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For 6,577 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: 2,494 out of 6577
  2. Mixed: 3,764 out of 6577
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6577
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  1. The Tree of Life
    This is visionary cinema on an unashamedly huge scale: cinema that's thinking big. Malick makes an awful lot of other film-makers look timid and negligible by comparison.
  2. Decision to Leave
    It’s a gorgeously and grippingly made picture and Tang Wei is magnificent.
  3. Daughters
    It’s a tender, painful, intimate film, made over several years as we watch four girls in the months before the dance.
  4. The Fabelmans
    There remains a remove though still, Spielberg giving us a slightly too stage-managed version of himself and his family, some gristle missing from the darkest moments.
  5. Naked
    This is a movie of virtuoso nihilism and scorn.
  6. Blaze
    The result is a hot, sticky, trippy fusion of wild style and painfully genuine emotion, with plenty of moments that take your breath away.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Starless Dreams
    [A] brilliant documentary.
  8. Beyond Utopia
    It’s an outstanding documentary.
  9. Vermiglio
    It is wonderfully acted with unaffected naturalism by its cast of professionals and newcomers and plays an extravagant, almost shameless pizzicato on the audience’s heartstrings.
  10. Stalker
    Like Solaris, his earlier meditation on the future, Tarkovsky's 1979 film Stalker is mysterious and compelling though in my view not, like Andrei Rublev, in the realms of greatness: a vast prose-poem on celluloid whose forms and ideas were to be borrowed by moviemakers like Lynch and Spielberg.
  11. Beanpole
    Beanpole is moving, disturbing, overwhelming.
  12. Won't You Be My Neighbor?
    This documentary by Morgan Neville reveals that he really was just what he seemed to be at first innocent sight: a kind-hearted, square but saintly man who genuinely loved and understood children.
  13. Fruitvale Station
    The robust acting and sharp sense of the Bay Area milieu glides us nicely over the film's few soft patches.
  14. I'm Still Here
    The subtlety and dignity of Fernanda Torres’s Oscar-nominated performance in Walter Salles’s new film have been rightly praised.
  15. Atlantic City
    Sarandon’s force and confidence are undeniable, and she easily holds her own against Burt Lancaster.
  16. The Eternal Memory
    Sometimes God is just too on the nose when he makes his creations suffer; but at least Alberdi’s humane, profoundly empathic film-making offers some balm.
  17. The Handmaiden
    Given the nudity on show, some are already quick to criticise Park’s direction as gratuitous and to claim that his male gaze is affecting the depiction of lesbian romance. But the impotency of the male characters helps to counter this while the sex scenes themselves, as lovingly shot as they might be, feel vital to the narrative.
  18. EO
    I’m not sure this is my favourite Skolimowski film, but it is engaging in many ways: beautifully photographed, sentimental and surreal in equal measure; and also stubborn – as stubborn as its hero – in its symbolism and stark pessimism.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Black Is King
    It is compelling in every sense and takes you on a moving journey: not only through the story of The Lion King, but through a small portion of the beautiful cultures and traditions that exist within black communities globally.
  20. The Work
    The dry, strictly observational shooting style means the doc stays in the moment and rarely ventures out of the room where the programme unfolds, adding immediacy.
  21. White on White
    Director Théo Court does a fine job of capturing the barren beauty of this landscape and using it to suggest the broader moral vacuum.
  22. The Plains
    This extraordinarily mundane film – a combination of words I’m fairly certain I’ve never used before – is a tremendous achievement and, in a subtle way, an amazing work of art.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Giant
    It must be added that Giant, in spite of its length, seldom seems long – its story is too eventful, its effects too picturesque, and its director too skilful for that even over so long an expanse of time. It may not be a great film but it is certainly an awesome one.
  24. 76 Days
    76 Days is not a hard-hitting documentary about the centre of the Covid-19 pandemic – maybe such a film will be slower to arrive than the vaccine – but it’s a potent human-interest story, and a portrait of a city under siege.
  25. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
    A sweet, eminently sensible film.
  26. The Truffle Hunters
    A strange, funny, mysterious and rather beautiful film about an activity that’s recherché to say the least.
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