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For 6,573 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 2.3 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: 2,491 out of 6573
  2. Mixed: 3,763 out of 6573
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6573
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Chosen
    What destinguishes the film is the intensity of the performances, with Steiger giving one of his perhaps over-familiar but still compulsive portrayals of an obstinate man beset by problems which render him almost but not quite paralysed. Those who admired him in The Pawnbroker will do so again in full measure. [27 Jun 1982]
    • The Guardian
  2. Chariots of Fire
    A bold, intelligent, romantic film with all the lineaments of a classic, and a score by Vangelis as instantly hummable as the music for Jaws.
  3. The Long Good Friday
    Hoskins’ bullish, black-comic Napoleonism makes this movie: pugnacious, sentimental, a cockney Cagney.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Reds
    An engrossing, beautifully filmed and remarkably balanced portrait of a fascinating moment in history, cleverly enhanced by the intercutting of real-life documentary interviews. Reds is everything a historian could want in a movie.
  5. Road Games
    One terrific moment in which Pat sees what he believes are the killer's shoes underneath a toilet stall door and berates him while Pamela climbs into the green van outside is reminiscent of another scene that arrived years later and was also labelled "Hitchcockian" – the footsteps down the hallway confrontation in the Coen brothers' No Country For Old Men.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    My Dinner with Andre
    It's a riveting, provocative film that rewards several viewings.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Southern Comfort
    It's an allegory about the Vietnam war, a study of American character and a national propensity for violence. Southern Comfort is a masterpiece.
  8. An American Werewolf in London
    For me, it tends to be a recipe in which you can't taste either of the constituent ingredients. The big man-to-wolf transformation scene is still a marvel.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Blow Out
    This is one of the finest films about the process of movie-making, a bleak, complex work that gives Travolta his most challenging role.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Monster Club
    Enjoyable spoof horror in which a vampire lures a horror writer to a nightclub populated by ghouls and the like. [28 Apr 2000]
    • The Guardian
  11. Atlantic City
    Sarandon’s force and confidence are undeniable, and she easily holds her own against Burt Lancaster.
  12. Cutter's Way
    An unclassifiably brilliant gem of American independent film-making.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tess
    An outstanding piece of work.
  14. Heaven's Gate
    It is a demanding film, without a doubt – but a passionate one.
  15. Raging Bull
    I can still remember my 19-year-old self's awe at how Jake provokes a gorgeous, reluctant smile from the incandescently beautiful Moriarty. Throughout university, I was obsessed with this film, and watched it about once a month.
  16. The Elephant Man
    It is an absorbing and satisfying drama, and Hurt’s Merrick is very powerful.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Scum
    This grim picture of borstal life packs a real punch. And kick, and headbutt. [13 Feb 2010]
    • The Guardian
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Dressed to Kill
    This ingenious erotic thriller full of unexpected shocks is best seen with no foreknowledge and even better at a second viewing.
  19. The Blues Brothers
    The stunts are still awe-inspiring, and there's plenty of laughs. They really were thinking big.
  20. The Shining
    The unhurried pace, extended dialogue scenes and those sudden, sinister inter-titles ("One Month Later", "4pm") contribute to the insidious unease. Nicholson's performance as the abusive father who is tipped over the edge is a thrillingly scabrous, black-comic turn, and the final shot of his face in daylight is a masterstroke...Deeply scary and strange.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
    A cast-iron, self-evident hit, but also just a tiny bit boring, perhaps?
  22. 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.
  23. Mad Max
    Mad Max has always radiated an otherworldly vibe, a slightly sickly sensation that something at its core is fundamentally wrong.
    • 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.
  25. Star Trek: The Motion Picture
    It’s a bit overextended but very watchable with flourishes of exotic invention.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Vengeance Is Mine
    Mysterious, complex and brilliant: the disquieting portrait of a serial killer, seducer and con-man in Japan whose motivation remains an enigma. [9 Sept 2005, p.13]
    • The Guardian
  27. Nosferatu the Vampyre
    This is Herzog's journey to the heart of darkness, a film that specifically echoes his earlier offerings The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser and his South American odyssey Aguirre, Wrath of God.
  28. Monty Python's Life of Brian
    But what a triumph this film was for Chapman, who gave a convincing, touching performance as the bewildered everyman who decides to make a stand, and in his battle with the evil empire makes a Luke Skywalker-style discovery about his lineage. Life of Brian is an unexpectedly earnest, sweet-natured hymn to the idea of tolerance.
  29. My Brilliant Career
    The film itself is a kind of free spirit, and one that has made an indelible print on Australian cinema.
  30. Apocalypse Now
    A film that needs to be seen on the big screen.
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