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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. Clementine
    There’s a hint of Jane Campion’s own uncanny perversion of the banal throughout Lara Jean Gallagher’s film.
  2. Driveways
    The film’s devotion to the belief that kindness can be a balm for almost any hurt is deeply moving.
  3. A Good Woman Is Hard to Find
    The film’s early scenes turn the stuff of paying bills and managing kids into manna for an unsettlingly intimate domestic thriller.
  4. Our Mothers
    Around his main character, writer-director César Díaz builds a complex but unpretentious interrogation of national belonging.
  5. The Wretched
    The filmmakers don’t examine the psychological terror, the bitterness, and lust that gave rise to many of the works they cherish.
  6. Bull
    Director Annie Silverstein tries to enrich the tropes of her class-conscious buddy scenario by canceling them out.
  7. Bad Education
    Rather than a simplistic, straightforward parable of greed, Bad Education depicts its true events with a surprising amount of depth and ambiguity.
  8. Extraction
    Chris Hemsworth’s hyperbolically skilled soldier is borne of childish fantasies about the order of the world.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Beastie Boys Story
    Often feels like a cross between a TED talk and a memorial service, but one gets the sense that Diamond and Horovitz are finally getting years’ worth of grief off their chests. The cumulative effect is, at the very least, touching.
  10. 1BR
    The film gives palpable expression to the sense of hopelessness felt by those who fall under the control of cults.
  11. True History of the Kelly Gang
    In more than one sense, Justin Kurzel’s aggressively strange film queers the myth of the oft-lionized Ned Kelly.
  12. Selah and The Spades
    Through its exploration of Selah’s complexities, as well as the bravado and posturing that comes with being a credible drug dealer, Selah and the Spades locates a larger truth about the presentation of self and maintaining one’s image.
  13. Children of Paradise (1945)
    Carné’s France, unlike the fiddle-dee-dee of Victor Fleming’s cotton pickin’ South, is a poetic realist’s wonderland, a gateway to a dreamworld where human laws are mere judicial errors and love is so painful to hold onto it can only be savored in the moment.
  14. The Quarry
    Only Michel Shannon’s off-kilter timing brings The Quarry to sporadic life.
  15. A White, White Day
    There’s a moving study within the film of a man in emotional paralysis learning to redirect his love from the past to the present, but it’s too often obscured by a muted revenge yarn that’s no less banal because it’s tastefully directed.
  16. Trolls World Tour
    At its best, the film doesn’t just privilege altered states of consciousness, it is an altered state of consciousness.
  17. We Summon the Darkness
    The film’s cat-and-mouse antics play out with no sense of escalation or invention.
  18. Sea Fever
    Writer-director Neasa Hardiman’s film is undone by earnestness.
  19. Nafi's Father
    The film vibrantly articulates all that’s lost when people are held under the draconian decree of warlords.
  20. Days of Cannibalism
    The film ultimately depicts a world in which people are left with no other option but to devour their own.
  21. Atlantis
    The film’s use of scale to drive home the absurdity of its characters’ actions sometimes calls to mind Werner Herzog’s tragicomic existentialism, as well as early silent cinema.
  22. Vivarium
    This a parable about adulthood boasts deeply cynical takes on home, community, and childrearing.
  23. Resistance
    The film functions as a handsomely mounted biopic that tells a little-known story with considerable passion.
  24. The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs
    The film speaks lyrically to a peoples’ determination to find a meaningful way to live in a rapidly changing modern world.
  25. Blow the Man Down
    Without Margo Martindale, the film would be a sharp and tightly constructed nautical noir. With her, it becomes a memorable one.
  26. Deerskin
    In Deerskin, Quentin Dupieux mines the absurdism that is his signature with newfound forcefulness.
  27. Bloodshot
    Given its hero’s imperviousness, the film’s chaotically edited action sequences tend to be devoid of suspense.
  28. The Hunt
    The film was almost canceled for being too partisan, so it’s ironic to discover that it’s practically apolitical.
  29. Heimat is a Space in Time
    Thomas Heise’s documentary seeks to excavate real human thought and feeling beneath the haze of larger political structures.
  30. Stargirl
    It comes across like yet another casualty in the long line of stories about men having their eyes opened by their angelic girlfriends.
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