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For 7,291 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Red Turtle
Lowest review score: 0 The Mod Squad
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,349 out of 7291
  2. Mixed: 1,826 out of 7291
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7291
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  1. Sunset Song
    It’s ripe to the point of bursting and, with a plot that tilts to melodrama, Davies flirts dangerously with cliché, creating an over-wrought period piece where every wheat field is bathed in golden sunlight and every childbirth is announced by chilling screams.
  2. Casino
    Visually impressive, splendidly performed, thematically significant, this is a movie in full possession of every key cinematic asset except one -- a solid script. Casino is a polished vehicle with an untuned engine.
  3. Transpecos
    The song playing sombrely over the tail credits is Afraid of Everyone, which is a hell of a way to die, but an even worse way to live. There is no cheer to Transpecos.
  4. Supernova
    Supernova feels less like a film to cherish and more a tweet to favourite.
  5. The Matrix
    For those who have been waiting for movies to catch up with the graphic possibilities of comic books, wait no longer: The Matrix is among us.
  6. The Impossible
    The Impossible looks back at a natural calamity with unflinching honesty. It sees fear and pain, it sees fortitude and bravery, but mainly it sees this: In that raging instant when the sea becomes its own monster, there's precious little to separate the devoured from the spared – nothing but the thin wedge of luck.
  7. I'm Not Scared
    A film that appeared exceptional turns mundane.
  8. Super Size Me
    Watching Morgan Spurlock commit slow suicide in Super Size Me is rather like watching Nic Cage do the same in "Leaving Las Vegas," except here the "preferred" instruments of destruction are hamburgers and vanilla milkshakes instead of booze and cigarettes.
  9. High Art
    Has a subtle magnetism, and a real human pulse, especially as it concentrates on its two main characters.
  10. The Platform
    Extraordinarily gross, metaphorically blunt, but also perversely and wildly entertaining, the new Spanish splatter satire The Platform is the perfect movie to watch while the world seemingly teeters on the edge of existence.
  11. Hoppers
    Like many of its Pixar predecessors, Hoppers manages to thread the needle between a charming story for a young audience and a considered take on the climate crisis that will also resonate for their adult caregivers.
  12. Montana Story
    Thanks to the specificity of Richardson’s performance in particular and Giles Nuttgen’s gorgeous cinematography (the movie is shot on 35 mm), Montana Story evokes a grandiose style of American frontier filmmaking, somewhere between John Ford and Kelly Reichardt. See it on the largest screen you can find.
  13. Cold Mountain
    All the signs pointed to a major movie achievement...And it does -- sometimes, and dazzlingly so. But the dazzle doesn't add up to the sustained act of brilliance I'd been expecting.
  14. Jim: The James Foley Story
    Directed by Foley’s childhood friend Brian Oakes, the doc does raise some difficult issues – albeit very tactfully.
  15. The Commitments
    Partly a scintillating performance documentary, partly a comic romp through a rough-and-tumble culture, The Commitments has the charismatic energy of the music it salutes - this is blues that cheers you up, soul with a whole lot of heart. [16 Aug 1991]
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  16. Me and Orson Welles
    The very name Orson Welles stands for genius wasted and betrayed, and the movie offers some foreshadowing of his triumphs and failures to come.
  17. Rocket Science
    The movies have given us plenty of loquacious teenagers – from such fast-talking truants as Ferris Bueller to such overachieving political animals as Tracy Flick ( Election). Hal Hefner is not one of these kids.
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  18. American Sniper
    While the movie is narrow, it has a deep, melancholic resonance.
  19. Working Girl
    The laughs in Working Girl are the laughs of near-recognition - just good enough to make us wish they were much better.
  20. The Pirates! Band of Misfits
    Designed to please all generations of irreverent humour-lovers, The Pirates! Band of Misfits may not be heart-warming (it is about nasty, scurvy pirates!) but it's breezy rollicking fun.
  21. Mad Max
    One does not expect to find references to Bertolucci in a action movie distributed by American International, but Mad Max is no ordinary action movie: it's a B-movie classic on the order of Truck Stop Women, and when its director, George Miller, steals from established filmmakers, he steals from the best. [15 April 1980]
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  22. Family Portrait in Black and White
    Though only 85 minutes, the film captures an entire, bewilderingly extended family and way of life inside a sturdy frame.
  23. The Hidden Life of Trees
    Based on the 2015 book of the same title, The Hidden Life of Trees is a documentary both simple and startling.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Bill Nye: Science Guy
    It’s a by-the-numbers profile, complete with the requisite visit to his childhood home, but, partway through, it becomes a rather piercing portrait of a man constantly doubting himself – while he studied under Carl Sagan, he lacks a PhD and is therefore, in the eyes of his detractors, not a real scientist – and struggling with his celebrity.
  25. The Forgiveness of Blood
    There's much to observe – for example, the thoroughly credible performances of the cast, most of them non-professionals.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Indie Game: The Movie
    Video-game developers: Geeks, nerds, socially adrift obsessives. Indie Game thankfully gets past such base introductions in a flash and graduates to far more engrossing levels – levels which open up into the real worlds of the best independent game developers working their craft.
  27. The Clan
    Trapero reveals the ways in which truth can be much stranger, more tragic and confused, than fiction.
  28. Spider-Man: Homecoming
    As far as movies-as-line-items go, Homecoming is better than it has any right to be. The story is slight but spry, thanks partly to the jettisoning of origin story but also due to its blessedly small stakes.
  29. Prince Avalanche
    A charming oddity starring Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch, often feels like an al fresco stage play. It’s an intimate two-hander with lots of dialogue, humour and poignant revelations, set against a backdrop of rugged woodland beauty.
  30. Watergate
    For those entering grade school, there is likely no better and more concise primer on the scandal. For everyone else, well, you know the story.
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