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For 6,819 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 20 Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,007 out of 6819
  2. Mixed: 3,654 out of 6819
  3. Negative: 158 out of 6819
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  1. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
    A moving hymn to outsiders, this thrives on two criminally good performances from Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant. It also confirms Marielle Heller as one of the brightest directorial talents around.
  2. Wolfwalkers
    A treat. With astonishing craft and visual storytelling that howls from the screen, Cartoon Saloon have surely secured their place in the animation hall of fame.
  3. It Happened One Night
    A must see.
  4. My Neighbor Totoro
    An otherworldly tale of childhood and a definitive work of imagination.
  5. The Missing Picture
    Powerful and mesmerising, this offers an fresh approach to a tough topic.
  6. The Invisible Man
    If you set aside Frankenstein as more of a horror film and King Kong as a fantasy, The Invisible Man is the first truly great American science fiction film.
  7. Amadeus
    Amadeus skewers the period finery - stunning costumes, production design, sublime music - with piercing intelligence and thematic gravitas.
  8. The Long Goodbye
    A subtle criqiue of the main character that contains some astonishing set pieces.
  9. Cairo Station
    Not as depressing as the subject matter might suggest, this tackles heavy themes of modern life.
  10. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
    A beautifully presented tale of love, honor and duty from a master film-maker.
  11. Imitation of Life
    A consummate display of populist weepie-making.
  12. Pain and Glory
    Pain & Glory might see Almodóvar working in a minor key but it is a major work, graced with career-best work from Antonio Banderas.
  13. Gomorrah
    A sombre, slow, but well-paced study of organised crime in urban Naples that leaves a very grim taste in the mouth.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Eraserhead
    Gothically shot in black and white and numerous shots that have influenced the next generation of directors, this is a classic, no matter how comfortable it is to watch.
  15. Withnail and I
    Fans can mouth the words of Grant's big speeches along with him, relishing every viperish turn of phrase...this is and always will be a perfect dark comedy and a student staple.
  16. Return to Seoul
    A film that recognises there is no single answer to questions like ‘who are you?’ or ‘where do you come from’. Stirring, constantly surprising stuff — with an arresting debut turn from Ji-Min Park.
  17. The Velvet Underground
    The Verdict Underground is hypnotic but clear-eyed, finding a different way to put a musical biography on film. And for all its radical formalism, it never forgets to be entertaining.
  18. All That Breathes
    A thoughtful, meditative thesis on humanity’s relationship with nature, filmed with the kind of cinematographic beauty most fiction filmmakers can only aspire towards.
  19. I Vitelloni [re-release]
    It’s as wistful and sad as it is funny and charming, with the first of Nino Rota’s great scores to keep it burbling along.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Three Colors: Blue
    What lifts it out of the doldrums is Kieslowski's fascinating use of reflections, focusing techniques and camera angles to give the somewhat pedestrian material a profound and otherworldly East European feel.
  21. Mulholland Dr.
    A bone fide masterpiece. An erotic, deeply unsettling, darkly comic journey through the subconscious city of night.
  22. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
    A combination of thrilling stunts, insane daring and clever writing make this a stunning piece of action cinema. Just be sure to take your heart meds first, and hold on tight.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    F for Fake
    Entertaining as hell.
  24. Cléo from 5 to 7
    One of the Nouvelle Vague's boldest achievements.
  25. Grizzly Man
    A complex, unique and engrossing journey into the murky recesses of an unhinged mind. It really needs to be seen to be believed.
  26. Goldfinger
    Larger than life, faintly ridiculous, completely cool, Goldfinger is the quintessential James Bond movie.
  27. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
    Boseman and Davis deliver superb performances in this timeless meditation on Black art, and those who would exploit it. Yet another fine adaptation of an August Wilson play.
  28. Robot Dreams
    Who needs humans? This is visual storytelling at its finest, a traditional animation of gentle, unshowy genius. Sometimes the very best love stories go deeper than words can say.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    One False Move
    First-time director Franklin, a former actor, proves himself remarkably adept behind the camera, wringing the plot for every bit of tension, then sitting back and letting his cast stew in it.
  30. Jaws
    It was the complete nightmare that invented the "summer blockbuster", launched the genius on a global scale and delivered an astonishingly effective thriller built on a very primal level: fear.
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