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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. The Nightmare
    More frightening (yet strangely entertaining) than most of today’s narrative horror films.
  2. Cemetery of Splendor
    It is such a strange film in its way, stranger still if you are not accustomed to Weerasethakul’s work, and it needs a real investment of attention. But there is something sublime in it.
  3. Hitchcock/Truffaut
    A fascinating film.
  4. Green Room
    Saulnier’s ability to take a well-trodden road and fill it with grisly surprises is quite something.
  5. Mountains May Depart
    The pure work-in-progress energy of all this is exhilarating, and if the resulting movie is flawed in its final act, then this is a flaw born of Jia’s heroic refusal to be content making the same sort of movie, and his insistence on trying to do something new with cinema and with storytelling.
  6. The Assassin
    The movie is a distillation of the assassin’s life of watchfulness, survival and fear. At other times, it has a dreamlike quality: a floating hallucination. The Assassin baffles, but more often it quietly captivates and astonishes.
  7. Our Little Sister
    The film is quiet, understated and gentle, allowing the audience to take pleasure in teasing out its narrative subtleties, and presented with wonderful freshness and clarity.
  8. Dheepan
    This may not be the director’s most immediately electrifying film, but in its understated way, it’s an immensely powerful work.
  9. What We Did on Our Holiday
    It’s impossible not to enjoy this big-hearted and sweet-natured British family movie.
  10. Chronic
    Tim Roth is excellent as David: impassive and enigmatic, withholding the truth about himself, but radiating in repose a sadness and a swallowed pain.
  11. Gabriel
    Howe’s film is drenched in empathy, where violent actions aren’t exactly excused, but at least framed with understanding.
  12. Alléluia
    Fabrice du Welz's serial-murder jolly doesn't quite dramatically press its central relationship enough to prevent the film from devolving at the last into a default bloodbath. But it's disturbingly credible for a long time.
  13. Listen to Me Marlon
    Director Steven Riley’s film is a fascinating collage which profoundly probes its subject’s psyche.
  14. The Program
    It’s a fluid and nippy telling of a tale that still seems strangely urgent.
  15. Pitch Perfect 3
    So many movies end with trite sentiments about “family” and “sisterhood” but it doesn’t feel forced here. It looks like these performers are genuinely enjoying themselves, and it’s infectious.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets
    Davis’s parents have called for stricter gun control laws in the wake of their son’s death. Silver has provided them with a powerful tool for their cause in this shocking, moving and relatively unbiased account of the tragedy.
  17. Stations of the Cross
    It is all intensely controlled, although this is a drama that goes by the book, in all senses; there are no unabsorbed events to disorder the parable’s secular/religious alignment, and the Greeneian miracle it eventually conjures is arguably a little too pat. Yet it is also strangely moving.
  18. Beasts of No Nation
    Fukunaga brings flair, muscular storytelling, directness and a persuasively epic sweep to this brutal, heartrending movie.
  19. Solo: A Star Wars Story
    Solo: A Star Wars Story is a crackingly enjoyable adventure which frankly deserves full episode status in the great franchise, not just one of these intermittent place-holding iterations
  20. The Kindergarten Teacher
    One of the most fascinating, if inscrutable films of the year.
  21. Everybody Wants Some!!
    If the lads were insufferable misogynistic pricks, Everybody Wants Some!! would make for horrible viewing. Thankfully they’re all intensely lovable.
  22. Room
    There are some plausibility issues in Room, but this is a disturbing and absorbing film, shrewdly acted, particularly by Larson. It lets the audience in; it does not just let the nightmare stun them into submission. You make a real emotional engagement.
  23. Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One
    What a delicate, elegant marvel these movies have been.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Welcome to Leith
    It is as well-balanced and observed a documentary as there is, even if no sane human being could side with Cobb and his people.
  25. Mustang
    While the subject matter is enraging, the film is not without warmth and occasional levity.
  26. The Mend
    Many a first-time film-maker thinks they are too good to follow any sort of rules, and blends genres by writing from a purely instinctual level. More often than not, the result is unpalatable. The Mend, somewhat miraculously, is here to buck the trend. Let’s just hope that not too many people decide to follow its lead.
  27. The Golden Dream
    It's a tough, absorbing and suspenseful drama, excellently acted by its three non-professional leads.
  28. A Bigger Splash
    As with I Am Love, Guadagnino has put together something utterly distinctive here, a cocktail of intense emotions, transcendent surroundings and unexpected detours. A real pleasure.
  29. Home from Home: Chronicle of a Vision
    It is superlatively well performed and well directed with a real narrative grip.
  30. De Palma
    So many documentaries about artists just want you to accept that their subject is an innovator. De Palma breaks it down and shows you why he is.
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