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For 6,656 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 2.1 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: 2,521 out of 6656
  2. Mixed: 3,814 out of 6656
  3. Negative: 321 out of 6656
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  1. West Side Story
    There is one especially lovely moment. At their first meeting, lovestruck Tony asks Maria if her kindness to him is just a joke. She replies: "I have not yet learned to joke that way. Now I never will." This is a real big-screen event.
  2. I Saw the TV Glow
    I Saw the TV Glow marks a remarkable progression for Schoenbrun as both writer and director, a more substantive, if still challenging, narrative married with an incredible, expanded ability to fully immerse us in the visuals they have created. It’s made with such transportive precision that I can still feel it as I write.
  3. May December
    May December is delivered with a cool, shrewd precision by Todd Haynes, Julianne Moore carries off her dysfunctional queenliness very watchably and Natalie Portman has a great scene where she gives a lecture on acting to Gracie’s children’s high school drama class.
  4. The Great Beauty
    This movie looks and feels superb, it is pure couture cinema. But there is also a excess of richness and bombast and for all its sleekness I felt that the spark of emotion was being hidden, and there is a kind of frustration in the operatic sadness.
  5. Cover-Up
    Hersh emerges as a tough, combative, peppery personality from this movie.
  6. April
    It is a deeply unsettling meditation on sexuality and transgression.
  7. Vitalina Varela
    Vitalina Varela stars as herself in Pedro Costa’s bleak but beautiful film about a woman discovering the hidden life of her late husband.
  8. Happening
    The drama mimics Anne’s own sense of denial, her own refusal to remember or imagine the catastrophe. What we get instead are clinical inspections functioning as chilling parodies or inversions of that sexual intimacy that has upended her life.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Patton
    It bends a few facts, and occasionally slips towards satire. But, for the most part, this is a remarkably enjoyable - and commendably fair - biopic of an unforgettable character. They don't make many films, or indeed generals, like this any more.
  10. The Lost Daughter
    What is great about Colman’s performance is that it is always teetering on the brink of some new revelation about Leda: her face is subtly trembling with … what? Tears? Laughter? A scowl of scorn?
  11. Argo
    There's a degree of puffery in the writing, however, that makes this drama untrustworthy.
  12. The Master
    The themes may be contentious, but the handling is perfect. If there were ever a movie to cause the lame to walk and the blind to see, The Master may just be it.
  13. The Wild Pear Tree
    The Wild Pear Tree is a gentle, humane, beautifully made and magnificently acted movie.
  14. Distant Voices, Still Lives
    Its austere beauty, artistry and wrenching sadness are undimmed after 30 years, and there is nothing distant or still about it.
  15. Sentimental Value
    It’s a baggy comedy, sentimental in ways that are not entirely intentional, but there is value, too.
  16. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
    This trio of stories is elegant and amusing, with a delicacy of touch and real imaginative warmth.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    City of Ghosts
    The film is about more than simply personal loss and Heineman’s admiration of journalist activists. It’s a guide to the media war being fought between Isis’s video team and RBSS.
  18. Springtime in a Small Town
    It is a beautifully acted, exquisitely considered chamber drama of subtlety and nuance: spellbindingly tender and utterly involving
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Last Detail
    A poignant, funny male-bonding tale, adapted by Robert Towne from Darryl Ponicsan's novel. [21 Dec 2013, p.54]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Strong Island
    It would be too simplistic to call it brave. Ford excels, and shows us why we should be angry at America’s indifference to dead black men. The documentary won’t bring William Ford back, and it may give Yance Ford some catharsis, but more importantly it could and should lead to greater justice and empowerment.
  21. American Factory
    There are toe-curling culture clash moments.
  22. Only Angels Have Wings
    It is an eccentric and entertaining movie soap-opera.
  23. First Reformed
    First Reformed is a deeply felt, deeply thought picture; impressive in its seriousness and often gripping in the way it frames itself as a debate and a sermon.
  24. Baby Driver
    [An] outrageously enjoyable petrolhead heist caper.
  25. The Bad and the Beautiful
    Hollywood here looks diabolically seductive.
  26. Sabaya
    The first 20 minutes of Hogir Hirori’s extraordinary documentary has the beat of a gripping thriller, full of hushed voices, car chases, and the terrifying sounds of gunfight.
  27. Beasts of the Southern Wild
    Beasts of the Southern Wild is a vividly poetic and maybe even therapeutic response to one of the most painful and mortifying episodes in modern American history, second only to 9/11.
  28. Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
    It’s as involving as it is necessary, a rare ray of sunshine on yet another cloudy day.
  29. Persona
    Persona is a film to make you shiver with fascination, or incomprehension, or desire.
  30. One Fine Morning
    For all its tendency to soap opera, it has a lovely happy-sad sweetness.
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