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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. Between the Temples
    For all the characters’ misery and misfires, Between the Temples is a winsome journey. It’s a little weird, a little sweet and a lot of awkward – a testament not just to the Jewish tradition but the faith we can learn to have in each other.
  2. The Wind Rises
    A gorgeous yet ultimately frustrating tribute to the Japanese airplane designer Jiro Horikoshi.
  3. Limbo
    What a thoroughly wonderful sophomore feature from the British director Ben Sharrock – witty, poignant, marvellously composed and shot, moving and even weirdly gripping.
  4. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
    This is a fascinating slice of Americana which reminded me of 70s movie-making, like John Huston’s Fat City. I half-expected young Stacy Keach and Jeff Bridges to roll in for a few whiskies.
  5. Soul
    It’s a deeply sweet, happy, gentle film.
  6. The Salt of the Earth
    The co-operation between Wenders and Salgado Jr works well, mixing the former's heavyweight presence as both interviewer and storyteller, and the latter's ability to harvest intimate, deep-buried subtleties that may otherwise not have seen the light of day. Together they have made a moving tribute to a peerless talent.
  7. The Librarians
    Incredibly principled and brave, the librarians talk about their vocation and standing up for the young people for whom libraries are a safe space where they can discover their identity in the pages of books. They really are superwomen.
  8. The Perfect Neighbor
    A very sombre picture of American crime and punishment.
  9. Sing Sing
    It’s an intriguing filmic tribute to the rehabilitation programme: effective altruism in action.
  10. 20 Days in Mariupol
    This searing film bears a terrible witness to this great crime.
  11. Turning Red
    The journey is slick and diverting, and at times incisive, but Turning Red is yet another Pixar film that coasts rather than glides. Hopefully its next offering can turn into something more.
  12. Lingui, The Sacred Bonds
    I am not entirely sure that Haroun entirely absorbs into the drama the shocking act of violence, with all its necessary consequences. But the sheer seriousness and urgency of the deceptively unhurried story give it power.
  13. '71
    It's a film that holds you in a vice-like grip throughout; only wavering towards the end with a faintly preposterous climactic shootout.
  14. The Cave
    To say The Cave would break anyone’s heart feels flimsy. Like Ballour, it has a purpose: to focus the world’s attention on the suffering of Syrian people.
  15. The Guilty
    Miraculously, Möller turns a handful of phone conversations into a nerve shredder.
  16. Field Niggas
    This movie is foremost an ethnographic exercise, and whether it is a rallying cry or poverty porn is for the viewer to decide.
  17. Prayers for the Stolen
    A complex, subtle, tender and heart-rending story of a young girl’s upbringing in a village menaced by the drug cartels and people traffickers.
  18. The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
    It’s an earnest tribute to a lot of things – a city, a time, a genre, a mentality, an actor in Turturro – and while we’ve definitely been here before, it’s nice to come back.
  19. Full Time
    Calamy is utterly convincing, giving a performance that pulls us right into Julie’s inner world.
  20. The Territory
    The film is grimly depressing in places. I covered my eyes during Google Earth time-lapse sequences showing the pace of deforestation in the Amazon; the violence of it is too much. And yet, there is Bitaté: still a teenager, he’s already a skilled communicator.
  21. Predators
    It’s too soon to know for sure, but this may end up being ranked as one of the best nonfiction films of the year.
  22. Agon
    It’s a kind of Martian’s-eye-view documentary about something that doesn’t actually exist; it is ice-cold and detached, almost without dialogue in the conventionally dramatic sense, other than the subdued exchanges which we, as audience, overhear rather than listen to. It accumulates its own kind of desolate force.
  23. The Lighthouse
    Very few films can make you scared and excited at the same time. Just like the lighthouse beam, this is dazzling and dangerous.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    True Grit
    Hathaway moseys rather than gallops along with a charming blend of comedy, action and sentiment; and in Robert Duvall there is a bad guy eminently worth shooting. [24 Dec 2005, p.48]
    • The Guardian
  25. Viet and Nam
    Viet and Nam is a film that first feels opaque and elusive, and yet it becomes drenched with emotion.
  26. Rose Plays Julie
    It is a really powerful film and Brady’s final dialogue scene exerts a lethal grip.
  27. Saint Frances
    This is a film with a hopeful message about people, and their ability and willingness to learn – and to get along.
  28. Mandy
    It’s an uncompromising midnight movie.
  29. Avatar
    The sheer laborious silliness of Avatar feels like harder work the second time around and its essential problem is more prominent. [2022 re-release]
  30. 20th Century Women
    For all of Mills’s cinematic tricks, he’s emerging as a great realist film-maker.
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