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For 1,460 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 32% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 65% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 10.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 52
Highest review score:
The Turin Horse
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Love, Wedding, Marriage
Critic Score 0
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 656 out of 1460
  2. Mixed: 300 out of 1460
  3. Negative: 504 out of 1460
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  1. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
    Manages to be intimate and impersonal at the same time, a trait constantly reinforced by his portrayal of not only Ceausescu but the populace he led, represented, and controlled for nearly three decades.
    • Metascore: 81
    • Critic Score 88
    Weekend
    A ticking stopwatch hangs over Weekend that amplifies the intensity of every conversation, every fight, every drink, every copulation. In other words, it's a device.
    • Metascore: 84
    • Critic Score 88
    The Descendants
    In a development that seemed to begin in earnest with "Sideways," a large part of The Descendents seems to operate on a non-narrative level.
    • Metascore: 82
    • Critic Score 88
    Le Havre
    For Carl Dreyer, to film a miracle took a single shot; for Bruno Dumont, a whole film. In Le Havre, Aki Kaurismäki needs four shots to capture his - and what an ordinary event it is!
    • Metascore: 59
    • Critic Score 88
    Silver Bullets
    Joe Swanberg's idea of making audiences "happy" is by acknowledging what his supporters and detractors have been saying about him for a number of years, but presenting these things within the same game of elliptical story-unraveling and confession that's governed most of his other films.
  6. Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
    Elite Squad: The Enemy Within is pure pedagogic bliss.
  7. Into the Abyss
    Underlying the occasionally harrowing, consistently mournful tone is a philosophy that, more than being explicitly anti-capital punishment, puts both family ties and the social contract at the center of people's self-worth.
    • Metascore: 46
    • Critic Score 88
    Immortals
    Dashing across the screen in all its bloody, gilded glory, the awesome and beautiful Immortals marks an all-win scenario.
  9. Outrage
    It's a brilliant reversal that, while seemingly far less inspired than most of the director's efforts, leaves us with a film that's just as iconoclastic.
  10. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
    Order may be restored to the Circus, the "bad" elements weeded out, but in the jaundiced world the film has spent the last two hours so effectively delineating, the barriers between good and evil have been shown to be essentially meaningless.
  11. El Sicario: Room 164
    A lot of evil is laid on the table in El Sicario, and the film makes a big, if exquisitely subtle show, of theorizing that there's no way to explain how it got there.
  12. A Separation
    Barriers both transparent and persistently present encase the characters of A Separation, constricting them in ways social, cultural, religious, familial, and emotional.
    • Metascore: 71
    • Critic Score 88
    Robinson in Ruins
    Robinson's very name ties him to explorers like Crusoe and Walden, but he is also something like JLG's whispering leftist prankster who butted into 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her to intermittently spout rhetoric over images of freeways and construction sites.
    • Metascore: 64
    • Critic Score 88
    Domain
    The ultimate drama of Domain becomes how long he can be a witness to her self-destruction.
  15. The Innkeepers
    Winding up the tension to an almost stubborn degree, Ti West forestalls the inevitable disappointment of its release, a blow that's further softened by how immaculately the whole movie is shot.
  16. Perfect Sense
    Visually glassy and smooth, Perfect Sense values the dynamic mood of each scene without being overly stylized.
    • Metascore: 90
    • Critic Score 88
    This Is Not a Film
    In its way, this effort is both a forceful assertion of the most stifling brand of auteurism and a radical reconfiguration of its political potential.
    • Metascore: 87
    • Critic Score 88
    The Kid with a Bike
    If The Kid with a Bike is a fairy tale, it's the unsentimental kind that locates the dark enchantment in characters discovering themselves during their most despairing moments. Still, it's certainly the Dardennes' fleetest, warmest film to date.
  19. Attenberg
    A boldly conceived assemblage of diverse and seemingly random fictional materials, Athina Rachel Tsangari's Attenberg is concerned with nothing less than those hardy perennials: sex, death, and modernity. And coming of age a little too late.
    • Metascore: 67
    • Critic Score 88
    Damsels in Distress
    The clash of styles in Damsels in Distress is bewildering and then disarming.
  21. Unraveled
    Marc H. Simon's documentary has the thrust of a great American noir or black comedy.
  22. The Day He Arrives
    The geometry of human relationships is the main theme of Hong Sang-soo's The Day He Arrives.
  23. Jean Gentil
    Filmmakers Laura Amelia Guzmán and Israel Cárdenas have crafted a beautiful tale of alienation, solitude, and existential anxiety.
    • Metascore: 75
    • Critic Score 88
    Patience (After Sebald)
    A wide-ranging piece of literary criticism brought to vivid cinematic life, bursting with ideas and inspired visual translations of them.
  25. Portrait of Wally
    The conclusion is a testament to the fact that authentic justice is probably only attainable by accident.
  26. Sleepless Night
    After a few turns in the modest narrative, an unlikely sense of structural resilience begins to emerge.
  27. Bonsái
    Cristián Jiménez's film knows how entangled the will to know is with the will to make love.
  28. Beyond the Black Rainbow
    Something like a trippy grindhouse homage whose familiar images are refracted through a prism of blacklight posters, Jodorowsky films, and even Rob Zombie's grungy psychotropic sensibility.
  29. Elena
    Elena is a film deeply concerned with class resentment, but the filmmakers' attitude toward their titular character is disconcerting and even shocking.
  30. Moonrise Kingdom
    Although the film remains continually fanciful, it always reminds us of the stakes in which precocious childhood rubs up against the possibility of a childhood denied altogether.
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