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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. High Flying Bird
    In picking at a system until it’s threaded, High Flying Bird is a classic Soderbergh construct.
  2. The Humans
    Very real issues are suffused with an oppressive, unearthly, compelling unreality.
  3. The Card Counter
    Schrader has carpentered a strong and vehement film, hypnotically watchable and squalid with nightmarish flashbacks and a typically apocalyptic ending that grows plausibly enough out of what has gone before. There’s a horrible, queasy urgency to this high-stakes game.
  4. Beatles '64
    What is still amazing is how brief an instant it was; in just a few years, the Beatles and their music would evolve into something completely different. A few years after that, they would break up, while still only in their 20s. An amazing split-second of cultural history.
  5. Babette's Feast
    Twenty-five years on, the story is still charming and beguiling.
  6. In Between
    The script’s nuanced treatment of the complex relationships and a feel for the many-faceted, multicultural city in which it’s set – a unique urban blend of hedonism and tradition, bound together by hummus and history – redeem any shortcomings.
  7. The Chronology of Water
    It borders on cliche a little, but there is compassion and storytelling ambition here.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Trouble in Mind
    Some may think it precious, but it's the haunting, poetic product of an original imagination.
  9. Diego Maradona
    Kapadia’s film is a gripping account of Maradona’s playing career until the mid-90s, though it is flawed by a lack of new material of the sort he had for his previous film about Amy Winehouse.
  10. Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle
    Here is a really well-made, old-fashioned anti-war epic in a forthright and robustly enjoyable style from director and co-writer Arthur Harari.
  11. A Silent Voice
    It’s a beguiling film: subtle, sensuous and delicate.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Spellbound
    With Hitch letting rip on the imagery - including a Dali-designed dream sequence - it's as colourful as black-and-white gets. [07 Aug 2010, p.43]
    • The Guardian
  13. I, Daniel Blake
    The story is told with stark and fierce plainness: unadorned, unapologetic, even unevolved. Loach’s movie offends against the tacitly accepted rules of sophisticated good taste: subtlety, irony and indirection.
  14. Alice in the Cities
    It is an intriguing movie that lives in the mind for hours after the lights have come up.
  15. The Dark Knight Rises
    The Dark Knight Rises may be a hammy, portentous affair but Nolan directs it with aplomb. He takes these cod-heroic, costumed elements and whisks them into a tale of heavy-metal fury, full of pain and toil, surging uphill, across the flyovers, in search of a climax.
  16. The Lost City of Z
    Much will be said about Gray’s cinematic craft (as is often the case when a director works with cinematographer Darius Khondji) but beneath the slow roll down the river pierced by arrows from unseen, defensive natives, there’s a fascinating, mercurial screenplay that offers just enough to keep you journeying for more insight.
  17. Girl Picture
    This is such a vivid, lovable triple-decker performance from Milonoff, Kauhanen and Leino.
  18. Miroirs No. 3
    It is highly diverting, elegantly contrived study of an unhappy family group and the cuckoo in its nest.
  19. Avengers: Endgame
    I have to admit, in all its surreal grandiosity, in all its delirious absurdity, there is a huge sugar rush of excitement to this mighty finale, finally interchanging with euphoric emotion and allowing us to say poignant farewells.
  20. Donbass
    Donbass is a flawed, but vivid achievement.
  21. The Ballad of Wallis Island
    A funny but also melancholy piece of work. It’s more interested in maintaining a consistent and sincere emotional connection than in wild virtuoso showboating.
  22. Blue Ruin
    The endgame is disappointingly predictable, but writer-director-cinematographer Jeremy Saulnier has a lovely touch with faces, light and telling details.
  23. Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
    Stephen Schible’s documentary portrait follows the musician in the calm and introspective period forced on him – but it also shows him participating in post-Fukushima demonstrations.
  24. We
    It’s a film which needs an investment of attention, but there is a great observational intelligence and sympathy at work.
  25. Ex Machina
    With a sly dreaminess, Vikander steals the movie from the two males.
  26. Oldboy
    It's a movie that you feel you're not so much watching on screen as having beamed directly into your skull from some malign, alien planet of horror.
  27. A Gentle Creature
    It is gripping and absorbing in its way, although perhaps too conscious of its own metaphorical properties and opinion may divide as to whether its expressionist element works. Yet there is no doubt as to its power, and its severity.
  28. Saloum
    Saloum does not stop at simply reinterpreting the tropes of the western but wholly retools its influences with local flavours.
  29. The Sisters Brothers
    Audiard’s storytelling has an easy swing to it, his dialogue is garrulous and unsentimental, and the narrative is exotically offbeat.
  30. It's Not Me
    C’est Pas Moi amuses – and discomfits.
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