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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. Carmine Street Guitars
    It is 80 minutes of pure woodwork-musicianship-upcycling erotica for a very specialist but passionate market.
  2. Frances Ha
    Gerwig's performance is full of depth and nuance; self-conscious without being mawkish, clever behind the kook.
  3. 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.
  4. C'mon C'mon
    It’s an impressively contrived film, almost a machine for winning awards, a monochrome reverie of midlife yearning.
  5. 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.
  6. Nocturnes
    If you’re in the right headspace, the whole thing is quite entrancing. Still, it’s also an extremely rarefied sort of entertainment.
  7. Black Box Diaries
    Itō is an amazing personality: an intelligent, courageous journalist who may have changed the course of Japanese history.
  8. Small Things Like These
    It is an absorbing, committed drama.
  9. Being a Human Person
    A valuable introduction to the movies and to the man.
  10. 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.
  13. Apocalypse in the Tropics
    Democracy has never looked so vulnerable.
  14. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. Mirror (1975)
    A startling piece of film-making, floating free of the conventional demands of period and narrative.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. Marjorie Prime
    It’s a haunting little film that ends with a somewhat overwhelming poignancy.
  22. Sorry We Missed You
    It’s fierce, open and angry, unironised and unadorned, about a vital contemporary issue whose implications you somehow don’t hear on the news.
  23. Sisters with Transistors
    Lisa Rovner’s superb documentary pays a deeply deserved, seldom-expressed tribute to the female composers, musicians and inventors from the brief history of electronic music.
  24. Steve Jobs
    Sorkin’s heavily heightened sense of drama works best when the stakes are equally aligned but, despite the film constantly informing you of just how incredibly important everything all is, it’s disappointingly difficult to truly care about what’s taking place.
  25. Marley
    What results is an immensely detailed overview of Marley's life and times, from the hillside Jamaican shack where he grew up to the snowy Bavarian clinic where he spent his last weeks in a fruitless attempt to cure the cancer that killed him in 1981, aged 36.
  26. The Holdovers
    What a unique talent Giamatti is; it’s a pleasure to see him play a movie lead, his first for a while, and his prominence in this really good film is a signal that the cinema could be moving back to a more approachable world of authentic drama and analogue talent.
  27. From Ground Zero
    A heartbreaking collection.
  28. Sound of Metal
    Ahmed’s performance clarifies the drama and delivers the meaning of Ruben’s final epiphany. He gives the film energy and point.
  29. Embrace of the Serpent
    Ciro Guerra’s gorgeous picture just has that ripped-from-your-dreams sensibility, where surprising turns float alongside a story you feel like you’ve known your whole life. Embrace of the Serpent is the type of film we’re always searching for, yet seems so obvious once we’ve found it.
  30. Exhibiting Forgiveness
    Working through one’s own strife as a form of autofiction can often lead to self-indulgence but Kaphar has crafted something that deserves to exist outside of his inner circle, an emotionally wrenching drama set to resonate with those who have also had to confront the complicated equation of radical forgiveness.
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