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For 7,767 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: 4,344 out of 7767
  2. Mixed: 1,490 out of 7767
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7767
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  1. Caught by the Tides
    Jia Zhang-ke’s Caught by the Tides attests to the fact that making art under the most adverse conditions can prove to be serendipitous.
  2. A Traveler's Needs
    Hong Sang-soo’s films have tricky narrative juxtapositions and symbols that often render potentially mundane moments transcendent.
  3. Terrifier 3
    Primarily a vehicle for inventive and wince-inducing practical effects that best anything to be found in a 1980s-era Italian gorefest or the Saw franchise, Terrifier 3 continues the series’s trend of dotting a sparse and sinuous thread of plot with mini-masterpieces of cinematic ultraviolence.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Stranger Eyes
    Lee Kang-sheng’s performance is the emotional and physical lodestone of a film about the fraught ambiguities of seeing through a one-way mirror.
  5. Harvest
    The film is a handsomely mounted production in which much of the filth feels stage-managed.
  6. Apartment 7A
    Rather than deepening or complicating the original work, Apartment 7A engages with it purely on franchise terms, as in how it foregrounds the Castavets for much of the runtime.
  7. Never Let Go
    As the film goes on, it stretches its own internal logic and, following a genuinely shocking third-act twist, renders the world that it’s created virtually incoherent merely in a ploy to keep the audience on the edge of their seats.
  8. Omni Loop
    The film retreads ideas familiar from time-loop stories without offering anything especially new.
  9. Transformers One
    A realm without physical limits is truly where the Transformers belong, but it doesn’t stop the film from delivering some surprising pathos while it’s there.
  10. Youth (Hard Times)
    The second installment in Wang Bing’s trilogy of documentaries about garment workers similarly leans into durational extremes but eventually and sneakily reveals a broadened scope.
  11. Heretic
    Heretic intriguingly plays with our expectations of who the heroes and villains are in this scenario.
  12. The Critic
    It’s only the winking malice of Ian McKellen’s title character that prevents the film from imploding entirely, dirigible-like, as the haywire plot begins to nosedive.
  13. Meanwhile on Earth
    The overbearing plot of the film sadly obscures the humanity of its characters.
  14. Nightbitch
    It’s disappointing to see a film with such a weird premise as Nightbitch ease into an orthodox storytelling mode.
  15. My Old Ass
    The world of My Old Ass retains a lived-in quality, in large part due to the shrewd, sensitive way in which it treats the emotional struggles of its teenage characters.
  16. The Wild Robot
    The film’s discernible brushstrokes serve as a reminder of the literal hands, the labor, it takes to raise someone, mold them into a survivor, and to carry love with you wherever you go.
  17. The 4:30 Movie
    Jam-packed with his familiar brand of vulgar yet verbose stoner humor and free-flowing riffs on movies—especially his own—the vibes are certainly off the charts in Kevin Smith’s film.
  18. Speak No Evil
    This hollow attempt to turn a provocative showpiece into a crowd-pleaser makes you wonder if the filmmakers are actively disdainful of the original.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Misericordia
    Misericordia finds Alain Guiraudie revisiting old standbys under a relatively conventional set of aesthetic strategies. Fortunately, the ideas roiling under the former wildman’s newly placid surfaces are as potent as ever.
  20. Presence
    The unoriginality of Presence’s story eventually calls out the POV conceit as a one-note gimmick, especially when the tension is dialed up in the film’s second half.
  21. The Seed of the Sacred Fig
    Often blunt and unwieldy, Mohamed Rasolouf's film is nevertheless impactful.
  22. Universal Language
    Though juxtaposing Canada’s drabness and relative lack of heritage with Iran’s millennia of unbroken tradition brings out the former aspects particularly clearly, Universal Language is aiming beyond mere satire or culture-clash playfulness.
  23. The Room Next Door
    Centering the impermanence of human existence in the euthanasia drama The Room Next Door doesn’t indicate resignation to a “late period” style so much as it suggests a natural outgrowth of Almodóvar’s formidable body of work.
  24. Babygirl
    It’s not a film about saying the right thing so much as it’s about people mutually arriving at the right place—no matter the untidiness involved in getting there.
  25. Pepe
    As an anguished cry against colonialism, Pepe works best when illustrating the micro ways in which culture is erased by capital interests.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Damned
    Roberto Minervini’s camera ably conjures the melancholy and alienation that afflict his characters across scenes that merge documentary and neorealist techniques, but it’s far from realistic to expect a troop of soldiers to act aloof around each other when they’re all in the shit.
  27. Rumours
    The film is winningly defined by its peculiar admixture of national pride and self-deprecation.
  28. By the Stream
    Art is a mode of potential connection built in large part on narcissism, and Hong Sang-soo is without peer these days in wrestling that irony onto the screen.
  29. Viet and Nam
    Truong Minh Quy’s new queer romance-cum-sociohistorical lament mines beauty from both collective desolation and individual endurance.
  30. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
    Tim Burton’s belated sequel to 1988’s weird, wild, and hilariously macabre Beetlejuice abounds in morbid, nauseating delights.
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