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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. Hannah
    It is a haunting portrait of emotional undeadness.
  2. The Heiresses
    Martinessi shrewdly combines subtlety, melancholy, satirical observation and candour about sex.
  3. Utoya: July 22
    It is an absorbing and moving tribute to the courage of the young victims of Utøya.
  4. Mug
    Mug is a strange, engaging film – well and potently acted and directed, a drama that puts you inside its extended community with a mix of robust realism and a streak of fantasy comedy.
  5. Museo
    Museum is an oddly genial, garrulous film in many ways – rather like Güeros – and it doesn’t behave quite like a heist thriller, nor exactly like a coming-of-age comedy.
  6. Mystery Road
    The whole thing might have been improved by slightly nippier pacing, but the slow-burn action pays off with a spectacular climactic gun-fight, where the distances are so vast it takes half a second for bullets to find their marks.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Workshop
    It’s a film which demonstrates that debate, the exchange of ideas, can be as thrilling as any ramped up action flick.
  8. The Guardians
    The beauty and the pathos of the film are vivid in every frame.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    12 Days
    It’s a quietly devastating film.
  10. SuperFly
    This high-gloss take on Gordon Parks Jr’s funky vision of the hustle goes so far into sheer, unabashed rap-video excess that calling it gratuitous would miss the point. Until it suddenly, brutally isn’t.
  11. Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami
    It’s a celebration of her musicality and extraterrestrial scariness, and a reminder that films about female singing stars need not be gallant tributes to tragically doomed fragility.
  12. Cocote
    It is a film with its own miasma of unease.
  13. John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection
    McEnroe makes a fascinating focal point.
  14. Ava
    Ava is made with superb technique and real style.
  15. Upgrade
    At its best – in a boundless chase round a hackers’ hangout, and a high-speed freeway pursuit – Upgrade is as fluid and exhilarating as anything the Wachowskis signed their names to in the days when they were brothers: the kind of nifty, sometimes nasty surprise our multiplexes sorely need.
  16. Cargo
    Nevertheless Cargo is a very strong, at times stirring achievement: a zombie film with soul and pathos.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mountain
    Despite its glorification of thrill-seeking, the message that runs through Mountain like rivulets over rocks is that our highest peaks are places to be revered and respected.
  18. Prick Up Your Ears
    This 1987 adaptation of John Lahr's biography of rebel playwright Joe Orton still stands up extraordinarily well: mostly because of two outstanding central performances, Gary Oldman as the talented, blase Orton, and Alfred Molina as his thwarted, Hancock-esque murderer Kenneth Halliwell.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The China Syndrome
    Very convincing, deeply disturbing tale. [31 Dec 2005, p.49]
    • The Guardian
  20. The Escape
    A superlative performance from Gemma Arterton is at the centre of this almost unbearably painful and sad film from writer-director Dominic Savage.
  21. Cake
    Uncommonly alert to small, telling details, while more expansive in its attitudes, the result proves far richer and worldlier than anything previously observed coming down the Khyber Pass.
  22. McQueen
    [A] sombre, thorough, intelligent and informative documentary.
  23. August 32nd on Earth
    Charming and intriguing tale of undeclared love, full of haunting set pieces that stayed in my mind for hours afterwards. [11 June 1999, p.15]
    • The Guardian
  24. Crane World
    First-time director Pablo Trapero has crafted an impressive debut - one that emphasises the dignity of his subject without lapsing into agit-prop.
  25. Born and Bred
    Trapero creates a cinematic eco-system that moment by moment, scene by subtle scene, completely enfolds you.
  26. The Sound of Music
    Robert Wise's adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical still has a little soul in its bones, with its reactionary nature tempered by Ernest Lehman's supple screenplay, and its elephantine running-time eased by a set of songs that lodge in your system like hookworms.
  27. Good Boys
    Some massive laughs, a huge Stephen Merchant cameo and the most impressive school play on film since Wes Anderson’s Rushmore are all on offer in this very funny teen – or rather tween – comedy.
  28. Climax
    It is as if Noé has somehow mulched up the quintessence of dance, coke and porn together and squooshed it into his camera. If that sounds horrible, then yes it is, but also, often, demonically inspired.
  29. Arctic
    Mikkelsen hurls himself into proceedings. It’s a performance of intense commitment, one where every grunt and yowl feels agonisingly authentic.
  30. Ash Is Purest White
    What does the ending of Ash Is Purest White mean — and what does its middle or beginning mean? I’m not sure. It feels like a gripping parable for the vanity of human wishes, and another impassioned portrait of national malaise.
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