more than a debt to the unwieldy narrative schematics of Susanne Bier's narratives.
  3. 1900
    Bernardo Bertolucci’s film is a living, fluid organism that spans the distances between several poles of extremity.
  4. Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet
    Jesse Vile's film, despite its best intentions, is merely a serviceable extension of his own fandom.
  5. Passione
    Expressionistic rather than analytical, Passione, John Turturro's cinematic ode to the music of Naples, Italy, unfolds as a compendium of tuneful performances bracketed with the barest of contextualization.
  6. Portrait of Wally
    The conclusion is a testament to the fact that authentic justice is probably only attainable by accident.
  7. Art Bastard
    Robert Cenedella exudes humility even as he sounds off against the societal forces that anger him and fuel his work.
  8. All These Sleepless Nights
    Director Michal Marczak's film finds a unique vitality in its densely constructed environment.
  9. Gabrielle
    Writer-director Louise Archambault's neatly affirmative denouement is at odds with the more uncertain reality occurring at the edges of the film's drama.
  10. Resurrection
    The film is one of the more intrinsically frightening evocations of a traumatized mind since Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.
  11. Final Portrait
    As seen through James Lord’s eyes, the dramas and passions on display throughout the film come off as melodramas and grotesqueries.
  12. Her Smell
    A story of filth and fury and, eventually, of placidity and peace, Her Smell is Alex Ross Perry’s most chaotic and unmuffled film — until it isn’t.
  13. The Nice Guys
    Shane Black's The Nice Guys doesn't want for great exchanges, and even disposable conversations brim with acidic wit.
  14. The Little Prince
    As preachy and repetitive as The Little Prince can be, it offers enough moments of poetry to keep it flirting with greatness, or at least goodness.
  15. A Ciambra
    First the film inhabits the eye of a storm—which is to say, the storm of Italy’s wretched peripheries—before submitting to the more ersatz cinematic will of filling Pio’s life with beginnings, middles, and ends.
  16. A Traveler's Needs
    Hong Sang-soo’s films have tricky narrative juxtapositions and symbols that often render potentially mundane moments transcendent.
  17. Cutter's Way
    One of the final triumphs of the New Hollywood era, Cutter’s Way belongs on the shelf of fans of both Cassavetian hyperreal melodrama and Pakula-esque political thrillers.
  18. Spring
    It bridges the cautionary elements of a horror film with the wish-fulfilling platitudes of a touristy romance.
  19. More Than Honey
    Markus Imhoof's film reveals itself as a curious, audacious mix of personal essay film and nature documentary.
  20. Hedda
    Tessa Thompson's presence is captivating, as she relishes in exploring her character's gleeful and occasionally anxious villainy.
  21. Nakom
    Kelly Daniela Norris and T.W. Pittman's film immediately announces itself as a modest triumph of world-building.
  22. The Friend
    Hardly a false note is sounded throughout The Friend, but it operates within such a limited emotional range that it drifts into monotonic plainsong.
  23. Colossal
    When the film's whirligig plotline goes off-rail in the heady final act, Oscar and Gloria's origin story bends over backward to justify a magical-realist conceit that was more fun without explanation.
  24. Bad Lieutenant
    It is boldly NC-17, but unlike most exploitation cinema, Ferrara can’t seem to help himself from making the film a personal, frightened psychic diary, a pitiful shriek for help, and a powerful statement about how even the damned can achieve a moment of fleeting grace.
  25. The Revisionaries
    Scott Thurman captures not only the fear and anti-intellectual resentment and insecurity that govern the dictations of the far right, but also the rampant unchecked egotism.
  26. Emilia Pérez
    If a musical is supposed to communicate things that can’t be conveyed through normal dialogue, Emilia Pérez’s biggest problem is that it falls prey to redundancy, regurgitating the same ideas about identity, desire, violence, and redemption, betraying how little it has to say in the first place.
  27. Sword of Trust
    Marc Maron’s commanding aura of regret gives the film, despite its missed opportunities, an emotional center.
  28. Monkey Man
    Monkey Man is in no rush to get where it’s going and Dev Patel puts a lot of trust in his audience to stick with him to see where it arrives.
  29. Herself
    Phyllida Lloyd’s film cannot escape its own somewhat mundane self-set contours.
  30. Ant-Man and the Wasp
    Ebulliently funny, visually inventive, and above all passionately committed to the idea that heroism isn't a burden but an uplifting realization of our best qualities.
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