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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. Coming Home
    A sweet yet suspect romantic drama.
  2. Coco
    Coco is a rousing, affecting, fun and much-needed return to form after underwhelming Finding Nemo and Cars sequels and will help to ensure that Pixar’s legacy remains intact.
  3. Little Richard: I Am Everything
    Little Richard emerges here as an exquisite figure, an aesthete and athlete: a butterfly who could never be broken on any wheel.
  4. Bridge of Spies
    Bridge of Spies has a brassy and justified confidence in its own narrative flair.
  5. Shaun the Sheep Movie
    The Aardman vision of contemporary England is generous, inclusive and - if a fast-moving film about a smart-alec sheep can allow itself such grandiose ambitions – genuinely inspiring.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Theater of Blood
    Grand Guignol with nobs on: Vincent Price hams epically as bloodlusting luvvie Edward Lionheart, who with wacky daughter Diana Rigg starts taking gruesome revenge on the critics. One by one he dispatches them in macabre variations on great Shakespearean death scenes. [05 May 2007, p.53]
    • The Guardian
  7. Invisible Life
    The movie is saturated with emotion and colour, though its novelistic depth brings with it the slightly effortful running time of two hours and 20 minutes.
  8. Foxcatcher
    It is a gripping film: horrible, scary and desperately sad.
  9. Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids
    As Jonathan Demme’s concert documentary Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids indisputably shows, Timberlake is only truly in his element when on stage being a showman.
  10. Paris, Texas
    It is an eerie, sad story whose meaning disappears over the vast horizon as if on a highway heading away through the desert.
  11. MLK/FBI
    [A] startling but sometimes frustratingly reticent and guarded documentary.
  12. Jackie
    It’s a singular vision from an uncompromising director that happens to be about one of the most famous women in American history. Jackie is not Oscar bait – it’s great cinema.
  13. Beginning
    Kulumbegashvili’s style is confident, if derivative. Her technique now has to evolve away from these self-conscious influences.
  14. Raw
    What is very impressive about Raw is that absolutely everything about it is disquieting, not just the obvious moments of revulsion: there is no let up in the ambient background buzz of fear.
  15. The Man Who Fell to Earth
    The story unfolds in a daring sequence of narrative leaps.
  16. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
    What a bold, beguiling and utterly unclassifiable director Andersson is. He thinks life is a comedy and feels it’s a tragedy, and is able to wrestle these conflicting impulses into a gorgeous, deadpan deadlock.
  17. R.M.N.
    RMN is a sombre downbeat movie, whose sudden flurry of dreamlike visions at the very end is a little disconcerting. But it is seriously engaged with the dysfunction and unhappiness in Europe that goes unreported and unacknowledged.
  18. Inherent Vice
    Anderson has all manner of fun with the tale's whirling, blurring trajectory. His film is like a jubilant spin painting in which the characters have been scattered and splattered to the furthest reaches of the frame.
  19. Three Identical Strangers
    Wardle tells a compelling story of the three happy boys who became three unhappy men, their faces shining with a kind of ecstasy in their youth, then muted with sadness and bewilderment in middle age.
  20. Wrinkles
    This movie has the same desolate quality as Philip Larkin's poem The Building, and yet it is tender and lovable, too.
  21. Little Trouble Girls
    This is an utterly absorbing and outstandingly acted film.
  22. Revenge
    A well made film, which slithers confidently in its slick of blood.
  23. Midnight Family
    Somehow Lorentzen shows that it is not the Ochoa family who are the bad guys, but the whole rotten system.
  24. American Fiction
    Broad-brush American Fiction might be, but its approach to race and racism is oblique and unexpected, and it’s very funny about publishing’s literary ghetto.
  25. Leviathan
    Not an easy watch, and something in which you must make an investment of attention – but a fascinating piece of work.
  26. Sweetie
    Campion offsets what could have been a morose drama with an atmosphere that becomes increasingly, and unnervingly, mystical.
  27. No
    A fascinating case study in basic-level democracy.
  28. Riders of Justice
    There are action thrills, to be sure, but they are folded into what becomes a sort of group therapy session on the psychology of grief, guilt, vengeance, chance and coincidence. Even more blessedly, it’s often hilarious.
  29. Ama Gloria
    Àma Gloria is a small-scale film, barely over 80 minutes, but it leaves an almighty impression.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The China Syndrome
    Very convincing, deeply disturbing tale. [31 Dec 2005, p.49]
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