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For 20,313 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Short Cuts
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,401 out of 20313
  2. Mixed: 8,446 out of 20313
  3. Negative: 2,466 out of 20313
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  1. Companion
    The film’s satire is barn-door broad, its humor sidelong and sharp enough to take the edge off the gore.
  2. Crossing Delancey
    What makes Crossing Delancey so appealing is the warm and leisurely way it arrives at its inevitable conclusion. All the different aspects of Izzy's busy, contradiction-filled life are carefully drawn, giving the film a realistic, well-populated feeling and a nicely wry view of the modern world.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mata Hari
    George Fitzmaurice, the director, has told his story in an intelligent and restrained fashion.
  4. Nature of the Crime
    This quiet and affecting documentary is at once an argument for reform and a soul-searching question: Should the guiding principle of criminal justice be retribution or rehabilitation?
  5. There's Still Tomorrow
    There’s Still Tomorrow is set in Rome after World War I, but it unfolds with timeless verve and romanticism.
  6. Paint Me a Road Out of Here
    Paint Me a Road Out Of Here is not a biographical film about Ringgold, even though you’ll learn a lot about her biography from it. The film has bigger aspirations, connecting art, prisons, activism and an expansive life.
  7. Riefenstahl
    Veiel’s documentary is a welcome addition to the historically grounded rebukes to Riefenstahl and her apologists, including bad feminists.
  8. Swept Away
    Swept Away is less a film about ideas than about previous commitments, for which neither character can be held completely accountable. The enormous appeal of the comedy has to do with the way, briefly, each character, is able to overcome those commitments.
  9. Sanjuro
    This is a mischievous, sly, good-humored presentation of a crusty old samurai caught between two groups of plain incompetents, with a playful satiric point.
  10. Julie Keeps Quiet
    It’s a film that maintains that Julie’s story is available only when she’s ready to tell it.
  11. Architecton
    Architecton is as gorgeous as it is grave. The score (by Evgueni Galperine) and sound design (by Aleksandr Dudarev) contribute mightily to the film’s heavy lifting.
  12. Lurker
    It takes its time at first, but once it really gets going, Lurker is snaky and disconcerting and smart.
  13. The Wedding Banquet
    The Wedding Banquet is so charming, and then so unexpectedly moving, that its strengths eventually outweigh the bits of mess.
  14. The Wedding Banquet
    It is the unusual film comedy in which the humor springs as much from character as from situation.
  15. Zodiac Killer Project
    The truth is that Shackleton isn’t settling for one mode; he’s working in a bunch of them at once, mixing affection and critique. Just like any true fan would.
  16. Folktales
    There is poetry as well as deep affection in their close-ups of people and dogs, and lessons for any age in the way students tumble off their sleds and get right back up.
  17. A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
    The film is not only a treasure in itself—witty, sophisticated an often beautifully funny, though it means to be “serious,” as Chaplin says—it's also a rare opportunity to see what Chaplin is like as a filmmaker when he is not contemplating his own image.
  18. André Is an Idiot
    He can’t be irreverent about his impending death forever, but it’s oddly uplifting to see him so committed to trying — while encouraging every viewer to get a colonoscopy.
  19. Coexistence, My Ass!
    The film leaves the impression that, sadly, comedy may be one of the only paths to peace left in the region.
  20. Final Destination: Bloodlines
    There’s not much more a “Final Destination” fan could ask for, but “Bloodlines” — which at times feel more like a dark satire than a straightforward horror movie — reminds us we’re powerless against the world’s morbid whims. Best we can do is laugh about it.
  21. Lili
    [Caron] helps "Lili" to be a lovely and beguiling little film, touched with the magic of romance and the shimmer of masquerade.
  22. An Unfinished Film
    Life gets in the way of art all the time, and art can be made out of life. What matters, the movie suggests, is hanging onto one another for dear life.
  23. Ne Zha 2
    The writer-director Jiao Zi uses equally expansive storytelling and visuals to deliver an epic, fantastical hero story about power hierarchies and the fall of institutions.
  24. The Ice Tower
    The Ice Tower is ultimately too glacial and secretive to fully satisfy. The real magic here lies in Jonathan Ricquebourg’s dazzlingly chilly images, and two leads as compelling as the fantasy that set them in motion.
  25. Kontinental '25
    It’s a sneak attack of a movie, one that invites your laughter, even as it jabs you in the ribs.
  26. We Beat the Dream Team
    It’s rare to see a documentary airing out a long-running beef as beautifully, good-naturedly and enjoyably as this one.
  27. The Story of Louis Pasteur
    Pasteur's life is warm and vital, of itself. It has lost none of that warmth through Mr. Muni's sensitive characterization, through the gifted direction of William Dieterle and the talents of a perfect cast.
  28. CHAOS: The Manson Murders
    This isn’t just about fringe cults on ranches anymore: It’s about social groups, theories about the world, the bubble you float around in on the internet, the candidate you believe in an election.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
    Fredric March is the stellar performer in this blood-curdling shadow venture.
  30. Jean de Florette
    Jean de Florette has the delicacy or something freshly observed. It's so good that one needn't be ashamed of escaping into its idealized if harsh and rocky world.
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