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For 6,581 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: 2,495 out of 6581
  2. Mixed: 3,767 out of 6581
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6581
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  1. 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.
  2. The Kingdom
    There are fierce and overwhelmingly authentic performances here from first-timers in Julien Colonna’s terrific mob drama.
  3. James White
    When Abbot and Nixon start their sparring, Mond’s film takes on a magnificently physical and tactile quality.
  4. 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.
  5. Is That Black Enough for You?!?
    An absorbing and nourishing documentary.
  6. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. The Woman Who Left
    It’s a film you have to feel your way into, like a ruined church or a haunted house.
  13. 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.
  14. 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).
  15. 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.
  16. Memories of Murder
    Memories of Murder is a great satire of official laxity and arrogance, and its final scene is very chilling.
  17. Transit
    The strangeness of this story will live in your bloodstream like a virus.
  18. 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.
  19. The Love Witch
    LA film-maker Anna Biller achieves an ecstasy of artificiality in this amazing retro fantasy horror, delivered with absolute conviction.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
    At its best, the Eras Tour film manages to capture the why of that bond, the shock of her vast stardom against the startling emotional clarity of her songwriting. The Eras tour, she says, has been the most special experience of her life; in this deft rendering, it’s easy to feel the intoxication of being in her temple.
  23. Peter Hujar's Day
    Perhaps it is inevitably going to be of limited interest, and as intelligent as the two performances are, neither Whishaw nor Hall is tested very much. But it is an intriguing experiment in recovering the moment-by-moment reality of a lost time and place.
  24. The Killing of Two Lovers
    Machoian, who is also the editor, composes each scene with studied care and Oscar Ignacio Jiménez’s clear, crisp cinematography and framing is beautifully achieved. This is a compelling portrait of a toxic marriage.
  25. Night of the Kings
    The freshness of the approach, combined with the substance of the stories, works the same strange magic on the viewer as on the inmates. It is easy to be swept along.
  26. Born and Bred
    Trapero creates a cinematic eco-system that moment by moment, scene by subtle scene, completely enfolds you.
  27. The 8th
    Pro-choice activists won with a campaign that declined to go negative, and, indeed, may have benefited from the attraction of its exuberant “Yes” motif. Now they face decades of vigilance to defend their gains.
  28. Anselm
    This is a superbly controlled and expressed film and its high seriousness about the nature and purpose of art really is invigorating.
  29. Hit Man
    Hit Man comes close to fantasy and approaches screwball but keeps the realism. A hit is what it deserves to be.
  30. Ghostlight
    The Kupferer-Mallens are Chicago theater stalwarts, having founded their own company, and the affection everyone involved with this project feels for the stage – as an art, therapy and practice – is so evident as to be contagious, even in the film’s most theater-y meta moments.
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