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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. Other People's Children
    It is a gentle, heartfelt relationship drama about – and for – intelligent adults.
  2. The Road to Mandalay
    Compassionate and honestly told, it is a real empathy machine of a movie.
  3. Holiday
    There is no doubting the verve and style of Eklöf’s film-making – and the brutality from people on an open-ended holiday from ordinary human empathy.
  4. I Am Not a Witch
    It’s a strange witches brew of deadpan farce and arthouse stillness that some will find exasperating, and it’s not without its missteps; but there’s a confidence and clarity of vision that’s hard not to admire, especially for a first feature.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Deliverance
    For all the furious excitement of its river-rafting sequences, and the harshness and humiliation of its explosive central rape scene, Deliverance is an elegiac movie, mourning the rural mountain culture soon to be inundated by a new hydro-electric dam.
  6. Cutting Through Rocks
    While we might want to hear more about the specific cultural geography of the Azeri Turk community to which Shahverdi belongs, this remains a thought-provoking portrait of an extraordinary spirit.
  7. Clouds of Sils Maria
    If Assayas's film finally falls just shy of being great art itself, it is at least handsomely staged and played with conviction.
  8. Coraline
    It’s a nifty little tale of jeopardy and the eternally fascinating idea of breaking away from your parents: part frightening, part liberating.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Gasoline Rainbow
    The result is a movie in the tradition of “vibes” film-making, less interested in a propulsive plot than exploring the revealing and delightful moments that arise from spontaneous human interactions.
  10. Eternity and a Day
    A superbly realised picture which moves with the power and the gigantic, deliberative slowness of a wartime North Sea convoy. [14 May 1999, p.107]
    • The Guardian
  11. The Ice Tower
    It is a mesmeric melodrama, mixing sensuality with a teetering anxiety, balancing on a cliff-edge of disaster.
  12. Too Late to Die Young
    Castillo’s talent for spiritually attuned atmospherics could be her USP among Chile’s current crop of directors with idiosyncratic slants on their country’s recent past.
  13. The Nature of Love
    The fussy visual style that keeps drawing attention to itself does its best to prevent us from becoming absorbed in this tempestuous romance.
  14. Goodbye First Love
    This is a fluent, confident and deeply felt movie: unmistakably, if not exactly nakedly, autobiographical.
  15. Sweetgrass
    This beautiful and hypnotic documentary shows the agony and the ecstasy of herding sheep up into Montana's Beartooth mountains for the summer pasture.
  16. The Old Man & the Gun
    It would require a true curmudgeon to not derive pleasure from that twinkling performance from Redford, radiating smoothness, wisdom and charm to the very end.
  17. The Box
    Vigas’s direction is efficient, pedestrian, entirely built for purpose. But he manages to keep the audience on-board throughout the tale’s twists and turns.
  18. Linoleum
    The apparently depressing twist gives Linoleum’s entropy-defying optimism successful lift-off.
  19. The Other Side of the Wind
    This is a crazy, dishevelled, often hilarious film, in which lightning flashes of wit and insight crackle periodically across a plane of tedium.
  20. Cow
    There is something very heartfelt and committed about Andrea Arnold’s film: a poignancy and intimacy.
  21. West of Memphis
    A gripping documentary.
  22. Which Way Is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington
    Junger articulates a number of subtle and unexpected ideas about Hetherington's work, and about combat reporting in general.
  23. Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One
    What a delicate, elegant marvel these movies have been.
  24. The Hard Stop
    A toxic cloud of anger, suspicion and sadness hangs over this documentary.
  25. Wildlife
    It is a quiet, subtle story and, as is so often the case when an actor takes their first trip behind the camera, a showcase for terrific performances.
  26. Get Carter
    There's no mistaking its chilling charisma and style. [11 Jun 1999, p.15]
    • The Guardian
  27. Rebel Dykes
    A judicious mix of new-minted interviews, home video footage and charming animation by Shanahan makes for a delightful, well-tempered package.
  28. Red Rooms
    A lead performance of pure sociopathic intensity is what makes this serial-killer horror stand out.
  29. Big Boys
    This debut from the writer-director Corey Sherman is a real four-leaf clover: delicate, unique and subtly magical.
  30. Mr. Nobody Against Putin
    Mr Nobody Against Putin ultimately stands as both an act of service and a tribute – to a school that once was, to students whose lives were and will be irrevocably changed for the worse by the regime, to a once fruitful job. Talankin has produced a must-watch, indelible document of ideological warfare that echoes far beyond Russia. How’s that for a nobody?
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