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For 7,765 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 6.2 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: 4,342 out of 7765
  2. Mixed: 1,490 out of 7765
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7765
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  1. Yes
    Nadav Lapid’s film locates a dire spiritual crisis facing the nation of his birth.
  2. Fantasy Life
    Amanda Peet finds layers of shading in what could have been a dull and simplistic role.
  3. Marc by Sofia
    It proves entertaining and enlightening when exploring Jacobs’ contributions to the world of fashion. But more often, it’s just like listening in on an engaging chat between two artist friends who share a fan-like admiration of each other’s craft.
  4. Late Shift
    For all its empathy, Late Shift upholds the dubious virtue of self-sacrifice that underpins the Protestant work ethic.
  5. Dead Lover
    The can-do spirit of Dead Lover, as evidenced by the way it couples goofy sound effects with cuts and camera movements, takes it a long way.
  6. Lumiere, Le Cinema!
    Thierry Frémaux’s tribute is at its best when it spotlights just how much can still be rediscovered in the Lumière brothers’ formidable filmography, over 130 years after they filmed workers leaving the factory.
  7. Reminders of Him
    Vanessa Caswill’s film feels reverse engineered to maximize emotional impact.
  8. Project Hail Mary
    Phil Lord and Christopher Miller put a comedic spin on Andy Weir’s more straightforward 2021 novel Project Hail Mary, recasting the author’s hopeful vision of productive communication with extraterrestrials as an unlikely buddy comedy.
  9. 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.
  10. Hoppers
    It falls well short of providing any satisfying exploration of its weighty theme of persuasion versus violence in the face of oppression.
  11. Heel
    By keeping some of its cards close to its chest, Heel respects our intelligence, which helps it to earn its sneakily moving ending.
  12. 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.
  13. Scream 7
    This surprisingly refreshing take on familiar material is unconcerned with meta discussions about where the film stands in the canon.
  14. Queen at Sea
    As much as Binoche is the backbone of Queen at Sea, Courtenay and Calder-Marshall’s raw performances are no less impressive.
  15. In the Blink of an Eye
    In the Blink of an Eye feels less like a film than a commercial for life insurance that got out of hand, or perhaps more accurately one for the kind of hollow Silicon Valley tech optimism that has been thoroughly exposed as a sham by now.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Nightborn
    Even if the film has few surprises in store for us, there’s something pleasingly unpretentious about how it leaves little room for subtext throughout.
  17. Rose
    Freudians will have a field day with Markus Schleinzer’s 17th-century-set folk tale.
  18. In a Whisper
    Leyla Bouzid’s ability to capture the complexities and contradictions of familial affection is what makes In a Whisper so impressive.
  19. Ghost Elephants
    Ghost Elephants shows that Werner Herzog is fiercely determined to explore new frontiers while they still exist and capture the poetic phenomena of nature and the unshakeable dreams it continues to instill in mankind.
  20. Wolfram
    While Wolfram might struggle to convey a depth of feeling for its characters and the brutal, dehumanizing frontier they call home, it can be an intermittently satisfying good-versus-evil period piece.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    My Wife Cries
    The film starts off as an ostensibly simple tale of infidelity before it begins to grapple with even more anxious themes as it shuffles its characters into a series of memorable tableaux.
  22. Dolly
    One senses that Rod Blackhurst knows that Dolly is undernourished, but his attempts to jazz it up by splitting it into transparently titled chapters only calls further attention to that dearth of imagination.
  23. Mouse
    This is subject matter that might sound heavy, but the difficult feelings dredged up never overwhelm the film’s gentle, character-driven approach.
  24. This Is Not a Test
    The film struggles to bring its non-zombie characters to life.
    • 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
  26. Rosebush Pruning
    Only cheap shock value can be gleaned from the film’s cavalcade of blood, semen, animal carcasses, dick pics, and erotic toothbrushing.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Dao
    As it bounces around from conversation to conversation to paint a portrait of a community at once both fractured and reassembled thanks to these congregations, Dao comes to suggest a less sardonic version of one of Robert Altman’s hangout movies.
  28. Yellow Letters
    Yellow Letters ultimately proves to be much less than the sum of its parts, as a lack of focus prevents its political commentary and humanist drama from cohering in any meaningful way.
  29. Redux Redux
    Easy as it may be to imagine a more artful, restrained, and introspective version of Redux Redux, the one we got is satisfying enough that you may want to take it out for another spin.
  30. Crime 101
    Like Mike’s modus operandi as a criminal, the film goes through all the pro forma motions.
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