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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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    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Madness of King George
    The 1994 film of the play by Alan Bennett is a model of historical accuracy and psychological tact. A triumph.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Jerk
    Like Woody Allen's "Take The Money and Run", The Jerk is basically designed to allow Martin to use as many of his standup jokes and routines as possible, but his charm and timing makes this cleverly constructed movie seem fantastically loose and easy.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Fabulous Baker Boys
    The film clearly nods to old-school Hollywood and Vegas, but it has a sharp edge that keeps it funny and authentically modern, with Steve Kloves's streetwise and sometimes surprisingly elegiac script summing up the seediness and melancholy of 80s glamour.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Fantasia
    Fantasia is mashed potatoes and gravy but there's more than a hint of beluga there too.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Farewell, My Lovely
    Elegant neo-noir with a perfectly cast Robert Mitchum, at 58 the oldest actor to play Marlowe.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Blow-Up
    Blow-up is still an absolute must, such is the degree of visual and intellectual excitement of the film.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Medium Cool
    Medium Cool encapsulates the divisive issues of race and poverty that remain as urgent today as they did in 1968. It also makes us think about the way the media shape our lives and are used to deflect public attention from sustained political action.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Charade
    For all of its 113 minutes, Charade presents us with a temporary entry into that brighter place, into the possibility of adventure, the vicarious possession of beauty. Acted by two Europeans in a mythic, dangerous, beguiling Paris, it remains a quintessential Hollywood film.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Stagecoach
    Stagecoach remains a tale for our times.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Hustler
    The film is marred slightly by an over-abrupt ending and the irritating device of speeded-up clocks, but these are minor flaws in a film that has grown in stature over the years.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    El Cid
    It leaves the facts wounded and strewn haphazardly across the battlefield, but El Cid remains a flat-out terrific movie.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    It is the most thoroughgoing exposé of the absurdity of war, and the most explicitly pacifist movie ever made.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Gun Crazy
    It's a superbly crafted film by a cult film-maker and features a virtuoso bank robbery sequence shot in a single take from a camera in the back seat of a car.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    My Dinner with Andre
    It's a riveting, provocative film that rewards several viewings.
  15. Walkabout
    Roeg revels in the hallucinatory, creating a wilderness that exists as much in the mind as it does the land.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Long Goodbye
    Superbly photographed by Vilmos Zsigmond in a desaturated colour that echoes a bygone age, The Long Goodbye is an elegant, chilly, deliberately heartless movie.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Duellists
    A splendid recreation of Napoleonic France and a compelling movie to boot.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Bride of Frankenstein
    Bride is a wild ride, even today. It flits between the classical and the gutter, the camp and the serious in a manner that's hard to pin down.
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