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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 6.3 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. The Cut
    A well-behaved and unashamedly populist film, the kind that could be shown in schools and community centres, Akin's The Cut remains an undeniably important film regardless. What it does extremely well is to movingly illustrate a terrible moment in history which has been sadly neglected in the West and actively suppressed in other parts of the world.
  2. Burying the Ex
    An unfunny undead comedy that in harking back to the days of the classic B-movie would be flattered to be classified as an E-movie.
  3. Tusk
    The sheer insanity of the premise alone is enough to make Tusk a surreal hoot.
  4. The Tribe
    Slaboshpitsky's The Tribe is gripping, tour de force cinema from its opening jab, and from there it continually forces you against the ropes before delivering a knockout punch with a gut-wrenching conclusion destined to leave audiences stunned.
  5. Goodbye to Language 3D
    Godard is not willing to sit back in his dotage but strives to push at the boundaries of the medium, resulting in this rich, witty and thoroughly baffling provocation. Less of a narrative or a thesis than an esoteric patchwork visual essay condemning our fallen society, it's intent on being as abrasive as possible in almost every way.
  6. The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
    Taking Eastern watercolours as inspiration, the aesthetic is impressionistic and painterly with a fluidity that imbues the piece with an intrinsic magic.
  7. Cymbeline
    Intermittently entertaining and laudably short, for all its best intentions Cymbeline is cursed by doing again what others have done better.
  8. The Guest
    Stevens is excellent both as the cordial house guest and the brooding time- bomb ever present beneath his earnest veneer.
  9. Lucy
    This undeniably silly, but raucously entertaining, off-the-wall transhumanist actioner is an absolute riot.
  10. The Humbling
    The result is a beautifully entertaining film. It is witty and the scenes between Gerwig and Pacino fizz alternately with flirtation, humour and occasionally rage.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Sex Tape
    Another limp, almost laugh-free comedy to add to Diaz's long list of failures, Kasdan's Sex Tape fails to ignite the obvious chemistry between her and the usually solid Segel, himself in possibly his least entertaining performance.
  12. Life of Crime
    Schechter's latest marks its arrival with a fanfare of style and sass, but lacks the necessary bite to leave a lasting impression.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Wetlands
    Wetlands can be an unusually intriguing, funny and entertaining visual experience.
  14. God Help the Girl
    Even if Murdoch's directorial style is at times off-putting - the dance routines oscillating wildly from charming to naff - it's hard not to be taken in by trips into Glasgow's backstreet gig venues and the type of Victorian splendour seen on screen too rarely.
  15. Thunder and the House of Magic
    The humour is scant and there's no real risk of peril (Grant George's nephew and his dastardly plans seem more psychopathic than threatening). Yet when you have a film that's colourful, easy on the eye and full of positive messages about friendship and trust, then kids will be happy.
  16. She's Funny That Way
    It may be stuck in the past, with its hoary clichés about the call girl with the heart of gold and the incurable romantic, but the whole thing fizzes with such joie de vivre that the anachronisms only add to its overwhelming charm.
  17. 99 Homes
    [Bahrani's] created a complex and thoughtful political drama with the speed and tension of a good thriller.
  18. Manglehorn
    The style, one senses, is overcompensating for a narrative slackness that has nowhere particular to go other than anti-climax. That's not to say that Manglehorn isn't a good film - it is. It's just that Pacino's seasoned performance deserved a great film.
  19. The Look of Silence
    Oppenheimer's first film maintained a passive detachment, allowing the killers to re-enact their own atrocities and metaphorically hang themselves with their own words. The Look of Silence takes a far harder line, probing the killers more deeply and confronting them in an attempt to shake some sense of remorse out of them.
  20. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
    Birdman is a rich, startlingly clever and multi-layered collage, with Iñárritu creating a meta-universe of mirrors and performances upon performances.
  21. Starred Up
    Having constructed such a dramatically enticing set-up, it's thus disappointing to see Mackenzie fall back on familiar generic tropes with such a frustrating sense of inevitability.
  22. Memphis
    Ultimately, Memphis is a bold and bewildering conjuring act, that might mean nothing at all, but the sleight of hand is worth the price of admission.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Congress
    For a film that looks at a believably nightmarish future, The Congress sits out of its time; a feverish relic of a post-revolutionary cinema of the mind that attempts to transcend the confines of a bloated filmic space that appears no longer interested in discourse, and would rather parley its audience into a stupefied boredom.
  24. Stray Dogs
    Tsai's Stray Dogs is a masterpiece of social-realism, a distinctive and beguiling study of society's displaced and marginalised that plays to the beat of its own drum and refuses to conform to cinema's own commodification.
  25. Lilting
    Lilting looks set to linger on in the memory of those who seek it out for weeks, months and perhaps even years to come.
  26. Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
    As much as the sequel aches to remind audiences of what they liked first time round, it struggles to establish itself as its own unique entity.
  27. Dinosaur 13
    For the most part, Dinosaur 13 is highly absorbing - some of the decisions that come against Larson are truly shocking - but it does lack in places as a piece of documentary journalism.
  28. The Expendables 3
    Hughes' sequel fails because it makes no attempts whatsoever to rise above its predicable formula, even with the new cast additions and a promising director.
  29. Hector and the Search for Happiness
    If there's a positive to be taken away from Hector and the Search for Happiness, it's that British cinema doesn't get much worse than this.
  30. The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
    Ultimately, Benson's Eleanor Rigby disappears into the gap between its rom-com and drama stools.
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