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For 3,737 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.7 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 10 The Emoji Movie
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,451 out of 3737
  2. Mixed: 1,185 out of 3737
  3. Negative: 101 out of 3737
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  1. Dry Leaf
    Koberidze invites us to reshape and reappraise our perspective on what constitutes beauty. It’s a bold decision and, coupled with the endurance-testing pacing and running time, one which will make the film something of a marketing challenge beyond the die-hard Koberidze fan base. And yet there is something alluring here – it’s a meditative and elusive picture that conveys a spiritual beauty as much as an aesthetic one.
  2. Crazy, Not Insane
    The film offers an engrossing overview of the painstaking, insightful investigations carried out over the years by Lewis and associates.
  3. It Comes at Night
    Shults has once again made a movie about the terror of family, but It Comes At Night’s confident, ruthless craftsmanship suggests a filmmaker only starting to reach his potential.
  4. Servants
    This is an unsettling rebuke of government control and ideological manipulation — as well as a sharp cry against compliance with the prevailing status quo.
  5. Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
    Despite a sterling effort from Thompson, neither the comedy nor the character arcs are fully satisfying.
  6. John Wick: Chapter 4
    Whether it’s Skarsgard’s cartoonish villain or the director’s showy nods to Lawrence Of Arabia and Sergio Leone, Chapter 4 plays dress-up rather than feeling like a legitimately rich, involving epic.
  7. We Met in Virtual Reality
    British director Joe Hunting has made a tender, affecting documentary about love, friendship and people finding a place where they can be themselves.
  8. Enys Men
    Enys Men is an enigmatic proposition, concerned with atmosphere rather than with story.
  9. Clash
    While the stand-off does have its scripted moments, Clash rises above this for two reasons. Firstly, it’s intensely cinematic.... Secondly, underlying the drama is a rather poignant lament for the unity and energy of Egyptian culture, something which comes through in a wealth of small details.
  10. Barracuda
    It’s a beautifully composed ballad that both celebrates and laments the passing of time and resonates long after the credits roll.
  11. Young Plato
    The bright sparks and troubled souls of the classroom make for lively, sometimes heartrending company in a film that successfully links individual stories to a broader perspective.
  12. Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
    The film’s professional polish and slick accessibility sometimes come at the expense of probing insight, but those still grieving his suicide should find comfort here.
  13. Amanda Knox
    The documentary is very good at raising reasonable doubts, planting seeds of confusion and demanding a more sensible examination of the facts.
  14. High Flying Bird
    Although compelling ideas float through High Flying Bird, the film is neither well crafted or intellectually rigorous enough to compensate for a generally lacklustre presentation.
  15. The Humans
    The Humans is a marvel of slight shifts in tone and rhythm, guided by a uniformly strong cast of actors who deliver naturalistic performances which show the cracks in their characters’ pleasant veneer.
  16. The Card Counter
    Its odd meld of drab suburban casinos, wrapped motel rooms, nightmarish Iraqi torture sequences and military correctional facilities where the furniture is bolted to the floor, all build to a video-artist vision that comes bursting surprisingly out of an old-school box – and results in one more male-slanted Paul Schrader script about a haunted man at a crossroads.
  17. In Between
    Touching on the pressures of living in a patriarchal society, as well as exploring attitudes towards nationality and sexuality, the film unpacks a raft of parallels in its three stories, leaving seemingly disparate characters with the same choices.
  18. The Chronology of Water
    Despite an honourable commitment to exploring how severe adolescent trauma casts a long shadow over a person’s life, the film’s patina of pain eventually grows repetitive, undercutting the sensitivity Stewart and her lead bring to the proceedings.
  19. Diego Maradona
    Even with an abrupt ending and the sense of unfinished business, Diego Maradona is more satisfying than Kapadia’s previous work.
  20. Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle
    This gripping tale of misguided patriotism recreates a vanished set of circumstances via excellent performances and well-tailored cinematic choices. While there are a few meditative lulls in this 165-minute adventure — which opens Un Certain Regard in Cannes — the proceedings are never dull and an accretion of detail leads to a memorably moving denouement.
  21. I, Daniel Blake
    While it might not break new ground, there is no denying the potency of the film’s empathetic anguish and fury.
  22. The Lost City of Z
    Lost City is the acme of a 21st century prestige picture. Sadly, however, it is one that is also deeply flawed. Gray’s most ambitious movie yet is marred by a story arc that fails to rise or reach a climax, unnatural-sounding expository dialogue, and an unforgivable lack of thrills.
  23. Girl Picture
    The winning performances and Haapasalo’s careful attention to them help to compensate for the sometimes frustratingly fragmented nature of the storytelling.
  24. Miroirs No. 3
    Although it’s a wisp of a thing, it delivers rich rewards. Mirrors No. 3 (which takes its title from the third movement of a Ravel piano suite) is an elegant demonstration of what can be achieved with limited ingredients in the hands of an inventive creative team and a first-rate cast.
  25. Avengers: Endgame
    Not every emotional beat lands, and some action scenes merely repeat past strengths. But between Brolin’s continued excellence as Thanos, a moral monster who believes in the righteousness of his cause, and the filmmakers’ effortless popcorn-movie poetry, Endgame is a muscular send-off to this series of comic-book extravaganzas.
  26. Donbass
    Like the bullets and bomb blasts that punctuate the narrative, Donbass only sometimes hits its target, but even so, it’s clearly the work of a director with an angry message to get across, in an idiosyncratically caustic way.
  27. The Ballad of Wallis Island
    While audiences will probably expect to laugh, they may be surprised to find themselves shedding a tear or two as well.
  28. We
    A subtle, respectful and enlightening patchwork of contemporary French lives.
  29. Hooligan Sparrow
    Wang’s film has a grass roots, on-the-ground urgency: nervy, paranoid camerawork gives a sense of the realities of life on the sharp edge of activism.
  30. A Gentle Creature
    A Gentle Creature is a grim state-of-the-nation fable, a bitter mix of tragedy, farce and road movie soaked in the bleak sardonic spirit of Gogol and Dostoyevsky, not to mention gallons of vodka.
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