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For 367 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 63% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 32% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 71
Highest review score: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 20 Death on the Nile
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 219 out of 367
  2. Mixed: 140 out of 367
  3. Negative: 8 out of 367
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  1. Nitram
    Condemned in Australia by two of the victim’s families, there’s an argument to be made for Nitram not being watched at all. But by refusing to paint Nitram as an out-and-out monster, the film’s masterstroke is its compassion. It exposes politicians as the real criminals in an unspeakable tragedy that we still haven’t learned from today.
  2. The Northman
    It’s all properly violent and uncivilised.
  3. Marty Supreme
    It is a film about living fully and without fear, a cynicism-free zone where, for all their fast-talking, people love each other so much it makes your heart feel like it’s about to burst. Talk about a smash.
  4. Oasis Knebworth 1996
    For those who were there, the film provides a portal back to a golden age. For everyone else, it’s a reminder of those special teen years – when a plastic cup filled with warm lager and a sunny afternoon in a park makes for the biggest adventure of your life.
  5. One to One: John & Yoko
    In short, this is a terrific documentary from start to finish, beautifully structured and by turns bracingly political, informative and inspiring.
  6. Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio
    Looking and feeling every inch like a film made without compromise, Pinocchio was worth the wait. Del Toro has been talking about making the film for most of his career now, and the pay-off shows in every brushstroke and thumbprint.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Bring Me the Horizon: L.I.V.E. in São Paulo
    This is how metal should be done. Don’t miss it.
  8. Under Paris
    Under Paris, then is a cheesy yet canny creature feature romp with gritty Gallic bite, taking itself – enjoyably – rather more seriously than it deserves.
  9. Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road
    Gradually, Fine’s sensitive, softly-softly approach works small wonders.
  10. Bones and All
    Throughout, Guadagnino audaciously but successfully balances some gut-wrenchingly grim and gory scenes with moments of genuine tenderness.
  11. Jackass Forever
    There’s a kindness and companionship – and freedom – to Jackass Forever that makes for 90 minutes of pure joy.
  12. Moonfall
    The bad news is that Moonfall isn’t a great movie. The good news is that it’s hugely enjoyable for most of its running time.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Reviewed by
      El Hunt
    Parallel Mothers
    The king of kitschy, campy cinema, understated is not always a word you’d readily associate with Pedro Almodóvar, but in his compassionate hands, motherhood becomes a vehicle for something much more weighty.
  14. Scream VI
    Scream movies usually follow the same, tried-and-tested format, but directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett should get credit for an attempt to reinvent their villain.
  15. Nil by Mouth
    Gary Oldman made his directorial debut with this startling portrait of life in a deprived part of south-east London.
  16. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
    It’s a lively, enthralling tale with some particularly emotive scenes in the final act that are bound to cause a tear or two. Some will ask why make this film at all? The answer should be, why not?
  17. Heretic
    Among the best horror films of the year.
  18. Thor: Love and Thunder
    Best of all, like Ragnarok before it, it’s tremendously entertaining. Welcome to the jungle, indeed.
  19. Piece By Piece
    Neville’s film is so forward-thinking, it’s easy to forgive the more superficial aspects of the production.
  20. The Innocents
    Kids are scary. If you didn’t think so before, you definitely will after watching The Innocents – one of the year’s most quietly unsettling horror films.
  21. Speak No Evil
    All the cast play their parts, but an off-the-leash McAvoy is a joy to behold, channeling the same twisted energy he mined for his addict-cop in Irvine Welsh adaptation Filth. Touching on issues of class and the rich-poor divide, the result is a top-notch British thriller that’ll scare the bejesus out of you.
  22. Wicked
    By the end, you won’t quite be levitating off your seat but you’ll definitely be enchanted enough to stream the soundtrack on the way home. Funny, colourful and full of empathy for outsiders, this film really is the Shiz.
  23. Don't Worry Darling
    A really quite good film has been overshadowed needlessly. And that’s a real shame.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blonde
    Viewed as a fever-dream psychological horror about somebody unravelling, and how fame is the mask that eats the face, it’s dizzyingly audacious filmmaking.
  25. Back to Black
    This film was always going to face accusations of being exploitative – given the way Winehouse was scrutinised when she was alive – but the naysayers needn’t have worried. Taylor-Johnson’s film (particularly the ending) is impressively deft and delicate.
  26. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
    Writer-director Rian Johnson’s script isn’t quite the perfect box of tricks. It’s fairly tenuous that Blanc would turn up for this puzzler – apparently at the behest of Mila Kunis’ local cop. But it’s hard to punch down on a movie with such a riotously entertaining cast.
  27. How to Have Sex
    Hope, then, is the film’s lasting message. Hope that it’ll spark much-needed conversations. But also hope that they won’t be so needed in the future.
  28. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
    
Smartly walking that line so that newcomers to this fantasy world and old hands who spent days playing the game can both enjoy, Honour Among Thieves is a satisfying romp. It’s a little formulaic in places, but on the flip side, it pulls some really weird moments out of its sack.
  29. Infinity Pool
    A riot of sex, murder and intoxication presented with an appropriate aural and sonic ferocity.
  30. Black Bag
    It’s a marriage drama, corporate comedy, domestic farce and international surveillance thriller in a tight 90-minute package.
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