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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. Langue Étrangère
    The film finds its profundity in moments where not much is said and nothing is intellectualized, when language is stripped to its bare bones.
  2. A Different Man
    The film’s overarching dramatic irony leaves one to ponder the deliberately discomfiting question of whether it’s possible to extricate the experience of disability from the way spectators define its essence.
  3. Drive-Away Dolls
    In the classic queer punk tradition of Bruce LaBruce, John Waters, and Gregg Araki, Ethan Coen’s film knows when to pay homage and when to move to its own rhythm.
  4. Dune: Part Two
    Denis Villeneuve’s film, like its predecessor, offers an object lesson in the visual splendor made possible by meticulously storyboarded minimalist maximalism.
  5. Concrete Valley
    Concrete Valley reveals itself as a thrilling example, both in form and content, of the way that the fostering of community allows us to regain some measure of control over life’s adversities.
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    • 63 Critic Score
    The Invisible Fight
    Writer-director Rainer Sarnet’s deliriously weird The Invisible Fight would be irksome if it weren’t crafted so lovingly and with a charming earnestness.
  7. Stopmotion
    The film falters when it attempts to mold its best instincts into a discernible narrative shape.
  8. Cuckoo
    One may wish that the absurdity of the conceit had been matched by a bit more irreverence in the script and audacity in the imagery.
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    • 50 Critic Score
    Arcadia
    Yorgos Zois’s film banks on juxtaposition alone without quite delving into more fertile terrain.
  10. Love Lies Bleeding
    In the end, it’s a memorably girthy, if not evenly muscled, ode to the treacherousness but ultimate value of romantic love.
  11. I Saw the TV Glow
    The film is a mesmeric but frequently muddled exploration of transgender self-actualization.
  12. Suspended Time
    Olivier Assayas’s film is a gently smart and warm-spirited look at love as the core term of human existence.
  13. Madame Web
    Madame Web grinds to a halt as it gets bogged down in scene after scene of characters, both good and bad, standing around explaining their backgrounds, hang-ups, and desires.
  14. Bob Marley: One Love
    This shaggy, disjointed film is less interested in the complexities of Marley’s personal or professional life than it is in presenting him as a hero and an inspiration.
  15. Io Capitano
    The film builds on a docudrama realism while also reaching toward the mythological.
  16. Lisa Frankenstein
    Even as the film revels in violent, necrophiliac delights, the dialogue keeps everything grounded with its humor.
  17. The Promised Land
    Even when it’s painting its story in broad strokes, the film plays expertly to audience emotion.
  18. Girls State
    For chafing against existing systems designed by and for men, the storytelling structure of the film befits the female experience in American politics.
  19. Thelma
    It’s the balance of comedy and existential drama that truly elevates Thelma.
  20. Out of Darkness
    Shot in the Scottish Highlands, Out of Darkness draws on the eerie atmosphere of a place that still feels ancient and steeped in mystery.
  21. The Monk and the Gun
    The film pulls off something truly bold: taking what are perhaps the most emotionally and symbolically loaded items in existence and subverting their meaning completely to end on a note of peace, joy, and hope for the future.
  22. Black Box Diaries
    The film leaves on a razor’s edge between hope and despair, encouraged on the one hand by the passion with which justice is being demanded and, on the other, depressed by the widespread indifference with which these demands are met.
  23. Veni Vidi Vici
    The film’s humor is a clenched-fist assault on runaway greed and systemic corruption.
  24. Seeking Mavis Beacon
    The film proves itself incapable of or unwilling to follow through on its ideas to an ultimate conclusion.
  25. Argylle
    And the more each new twist is revealed and summarily falls flat, the faster the next one is slotted into place to get ahead of the story’s anticlimax, leading to a spiral in which the plot becomes even more meaningless.
  26. 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.
  27. Kneecap
    Much of Rich Peppiatt’s film isn’t about respectability, but rather debasement, and sugar-coating Kneecap’s widespread antics isn’t on the menu.
  28. Between the Temples
    A wealth of contrasting stimulation gives the film a singular and intimate atmosphere, in which scenes can last little eternities while still leaving you feeling as if you’re struggling to keep up with a stream of secrets and in-jokes.
  29. Stress Positions
    The film is an insightful look at modern discontent and the pandemonium that it breeds.
  30. She Is Conann
    Decadent, hermetic, and gleefully hostile to realism, Bertrand Mandico’s film is the cinematic equivalent of a French Symbolist poem.
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