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For 1,771 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 48% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 71
Highest review score: 100 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Lowest review score: 20 Victoria and Abdul
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,013 out of 1771
  2. Mixed: 727 out of 1771
  3. Negative: 31 out of 1771
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  1. Stronger
    What keeps Green's film just about on the right side of rote is a trio of solid performances, a sensitive, fair portrayal of Jeff's relationship with Erin with some standout scenes between the two, and a focus on the personal over the political.
  2. The Dance of Reality
    The Dance of Reality is a rich and expressive new offering from a man who has always tried to sculpt something resembling cinematic poetry, whatever that might look like.
  3. Obvious Child
    This is a film of ideas, but it's a comedy first, and its boldness is that it doesn't aim to address a pro-choice or pro-life stance - it's about Donna just getting on with it all the same.
  4. Chevalier
    This is a brilliantly contained and sublimely ridiculous send-up of competitive male egos from a refreshing female perspective.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A Place in the Sun
    One of the major successes of A Place in the Sun is the way it delicately obfuscates the distinction between romantic longing and personal ambition.
  6. Shirley
    Though the slow, blurry-edged stupor of Shirley will not be to everyone’s tastes, it cannot be denied that it examines its subject, and a rather tired genre, with feverish, dreamlike fluidity rather than rigid biography. That, and Moss’ enthralling lead performance, are Shirley’s chief accomplishments.
  7. mother!
    Yes, it is pretentious. But pretension is also about ambition and this is cinema that is willing to kick out the lights.
  8. Black Souls
    With its surprising narrative twists and handsome visuals, Black Souls ends up being a far more original take on the Italian organised crime drama than first thought.
  9. Jeune Femme (Montparnasse Bienvenüe)
    Serraille avoids every miserablist cul-de-sac and tries for something much more radical: optimism.
  10. Sharkwater Extinction
    An urgent and moving plea for action against the illegal trade in shark fins and more generally for the conservation of marine life in our rapidly dirtier and emptier oceans.
  11. Asteroid City
    Everything looks beautiful: sand the colour of peach fluff and skies, a cyan blue.
  12. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
    It can be sly as a fox one minute and as obvious as dynamite the next, but it’s never less than thrilling.
  13. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
    With Catching Fire, director Lawrence certainly isn't afraid to bide his time and build anticipation for the truly spectacular (and tropical-tinged) Quarter Quell, patiently reestablishing crucial relationships for maximum dramatic pay-off.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Marguerite
    When everything comes full circle, Marguerite is an enjoyable comedy with hints of dark satire and tangy melodrama.
  15. The Tales of Hoffmann
    The Tales of Hoffmann has aged beautifully and reminds us of why we go to the movies in the first place: to move through the screen and find yourself happily transported to another world.
  16. Into the Inferno
    There's something deeply unsettling about the unstoppable, magma-like flow of Werner Herzog's Into the Inferno.
  17. The Truth
    The truth is that The Truth is an above-average French comedy and Kore-eda has succeeded in a finely wrought act of ventriloquism and diva worship. But the Japanese director’s fans can be forgiven for thinking above average is not good enough for such an accomplished filmmaker.
  18. Pearl
    Pearl is notable as a pandemic film, situating itself in the middle of the Spanish flu outbreak, though much like its engagement with sex, violence and entertainment, and its treatment of women, the film sets the table for a discussion but doesn’t quite make a full meal of it.
  19. Paris, 13th District
    Paris, 13th District is a paean to the freedoms, the heartaches and the confusion of singledom.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Tarnished Angels
    While Sirk didn’t believe it to be his greatest work, it’s perhaps best-known for being his most personal, ambitious and starkly cynical film; far removed from the more distinguishable, Technicolor-infused melodramas of that peppered his career.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Killing Fields
    A solid, stark, cheerless rendering of hard-boiled storytelling. It’s historical filmmaking at its most candid and its most pragmatic.
  22. Farewell Amor
    The US-born, Kenyan-raised director’s feature-length debut is told with honesty, determination and grace.
  23. Inherit the Wind
    A searing indictment of religious fundamentalism and anti-intellectualism. Inherit the Wind’s relevance continues beyond its immediate parallels with McCarthyism.
  24. Mistress America
    Mistress America is, despite it's wobbles and preference for humour over depth, a delightful diversion from Baumbach's typically weighty output and a star-show for the pair of performers at its centre.
  25. Border
    Border is a piece of modern gothic, a far out midnight movie which delivers on the WTF-ery while maintaining a surprisingly big and generous heart.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Ali & Ava
    This is a film about the ordinariness of love.
  27. Frank
    With Frank, Abrahamson cultivates a mystical hour of prog-based shenanigans before he - and his film - begin to lose their collective heads in a muddled final third.
  28. The Kindergarten Teacher
    The Kindergarten Teacher evokes sadness and horror in equal measure, but not always a great deal of understanding.
  29. Down by Law
    In many ways, Down by Law feels like the quintessential Jarmusch. It's a perfect distillation of that strange whimsy and resolutely deadpan humour - harvested via the director's life-long passion for world cinema.
  30. This Is Congo
    This Is Congo is an angry film, yet one which is never blinded by its anger. McCabe offers no solutions – the UN Peacekeeping Force are rounded on at one point by furious locals – and no grounds for optimism. Yet even in its attempts to understand and to communicate that understanding, there is a defiance against the easy fallback of despair.
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