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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. Feast of the Epiphany
    Its sensitivity to how something as seemingly ordinary as food can have an immense emotional impact is consistently and unobtrusively profound.
  2. Chicken with Plums
    A fable about the damage done when a young couple is forced to part, Chicken with Plums is deeply melancholic, yet so full of humor and humanity that it pulses with life even while tracing the trajectory of a slow suicide.
  3. Lover for a Day
    The film is yet another of Phillippe Garrel's densely anecdotal studies of romantic fidelity.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Tenet
    Every time that Tenet stops to speak, it only emphasizes a hollowness within: how enamored it is of its own cleverness.
  5. The Amazing Catfish
    The familiar premise is done with enough intelligence and heartfelt conviction that it rises above its potentially cliché trappings.
  6. Opening Night
    Opening Night hits closest to home in its long, haunting, tension-fueled riffs between Cassavetes and Rowlands, playing lovers on stage and former lovers off stage.
  7. Climax
    Gaspar Noé's camera captures every freak-out, recrimination, stolen kiss, and betrayal in what is a miracle of synchronicity.
  8. The Towering Inferno
    In nearly every reasonable sense it’s the far more accomplished of the two famed Allen disaster epics.
  9. Wendell & Wild
    Henry Selick’s flair for phantasmagorical sights is on full display, though Wendell & Wild’s excessively CGI-enhanced look is a far cry from the grounded tactility of much of his prior work.
  10. Bastards
    Conditioning the audience to find dread in every seemingly innocent gesture, the film turns even the simplest touch between family members into something tinged with menace.
  11. The Reports on Sarah and Saleem
    We never spend enough time with the characters to believe the urgency, and lushness, of their cravings.
  12. The Birth of a Nation
    Nate Parker strains to control the strange and stirring complications of his subject's visionary apocalypticism.
  13. Tears of Gaza
    There's no coddling the audience in Vibeke Løkkeberg's verité heave of disgust as the full consequences on the Palestinian people of Operation Cast Lead are made sickeningly clear.
  14. The Death of Dick Long
    Daniel Scheinert’s film finds a very human vulnerability lurking beneath the strange and oafish behaviors of its male characters.
  15. Cannibal
    It keeps us at a remove that becomes telling of the filmmaker's reticence to explore whatever feelings of isolation and yearning may inform his main character's grisly compulsion.
  16. Young Man with a Horn
    The non-musical performances are shallow: Douglas is forceful but one-note, Day is as square and wholesome as a glass of milk, and Bacall purrs along in the same faux-bad girl performance she’s given for the past 60 years. But I suppose that’s fitting for a morality play this black and white, where wild jazz, liquor, and loose women cause the downfall of man.
  17. Huda's Salon
    Formally, Huda’s Salon is nothing if not effective, sustaining the unrelenting tension of its opening scene for the duration of its runtime.
  18. Femme
    Femme fascinatingly taps into the radical possibilities of the sartorial as narrative device, exploring the tabooed nuances of queer subjectivity and muddying the lines between gay and trans in the way that lived experience tends to do.
  19. Spider-Man: Far from Home
    Jon Watts deftly weaves the epic and the mundane aspects of Spider-Man’s existence throughout the film.
  20. Tell Me Who I Am
    By focusing so narrowly on the Lewis brothers’ relationship with their mother, the film inadvertently minimizes the scope of their abuse.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Sparrows Dance
    Writer-director Noah Buschel interestingly mirrors the monotony of his main character's routine in his claustrophobic aesthetic.
  22. Out in the Dark
    Instead of looking for depth or verisimilar romance, director Michael Mayer turns his characters into mere cogs in a pseudo-suspenseful thriller.
  23. The Seven Five
    It relays a story of police corruption that's transparently designed as a pitch for a feature-film adaptation.
  24. The Challenge
    Here the organic and the frivolously material aren't oppositions or rivals, but partners in a spectacle for men's eyes only.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Ginger & Rosa
    With Ginger & Rosa, Sally Potter manages to avoid nearly every pratfall of such period pieces, focusing on extreme alienation rather than enlightenment, and wringing a powerful and jaundiced coming-of-age story from the decade's less trod corners.
  26. The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden
    The material and resources are certainly substantial, but the filmmakers clumsily weave separate stories together without detailing anything beyond a tangential relation.
  27. Patriots Day
    As long as Patriots Day is concerned with recreating the sense of ambient chaos among sparring investigators and an anxious community, it’s immersive and thrilling.
  28. Depraved
    Larry Fessenden diagnoses the rot of our era through the shifting personalities and power dynamics of solipsistic men.
  29. The Armor of Light
    It doesn't trust the inherently complex material to speak for itself or care to consider its consequences beyond instances of manufactured, gut-wrenching immediacy.
  30. The Sentence
    Rudy Valdez has no distance from the material, which works simultaneously in the film's favor and, largely, its disfavor.
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