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For 7,303 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Red Turtle
Lowest review score: 0 The Mod Squad
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,357 out of 7303
  2. Mixed: 1,830 out of 7303
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7303
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  1. Violet
    Munn’s exquisitely readable face, which cycles through emotional states with delicate flickers, is Bateman’s strongest asset. Her weakest is her storytelling.
  2. Aloners
    Aloners manages to delicately infuse what otherwise seems like a slice-of-life drama with shots of mystery that keep us invested in Yu Jin’s otherwise humdrum life.
  3. The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
    Cumberbatch excels once again at breathing life into a sorrowful genius.
  4. I'm Your Man
    Director Maria Schrader’s new sci-fi-tinged rom-com might be conventionally structured, but it is also smoothly crowd-pleasing work, tackling all the anxieties and neuroses of midlife romance with the fears and promises of next-generation technology.
  5. A Night of Knowing Nothing
    Right from its opening frame, there’s a lyrical, dreamlike quality to Payal Kapadia’s debut feature.
  6. Memoria
    It’s a beautiful work of cinematic concentration that’s purely Apichatpong.
  7. Silent Land
    The director’s larger point is deployed with such subtlety that it creeps up on the viewer with devastating force.
  8. The Middle Man
    The Middle Man is an understated gem.
  9. Paka (River of Blood)
    Within India’s multilingual cinematic universe, Malayalam cinema has long established its own narrative. Despite its occasional disjointedness, Nithin Lukose’s debut feature is a worthy addition to that tradition.
  10. Ali & Ava
    A quiet study of its characters, Ali & Ava is a fresh take on otherwise well-worn rom-com narratives.
  11. Whether the Weather Is Fine
    With great humour and heartbreak, Whether the Weather is Fine is the kind of film intrepid cinephiles long to discover at TIFF.
  12. The Devil's Drivers
    Although the most dramatic events in the film tend to happen off screen, both men endure jail time, devastation of their property and familial heartbreak for participating in such a high-risk, high-reward career.
  13. Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
    If you see Dionne Warwick as the greatest-ever interpreter of the music of lyricist Hal David and composer Burt Bacharach, you wouldn’t be wrong. There’s more to her story, however, as shown by this lively, contextual bio-doc.
  14. Wildhood
    Filmed in Nova Scotia and featuring both English and Mi’kmaw, Wildhood beautifully captures the beauty of the landscape and its community as well as moments of humour, even as it treads some bleak spaces.
  15. The Odd-Job Men
    The laughs and the wisdom creep up on you in this small and subtle comedy about male relationships.
  16. Listening to Kenny G
    Even if you’d rather die than be trapped in a broken elevator with endless Kenny G music, Lane’s excellent accomplishment is making 97 minutes about the musician so much smart fun.
  17. Jagged
    Alison Klayman’s documentary about the making of Jagged Little Pill should be as raw as its source material, but plays it incredibly safe instead.
  18. Oscar Peterson: Black + White
    With his elegant bio-doc Oscar Peterson: Black + White, director Barry Avrich discreetly (perhaps too discreetly) sniffs around the question of Peterson’s legacy and whether he truly received the respect he deserved in his lifetime.
  19. Neptune Frost
    While Neptune Frost is at no loss for multi-faceted thinking, its development of these concepts too often remains at the surface of meaning. The Black futures envisioned here are largely concerned with aesthetics and, while sonically and visually lush, seem hollow in comparison to the range of their full potential.
  20. Maria Chapdelaine
    Today’s YA generation is unlikely to appreciate the monosyllabic performances and stately pace, but Pilote delivers a beautiful film in the tradition of the Quebec canon.
  21. Quickening
    To use the parlance of young people these days, Quickening is a mood.
  22. The Worst Person in the World
    Trier has an incredible ear for dialogue and can observe the pitiful drama of a millennial breakup like no other.
  23. Mogul Mowgli
    Using Toba Tek Singh as a recurring narrative device is sublime, for those who understand the reference and the burden it carries.
  24. Cinderella
    The movie is basically a sumptuous almost two-hour long music video/musical. And as we wind down the summer – looking ahead to yet more uncertainty in the fall (Variants! Elections! Just Life In General!) – it’s delightful to indulge in a flight of fantasy.
  25. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
    Shang-Chi is a first, but it’s firstly fun to watch.
  26. Candyman
    In its attempts to revisit the original film’s discrepancies, DaCosta’s film ends up only retracing its narrative inconsistencies with full force and even deeper perplexity. Gone is the alluring entanglement of erotics and fright, replaced here by flat characters limply stumbling over a script intent on hitting us over the head with its social commentary.
  27. Vacation Friends
    Vacation Friends could’ve been the fun, lackadaisical resort comedy it wants to be. Our ensemble has considerable chemistry and are all charismatic performers in their own right. It’s fun to watch Cena in goading jock mode, until Howery jumps off a cliff with his glasses still on. Unfortunately, Tarver’s film soon veers hard on its cinematic jet skis, and falls flat on its face.
  28. He's All That
    Despite some clever, winking nods to the original, including appearances by Cook herself and Matthew Lillard, He’s All That fails to deliver on what She’s All That did so well: a sweet, lighthearted romance that hinges on the chemistry between its two leads.
  29. The Hidden Life of Trees
    Based on the 2015 book of the same title, The Hidden Life of Trees is a documentary both simple and startling.
  30. The Lost Leonardo
    Whatever the experts say, any viewer can observe the large gap between the damaged original and the perfect restoration. Perhaps the only definitive thing one can say about the most expensive painting in the world is that, regardless of who painted it in the 16th century, it is a creature of the 21st.
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