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For 6,576 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 54% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 London Road
Lowest review score: 0 Melania
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,493 out of 6576
  2. Mixed: 3,764 out of 6576
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6576
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  1. Yomeddine
    It is a rather slight dramatic experience.
  2. Woman at War
    It is an attractive and sympathetic performance from Geirharðsdóttir as Halla.
  3. Leto
    Leto is a film with some wonderful moments and some slightly forgettable stretches – like an album with one or two wonderful tracks.
  4. The Image Book
    It is bewildering. I’m not sure I understood more than a fraction and of course it can be dismissed as obscurantism and mannerism. But I found The Image Book rich, disturbing and strange.
  5. Happy as Lazzaro
    With Happy as Lazzaro, Rohrwacher has crafted a magic-realist fable that doubles as an origin myth for a modern Italy subsumed by corruption and decline.
  6. Girls of the Sun
    Girls of the Sun is a feminist war movie: impassioned, suspenseful, angry.
  7. Donbass
    Donbass is a flawed, but vivid achievement.
  8. At War
    This is a stridently, bafflingly cacophonous movie which despite some smart, shrewd touches, is pretty much content with its single note of shouting acrimony and finishes by immolating itself in martyred self-pity.
  9. Asako I & II
    This is an amusing essay in amorous delusion.
  10. Angel Face
    Filho’s film is never less than heartfelt and strident, like a tale torn from life, or an episode of Jeremy Kyle played as stentorian opera. And this, I suspect, may be part of the problem. Crucially, Angel Face lacks shading, pacing and nuance.
  11. Cargo
    Nevertheless Cargo is a very strong, at times stirring achievement: a zombie film with soul and pathos.
  12. Dogman
    A movie with incomparable bite and strength.
  13. Cold War
    The crystalline black-and-white cinematography exalts its moments of intimate grimness and its dreamlike showpieces of theatrical display. It is an elliptical, episodic story of imprisonment and escape, epic in scope.
  14. Burning
    This is a gripping nightmare.
  15. Jeune Femme (Montparnasse Bienvenüe)
    [An] attractive and sympathetically acted movie in a classic New Wave style.
  16. Under the Silver Lake
    This film just wades into a murky lake of self-consciousness and sinks inexorably to the bottom.
  17. The House That Jack Built
    It is an ordeal of gruesomeness and tiresomeness that was every bit as exasperating as I had feared.
  18. Solo: A Star Wars Story
    Solo: A Star Wars Story is a crackingly enjoyable adventure which frankly deserves full episode status in the great franchise, not just one of these intermittent place-holding iterations
  19. Deadpool 2
    The movie’s other major weakness is its continued foregrounding of the white guys at the expense of the consciously inclusive cast around them.
  20. BlacKkKlansman
    It’s an entertaining spectacle but the brilliant tonal balance in something like Jordan Peele’s satire Get Out leaves this looking a little exposed. Yet it responds fiercely, contemptuously to the crassness at the heart of the Trump regime and gleefully pays it back in its own coin.
  21. Pope Francis - A Man of His Word
    Access to the great man has clearly been provided with an undertaking not to challenge, not even to ask questions, in the normal interview sense.
  22. Birds of Passage
    In the most reductive way, it is another mafia story. But as with their previous film, it is the specificity that counts, and while certain genre tendencies prevent the narrative from truly unmooring, hardly a scene goes by without something fundamentally familiar being rendered in a unique fashion.
  23. Ash Is Purest White
    What does the ending of Ash Is Purest White mean — and what does its middle or beginning mean? I’m not sure. It feels like a gripping parable for the vanity of human wishes, and another impassioned portrait of national malaise.
  24. 3 Faces
    Jafar Panahi has here created a quietly engaging quasi-realist parable, part of his ongoing and unique creative cine-autobiography, full of intelligence and humility and a real respect for women and for female actors. It is gentle, elusive, and redolent of this director’s mysterious Iranian zen.
  25. Arctic
    Mikkelsen hurls himself into proceedings. It’s a performance of intense commitment, one where every grunt and yowl feels agonisingly authentic.
  26. Climax
    It is as if Noé has somehow mulched up the quintessence of dance, coke and porn together and squooshed it into his camera. If that sounds horrible, then yes it is, but also, often, demonically inspired.
  27. Mandy
    Either you are one of the devoted or you’re not. You won’t know what camp you’re in until you see it.
  28. Leave No Trace
    It’s a movie that will live with me for a long time.
  29. Get the Gringo
    However agonising it is to admit it, this film isn't half bad, a sparky black-comic actioner with a cute "con trick" scene showcasing Gibson's Clint Eastwood impression.
  30. Wildlife
    It’s an extremely watchable movie, beautifully and even luxuriously appointed in its austere evocation of smalltown America – though maybe a little self-conscious in its emotional woundedness.
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