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For 6,820 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 0.8 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: 3,008 out of 6820
  2. Mixed: 3,654 out of 6820
  3. Negative: 158 out of 6820
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  1. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
    A fizzy, gaudy, joyfully entertaining couple of hours. If there’s any right in the world, Rian Johnson and Daniel Craig will continue making films in the Benoit Blanc Cinematic Universe forever.
  2. Summer 1993
    Impeccably performed by its young leads and nurturing supporting cast, this deeply personal picture particularly impresses in the closing scenes, which are quietly devastating in their intimacy, insight and truth.
  3. Starred Up
    A brutal, immersive prison survival story with a breakout performance by British actor Jack O’Connell.
  4. Mirai
    Tempering its flights of fancy with moments of whimsical humour and kid’s-eye realism, this thoughtful treatise on growing pains reveals a realist side of Japanimation that’s all too rarely seen.
  5. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
    This one’s an endlessly thrilling, continuously propulsive beast, tense from the start: even the quieter, conversational scenes have you on edge. Mission, once again, accomplished.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Benediction
    Benediction finds both sorrow and hilariously withering wit in the eventful 
life of a famed wartime poet, offering some of the sharpest, nimblest dialogue of writer-director Terence Davies’ estimable career.
  7. A War
    It’s a riveting, complex film that asks one simple question: what do you do when there’s no right answer?
  8. She Dies Tomorrow
    Unnerving and compelling in equal measure, Amy Seimetz’s film is an exploration of how fear and paranoia can spread like a disease, and how the acceptance of one’s mortality remains the most terrifying thing of all.
  9. Living
    Really quite something: a rare remake that only augments and enriches the original. For Bill Nighy, meanwhile, it feels in every sense like the role of a lifetime.
  10. The Story of the Weeping Camel
    What makes this such an affecting picture is the contrast between the wonderfully aloof camels and the interdependence of the extended family, whose smiling resilience only hints at the harshness of an existence that has changed little in centuries.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The World's End
    Bravely refusing to rigidly adhere to a formula that has been so successful, Wright, Pegg and Frost’s Cornetto Trilogy closer has tonal shifts you won’t expect, but the same beating heart you’ve been craving.
  12. Destry Rides Again
    Typical James Stewart defeating bullies with integrity stuff.
  13. The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet
    A low-key treat about rising above the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet is something to shout about.
  14. Menashe
    Doubling as a fascinating look at a subculture that is normally sealed off from the rest of us and a gently amusing comedy of manners, this manages to say an awful lot by, paradoxically, saying it endearingly gently.
  15. District 9
    Blomkamp’s prawn cocktail has more than enough stylistic chutzpah and originality to make District 9 an essential date.
  16. Picnic at Hanging Rock
    A fascinating film that is by turns fascinating and mysterious.
  17. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
    Klayman exploits the opportunity to follow a man at the eye of a cultural and political storm, although more detail on his creative process and private life would have welcome.
  18. Nitram
    Exceptional performances, particularly from Caleb Landry Jones in the lead, and a sensitive touch from director Justin Kurtzel can’t shake the unease of giving yet another cinematic spotlight to a real-life mass murderer.
  19. Woman at War
    Asking questions of moral beliefs and societal responsibility, a plausible dilemma is framed like a fairytale. While the storytelling is neat, aesthetic quirks that entertain also remove any potential urgency.
  20. The Night of the 12th
    The long and devastating fallout from a senseless act of violence affects almost everyone in this compelling reality-inspired account, which lingers in the mind in a way that few crime stories do.
  21. The Nest
    Filled with both passive aggression and aggressive aggression, The Nest has the trappings of a haunted-house movie but delivers something much scarier — the slow death of a marriage, performed to perfection by Jude Law and Carrie Coon.
  22. To Live and Die in L.A.
    The main problem is that the supposed good guys are all such reprehensible toads it’s impossible to care whether they get to bring down Willem Dafoe’s charismatic, polo-necked super-crook.
  23. Ford v Ferrari
    Even if you’re not a motorhead, chances are you’ll be thrilled by this high-velocity bromance, powered by zesty acting and Mangold’s meticulous direction.
  24. The Voice of Hind Rajab
    About as powerful as cinema gets. Its hybrid blend of documentary audio and devastating dramatisation is heart-wrenchingly, shatteringly effective.
  25. The Mitchells vs. The Machines
    Both a thrilling, giddy family adventure, and the solidification of a radical new visual language in feature animation.
  26. The Chambermaid
    The Chambermaid is a poignant portrait of one of life’s have-nots, sensitively played by Cartol as a woman slowly sinking into non-existence.
  27. Silver Linings Playbook
    Jennifer Lawrence is the standout in a tonally uneven, eccentric romantic dramedy that fuses "The Fisher King" with "Romy And Michele's High School Reunion."
  28. Norte, the End of History
    Filipino maven Diaz delivers a bravura, literary human drama that does justice to its great source material.
  29. Explorer
    If it adds little in the way of dissenting voices or a different viewpoint, Explorer tells the tale of a remarkable, stranger-than-fiction life and emerges as an affecting, entertaining portrait of a true eccentric.
  30. Ray & Liz
    Ray & Liz is undoubtedly a difficult watch, a searing portrait of a family that has come apart at the seams. But, creating an astute sense of atmosphere and detail that come together to make meaning, Richard Billingham marks himself out as a filmmaker to watch.
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