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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. One More Time with Feeling
    It’s an impressive spectacle, if not a happy one.
  2. The Eagle Huntress
    Even if Aisholpan’s training – which includes hoodwinking, responding to calls, dragging dead foxes and other hallmarks of falconry – is for the camera, it doesn’t make it any less extraordinary. Especially in this remarkable environment, captured in breathtakingly crisp digital video.
  3. The Lost City of Z
    Much will be said about Gray’s cinematic craft (as is often the case when a director works with cinematographer Darius Khondji) but beneath the slow roll down the river pierced by arrows from unseen, defensive natives, there’s a fascinating, mercurial screenplay that offers just enough to keep you journeying for more insight.
  4. Hidden Figures
    Hidden Figures is a bouncy, almost garish feelgood girl pic. A movie that knows right from wrong and doesn’t see any use in complicating matters.
  5. Kiki
    It’s a kaleidoscopic and vivid rendering of a world that is larger than life, flamboyant but ultimately fragile.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Girl Asleep
    This assured debut tells us teenage girls can – and will – save themselves.
  7. Cameraperson
    To make the movie work, the audience needs to put in a little effort, but a philosophy of connectedness is present.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Three Colors: Blue
    The film is almost totally schematic and this weakens it. What strengthens it is the sheer emotional power of its making.
    • 100 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Three Colors: Red
    It is a film of much humanity and very far from smart European pap. But the external brilliance of its making does at times subvert its inner workings, as if its manufacture and its meaning were not quite in perfect harmony.
  10. Fences
    This film is conceived as a showcase for its performers, and, as that, it is immaculate.
  11. Chuck
    Falardeau draws exceptional character work from his cast.
  12. The Ivory Game
    Brings a new urgency to an old subject: the ivory trade, which is threatening the world’s elephants. This threat has not been cancelled or brought under control, as I had assumed. The film persuasively argues that it is all but out of control: so much so that elephants are in danger of being wiped out in the wild in just a matter of years.
  13. Into the Inferno
    Into the Inferno is an intriguing, unnerving documentary.
  14. Peter and the Farm
    Dunning recounts spellbinding tales that led to the gradual downfall of his expansive Mile Hill Farm, and the destruction of his two marriages.
  15. 20th Century Women
    For all of Mills’s cinematic tricks, he’s emerging as a great realist film-maker.
  16. Darkest Hour
    Gary Oldman is terrific as Churchill, conveying the babyishness of his oddly unlined face in repose, the slyness and manipulative good humour, and a weird deadness when he is overtaken with depression.
  17. Amanda Knox
    It’s a carefully balanced and frightening film with Knox a terrifyingly unknowable character at the grisly centre.
  18. 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.
  19. Barry
    The movie is rich on its own as a character piece about the difficulties of being bi-racial, especially at the very specific location of Columbia University.
  20. Carrie Pilby
    Carrie Pilby the film is 100% Carrie Pilby the character, a living quirk machine that in a lesser actor’s hands might be insufferable.
  21. Frantz
    Ozon is often at his best when working with women, and he has a fabulous talent in Paula Beer to bring his protagonist, Anna, to vivid life. She’s stunning in the role.
  22. My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea
    At a tight 72 minutes, the film is a quick and dazzling burst of pleasure, pulling together so many opposing visuals, ideas and genres and coming up with something dazzling as a result.
  23. Prevenge
    It is a well made, well controlled film, and its sullenly monomaniac quality – perhaps partly a function of the star doing the writing and directing – is entirely appropriate for the subject matter.
  24. The Untamed
    This film is a very sly, subversive and disturbing black tragicomedy about a universal secret addiction.
  25. The Woman Who Left
    It’s a film you have to feel your way into, like a ruined church or a haunted house.
  26. Tanna
    Tanna has a warm, shimmering vitality. Like the trees and the birds, the frame feels alive.
  27. Grand Central
    Some critics have expressed reservations about melodrama and overworked symbolism, but I found it gripping, with an edge of delirium.
  28. Baden Baden
    It is such a beguiling performance from Richard, natural, unaffected, unselfconscious, you find herself rooting for Ana, although what form success might take for her is a mystery. Very impressive work from Lang.
  29. Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang
    Macdonald grants us insight into the process and, as expected, it’s hardly as haphazard as sceptics might think.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Network
    The film is immaculately cast...The principal figures in its ideological debate – the chilly, number-crunching executive Robert Duvall, godlike network supremo Ned Beatty and the ambitious, exploitative programmer Faye Dunaway – are vivid caricatures. But the movie runs out of steam as satiric invention turns into fervent, deeply sincere statement, and solid William Holden’s middle-aged producer becomes the representative of old-fashioned integrity.
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