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For 3,667 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 0.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Always Be My Maybe
Lowest review score: 0 Love, Weddings & Other Disasters
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,236 out of 3667
  2. Mixed: 992 out of 3667
  3. Negative: 439 out of 3667
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  1. The Tragedy of Macbeth
    If there’s a quibble with this graphically imagined The Tragedy of Macbeth, it’s one common to the movies Coen made with his brother: It’s ruthless, intelligent, and entertaining, and mightily drinkable as filmmaking, without necessarily raising the emotional temperature past a clinical, grim efficiency. Often, even with the never-not-human Washington going for it, dazzlingly so.
  2. Flow
    Even the quietest moments of 'Flow' are tainted by existential threat. It’s suspenseful and pensive and painful in a way few films strive for, and fewer still achieve.
  3. Life Itself
    Life Itself paints a captivating portrait of a man who embraced life and art, whose spirit never flagged even when his body did. You don't have to be a film critic to find inspiration from Roger Ebert's extraordinary life.
  4. The Shape of Water
    There’s something here for lovers of all kinds of movies — even silents and musicals — but the director transcends mere pastiche to craft a work that feels like the product of our collective film-going subconscious.
  5. Rewind
    You’ll walk away from Rewind shaken by the story, and haunted by the face of a little boy with a world of hurt and nowhere to run.
  6. Resurrection
    Many might come up with a sequence that overlays gangster and horror tropes with bursts of violence and dance; few would then toggle between first-and third-person perspectives; and only Bi Gan would have that first-person camera start singing karaoke.
  7. My Golden Days
    My Golden Days is lovely and thoughtful, yet it has elements of a thriller, too.
  8. Force Majeure
    Writer-director Ruben Ostlund (“Play”) brilliantly mines this dark material for awkward hilarity.
  9. Diane
    This is a movie that notices things and people that we are trained to ignore, and you are not likely to forget it.
  10. Tangerine
    The film bustles along through a series of reveals – a storytelling technique that can lose an audience’s sympathy or suspension of disbelief pretty fast, but which works flawlessly here because the filmmakers and the performers know exactly who their characters are and what kind of world they live in.
  11. Room
    Larson excels at determined despair, simultaneously evincing vulnerability and fearlessness. It’s an exciting, tour-de-force performance by an actress who announces herself as one of the best of her generation. If only the film around her were as bold.
  12. The Wolf House
    In both concept and execution, The Wolf House will render you awestruck.
  13. In the Rearview
    There’s nothing flashy about the way these stories are assembled or told, but the cumulative power becomes overwhelming.
  14. Anatomy of a Fall
    Part thorny family story, part whodunit, part courtroom drama and part meditation on the nature of truth and fiction, Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall takes two hours of conversations and makes them both provocative and propulsive.
  15. Fallen Leaves
    Throughout, Kaurismäki shows his usual complete control of a delicate tone that could easily go awry if it didn’t work so well.
  16. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
    It’s a triumph of maximalist filmmaking, using in-your-face techniques to craft a gigantically intimate story. A wonder to behold, a shock to the senses, a thrill to one and all.
  17. Krisha
    All the performances are terrific and lend the film a vérité so keen it may leave you as uncomfortable as the titular outcast.
  18. Is God Is
    So emotionally, dramatically, philosophically complex that it’s tempting to put on professorial airs and focus entirely on its depth. But it is also, just as importantly, electrifying to watch.
  19. The Babadook
    The Babadook is the rare horror tale that's also a triumph of empathy.
  20. Little Men
    Little Men is a deceptively slight movie which brings us towards the revelation that life is disappointment, and that happiness comes in being ready for it.
  21. Welcome to Chechnya
    Advocacy meets suspense in Welcome to Chechnya, a chilling examination of both the brutality that the Chechen LGBT community is forced to face on a daily basis and the difficulty of leaving the country for peace and safety.
  22. Chasing Coral
    Chasing Coral is not impartial. It’s staunchly pro-life, in the truest sense of the term.
  23. Loveless
    Marriages have been used before as prisms of a wider critique. But Loveless has a careful alchemy of psychological acuity and societal insight that imbues nearly every shot (a close-up of a face, an epic vista, a tension-filled pan) with a gathering insight into the ripple effects of turning private miseries into petty wars.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Showing Up
    Showing Up is perhaps Reichardt’s most grounded and least impressionistic film, but it is still more than thoughtful and enjoyable and beautiful.
  25. EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
    EPiC is Elvis through the Baz lens, where big and bold is always preferable to straightforward and where going over-the-top is never considered a bad thing. If it’s not revelatory for people who’ve seen the existing films from the era, it’s the most imaginative, generous and entertaining look at a time in which Elvis’ comeback still had real life to it.
  26. I Saw the TV Glow
    It reaches inside your imagination and stirs it around, making new connections between familiar concepts. It’s not just great, it’s fascinating and revelatory.
  27. May December
    Despite a heavy-handed cocoon motif that sometimes spells out the story’s themes to a fault, Haynes has done something spellbinding here: heady, grown-up and committed to a refreshing dose of moral ambiguity at a time in cinema where moral pandering sadly seems to be the default.
  28. Cover-Up
    The result is an always engaging, sometimes enraging, and occasionally revelatory doc, stretching from Civil Rights to Substack, that every so often reveals something more jarringly (and appealingly) adversarial.
  29. April
    Don’t let the name fool you: April is a wintery affair. By far the most uncompromising vision to play at this year’s Venice Film Festival, director Dea Kulumbegashvili’s slow cinema horror show might also be the most audacious.
  30. Vitalina Varela
    By centering the real-life experiences of his actors, Costa’s conscientious cinema lives in a fully humane space. Material deprivation and unrelenting night provide a blackened backdrop for quiet intimacy and dignity. Costa rejects voyeurism and condescension in favor of a form of storytelling solidarity with his actors, one where there’s no buffer of irony, no distancing effects.
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