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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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    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Remember the Night
    Blessed with a characteristically brut champagne script by Preston Sturges, Mitchell Leisen’s Remember the Night is special even by the bright standards of the romantic comedies that Hollywood studios pulled off so breezily in 1940. It’s the cinematic equivalent of oven-warm gingerbread.
  2. Black Dog
    Its heartwarming aspect comes framed with real grandeur, and a stark absurdism and tightly wound sentimentality reminiscent at times of Takeshi Kitano.
  3. Sketch
    This is a family film with an IQ higher than the average – though before you book your half-term tickets, ask yourself if your little one is ready to watch a kid take a DIY flamethrower to the face of a scary monster.
  4. All That's Left of You
    As the years go by and the trauma festers, the film grows into something thornier, surprising, beautifully textured and deeply moving.
  5. Warfare
    The movie is its own show of force in some ways, surely accurate in showing what the soldiers did, moment by moment, though blandly unaware of a point or a meaning beyond the horror.
  6. In the Fog
    In the Fog is an intense, slow-burning and haunting drama.
  7. Tatsumi
    The slightly slushy tone of celebration rather obtusely fails to engage with the nihilist, pessimist nature of Tatsumi's work. Anyway, an intriguing event.
  8. A New Kind of Wilderness
    A deeply humane and emotionally literate piece of work.
  9. Dìdi
    Izaac Wang’s reserved, undemonstrative performance is what sets the film’s non-sucrose tone: he only really smiles in a goofy video of his much younger self. It’s a cool, downbeat and satisfying piece of work.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Welcome to Leith
    It is as well-balanced and observed a documentary as there is, even if no sane human being could side with Cobb and his people.
  11. After Yang
    The action of After Yang, bizarre and exotic as it is, meditates on what it is to be human and how that may in the future be modified, but it also addresses loss in the present day: our anguished and futile human instinct that death must surely be fixable.
  12. Hello Dankness
    There’s a sense everything is up for grabs and the end is nigh: of consensus reality; of cinema and copyright legislation as we know it. Pop culture’s infinite cycle always spits out and reassembles content; here the process is explicit, amplified, and turbocharged.
  13. Gloria Bell
    Whether or not you have seen the original film, there is a terrific performance here from Moore, and an equally good one from Turturro, who may be entering into his own golden years of bittersweet character work.
  14. Monos
    An arrestingly bizarre experience.
  15. Il Buco
    The film declines to offer up its meaning, or its reason for being, and asks us to think about something outside the passage of time.
  16. Blue Jasmine
    After all those false dawns, non-comebacks and semi-successful Euro jeux d'esprit, Allen has produced an outstanding movie, immensely satisfying and absorbing, and set squarely on American turf: that is, partly in San Francisco and partly in New York.
  17. Overseas
    It is hauntingly sad.
  18. Junun
    It’s a good, solid little picture, but it’s not that great, and certainly not noticeably more accomplished or compelling than many of the other music-themed docs that come out each week with less fanfare.
  19. Servants
    Pure evil permeates this brief, 80-minute film, whose cold visual brilliance reminds me of the recent movies of Paweł Pawlikowski. It wasn’t until some time after it had finished that I grasped one of the reasons it was so oppressive: there are no women in it at all. There is a chill of political fear.
  20. Beyond The Visible: Hilma af Klint
    This documentary makes a pretty convincing case for the admission of the Swedish artist Hilma af Klint into the boys’ club of abstract art, alongside Kandinsky, Mondrian et al.
  21. Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
    Perhaps Good Luck to You, Leo Grande does not aspire to a piercingly profound analysis of sex and the human condition. It is, however, an amusing, compassionate and humane drama acted and directed with terrific panache.
  22. The Elephant Man
    It is an absorbing and satisfying drama, and Hurt’s Merrick is very powerful.
  23. Predator: Killer of Killers
    The only problem with this stuff is that you can’t help picturing how much more spectacular it would look in live action. The animation is all perfectly competent but it’s lacking a little something – that spark of life and ingenuity that can make even flawed animation so fascinating.
  24. John Wick: Chapter 4
    Those who appreciated the original for its brutal, sinewy agility have another thing coming: a lumbering, stultifying gargantua of a film willing to kill everything except its darlings.
  25. Enys Men
    It is not exactly a horror film, despite some spasms of disquiet, but an uncanny evocation of how, when left utterly on our own, we spiral inwards into our memories, dreams and fears.
  26. Clash
    The movie stunningly replicates that sense of inside and outside that must be felt by witnesses to any historic moment: the private debate, the enclosed conflict, and the theatre of confrontation unfolding beyond. What a dynamic piece of cinema.
  27. Young Plato
    The school is no more dysfunctional than any other institution and a lot more intelligent and self-questioning than many. A very engaging film.
  28. Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
    The film is a reminder of just what a brilliant writer Bourdain was.
  29. Amanda Knox
    It’s a carefully balanced and frightening film with Knox a terrifyingly unknowable character at the grisly centre.
  30. Queens of the Qing Dynasty
    It’s a disorientating, unrelaxing two-hour experience, but rewarding.
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