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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 Day Shall Come
    The film is an aimless, albeit sometimes funny, chronicle of absurd behavior and government ineptitude.
  2. Materialists
    As its second half begins to focus more on Lucy’s dating dilemma, and how she’s forced to confront her firmly established beliefs and rules about dating, the film hews increasingly close to the narrative expectations of the traditional rom-com.
  3. Portrait of a Garden
    Portrait of a Garden‘s distance from its human subjects forestalls the film’s momentum and strips it of a heart.
  4. War Pony
    The filmmakers never effectively detail the characters’ relation to the various cultural, psychological, or historical intricacies of their milieu.
  5. No Sleep Till
    Uncertainty extends to the film’s mood, which fluctuates between dreamy ennui and slowly escalating dread.
  6. The Phoenician Scheme
    The raw emotion underlying The Phoenician Scheme peeks out at unexpected times.
  7. Louder Than Bombs
    Louder Than Bombs is a parable that takes depression seriously as a condition and a state of being.
  8. Scarred Hearts
    Despite the film's bleak premise, writer-director Radu Jude finds dark humor within the certainty of death.
  9. Cocote
    Nelson Carlo de Los Santos's first fiction feature is a dazzling collage of styles and approaches in which every scene feels different from the one that came before.
  10. Paulina
    It's unsettling and disconcerting in its complex examination of the gray area that lies between the morals we conceptually hold and the actions we’re willing to perform to affirm those beliefs in the world.
  11. Sicilian Ghost Story
    The film is determinedly unclassifiable, blurring genres with a fervor that grows tedious.
  12. Happy Christmas
    Joe Swanberg's films have grown into a reliable relief from the competitive, dehumanizing freneticism of much of American culture, marked by an affirming and understated sense of decency.
  13. Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie
    Inflammatory talk-show host Morton Downey Jr. sparked, delighted, and quickly faded like a firecracker--not unlike the erratic, quick-fire presentation of his persona in this documentary.
  14. The Threesome
    The film effortlessly melds its sadcom properties with more predictable rom-com traditions.
  15. Relay
    Set to the rhythms of a pulsing, ultramodern New York milieu, the film, at its best, wrings real tension and excitement out of the simple exchanging of clandestine messages and sensitive information.
  16. Violation
    Violation impressively pushes against the typically straightforward trajectory of the rape-revenge film.
  17. Gods of Mexico
    If Gods of Mexico harkens back to certain traditions of visual representation, Helmut Donsantos’s counterintuitive recombination of what would seem to be mutually exclusive inspirations, each with its own temporal framework, allows him to offer for our contemplation a vision uniquely his own.
  18. Mohawk
    Ted Geoghegan's Mohawk is a survival-of-the-fittest film that's charged with a thunderous urgency.
  19. Boy
    Less concerned with rendering the specifics of its setting (a small Maori town on the New Zealand coast) than in calling on bouts of whimsy and superficial cultural signifiers to approximate the headspace of its central characters.
  20. Handling the Undead
    For how committed it is to convincing the audience of the profundity of a rudimentary point, the film’s measured pacing comes to feel like a kind of torture.
  21. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
    Some pleasingly odd visuals and a sustained off-kilter mood will likely please many animation fans who haven’t had any exposure to the source material, but Pierre Foldes’s film ultimately fails to create any clear identity of its own.
  22. Kicks
    It's less notable for its originality than for how dynamically it blends a few styles that ultimately prove incompatible.
  23. The Mermaid
    It offers a wonderful visual reprieve from the cumbersomely mechanized aesthetic of so much contemporary fantasy.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    In Another Country
    Hong Sang-soo hits the beach once again in his latest project, another austerely amusing study of hopeless neurotics making a mockery of leisure.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Brave
    Pixar's latest ultimately offers nothing more than a caricature of a well-worn conceit.
  26. The Last Time I Saw Macao
    The essayistic remembrances provide the filmmakers with a brilliant exit strategy when the noir business has nowhere to go but in circles.
  27. Viva
    The drag in the film rejects the U.S.-centric obsession with "realness" and the acrobatics that come with it.
  28. The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future
    The film is an object lesson in what can result when a work of art subordinates itself to a message.
  29. Redoubt
    Matthew Barney re-instills nature with some of the mystic aura that modernity, with its technologies and techniques of knowledge, has robbed it of.
  30. Censor
    Censor unfortunately pulls back from its social interrogation just when it’s working up a head of steam.
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