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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. Rebel Without a Cause
    There is some stuffy, faintly reactionary stuff in this famed 1955 teen drama, but James Dean is truly extraordinary, and it has some brilliant scenes
  2. Won't You Be My Neighbor?
    This documentary by Morgan Neville reveals that he really was just what he seemed to be at first innocent sight: a kind-hearted, square but saintly man who genuinely loved and understood children.
  3. The Favourite
    The Favourite may have corrected Lanthimos’s tendency towards arthouse torpor. It is a scabrous and often hilarious film, made loopier by the nightmarish visions and wide-angle distortions contrived by the cinematographer Robbie Ryan.
  4. If Beale Street Could Talk
    In some ways, If Beale Street Could Talk is a portmanteau movie with great performances from KiKi Layne, Regina King and Brian Tyree Henry, a succession of scenes from interrelated lives, constellated around the main narrative arc and supercharged with an ecstasy of sadness and knowledge.
  5. Sunset
    It’s a very mysterious and even bizarre film in many ways, shot in what is becoming Nemes’ signature style: long takes, a persistent closeup on the lead character’s face, and a shallow focus that allows the surrounding reality to intrude only intermittently.
  6. Transit
    The strangeness of this story will live in your bloodstream like a virus.
  7. Skate Kitchen
    Just as in Stacy Peralta’s classic 2001 documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys, this gives its audience a sense of the almost pastoral innocence of skateboarding, its devotion to nothing more or less than having fun: a subversive urban vocation that is dedicated to the art of pleasure.
  8. Madeline's Madeline
    It’s an immersive and exotic experience. Howard is a revelation.
  9. The Happy Prince
    This film is a deeply felt, tremendously acted tribute to courage.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    MATANGI/MAYA/M.I.A.
    The film comes from a place of deep admiration for MIA, but unlike more fawning biographies, it makes a convincing case that this admiration is well earned.
  11. Eighth Grade
    Elsie Fisher is magnificent as a vulnerable teenager facing trouble at school and at home in Bo Burnham’s gripping drama.
  12. The Kindergarten Teacher
    Gyllenhaal is terrific as a teacher and wannabe poet who exploits a child prodigy in this gripping psychological drama.
  13. The Irishman
    There’s an almost meta-maturity, as if Scorsese is also looking back on his own career, the film leaving us with a haunting reminder not to glamorise violent men and the wreckage they leave behind.
  14. Colette
    This is a highly enjoyable and bracing piece of work from Wash Westmoreland.
  15. Lizzie
    [A] gripping, well-acted and sharply-written low-budget drama.
  16. Monsters and Men
    There is humanity and complexity in this welcome movie, as well as muscular power and unreconciled anger.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Our New President
    It’ll annoy many with its refusal to take a stance beyond the absurdity of it all, but that lack of easy outrage makes it a true original. An important documentary for our times too, taking us deep into the heart of a bubble far from our own.
  18. Three Identical Strangers
    Wardle tells a compelling story of the three happy boys who became three unhappy men, their faces shining with a kind of ecstasy in their youth, then muted with sadness and bewilderment in middle age.
  19. Wildlife
    It’s an extremely watchable movie, beautifully and even luxuriously appointed in its austere evocation of smalltown America – though maybe a little self-conscious in its emotional woundedness.
  20. Adrift
    Adrift doesn’t have quite the existential gut-punch of JC Chandor’s similar All Is Lost or the recent Cannes debut , but what it lacks in the department of pure howling cinema, it makes up for with the emotion of its central relationship.
  21. An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn
    This is an entirely ridiculous shaggy-dog story, a comedy salted with strangeness and seasoned with surreality.
  22. The Last Family
    Thanks to inventive camerawork, mesmeric performances and incisive yet elliptical editing and storytelling, the claustrophobia becomes a feature instead of a liability.
  23. Padmaavat
    While it’s unfolding before us, it provides – whatever else the courts insist we call it – stirring, seductive spectacle.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bugsy
    The man himself would have tried to hoodwink you into thinking he was a decent guy. Bugsy the movie follows suit.
  25. Journey's End
    The first world war is one of the 20th century’s oldest, grimmest tales of futility and slaughter. Dibb and his excellent cast put new passion into it.
  26. Love and Other Catastrophes
    It’s a wonderfully spritzy dialogue-driven work, full of oomph and chutzpah.
  27. The Guilty
    Miraculously, Möller turns a handful of phone conversations into a nerve shredder.
  28. Mandy
    It’s an uncompromising midnight movie.
  29. The Miseducation of Cameron Post
    The film concludes in a minor key, and unresolved: always smart, amusing and engaging.
  30. West Side Story
    There is one especially lovely moment. At their first meeting, lovestruck Tony asks Maria if her kindness to him is just a joke. She replies: "I have not yet learned to joke that way. Now I never will." This is a real big-screen event.
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