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For 6,581 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: 2,495 out of 6581
  2. Mixed: 3,767 out of 6581
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6581
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  1. I Know Where I'm Going!
    The happiness and innocence in this film are beyond compare.
  2. Marty Supreme
    The pure craziness is a marvel.
  3. The Tales of Hoffmann
    This is a hothouse flower of pure orchidaceous strangeness, enclosed in the studio’s artificial universe, fusing cinema, opera and ballet.
  4. A Complete Unknown
    Interestingly the story, despite the classic music-biopic tropes that Mangold did so much to popularise, does not conform to the classic rise-fall-learning-experience-comeback format. It’s all rise, but troubled and unclear. You might not buy Chalamet’s Dylan at first; I didn’t, until that Guthrie bedside scene. There is amazing bravado in this performance.
  5. Sullivan's Travels
    There are some marvellous supporting performances. This film comes as close as possible to a distillation of pure happiness.
  6. Hamnet
    This film succeeds, not because it solves the mystery, but because it deepens it still further. It is contrived and speculative, but ingenious and impassioned at the same time.
  7. Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
    The movie is perfectly composed with a light touch that is the work of a certain kind of gravity and sophistication.
  8. My Favourite Cake
    There is something quietly magnificent in it. Moments like these in life are poignantly brief – but many never have them at all. It’s a lovely film.
  9. One Hand Clapping
    There’s plenty for nostalgists and completists to swoon over. . . . Such a pleasure.
  10. Knife in the Water
    Roman Polanski's sensational 1962 debut...is an example of how a superlative director makes a film from the simplest materials.
  11. The Sacrifice
    It is brilliant and audacious, with one of the most extraordinary final sequences in modern cinema, and all in a manner which Hollywood in the succeeding decade would learn to call "high concept".
  12. Beatles '64
    What is still amazing is how brief an instant it was; in just a few years, the Beatles and their music would evolve into something completely different. A few years after that, they would break up, while still only in their 20s. An amazing split-second of cultural history.
  13. Riefenstahl
    The film is at its most grimly compelling when it puts her on stage, pinned down by her accusers and fielding questions with a mix of wary contempt and sudden explosions of incandescent rage.
  14. 2000 Meters to Andriivka
    Chernov is armed only with a camera, to the astonishment of many soldiers he encounters, and the film was constructed by editing his footage together with that of solders’ helmet cameras and drone material. Chernov shows us how drones are now utterly ubiquitous in war, delivering both the pictures and the assaults.
  15. Predators
    It’s too soon to know for sure, but this may end up being ranked as one of the best nonfiction films of the year.
  16. An Unfinished Film
    Out of agony and chaos, Chinese film-maker Lou Ye has created something mysterious, moving and even profound – a kind of multilayered docu-realist film, evidently inspired by a real-life situation in film production.
  17. The Ice Tower
    It is a mesmeric melodrama, mixing sensuality with a teetering anxiety, balancing on a cliff-edge of disaster.
  18. The Christophers
    The double act of McKellen and Coel has the onscreen chemistry of the year.
  19. Young Mothers
    There is such simplicity and clarity here, an honest apportioning of dignity and intelligence to everyone on screen: every scene and every character portrait is unforced and unembellished. The straightforward assertion of hope through giving help and asking for help is very powerful.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Left-Handed Girl
    Tsou and Baker’s script sharply examines what it really means to lose face: which shames are noble, which are indulgent, and what should be passed from one generation to the next?
  21. Ocean with David Attenborough
    Attenborough matches the natural world’s grandeur with his own intellectual and moral seriousness.
  22. The Secret Agent
    This movie, visually and dramatically superb in every way, moves with unhurried confidence across the screen, pausing to savour every bizarre bit of comedy or erotic byway, or note of pathos, on its circuitous path to the violent finale.
  23. Two Prosecutors
    It is a very disturbing parable of the insidious micro-processes of tyranny.
  24. Breathless
    There is simply no other film which demonstrates so perfectly what it feels like to be young and in love.
  25. The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
    Hitchcock's 1926 silent melodrama offers a gripping prehistory not just of his own work, but the Hollywood thriller itself.
  26. Grenfell: Uncovered
    The 2017 Grenfell Tower fire in London which caused 72 deaths is now the subject of Olaide Sadiq’s heartwrenching and enraging documentary, digging at the causes and movingly interviewing survivors and their families, whose testimony is all but unbearable.
  27. A House of Dynamite
    I watched this film with translucently white knuckles but also that strange climbing nausea that only this topic can create.
  28. Cairo Station
    Chahine conducts his big cast with uproarious energy, immediacy and freshness; he has tremendous stylised set pieces, including a railway-carriage rock'n'roll number performed by a group gloriously credited as Mike and his Skyrockets.
  29. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
    The greatest ever making-of documentary.
  30. Dead of Winter
    The Dead of Winter has an old-school barnstorming brashness, some edge-of-the-seat tension, a mile-wide streak of sentimentality, a dash of broad humour and a horrible flourish of the macabre.
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