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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. The Lost Leonardo
    As with all documentaries about art, we are left uneasily wondering if the galleries of the world are full of “wrong attributions” or straight-up fakes.
  2. Beyond the Hills
    Enthralling, mysterious and intimately upsetting – a terrible demonstration of how poverty creates a space which irrational fear must fill.
  3. Wife of a Spy
    There is sweep and confidence in this movie
  4. Orlando, My Political Biography
    The film might occasionally feel a bit self-conscious, but in a way this is a by-product of the film’s experimental nature; trans people are engaging with this fictional literary text in which trans identity has a poetic reality, a visionary reality, precisely that reality which is here found to be empowering.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Objective, Burma!
    It's a piece of almost instant history – and, as such, it gets the technical and cultural details of military life spot on.
  6. The Sessions
    The Sessions can be sugary, but it's likable.
  7. Mank
    What an addictive romantic drama it is, mixing sentimentality with pure rapture.
  8. Annihilation
    Annihilation is more than mere visuals and it will shock, fascinate and haunt whatever screen it’s watched on.
  9. Lolita
    Although it is often seen as a precursor to the multiple parts played in Dr Strangelove, Sellers' turn here is a reminder of his true potential, soon to be swallowed up by a stream of ever more awful Pink Panther films.
  10. Ava
    Ava is made with superb technique and real style.
  11. Architecton
    I found something a little unfocused and even slightly indulgent or redundant in the way the images are put together (accompanied by a clamorous musical score by Evgueni Galperine) without making it clear to the viewer what we are looking at and where. Yet the film is so striking, especially on the big screen, almost itself a kind of land art.
  12. Babygirl
    The film drifts along to a strangely implausible non-denouement with impermanent effects; she has all the backstory with work and family and he is weirdly blank in ways that don’t feel entirely intended.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    El Cid
    It leaves the facts wounded and strewn haphazardly across the battlefield, but El Cid remains a flat-out terrific movie.
  14. Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
    The overwhelming sense of vocation necessary for such a life is almost awe-inspiring, although Paik’s own jokey, opaque persona seems to exist as a rebuke to any reaction as bourgeois as that.
  15. Midnight Traveler
    A powerful, personal piece of work.
  16. Whose Streets?
    Directors and activists Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis’s outstanding and incendiary documentary about Ferguson does a tremendous end run around mainstream news outlets and the agenda-driven narratives that emerge, particularly on television.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Planet of the Apes
    A promising idea, and yet ultimately too cute: it is a one-to-one allegory, and this much of the film is spent exploring this not very rewarding vein.
  18. The Cordillera of Dreams
    This is rich and valuable testament to Chilean courage.
  19. Bad Education
    It’s a slight movie at times, unfocused at others, even plodding in parts, and I didn’t leave the cinema entirely convinced that it was the most satisfying way to tell this particular story but I did leave feeling confident in both Jackman’s prowess and Finley’s promise, yet to be fully realised.
  20. A House Made of Splinters
    The film is a fine document of a few precious lives; what comfort can be taken from that is unclear.
  21. A Most Violent Year
    JC Chandor’s period crime drama is rigorous, resourceful and as smart as a whip...But its canny tactical struggle remains a joy to behold.
  22. Io Capitano
    Seydou and the others are not exactly masters of their fate, or captains of their souls, to quote WE Henley’s Invictus. They are swept along by power and inequality, but Garrone shows that their humanity and compassion are still buoyant.
  23. Animal House
    A period piece, still reasonably funny.
  24. The Fever
    The Fever is a calm and quiet and subtle film, a little inert perhaps, but deeply engaged with the hidden lives of Brazil’s indigenous people. There is poetry in it.
  25. Gone Girl
    Gone Girl, finally, may be no more than a storm in a teacup. But what an elegant, bone-china teacup this is. And what a fearsome force-10 gale we have brewing inside.
  26. Mountains May Depart
    The pure work-in-progress energy of all this is exhilarating, and if the resulting movie is flawed in its final act, then this is a flaw born of Jia’s heroic refusal to be content making the same sort of movie, and his insistence on trying to do something new with cinema and with storytelling.
  27. The Goldman Case
    Kahn orchestrates the angry energy with an expert hand.
  28. Flux Gourmet
    Flux Gourmet is sometimes funny and always exotic, and every moment has his distinctive authorial signature. But I am starting to wonder if his style is becoming a hipster mannerism with less substance, and a less live-ammo sense of actual danger.
  29. The Auschwitz Report
    Even for those who know about the Auschwitz Protocols – a report to which the pair contributed that has a weighty legacy in Holocaust history – the film is still intensely impactful. Inevitably, it is profoundly upsetting and disturbing.
  30. Copa 71
    Copa 71 is a revolutionary political parable that goes beyond football.
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