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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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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Devil's Candy
    It’s the deeply felt affection for metal that really makes The Devil’s Candy sing.
  2. Logan Lucky
    It’s always supremely watchable, but rarely, if ever, commits itself to genuine jeopardy or suspense. Instead of edge-of-the-seat moments, there are gags and clever touches and excellent performances.
  3. Orlando
    I’ve never been sure exactly how profound this movie is, and it sometimes teeters on the edge of complacency, but it has a trance-inducing strangeness and Swinton is insouciantly magnetic at all times.
  4. First They Killed My Father
    The film’s real ferocity is saved for the ideologues of terror.
  5. The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography
    It’s an endlessly charming film focused on a woman whose view of life is one to be envied.
  6. The Land of Steady Habits
    The Land of Steady Habits, though not as funny and breezy as Enough Said or Friends With Money or Please Give, is a natural extension of Holofcener’s work, the totality of which is, in part, a rebuke of the idea that likability is necessary or even desirable in film characters.
  7. First Man
    It is a movie packed with wonderful vehemence and rapture: it has a yearning to do justice to this existential adventure and to the head-spinning experience of looking back on Earth from another planet.
  8. Uncertain
    Uncertain is a vivid, pungent ode into a world that is fast disappearing.
  9. Rangoon
    Post-Slumdog, Hollywood and Bollywood have repeatedly attempted to collaborate, with mixed results: here, they’ve produced a properly expansive and enthralling afternoon matinee.
  10. Hounds of Love
    For horror aficionados it is unmissable. For others, so intense it might be unwatchable.
  11. The Disaster Artist
    The dazzle of the cast and the targeted in-jokes never take away from the film’s core messaging about the importance of believing in one’s own ability as an artist.
  12. Private Life
    What an intelligent, emotionally grown-up film. More of this please.
  13. Annette
    Annette is a forthright and declamatory and crazy spectacle, teetering over the cliff edge of its own nervous breakdown, demanding that we feel its pain, feel its pleasure and take it seriously.
  14. Burden
    If Burden has any fault, it’s that it is overly straight, but perhaps for a subject with which it is so difficult to relate, that is necessary.
  15. The Nightingale
    The intelligence of Kent’s direction and the humanity she reveals in both Clare and Billy give the film its arrowhead of power.
  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 Survivalist
    The physical suspense is all but unbearable: a sexualised hunger, fear and need. Fingleton writes and directs with gusto and flair.
  18. All This Panic
    Gage’s remarkably intimate portrait of female youth on the verge leaves you with a largely hopeful feeling that this particular group of women will make good on that advice.
  19. Stronger
    Stronger is a film filled with warmth and humanity, but one that doesn’t sugarcoat the reality that comes with it.
  20. A Silent Voice
    It’s a beguiling film: subtle, sensuous and delicate.
  21. Truman
    Camara and Darin contribute outstanding work here, a beautifully meshed pair of performances that reveals nearly everything you need to know about the characters and their inner lives through exchanged looks, shrugs and the odd arched eyebrow.
  22. Rodney King
    The performance is austere and challenging, it takes us through the grim events, their aftermath and the long endgame of King’s life, but without the emollient or lenient notes that a Hollywood treatment might attempt. It is a requiem of a sort, and a sombre indication of all that has not yet healed, or been fixed.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Last Men in Aleppo
    Last Men in Aleppo is one of the most difficult documentaries you’ll see this year.
  24. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
    It’s a comedy that doesn’t really have, or aspire to, any very tragic dimension, but it’s touching. The quirks are underpinned by a heartfelt solidity.
  25. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
    It’s an intriguing, disturbing, amusing twist on something which in many ways could be a conventional horror-thriller from the 1970s or 1980s, or even a bunny-boiler nightmare from the 90s.
  26. Lucky
    A sad, sweet movie.
  27. The Shape of Water
    Yes, Del Toro’s latest flight of fancy sets out to liberally pastiche the postwar monster movie, doffing its cap to the incident at Roswell and all manner of related cold war paranoia. But it’s warmer and richer than the films that came before. Beneath that glossy, scaly surface is a beating heart.
  28. Stalker
    Like Solaris, his earlier meditation on the future, Tarkovsky's 1979 film Stalker is mysterious and compelling though in my view not, like Andrei Rublev, in the realms of greatness: a vast prose-poem on celluloid whose forms and ideas were to be borrowed by moviemakers like Lynch and Spielberg.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Here After
    This knotty psychological study is an impressive debut from Poland-based Swedish director Von Horn.
  30. The Post
    Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep give excellent performances, though not exactly a stretch in either case, and both with a tiny, tasty touch of cheese. Their characterisations are luxuriously upholstered, effortlessly fluent, busting with relatability.
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