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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. Cunningham
    The film is, I think, just as Cunningham would have wanted it: cerebral, highbrow and mildly frustrating, with nothing so conventional as talking heads or context.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fireworks
    It's another extraordinary film with a quality of stillness about it, but combined, as usual, with brief bursts of explosive violence and Kitano's lovely deadpan humour.
  3. The Sting
    The Sting is the most purely enjoyable film in Oscar history – and that, I think, puts it in the most valuable American film-making tradition of all.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Shanghai Express
    This melodrama the director weakens by mistaking postponement of event for suspense. But the film has compensating strength in the star, who photographs more beautifully than before and, though she is acted off the screen by Anna May Wong, shows herself unique in Hollywood by being majestically beautiful.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Original Cast Album: Company
    Pennebaker's film, running just under an hour, is revelatory in getting under the skin of the main players. And the director's opening revelation will exasperate musical-theatre nerds as we hear that this was the pilot for a whole series on original cast recordings that never got made. [15 Sep 2021]
    • The Guardian
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Luther: Never Too Much
    Vandross’s specific power isn’t always fully articulated here – but his musical brilliance certainly is.
  7. Saint Maud
    The film punches out its warped drama with amazing gusto and Clark is lethally assured: not Saint Maud really, but Saint Joan, a spectacular horror heroine.
  8. Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
    [A] richly enjoyable documentary.
  9. Mustang
    While the subject matter is enraging, the film is not without warmth and occasional levity.
  10. Palm Springs
    It’s a goofy, drunken scrap of escapism and while the romantic comedy is not fully back, despite think pieces assuring us that it is, Palm Springs energetically reminds us, yet again, that it’s never really going away.
  11. The Kingdom
    There are fierce and overwhelmingly authentic performances here from first-timers in Julien Colonna’s terrific mob drama.
  12. James White
    When Abbot and Nixon start their sparring, Mond’s film takes on a magnificently physical and tactile quality.
  13. It Follows
    Mitchell brings off some sensational setpieces of fear and suspense. I can’t remember when I was last so royally freaked out in the cinema.
  14. Is That Black Enough for You?!?
    An absorbing and nourishing documentary.
  15. The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki
    It is a film of immense humanity and charm: the very best kind of date movie.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Charade
    For all of its 113 minutes, Charade presents us with a temporary entry into that brighter place, into the possibility of adventure, the vicarious possession of beauty. Acted by two Europeans in a mythic, dangerous, beguiling Paris, it remains a quintessential Hollywood film.
  17. Souleymane's Story
    The issues are fundamentally the same: the enforced invisibility of a class of economic migrants who are now so numerous that many game the system, doubling their exploitation. Sangaré’s exemplary, unfeigned performance helps them speak.
  18. Holy Cow
    Holy Cow is sentimental in the best of ways, with its warmth and hope in human nature.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sanjuro
    Mifune's slob is deceptive, and the film builds slowly to a shattering ending.
  20. Locke
    Full credit to Hardy and Knight for making a film such as Locke. Low-budget film-makers could learn a lot from their method. And yet – having stripped away all but the bare necessities, having reduced the components to a car and a man – they make a classic error of overcompensation.
  21. The Woman Who Left
    It’s a film you have to feel your way into, like a ruined church or a haunted house.
  22. Knife in the Water
    Roman Polanski's sensational 1962 debut...is an example of how a superlative director makes a film from the simplest materials.
  23. Neptune Frost
    If narrative clarity is obviously not top of Uzeyman and Williams’ priorities, the film always looks amazing: fluorescent dream sequences, glitchy cyberpunk overlays, wild character designs (from costume designer Cedric Mizero and makeup artist Tanya Melendez).
  24. Creed
    The script may feature numerous wobbly passages in which everyone eerily states precisely what they are thinking (an unfortunate tradition that runs throughout the series) but if anyone can sell it, it’s Stallone and Jordan.
  25. Memories of Murder
    Memories of Murder is a great satire of official laxity and arrogance, and its final scene is very chilling.
  26. Transit
    The strangeness of this story will live in your bloodstream like a virus.
  27. Dear Comrades!
    It’s a film that understands that humour and horror are not always mutually exclusive and that even the worst moments in life carry an air of the absurd.
  28. The Love Witch
    LA film-maker Anna Biller achieves an ecstasy of artificiality in this amazing retro fantasy horror, delivered with absolute conviction.
  29. Hundreds of Beavers
    The sheer sustained silliness of this spoof silent comedy is what finally compels admiration. It’s like chancing across a bunch of eerily gifted kids by the roadside putting on a bizarrely accomplished, very extended series of magic tricks and circus acrobatic stunts.
  30. Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
    Oprah Winfrey, Angela Davis and Morrison herself explore her work and legacy in this fascinating documentary completed shortly before the Nobel-winning author’s death.
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