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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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    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Zero Dark Thirty
    Telling a nearly three-hour story with an ending everyone knows, Bigelow and Boal have managed to craft one of the most intense and intellectually challenging films of the year.
  2. Collective
    The cynicism and indifference to suffering is truly horrible, and a kind of insidious evil rises from the screen like carbon monoxide, and also a terrible sadness.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Double Indemnity
    I love Double Indemnity because it's about a couple who are cheap and greedy, but achieve a kind of tragic heroism; because it has one of the great father-son relationships (although they aren't actually father and son); because it's a thoroughly cynical thriller redeemed by just a fading touch of romance. And it also has a trio of superb performances.
  4. Sunrise
    FW Murnau's classic 1927 silent is one of the first movies with a really substantial feature-length narrative: an exuberant pioneer picture conceived on a big canvas, blazing an inspirational trail for just about everything Hollywood has done since. [06 Feb 2004, p.15]
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  5. La Dolce Vita
    It is a brilliant film, but there is nothing sweet about it.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    His Girl Friday
    With great verbal athleticism, the film earns its reputation as one of the fastest-talking comedies ever made.
  7. Carol
    It is a creamily sensuous, richly observed piece of work, handsomely detailed and furnished: the clothes, the hair, the automobiles, the train carriages, the record players, the lipstick and the cigarettes are all superbly presented. The combination of all this is intoxicating in itself.
  8. Before Midnight
    Before Midnight is intimate and intelligent, and also undemanding in the best possible way,
  9. Amazing Grace
    I felt wrung out at the end of this film. How incredible must it have been for those who were there in person.
  10. Dunkirk
    This is a powerful, superbly crafted film with a story to tell, avoiding war porn in favour of something desolate and apocalyptic, a beachscape of shame, littered with soldiers zombified with defeat, a grimly male world with hardly any women on screen. It is Nolan’s best film so far.
  11. 45 Years
    It could be the finest hour for both of its lead actors.
  12. Taxi Driver
    What a mad and brilliant film it is: 1,000-degree proof Seventies cinema. [30th Anniversary Release]
  13. Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
    The panoramic intelligence of this film is a wonder.
  14. The Servant
    It is a brilliant, subversive account of class relations and the changing times.
  15. Mr. Turner
    What a glorious film this is, richly and immediately enjoyable, hitting its satisfying stride straight away. It's funny and visually immaculate; it combines domestic intimacy with an epic sweep and has a lyrical, mysterious quality that perfumes every scene, whether tragic or comic.
  16. The Irishman
    There’s an almost meta-maturity, as if Scorsese is also looking back on his own career, the film leaving us with a haunting reminder not to glamorise violent men and the wreckage they leave behind.
  17. Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
    The silence of Jeanne Dielman is the film’s weather and its atmosphere. It is a silence of terrible loneliness, and a silence in which a storm is gathering.
  18. Once Upon a Time in Harlem
    It’s both a sublime hang-out of a film and a celebration of individual achievements, a fascinating map of a long-ago scene and a referendum on legacy.
  19. Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
    This animated Japanese masterpiece is a war story as wrenching as any live-action movie.
  20. Stop Making Sense
    The pleasure of the music is overpowering.
  21. Inside Out
    It hasn’t anything as genuinely emotionally devastating as Up, or the subtlety and inspired subversion of Monsters Inc. and the Toy Stories which it certainly resembles at various stages. But it is certainly a terrifically likeable, ebullient and seductive piece of entertainment, taken at full-throttle.
  22. Meet Me in St. Louis
    An unmissable big-screen experience.
  23. Sunset Boulevard
    This is an unmissable commentary on Hollywood's rejection of its silent past: a kind of Sobbin' in the Rain.
  24. The Apartment
    Absolutely brilliant.
  25. Apocalypse Now
    A film that needs to be seen on the big screen.
  26. Faces Places
    It is a beguiling and unique piece of work.
  27. Days of Heaven
    The film, with its transcendentally beautiful visuals...is a rich and rewarding experience. [1 Sept. 2011]
  28. Past Lives
    Song is a writer of elegant restraint and as the final act progressed, I worried that perhaps this restraint might end up a little too delicate for the years that have preceded and the feelings that have amassed. But then in a bar scene for the ages, we find ourselves floored, a slow buildup that finally hits like a bus.
  29. Chimes at Midnight
    Playing Falstaff might have been Welles’s creative and physical destiny: in the character he found a dignity and sensuality in his, by then, overweight form. The confidence and panache of his staging is a treat.
  30. Badlands
    An unmissable, transcendentally beautiful classic. [28 Aug. 1998]
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