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For 6,407 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Pain and Glory
Lowest review score: 0 Surf Nazis Must Die
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,493 out of 6407
  2. Mixed: 3,439 out of 6407
  3. Negative: 475 out of 6407
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  1. Daisies (1966)
    Thirty-six years later, this Molotov cocktail of fizzy champagne and feminist theory has not lost any of its combustible carbonation.
  2. It's the Earth Not the Moon
    As a tone poem, Tocha's documentary can be mesmerizing. As a memento mori, It's the Earth feels a little lost in space.
  3. Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
    The haphazardness of the film's structure mutes the power of the subjects' recollections.
  4. Max and the Junkmen (1971)
    The deep cynicism would be depressing if it weren't so riveting.
  5. Le Grand Amour (1969)
    It may be a stretch to call the filmmaker a forgotten genius, but if nothing else, Le Grand Amour makes a case that Étaix was a fertile clown, overdue for a bow in the spotlight.
  6. Young and Wild
    The young actors' vacant-eyed brazenness may be true to life, but there's a whiff of exploitation, matched by the script's disinterest in exploring any friction that isn't skin on skin.
  7. San Diego Surf
    The result is less an ode to late-'60s California dreamin' than an NYC-hip riff on SoCal somnambulism, one that occasionally Pops with Warhol's mondo minimalism yet never snaps nor crackles. "Lonesome Cowboys" this is not, despite the fact that Surf uses virtually the same cast.
  8. Mortem
    Smitten to a fault with high-art predecessors, Eric Atlan’s excruciatingly bad drama takes place in an abstract Buñuelian hotel room, glows luminously like Last Year at Marienbad and concludes with a Bergmanesque card game on which the fate of souls rests.
  9. Kuichisan
    The longer the film goes on, the more it seems like a collection of gorgeous images without an overall organizing structure. Our youthful lead’s slow disillusionment with his complicated surroundings ultimately plays less profound than petulant.
  10. Centro Histórico
    The extreme variance of style and scrutability makes for wildly disorienting viewing.
  11. Stations of the Elevated
    Stations of the Elevated plays like a time capsule, particularly for having no dialogue or plot. It swings to Charles Mingus’s hardest bop and evokes a long-gone city, somehow more adult and confrontational even in silence.
  12. Distant Sky - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Live in Copenhagen
    Music’s healing power fires off rays in all directions. Cave often looks like a healer himself, swooping about among the front-row faithful, a shaman in a sea of desperately reaching, lit-up hands.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Ghost Chase
    With its silly script, lame acting, naff special effects, and laughable model work, this unfunny supernatural comedy looks like the sort of film its leading characters - a pair of teenage home movie-makers (Lively and McDaniel) - might have made themselves.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A Fistful of Fingers
    Wright may not be in the class of Robert (El Mariachi) Rodriguez, but he has talent. Best seen after a couple of beers.
  15. A Cambodian Spring
    For all its sombre revelations, A Cambodian Spring exudes a powerful sense of possibility. In these days of popular protest, it makes for an enthralling case study.
  16. Tides
    As a study of early midlife crises Tides is well performed and convincing, finding the loneliness in what passes for friendship. All four characters are hemmed in by their own self-absorption; trouble is, that also cuts them off from the audience.
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    • 20 Critic Score
    Defiance
    A nasty and simplistic urban-Western parable for Reagan's America. Stranger-in-town Vincent takes it from a marauding Puerto Rican street gang 'til he can't take no more, then comes on like a righteous Cruise missile to trash the bad guys on a wave of populist reaction. Objectionable.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Garden
    Touching, intense, sometimes unexpectedly amusing, sometimes agonising, and always achingly sincere.
  19. Article 15
    The storytelling never lacks for sincerity and quiet power. It’s a cry from the heart with a courageous message.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Série Noire
    The characterisations are turned on their heads.
  21. The Australian Dream
    Whether it’s the filmmaking pair’s insider/outsider dynamic working to keep the story accessible to non-Aussies or just the depressing universality of Goodes’s experiences, The Australian Dream echoes far beyond national boundaries. So, in a much more positive way, does the man himself.
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    • 40 Critic Score
    The Satanic Rites of Dracula
    A lot of weak action scenes and weaker lines, but still a vast improvement on Dracula A.D. 1972.
  23. Nail Bomber: Manhunt
    At a seriously economical 72 minutes, director Daniel Vernon crams in a lot, leapfrogging between the tawdry racist subculture that spat out men like Copeland and London’s bubbly, multicultural communities that they hated so much. The courage and tenacity of anti-fascist campaigners like Searchlight gets its due, too.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Our Ladies
    Director Michael Caton-Jones’s approach is brash, vigorous, and not always interested in the complex contents of a teenage girl’s head.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bix: 'Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet' (1981)
    Overlong towards the end but beautiful to look at, the pastel tones on the new material blending with black-and-white archive still and movie footage, which instead of distancing the music even further places it vivdly in its period.
  26. Europa
    Haunting and narratively spare, Europa is a plea for humanity wrapped inside a gripping survival story.
  27. Everybody's Oma
    Ultimately it's a tribute to a woman well-loved, and to the family who will never forget her, even if they slip slowly away from her mind.
  28. 6 Festivals
    A monument to Australia's thriving music scene, it will have you whooping with joy one minute, then fighting back the tears the next.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Franklin
    It encapsulates the power of a community to protect the environment.
  30. The Disappearance
    Although the direction is occasionally a little precious - with studiedly stylish tableaux accompanied by Ravel - Sutherland is suitably haunted and cold as the confused assassin, and John Alcott's superb camerawork, on location in an icy Canada and a leafy Suffolk, is a definite bonus. And there are some fine supporting performances, particularly from Warner, Hurt and, most memorably, McKenna.
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