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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. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Cactus Pears
    Here is a really impressive directorial debut from Mumbai film-maker Rohan Kanawade: tender, subtle, candid, scrupulously observed.
    • 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
    A sweet, eminently sensible film.
  7. The Truffle Hunters
    A strange, funny, mysterious and rather beautiful film about an activity that’s recherché to say the least.
  8. Judas and the Black Messiah
    It’s a powerful tale of human frailty.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Husbands and Wives
    Allen's best film for some time. As an examination of middle-aged, middle-class Manhattan mores, in fact, it is well nigh unbeatable. [22 Oct 1992, p.6]
    • The Guardian
  10. King & Country
    This film is a gruelling experience and Dirk Bogarde’s coup de grâce is the most horrible effect of all.
  11. Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood
    Quite simply, I just defy anyone with red blood in their veins not to respond to the crazy bravura of Tarantino’s film-making, not to be bounced around the auditorium at the moment-by-moment enjoyment that this movie delivers.
  12. Moonrise Kingdom
    A very charming, beautifully wrought, if somehow depthless film - eccentric but heartfelt, and thought through to the tiniest, quirkiest detail in the classic Anderson style.
  13. The President's Cake
    There’s a terrific charm and sweetness in this debut from Iraqi film-maker Hasan Hadi.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Through a Glass Darkly
    This is a noble attempt to shed light on a woman's inner struggle for existence. [02 Jul 2011, p.43]
    • The Guardian
  15. Sinners
    For many, the movie could as well do without the supernatural element, and I admit I’m one of them; I’d prefer to see a real story with real jeopardy work itself out. But there is energy and comic-book brashness
  16. McQueen
    [A] sombre, thorough, intelligent and informative documentary.
  17. Earth Mama
    A piercingly emotional drama, acted with natural flair.
  18. Booksmart
    Her film reaches the audience-friendly highs of a studio comedy while retaining an indie sensibility, both in its visuals and its tone, and coupled with the script’s rooted awareness of the moment we’re now in, it feels fresh, a film that will be rewatched and quoted, held on a pedestal by those who understand its necessity.
  19. Wise Blood
    John Huston's hellfire burlesque is one of the great lost films of the 1970s and a movie to stand alongside his Maltese Falcon or The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
  20. Small Axe: Red, White and Blue
    Boyega carries the film with a compelling authority of his own.
  21. Ascension
    Part of the film’s genius is in how the images are put together, sometimes to absurd effect, at other times unnervingly.
  22. Reality
    This, the film says, is what it really feels like to be on the receiving end of the law in a case like this: a calm, professional, technocratic but relentless display of overwhelming power.
  23. BPM (Beats Per Minute)
    This film has what its title implies: a heartbeat. It is full of cinematic life.
  24. Sirât
    Sirāt is a path to nowhere, an improvised spectacle in the Sahara; it is very impressive in the opening 10 minutes but valueless as it proceeds, and a pointless mirage of unearned emotion.
  25. The Seed of the Sacred Fig
    The film may not be perfect, but its courage – and relevance – are beyond doubt.
  26. To Leslie
    The ending of this film does not entirely measure up to the standard of tough realism set in the rest of the drama, but what a great performance from Riseborough.
  27. Harmonium
    Although the story unfolds at a steady pace over two hours, the filmmaking is sufficiently elegant and metronomically efficient as to make every minute gripping, especially after the tragic twist halfway through the story.
  28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    Here is the bruised-plum role that put Jack Nicholson into the biggest of big leagues.
  29. Orion: The Man Who Would Be King
    Jimmy Ellis’s story really is stranger than fiction.
  30. Fireworks Wednesday (2006)
    This is a thoroughly engrossing and densely textured drama, showing Farhadi's cool skill in dissecting the Iranian middle classes and the unhappiness of marriage.
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