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For 7,767 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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. June Zero
    June Zero is a tender, if sometimes cynical, portrait of a new country on old land struggling through the growing pains of establishing its presence both to the international community and its own people.
  2. Family Portrait
    If the edge of Kerr’s scalpel is blunted somewhat by the sheer number of other films that show the “dark underbelly of suburbia,” Family Portrait stands out for its profound mistrust, not just of images but of the sense of sight altogether.
  3. Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
    The film is all table-setting, with the stories lacking in polish and dramatic momentum and the characters never developed beyond archetypes.
  4. The Devil's Bath
    Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala depict Agnes’s plight with empathy but with a horror maven’s sense of ratcheting unease and encroaching doom.
  5. Fancy Dance
    Erica Tremblay’s granular attention to place makes sure that you take note of the root causes of the defeat felt by the Native characters.
  6. Kinds of Kindness
    The abstraction is presented with cloying cuteness, the sadism is juvenile and purposeless, and the humor is stomach-turningly glib.
  7. Ghostlight
    Directors Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson are extraordinarily perceptive in highlighting the instances where stagecraft informs everyday life.
  8. Inside Out 2
    The film’s visual complexity isn’t matched by the actual journey the core emotions take back to the forefront of Riley’s mind, which can’t help but feel like a more convoluted retread of the first Inside Out’s abstract buddy comedy.
  9. 20,000 Species of Bees
    The film blooms in moments where, instead of literally addressing Coco's gender trouble, we’re simply allowed to inhabit it.
  10. LaRoy, Texas
    While it never quite reaches the hilarious heights or existential depths of the Coens’ finest work, it does offer similarly enjoyable mixture of the macabre and the absurd.
  11. Sweet Dreams
    The film captures the putrefaction of colonial rule with a morbid sense of humor.
  12. The Watchers
    Pacing is a conspicuous problem and the rushed third act threatens to crumble as The Watchers becomes overloaded with revelations and mythology that strain a foundation barely braced to hold their weight.
  13. The Grab
    The Grab makes a clear choice to conclude not just with doomsaying, but with a call to action and a look at the things that can still be done to avert a global crisis.
  14. Firebrand
    Ultimately, in trying to make Katherine both a historical girlboss and a near-martyr to a vaguely articulated cause, Firebrand’s meandering, under-baked screenplay manages to neither have its cake nor eat it too.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Treasure
    Because the casually observational moments of Julia von Heinz’s film are so rich, its thematic contrivance becomes harder to accept.
  16. I Used to Be Funny
    The nimble way that Rachel Sennott hops between the two versions of her character easily makes up for the odd narrative misstep that I Used to Be Funny makes along the way.
  17. Bad Boys: Ride or Die
    The film plays out like it might be preparing us to let go of its big-name legacy leads.
  18. Tuesday
    This is a film of tremendous emotion, spirit, and paradoxically restraint and ambition.
  19. Young Woman and the Sea
    The film leaves no room for doubt about what Trudy Ederle will accomplish, and thus creates virtually no dramatic tension in her inevitable rise to the top ranks of women’s swimming.
  20. In a Violent Nature
    Think of Chris Nash’s film as Béla Tarr doing an unholy doc-fiction hybrid about Crystal Lake.
  21. Oh, Canada
    There’s a sense here of Paul Schrader wanting to pare back his customary aesthetic even further than it’s already been parred over the last several films and speak plainly, with as little scrim between the audience and himself as possible.
  22. Samsara
    The film exemplifies Lois Patiño’s ongoing efforts to complicate docufiction approaches with otherworldly reveries meant to communicate states beyond our immediate reality.
  23. Robot Dreams
    Pablo Berger's film effortlessly brings a sense of universality to its story.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Dead Don't Hurt
    Ultimately, the didacticism of Viggo Mortensen’s film lets it down.
  25. All We Imagine as Light
    Writer-director Payal Kapadia has created an exceptional document of a city and its people.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Ezra
    The film gets within striking distance of new territory for its subject matter but stalls out due to its pat storytelling.
  27. Atlas
    Atlas seems like a story that should have been experienced with a gamepad in hand.
  28. IF
    The most charitable read on John Krasinski’s IF is that using your imagination shouldn’t be bound by traditional story structure, so why should a film about unfettered imagination need the same?
  29. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
    The film attests to George Miller’s enduring aptitude for utilizing the ridiculous to achieve the sublime.
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