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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 Stranger
    François Ozon’s adaptation of Albert Camus’s novel is haunting, transportive, and tragically humanist, a worthy introduction to the text for the skeptical (or a refresher for the lapsed) and a memorably grim drama in its own right.
  2. Erupcja
    While it isn’t an overt examination of it in the manner of The Moment, the film does feel like a natural cinematic extension of Charli XCX’s melancholy party-girl persona.
  3. Pompei: Below the Clouds
    Gianfranco Rosi’s long, languorous, often hushed snapshots of the area between Vesuvius and the Gulf of Naples conjure a sense of life here being suspended in time.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    My Sunshine
    Okuyama Hiroshi spins poetry from seemingly inconsequential moments.
  5. The Rip
    The film's legible direction and steady escalation of tension makes for an enjoyably retro diversion.
  6. Tuner
    Daniel Roher’s modern noir has an appealing cleverness and lightness of touch.
  7. Silent Friend
    Despite loose ends, it’s one of the most dreamily affectionate (and affectionately critical) portrayals of the natural sciences ever committed to the screen.
  8. 100 Meters
    To get to the primal thrill of racing, Iwaisawa Kenji uses just about every technique at his disposal.
  9. Trains
    The film's chronological rigor imparts an "on-rails" historical linearity, a sensation of inexorable progress and doom.
  10. Obsession
    Obsession’s big set-piece sequences are as chilling in their effect as they are confident in their execution.
  11. Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
    Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’s obviousness only makes its proximity to the real-life A.I. slop invasion more unnerving, and the extent of what humanity has accepted for convenience’s sake more abhorrent.
  12. Send Help
    This is an immensely effective tropical island-set chamber drama in which two characters see their gender and labor relations start to reverse in ways that eventually reveal surprising ambiguities.
  13. The Drama
    Kristoffer Borgli delights in creating a hypothetical trap for his lovers, but he also acknowledges that there’s something romantic about being stuck in it together.
  14. The Plague
    The Plague is vividly, terrifying attuned to the way children create a social order that resists sensible adult intrusion and influence.
  15. Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
    Little Amélie or the Character of Rain changes up its breezy account of a toddler’s growth with the occasional moment of slowed-down rumination.
  16. Crime Wave
    A relentlessly unforced potboiler that gazes at noir through the looking glass.
  17. Blue Film
    On the whole, Blue Film’s raw, skin-crawling interrogations of aberrant sexuality and trauma ring fearless and true.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    How to Make a Killing
    John Patton Ford cultivates an old-school flair while keeping one finger on the pulse of the current moment
  19. Little Trouble Girls
    The film fascinatingly shows how Catholic moral strictures and an underlying paganism where desire is holy are two sides of the same coin.
  20. Hokum
    Damian McCarthy threads the needle between supplying old-school scares and a richly layered character piece that also functions as a meditation on his own perspective as a storyteller.
  21. Forbidden Fruits
    The film is a witchy mall comedy that mostly keeps you under its spell.
  22. Natchez
    With so many engaging voices on offer, Suzannah Herbert wisely chooses to let the locals tell the story rather than providing any explicit narration of her own.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Dry Leaf
    Alexandre Koberidze reminds us that not seeing is sometimes a way of seeing the world differently.
  24. A Poet
    This finely shaded character study of a recalcitrant social pariah feels more than anything else like an existential parable.
  25. Fiume o morte!
    Igor Bezinović plays up the farcical side of history in Fiume o Morte!, his innovative docudrama retelling of Italian fascist poet Gabriele D’Annunzio’s short-lived occupation of Rijeka, Croatia, in 1920.
  26. Heel
    By keeping some of its cards close to its chest, Heel respects our intelligence, which helps it to earn its sneakily moving ending.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Conversation Piece
    Conversation Piece, as a “last will and testament” (as many have come to indentify it), feels both like a stylistic and thematic reconciliation on the filmmaker’s behalf, and as such a work of important insight into one of the cinema’s great anomalies.
  28. The Oldest Person in the World
    Sam Green’s documentary has a knack for finding moments where we can feel the broad sweep of a supercentenarian lifespan, condensed down into a single, everyday occurrence.
  29. The History of Concrete
    The odd and poignant The History of Concrete could be seen as a show of Buddhist acceptance on John Wilson's part of art's, and by extension life's, transience.
  30. Leviticus
    As star-crossed lovers resolve to battle their demons rather than surrender, this at times intensely creepy horror tale reveals itself to also be a potent and poignant teen romance.
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