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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. Rose of Nevada
    The film plunges us into a world that feels simultaneously naturalistic and otherworldly.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
    The film cloyingly asks us to embrace the sincerity of its impersonal romance.
  3. One Battle After Another
    Paul Thomas Anderson’s dark comedy One Battle After Another turns overreaching into an art form.
  4. Ne Zha 2
    Jiaozi’s film is a sprawling, hyperkinetic exercise in mythological storytelling.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    My Sunshine
    Okuyama Hiroshi spins poetry from seemingly inconsequential moments.
  6. The Wizard of the Kremlin
    Olivier Assayas’s knack for fostering insight through irony is nowhere to be found in the film.
  7. Swiped
    Swiped’s story sits right at the center of so many vital issues, and a smarter, braver rendition of it—that is, one interested in actually probing beneath the surface of things—might have yielded a film truly worthy of comparison to The Social Network. Instead, we get a piece of corporate hagiography that sweeps all those issues aside to celebrate another tech billionaire.
  8. Sound of Falling
    The past comes off in Mascha Schilinski’s film as an onerous, if unseen, weight on the present.
  9. The Smashing Machine
    Despite the retro vérité aesthetic that Benny Safdie employs to give Mark Kerr’s story a stylish new coat of paint, all that his version ultimately does is whip up a feeling of déjà vu.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Testament of Ann Lee
    Mona Fastvold’s protean fable is tremulous, tricky, and intrepid, much like its pious protagonist.
  11. Eleanor the Great
    Scarlett Johansson’s direction keeps things simple and intimate in a way that Tory Kamen’s overambitious screenplay doesn’t.
  12. The History of Sound
    The film movingly conjures the feeling of music’s creation of a suspended present tense.
  13. Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
    The careful balance of “stupid and clever” that solidified the legend of the first film is less steady in its much-belated sequel.
  14. Roofman
    The real Jeffrey Manchester may in fact have been polite, but Derek Cianfrance’s film doesn’t convince you that it needed to be as well.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Rental Family
    The few glimpses we get of the supporting cast suggest a more exploratory film, but these strands only exist to be woven back into Philip’s formulaic journey of self-discovery.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Where to Land
    Where to Land opts for quiet moments of connection, raising questions rather than giving definitive answers.
  17. Frankenstein
    Guillermo del Toro reassembles a multitude of fragments, both lifted from the text and drawn from his own life, into a bloody and beautiful organ of empathy that will assuredly live on.
  18. The Ugly
    The film plays a long game with audiences that frustrates far more than it illuminates.
  19. Rabbit Trap
    It’s when the film plays in the gaps between sound and image that it’s most disturbing.
  20. Pompei: Below the Clouds
    Gianfranco Rosi’s long, languorous, often hushed snapshots of the area between Vesuvius and the Gulf of Naples conjure a sense of life here being suspended in time.
  21. The Lost Bus
    Paul Greengrass employs a peripatetic restlessness to the material, and while that brings an often thrilling sense of verisimilitude to the film, the cliché-stuffed screenplay too often plays against the intended solemnity of the project.
  22. Sirât
    The film is a vivid meditation on human possibility in the face of fate and nature’s tumultuous might, ending in a fog of ambiguity that mirrors that characters’ bewilderment.
  23. Late Fame
    Its desire to resist easy storytelling paradigms around artists is admirable, but without punching up or down, the film feels like it’s pulling punches altogether.
  24. The Long Walk
    This ferocious adaptation of Stephen King’s 1979 novella as a passion play about class solidarity.
  25. Megadoc
    Mike Figgis’s anthem of aspiration and struggle leaves no doubt about Francis Ford Coppola’s beliefs.
  26. Cover-Up
    Cover-Up is a sweeping, if tempered, tribute to investigative journalism, attesting to its enduring importance at a time when resources for it have substantially declined.
  27. Jay Kelly
    As Noah Baumbach sells the sappiness in Jay Kelly with the same sincerity of his convictions as in his more acerbic works, the film holds together as a lightweight delight.
  28. The Secret Agent
    More broadly appealing than Kleber Mendonça Filho’s past films, The Secret Agent is still unmistakeably the work of an artist who’s deeply fascinated with the ways in which cinema, politics, and personal history co-mingle.
  29. Dreams
    A story of hazy memories that’s also a city symphony, Dreams elegantly captures the disorienting rush of first love and the frustrations and anguish that stem from romantic fantasies colliding with reality.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Magellan
    The film bluntly puts its historical horrors on display, but it’s careful not to explicitly posit their causes.
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