The Film Stage's Scores
- Movies
For 2,750 reviews, this publication has graded:
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56% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.2 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 69
Highest review score: | The Zone of Interest | |
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Lowest review score: | Southbound |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,908 out of 2750
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Mixed: 734 out of 2750
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Negative: 108 out of 2750
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Ethan Vestby
Across the Spider-Verse comes with the same exhaustion point that hits during every comic book movie, where the stakes have to be undercut with “am I the guy who does the thing” soy banter despite all manner of plotting still somehow justifying 140 minutes of our time.- The Film Stage
- Posted Jun 1, 2023
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Alistair Ryder
Above all else, Le Bon’s debut showcases a playful spirit behind the camera: one eager to blend opposing genres, to find something authentically heartfelt beneath the tropes and gothic artifice. It’s a small Lake that I hope makes a big splash.- The Film Stage
- Posted May 31, 2023
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Leonardo Goi
One of the greatest mysteries behind Ceylan’s cinema is how his talk-heavy sprawls manage to escape the aloofness of the chamber dramas they so often unspool as. Grasses is another scintillating example of that paradox, a film in which chats do not unfurl so much as detonate.- The Film Stage
- Posted May 30, 2023
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Rory O'Connor
The movie tries a great deal and ends up stretching itself thin.- The Film Stage
- Posted May 27, 2023
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Navigating the tumultuous process of making a film is hard and often comic, but The Book of Solutions is careful enough not to reduce it to caricature. On the contrary, it preserves the ineffable magic of creation, even if that comes at the expense of the formal rigor we’d usually associate with the resourceful French director.- The Film Stage
- Posted May 27, 2023
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By zooming into the end of the couple’s marriage, Aïnouz draws out all dramatic power latent in a more straightforward historical overview. Compressed time and strict dramaturgy make this film work.- The Film Stage
- Posted May 27, 2023
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Jordan Raup
While spare early passages are narratively opaque and formally ornate to a distancing fault, the riveting second half––including a chilling reckoning with others occupying the desolate land and a well-executed structural gamble––brings profound expansion to this chilling story of atrocity.- The Film Stage
- Posted May 26, 2023
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Rory O'Connor
It’s a cool film and never less than interesting, even as it meanders a bit too sleepily toward its final denouement.- The Film Stage
- Posted May 26, 2023
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The ambivalence of it all is a compelling force. And even if everyone is made to look pathetic at one point, we can safely say this is Breillat’s version of the old saying: “Love conquers all”.- The Film Stage
- Posted May 26, 2023
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David Katz
Erice and co-writer Michel Gaztambide satisfyingly resolve the primary mystery while letting possible accompanying details and circumstances swim teasingly in our minds.- The Film Stage
- Posted May 26, 2023
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Rory O'Connor
Club Zero is less a cautionary tale about eating disorders than a satire on environmental anxieties, extreme activism, and the sometimes-competitive nature of those who get swept up in it. That’s a tasty premise, but Hausner’s take is frankly a cynical one and, much like the plate of vomit that dominated headlines after the film’s premiere last week in Cannes, it leaves a bad taste in one’s mouth.- The Film Stage
- Posted May 26, 2023
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Leonardo Goi
Even as it routinely threatens to get lost in a head-spinningly knotty plot, the director’s kinetic approach and gallows humor makes Kubi a singular addition to Kitano’s oeuvre.- The Film Stage
- Posted May 25, 2023
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Luke Hicks
Despite the cool, screeching, horror-like score and some memorable moments, Kidnapped plays more like a heavy sigh than an absorbing adaptation of history.- The Film Stage
- Posted May 25, 2023
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Rory O'Connor
As a film, Fallen Leaves could hardly be simpler––two people living separate, lonesome lives meet and maybe fall in love––but there is beauty in that simplicity and, as ever, Kaurismäki’s characters live far richer inner lives.- The Film Stage
- Posted May 25, 2023
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Leonardo Goi
A Brighter Tomorrow may be soaked in nostalgia, but it’s a nostalgia with a reactionary twang. Its title, in retrospect, feels oddly ironic. This is a screed from a director unwilling to look at the future with more than just contempt, where the “tomorrow” is really just a rose-tinted fantasia of long gone past.- The Film Stage
- Posted May 25, 2023
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Ethan Vestby
That Kandahar’s geopolitical ambiguity isn’t the richest is maybe to be expected, but paired with lame character dynamics, it sadly sells short the potential of Butler’s weary face under duress, something I’ll nonetheless keep returning to.- The Film Stage
- Posted May 24, 2023
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Luke Hicks
Asteroid City is an absolute delight, Anderson’s best since The Grand Budapest Hotel.- The Film Stage
- Posted May 24, 2023
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British teens on holiday at a Greek resort means booze, booze, and more booze, but Molly Manning Walker’s debut film has the power to take these prosaic cultural archetypes (teenhood, virginity, youth drinking culture) and use them as tools to tell a poignant story about the ambivalences of growing up, female friendships, and consent.- The Film Stage
- Posted May 23, 2023
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- Posted May 23, 2023
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Rory O'Connor
Railing against conventions has the potential to become conventional after a while, and the film eventually suffers from a case of diminishing returns, but there’s more than enough to warrant such lulls. And of course Williams ends it with a lot of swagger.- The Film Stage
- Posted May 23, 2023
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Leonardo Goi
Blanchett gives a committed turn as the conflicted nun, but all her emphatic exertions cannot resurrect a story that forsakes its mysticism for a calculated parable, as well-intentioned as it is turgid.- The Film Stage
- Posted May 23, 2023
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Rory O'Connor
It’s a wonderfully distinctive debut by Arnow, who lays it all out in both her script and performance.- The Film Stage
- Posted May 22, 2023
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Luke Hicks
It would be very fair to expect a movie about a woman who raped a child and her future family’s reckoning with that to be dark, heavy, even overbearing. But May December is more funny than it is fervent, a bona fide spring suburban anthem, an American malady in chrysalis.- The Film Stage
- Posted May 22, 2023
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- Posted May 21, 2023
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Luke Hicks
Steve McQueen’s first documentary feels more like an unedited podcast with dizzying visual accompaniment than a feature film, despite ruminating on its subject, Amsterdam under Nazi occupation, for more than four hours.- The Film Stage
- Posted May 20, 2023
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Rory O'Connor
It’s a shocking piece of audio-visual art that only further cements Glazer as one of the 21st century’s most original and influential filmmakers.- The Film Stage
- Posted May 20, 2023
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Rory O'Connor
It often fizzes as much as it lulls, but in Mikkelsen’s Dr. Schmidt the film can at least boast a worthy antagonist, and one with enough personality to cover some of those cracks.- The Film Stage
- Posted May 19, 2023
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Conor O'Donnell
All told, Fast X is an improvement on its recent predecessors and perfectly welcome as distracting summer fare, but whether or not it will stall before the end of the road remains to be seen.- The Film Stage
- Posted May 19, 2023
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Luke Hicks
What starts as a relatively clear story about sinister pyros, “pig-brained” kids, and abusive teachers transforms, through labyrinthine story mechanics, into a maze of limited perspectives crafted by loss, misinterpretation, and rejection.- The Film Stage
- Posted May 19, 2023
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Jordan Raup
With its whirlwind, surface-level observations of fascinatingly complex lives, The Thief Collector is the kind of scattershot true-crime documentary that grips in the moment but, with reflection, is more entertaining to discuss than revisit for additional clues.- The Film Stage
- Posted May 19, 2023
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