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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. Faces Places
    It is a beguiling and unique piece of work.
  2. Us
    The fiercely charismatic, mesmeric gaze of Lupita Nyong’o holds the movie together, and I have to say that without her presence, the movie’s final spasm of anarchic weirdness might have lost its grip. She radiates a force-field of pure defiance.
  3. Columbus
    Columbus is an engrossing and unexpectedly passionate film, although much of the passion is displaced outwards into a feeling for space, for mass, for building materials. It is a static passion, but not inert.
  4. Miss Kiet's Children
    Miss Kiet’s Children is a lovely film.
  5. Letters from Baghdad
    It does serve as a handy summary for those who want a cinematic introduction to Bell’s sprawling, singular story.
  6. Top Gun
    It’s all very silly, though it’s impossible not to feel some affection for this film: Cruise’s pure, strenuous earnestness, the disconcerting laser focus of his stare, and the video-game combat sequences with the MiGs – the words “Soviet” or “Russian” aren’t mentioned.
  7. Killing Ground
    The elegance of Power’s approach belies the extremities of his blood-splotched, hard-nosed story. Which, as the film escalates conflicts and scampers towards closure, is more than grim – borderline misanthropic, perhaps.
  8. Tag
    Surprisingly, there’s emotional resonance in this slapstick flick about friends who are terrified to hug. Add that to the solid chemistry between the leads, and Tag is a fine callback to the sprawling ensemble comedies of the 1980s, back when the real-life tag team graduated high school. It’s a solid summer film that will melt away from memory by fall.
  9. Harmonium
    Although the story unfolds at a steady pace over two hours, the filmmaking is sufficiently elegant and metronomically efficient as to make every minute gripping, especially after the tragic twist halfway through the story.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dark Star
    It's a smart, cynical look at space travel, treating it as a blue-collar job and not a divine calling as Kubrick and others would have you believe.
  11. Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press
    This documentary is an invigorating, disturbing portrait of the arrogance and sinister self-importance of rich people, bullying politicians and their battalions of lawyers.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Misery
    Reiner’s film, the perfect 90-minuter, is sometimes a little stretched at 107 minutes. Nevertheless it maintains its tension well, plays enough tricks on us so that we don’t ever treat anything quite seriously and Goldman’s script has enough good lines and situations to keep one interested in exactly what is coming next.
  13. Dead Calm
    It’s Nicole Kidman who steals the show. Forced to endure the brunt of Hughie’s attacks, Rae is both cool and desperate, calculating and vulnerable, with a strange energy that feels young and tender but wise beyond her years.
  14. Roman J. Israel, Esq.
    Even in the film’s less successful moments, I admired the loose shagginess of it all.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Living Daylights
    Timothy Dalton's monogamous, deadpan 007 brings a more nuanced interpretation to the central character, whose relationships evolve in ways rarely seen in the earlier films.
  16. Our Beloved Month of August
    Our ­Beloved Month Of August is a real one-off: ­eccentric and singular and ­cerebral: an arthouse event, yes, but also witty and emotionally engaged. I found myself thinking about it for days afterwards – and smiling a very great deal. Try it.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Last Detail
    A poignant, funny male-bonding tale, adapted by Robert Towne from Darryl Ponicsan's novel. [21 Dec 2013, p.54]
    • The Guardian
  18. All the Money in the World
    All The Money In The World is not perfect; there is a touch of naïveté and stereotyping in its depiction of the malign Italians with their one, redemptive nice-guy gangster. But with the help of Plummer’s tremendous villain-autocrat performance, Ridley Scott gives us a very entertaining parable about money and what it can’t buy.
  19. Brad's Status
    It is an introspective and downbeat film, but forceful and personal, with excruciating and all-too-real moments of mortification. And it can be weirdly moving, almost out of nowhere.
  20. Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life
    It’s a film to remind you of the almost miraculously collaborative nature of cinema, but also the radiant personalities of individuals.
  21. Annihilation
    Annihilation is more than mere visuals and it will shock, fascinate and haunt whatever screen it’s watched on.
  22. Machines
    A sombre, relevant piece of work.
  23. Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
    It’s a beguiling story and Bell and Bening are tremendous as the star-crossed lovers.
  24. Human Flow
    This is an urgent, deep soak in the current refugee crisis.
  25. After Love
    After Love is intelligent, compassionate, challenging film-making.
  26. The Farthest
    This exquisite, exemplary science documentary, directed by Irish editor turned helmer Emer Reynolds, recounts the rich and fascinating story of the Voyager mission, arguably Nasa’s finest, noblest contribution to scientific understanding.
  27. Our Souls at Night
    Our Souls at Night is your classic Hollywood weepie, so immaculately played that it confounds crass preconceptions.
  28. Lady Bird
    Lady Bird doesn’t exist as a twee indie movie construct, it feels thrillingly real and deeply personal, every single beat ringing true.
  29. Everybody Knows
    Farhadi’s storytelling has overpowering force.
  30. Beast
    [Pearce] gives us a carefully crafted dramatic setup, an intriguingly curated selection of suspects for the crime and all of it building to a fascinating, finely balanced ambiguity in the movie’s climactic stages.
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