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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. The Lobster
    It’s an adventure which begins by being bizarre and hilarious but appears to run out of ideas at its mid-way point, and run out of interest in what had at first seemed to be its central comic image: humans turning into animals.
  2. Forrest Gump
    Forrest Gump is Hollywood film-making at its most corn-fed, sucrose-enriched and calorific; you’ll need a sweet tooth for it.
  3. Breaking the Waves
    It is shot with fluency and energy; the dreamy chapter-heading inserts are striking, the final image is powerful, and of course Watson herself is a triumph.
  4. The Girl with the Needle
    There’s no doubting the shiver of pure fear that runs through this movie from beginning to end.
  5. Star Trek
    This new Star Trek is fast-moving, funny, exciting warp-speed entertainment and, heaven help me, even quite moving - the kind of film that shows that, like it or not, commercial cinema can still deliver a sledgehammer punch.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    They Live by Night
    Ray's assured debut as director is a brilliant noir combination of love story and crime thriller. [24 Dec 2005, p.48]
    • The Guardian
  7. A Quiet Place
    In its simplicity and punch, this is a film that feels as if it could have been made decades ago, in the classic age of Planet of the Apes or The Omega Man.
  8. Riefenstahl
    Andres Veiel’s sombre documentary tells the gripping, incrementally nauseating story of Helene “Leni” Riefenstahl, the brilliant and pioneering German film-maker of the 20th century who isn’t getting her name on a Girls on Tops T-shirt any time soon.
  9. Carmine Street Guitars
    It is 80 minutes of pure woodwork-musicianship-upcycling erotica for a very specialist but passionate market.
  10. Frances Ha
    Gerwig's performance is full of depth and nuance; self-conscious without being mawkish, clever behind the kook.
  11. Socrates
    Running at just 71 minutes, Socrates left me wondering if it was slightly underdeveloped as a feature project. But plenty of glossier and more finished films don’t have its beating compassionate heart.
  12. C'mon C'mon
    It’s an impressively contrived film, almost a machine for winning awards, a monochrome reverie of midlife yearning.
  13. A Hijacking
    Danish director Tobias Lindholm spins an exacting drama out of a crisis on this deft, verite-style account of Somali piracy in the Indian ocean. Full credit to A Hijacking for resisting the siren-call of Hollywood histrionics in favour of the nuts-and-bolts.
  14. Nocturnes
    If you’re in the right headspace, the whole thing is quite entrancing. Still, it’s also an extremely rarefied sort of entertainment.
  15. Black Box Diaries
    Itō is an amazing personality: an intelligent, courageous journalist who may have changed the course of Japanese history.
  16. Small Things Like These
    It is an absorbing, committed drama.
  17. Being a Human Person
    A valuable introduction to the movies and to the man.
  18. Knives Out
    What we have is a straightforward murder mystery, but it is told with gusto and humour.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Spectacular Now
    Ponsoldt elicits remarkably strong performances from his two young leads, who display a depth of feeling that's breathtaking in its simplicity and honest. There's an inherent chemistry here that's both disarming and refreshing.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    My Man Godfrey
    The humour in My Man Godfrey is madcap, but in the best way.
  21. Apocalypse in the Tropics
    Democracy has never looked so vulnerable.
  22. Sator
    Graham uses darkness and a very sparse score/soundscape to create a truly disturbing work that relies not so much on gore as the uncanny in its most potent form: stillness, pools of darkness and just-visible figures.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Rams
    Rams is as curiously captivating as the bleak landscape in which the two protagonists site themselves.
  24. Broadway Danny Rose
    This story is not about consummation, but about reconciliation; it's a recognition that we want wrongs to be righted, that good will prevail, and that the faithless will be punished or reformed.
  25. Mirror (1975)
    A startling piece of film-making, floating free of the conventional demands of period and narrative.
  26. Fjord
    Ultimately, the film does not compellingly deliver a blazing truth about its various relationships – but neither does it intriguingly withhold any such truth from us.
  27. Nuts!
    Mixing droll animation, stock footage and a restrained number of talking head interviews, the director Penny Lane’s biography has all the whimsy of a tall tale, until a late change in tone surprises with genuine emotion. Nuts! is really a kick.
  28. Challengers
    Moment by moment, line by line and scene by scene, Challengers delivers sexiness and laughs, intrigue and resentment, and Guadagnino’s signature is there in the intensity, the closeups and the music stabs.
  29. Pig
    Cage is remarkably restrained (bar one unnecessary scream), delicately deconstructing what we’ve come to expect from him. His trademark tics are gone, his voice that much softer, his swagger replaced by an unsureness, an aggressive blare that’s faded into calm.
  30. Marjorie Prime
    It’s a haunting little film that ends with a somewhat overwhelming poignancy.
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