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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. Eye in the Sky
    Eye in the Sky aims to thrill and covertly manages to inform simultaneously.
  2. Maggie's Plan
    It’s unpredictable and a bit of a mess. And that’s what makes Maggie’s Plan such a delight.
  3. Sherpa
    Peedom and her team responded to disaster with a steady hand, in more than one sense, and fulfilled a rare opportunity to make a responsive documentary that is large, beautiful, captivating and exhibits deep respect for the people and environments it photographs.
  4. Evolution
    It’s a quiet, deliberately paced film, but exquisitely shot, with nuanced performances and visual invention.
  5. Francofonia
    Francofonia is a fascinating essay and meditation on art, history and humanity’s idea of itself.
  6. From Afar
    [A] terrifically stylish work.
  7. Meadowland
    What Meadowland refuses to do, to its great credit, is conform to expectations.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Flowers of Shanghai
    The tones are dark, but washed with a rich golden light. The costumes, make-up and domestic props are exquisite. But for all the period detail, there is a genuine spontaneity in the emotions. [21 May 1998, p.2]
    • The Guardian
  9. Microbe and Gasoline
    If this film were a person, you’d want to give it a big hug, as you would a gawky teenager, and reassure it that it will be tough out there, that not everyone is going to get its idiosyncratic charms, but that’s OK because it’s awesome just the way it is.
  10. Mediterranea
    If a movie as rich and understanding as Mediterranea suddenly appeared every time we read about a difficult issue in the paper, maybe all of the world’s problems could be solved.
  11. Orion: The Man Who Would Be King
    Jimmy Ellis’s story really is stranger than fiction.
  12. The Treasure
    Laughs emerge from the recognisable micro-horrors found in modern living, which, if the world was run in the way we all agree it should be run, wouldn’t exist.
  13. Incredibles 2
    Compared to the CGI chaos that tends to engulf DCEU and MCU movies, especially in crossover teamups, the clean zip of Pixar animation feels exhilaratingly rare, like a lost language rediscovered.
  14. Ant-Man and the Wasp
    It buzzes with uncomplicated enjoyment.
  15. Ixcanul
    What’s most striking about Ixcanul is the elegant way in which it is shot. Scenes are given space, and the audience is allowed ample time to soak up the atmosphere.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Russian Woodpecker
    Gracia succeeds brilliantly in delivering a chilling warning about where Putin and his spooks might go next, by giving Fedor full licence to act the biblical prophet.
  17. Godzilla vs. Kong
    The much-hyped battles deliver the giddy thrills we demand but in the moments when the pair aren’t at war there’s also a staggeringly well-built and extensive universe to explore and one that’s barely been teased in the trailers we’ve seen.
  18. Field Niggas
    This movie is foremost an ethnographic exercise, and whether it is a rallying cry or poverty porn is for the viewer to decide.
  19. Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art
    You might argue that there is a kind of hubris in all this, and its very giganticism condemned it to marginal status and a kind of cultural smallness. But what excitement there is in these folies de grandeur.
  20. McCullin
    McCullin emerges as an unsentimental, plain-speaking, thoughtful man, disgusted at the inhumanity of war – and yet candid about how he is also personally and professionally drawn to its drama.
  21. Out 1: Noli Me Tangere (1971)
    Out 1: Noli Me Tangere is confounding at every level.
  22. It's Only the End of the World
    Xavier Dolan’s It’s Only the End of the World is histrionic and claustrophobic: deliberately oppressive and pretty well pop-eyed in its madness – and yet a brilliant, stylised and hallucinatory evocation of family dysfunction.
  23. Prem Ratan Dhan Payo
    If the plot’s familiar, no imagination or expense has been spared in mapping the kingdom it winds through.
  24. Very Semi-Serious
    It’s a minor work that knows its place in the margins, but is thought-provoking and surreptitiously insightful – and very funny.
  25. Dreams Rewired
    First with the telephone, then early cinema, the magic of wireless radio and, finally, television, Dreams Rewired bombards the senses with a thorough and clever montage of found footage from the 1890s to the pre-war era.
  26. Doctor Strange
    It’s a tremendously engaging and likeable superhero ride, in which the classiest of casts show they know exactly where to take it seriously – and where to inject the fun.
  27. Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker
    However preposterous, The Rise of Skywalker is socked over with such energy, such euphoric certainty. And it’s such fun: full of the rackety exuberance of the now forgotten Saturday morning movie serials that were an influence on George Lucas.
  28. The Ones Below
    The Ones Below is an intimately disturbing nightmare of the upper middle classes, with tinges of melodrama and staginess, entirely appropriate for its air of suppressed psychosis.
  29. Dark Horse
    With its sheer warmth and likability, this good-natured documentary won my heart.
  30. The Brand New Testament
    The Brand New Testament is a peppy, original and (importantly) very sweet story.
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