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For 6,585 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: 2,496 out of 6585
  2. Mixed: 3,770 out of 6585
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6585
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  1. Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
    With its really smart deep dives into cultural criticism, this is a seasonal stocking overflowing with spooky fun.
  2. Lean on Pete
    Lean on Pete is at its potent, stirring best during the opening furlough, when it focuses on this makeshift hobo family as it criss-crosses the Pacific Northwest from one racetrack to the next.
  3. Last and First Men
    Last and First Men is an interesting if minor work, perhaps comparable to Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s Homo Sapiens or Michael Madsen’s Into Eternity.
  4. Bergman Island
    A valuable if slightly passionless and reticent movie.
  5. Barbie
    It’s entertaining and amiable, but with a softcore pulling of punches: lightly ironised, celebratory nostalgia for a toy that still exists right now.
  6. We the Animals
    It is a thing of beauty: too beautiful perhaps, running a real danger of prettifying poverty.
  7. Wild Rose
    Buckley provides a vitamin boost in every scene.
  8. Strange Darling
    It’s in uncompromising bad taste but made with lethal precision and discipline.
  9. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
    For a film renowned for its violence, Garcia unfolds at a leisured, almost lugubrious, pace with scenes allowed to unspool at a length that would never be allowed in any Hollywood thriller today.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Finders Keepers
    Finders Keepers pays as much attention to the comedy of the story as the humanity. What could easily be a silly saga or a simple indictment of the culture of fame becomes something diabolically more insightful and uplifting.
  11. Room 237
    [Room 237] raises very interesting ideas about how we view a film, about what happens if we take the act of viewing down to a deeper, molecular level, and about how a movie's significance and effect need not be those intentionally willed by the director.
  12. The Eternal Daughter
    There’s real intimacy and emotional generosity to this psychological mystery from Joanna Hogg – a personal movie which appears to come from the same universe as her earlier Souvenir films – or one very much like it.
  13. The Settlers
    It’s a fierce, stark, almost primitive parable of cruelty and power.
  14. The Beast
    The Beast may not add up to a cogent or thoroughgoing critique of all the ideas it invokes, but it’s such a luxurious cinematic experience; it’s created with such elan and attack, and the musical score amplifies its throb of fear.
  15. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
    Director Marielle Heller and screenwriters Noah Harpster and Micah Fitzerman-Blue have adroitly set up the tightrope that Tom Hanks has to walk across, stretching it between irony and belief, and the result is a really entertaining and touching film.
  16. The Forty-Year-Old Version
    This is a very unhurried film (I wondered if it might have been better to lose 20 or so minutes) but it has a distinctive language of its own, and a feel for the city.
  17. Compartment No. 6
    Despite the bone-chilling cold of its location in Murmansk in Russia’s remote north-west, there’s a wonderful human warmth and humour in this offbeat romantic story of strangers on a train.
  18. Lucky
    A sad, sweet movie.
  19. Sleep
    It is only with the explicit possibility of a supernatural explanation, combined with full-on psychiatric breakdown, that the movie loses its light touch and its plausible detail. Yet there’s always a hyper-vigilant twinge of fear.
  20. 7 Prisoners
    With a Brechtian approach that compels the viewer to question both their own ethical assumptions and tacit complicity in a worldwide consumerist culture that exploits people all over the planet, 7 Prisoners is deeply uncomfortable but utterly compelling viewing.
  21. Anne at 13,000 ft
    An intriguing and drily comic film.
  22. Ham on Rye
    The film never behaves as if it is anything other than a realist coming-of-age drama but there is something else going on.
  23. In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50
    There’s nothing sentimental about this documentary, which looks at people with the clear, unflinching gaze of a portraitist.
  24. Call Me Kuchu
    The film-makers have turned what could have been a detached news report into a moving human tragedy.
  25. Berberian Sound Studio
    Utterly distinctive and all but unclassifiable, a musique concrète nightmare, a psycho-metaphysical implosion of anxiety, with strange-tasting traces of black comedy and movie-buff riffs. It is seriously weird and seriously good.
  26. Measures for a Funeral
    Fully committed to a radical irresolution, this simultaneously alienating and beautiful film bears repeat viewing.
  27. Mad God
    This is undoubtedly a work of historic significance, made by a master in his field – but beware that it often feels like a film-making notebook, full of doodles and ideas but not especially cohesive as a story.
  28. The Survivalist
    The physical suspense is all but unbearable: a sexualised hunger, fear and need. Fingleton writes and directs with gusto and flair.
  29. Aquarela
    Victor Kossakovsky’s Aquarela is an absorbing and disturbing spectacle, a sensory film about the climate crisis, and it begins with what might be the soundtrack to the end of the world – a persistent tinkling, crackling, trickling.
  30. Brief History of a Family
    This works well just as simple drama, directed and performed immaculately, and as a glorious promise of films to come from Lin.
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