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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. Feels Good Man
    That the democratization of the internet has opened a doorway for fascist ideologies to openly quash democratic ones is an irony that isn’t lost on the film.
  2. i'm thinking of ending things
    The film has a weird, ghostly, even beautiful pull, but it functions mostly on theoretical terms because Charlie Kaufman has thought it to death.
  3. Bill & Ted Face the Music
    The film suggests that Bill and Ted’s dreams of stardom, which have evolved into dreams of acceptance and expression, aren’t so stupid after all.
    • 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.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Binge
    If The Purge cynically saw humans as itching to unleash their pent-up violence, The Binge recognizes us all as horny nitwit fratboys at heart who need an excuse to cut loose.
  6. Ghost Tropic
    Bas Devos’s film is a street-lit trek through the eerily empty avenues and byways of a city at sleep.
  7. Epicentro
    It alternates political ponderings with a loose and discursive subtext in which Hubert Sauper explores the idea of Cuba as an island paradise.
  8. Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
    A supplementary subject of most of Herzog’s work, which it shares with Chatwin’s, is a bottomless yearning for wonder.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Matthias & Maxime
    Xavier Dolan’s characters are of such broad definition that it’s impossible to regard them as anything other than aesthetic objects.
  10. Words on Bathroom Walls
    The film reeks of the extremely idealistic notions of young love that plague many a YA adaptation.
  11. The One and Only Ivan
    The charitable representation of Bryan Cranston’s character greatly diminishes the emotional resonance of the film’s dramatic turns in the final act.
  12. Unhinged
    Unhinged is essentially a nihilistic, style-free destructo-rama that’s designed to make us feel like shit.
  13. Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula
    Peninsula feels like the work of an artist who misunderstood his past triumph, squandering his talent for the sake of a pandering, halfhearted encore.
  14. Random Acts of Violence
    For all of its ostensible thoughtfulness, in trying to describe “real art,” Random Acts of Violence ultimately doesn’t describe anything at all.
  15. Cut Throat City
    Cut Throat City is still an ambitious and volatile film, an atmospheric survey of the thankless world of the rich and the damned.
  16. Tesla
    A profound sense of restlessness and loneliness haunts Michael Almereyda’s film, which reinvigorates the biopic genre.
  17. Project Power
    The film is an unwieldy array of muddled ideas that never gel together into a cohesive whole.
  18. Get Duked!
    A taut genre exercise that delivers enough surprises and cleverly timed bits of humor for its sometimes familiar, uneven narrative beats to play an original tune.
  19. Martin Margiela: In His Own Words
    Reiner Holzemer’s adulation of his subject feels most credible because he spends a lot of time focusing on the clothes.
  20. Sputnik
    Sputnik’s third act is a rush of formulaic action meant, perhaps, to compensate for the interminably repetitive and impersonal second act, which is mostly concerned with reinforcing a set of foregone conclusions.
  21. Boys State
    The film suggests that our political system is a popularity contest that functions for no one but those jockeying for power.
  22. A Thousand Cuts
    The film uses endangered press freedom in the Philippines to illustrate the threat posed to liberal democracy by weaponized social media.
  23. Sunless Shadows
    Redolent of Claude Lanzmann’s approach, Mehrdad Oskouei strips his images to their barest bones as his subjects openly speak about their traumas, as if trying to avoid aestheticizing their pain.
  24. The Secret Garden
    In lieu of pluming the emotional states of the characters, the film resorts to a whimsical, otherworldly fantasy element as an easy resolution.
  25. Song Without a Name
    The film is strikingly fixated on exploring loss and pain on an intimate and personal scale.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Psychomagic, A Healing Art
    Whether or not the 91-year-old Alejandro Jodorowsky makes another film, Psychomagic could easily stand as a fitting encapsulation of the themes of suffering and transcendence that have run throughout his work.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Black Is King
    Out of a dazzling fusion of the hottest trends of American R&B and Afrobeat, this visual album proposes a pan-African vision of legacy, abundance, and unity, making it Beyoncé’s most wide-reaching and ambitious effort yet.
  28. I Used to Go Here
    The film is almost sadistically driven to turn a woman’s trip down memory lane into fodder for cringe humor.
  29. Waiting for the Barbarians
    Ciro Guerra never quite finds an imagistic equivalent to the novel’s apocalyptic mood and subtly hallucinogenic atmosphere.
  30. She Dies Tomorrow
    Perhaps as a result of her attempting to avoid all matter of clichés, not just of genre, Amy Seimetz revels in vagueness.
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