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For 6,628 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: 2,512 out of 6628
  2. Mixed: 3,796 out of 6628
  3. Negative: 320 out of 6628
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  1. Return to Ithaca
    It is a bit stagey, but heartfelt and well acted.
  2. The Lure
    [A] thin, slightly exasperating documentary.
  3. Distance
    This is a diffuse film, and lacks Afterlife's clinching motif. It is uncertain in both its tone and its message - if, indeed, any such message exists, or even needs to.... There is something melancholy and resonant about this film, and it has its own subtle, unsettling effect. [22 Aug 2001, p.12]
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  4. The Odyssey
    It’s a handsome film, but in the end perhaps Wes Anderson’s pastiche approach in The Life Aquatic (in which Bill Murray’s character is a tribute to Cousteau) more vividly brought to life the era of the last great adventurer-superstars.
  5. I Love You, Daddy
    It contrives to be a very funny and recklessly provocative homage to Woody Allen, channelling his masterpiece Manhattan and brilliantly finding a fictional way to tackle his personal reputation head-on.
  6. The Jungle Bunch
    Loud and zappy, The Jungle Bunch trots out predictable be-kind-be-brave platitudes, but lacks anything distinctive of its own.
  7. The Seventh Continent (1989)
    A chilling and utterly brilliant film whose final, excoriating sequence is frankly sufficient on its own to justify the genius tag.
  8. Ferrari: Race to Immortality
    As a film, it’s altogether keener to Turtle Wax the brand than stop for even a moment to examine what Ferrari the man, logo and company ever stood for.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Our New President
    It’ll annoy many with its refusal to take a stance beyond the absurdity of it all, but that lack of easy outrage makes it a true original. An important documentary for our times too, taking us deep into the heart of a bubble far from our own.
  10. The Nothing Factory
    Worryingly, there is an actual film-maker in the story who appears to be intervening in the action and The Nothing Factory appears to retreat into self-reference when it could be offering concrete ideas on the issue of people keeping their jobs.
  11. Utoya: July 22
    It is an absorbing and moving tribute to the courage of the young victims of Utøya.
  12. Season of the Devil
    Season of the Devil is the work of a real auteur: every millisecond of his film has been rigorously created. There are moments of dreamlike intensity and the despair of the period is genuinely conveyed. Only the strongest devotee of Diaz could however deny the presence of longueurs in this film.
  13. Mug
    Mug is a strange, engaging film – well and potently acted and directed, a drama that puts you inside its extended community with a mix of robust realism and a streak of fantasy comedy.
  14. Born and Bred
    Trapero creates a cinematic eco-system that moment by moment, scene by subtle scene, completely enfolds you.
  15. Bergman: A Year in a Life
    There are some riveting revelations here.
  16. Mosley: It's Complicated
    The film feels more like an authorised biography than a documentary, and for that reason it’s a little dull.
  17. Days and Nights in the Forest
    Ray's language of cinema is a kind of miraculous vernacular, all his own. It has mystery, eroticism and delight.
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