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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. All Is True
    All Is True is sentimental, theatrical, likable – and unfashionable.
  2. Okko's Inn
    Kōsaka keeps Okko’s quest light and perky, not fully drilling into the vein of childhood trauma-induced fantasy that the best of Ghibli and Pixar hit upon. It proposes attentiveness to others as a means of self-care, but it has the same brisk impatience with real inner conflict that the grandmother has towards Okko’s outbursts.
  3. Hail Satan?
    With her funny, light-hearted documentary, Penny Lane lets the sunshine in, focusing on the Temple’s message of open-mindedness and inclusivity – LGBTQ followers speak of a sense of belonging.
  4. The Venerable W.
    The Venerable W does not explicitly debate the existence of evil as such, but it certainly argues that nationalism, ignorance, arrogance, dogmatic religion and fear are its constituent elements. This is a sombre, pessimistic but necessary film.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Mission
    Powerful and atmospheric, if oddly structureless, The Mission is a magnificently filmed and strongly political view of the conflict between church, state and capitalism.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rolling Thunder
    Devane gives a performance of anguished depth, the final carnage is spectacular and it's a time capsule of a movie.
  7. Fyre
    Fyre allows you to marvel, and to feel – how spectacular the hubris, how gross the unfairness – while reminding that whether you bought a ticket or not, you were the audience the whole time.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    What Is Democracy?
    An extended and good-looking essay, it serves as a sharp reminder to pay attention to politics and to remember that the personal and the local are political. If you like thinking about that sort of thing, and you care about whether your democracy means anything, this film might make you get up and take some action.
  9. Bergman: A Year in a Life
    There are some riveting revelations here.
  10. Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga
    After India decriminalised homosexuality last September, many wondered anew: what would a Bollywood romcom look and sound like with a non-straight protagonist? The answer, it transpires, is: much the same as any other Bollywood romcom.
  11. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
    Chiwetel Ejiofor has made his debut as writer-director, and the result is exhilarating and rather inspiring – a story of success against the odds, of ingenuity and resourcefulness, of a father and son painfully coming to terms with each other.
  12. An Elephant Sitting Still
    Hu provides no easy resolutions, and evidently found none himself. This epic of futility will have to stand as an epitaph for an extremely promising career cut short.
  13. One Cut of the Dead
    It’s a movie that rescues the tired zombie trope – without insisting on metaphor or satire.
  14. Knives Out
    A contemporary whodunnit that both respects and revises the subgenre. ... It’s such a rare pleasure to see a director so in love with a genre without slipping into Tarantinoesque fanboy indulgence, remembering his audience is bigger than himself and also that his film requires both head and heart.
  15. The Hole in the Ground
    It always finds new, invariably cinematic ways to nudge us towards its final leap into the abyss. Cronin feels like a real find for our especially insecure moment.
  16. Wine Country
    Wine Country is scrappy and, at times, misjudged but it’s also very, very funny with a cast of women whose collective charm makes the patchier moments forgivable. Watching it with wine helps too.
  17. Animals
    Its wild nature won’t be to everyone’s taste, but that’s sort of the point. It’s not a film that cares if you find these women charming or likable – it just cares that you believe them.
  18. Clemency
    There’s little room to breathe in writer-director Chinonye Chukwu’s constricting, devastating drama Clemency, an intentionally airless film processing a tough subject through an unusual viewpoint.
  19. The Farewell
    It’s a slight film at times but one that builds to a crescendo of emotion.
  20. Honey Boy
    Honey Boy is a fluent, heartfelt, tightly structured and well acted personal story.
  21. Knock Down the House
    Knock Down The House is far more effective when it is about the people and the process, not landing quips.
  22. Luce
    A tense, knotty puzzle ... It’s a drama that moves like a thriller.
  23. Midnight Family
    Somehow Lorentzen shows that it is not the Ochoa family who are the bad guys, but the whole rotten system.
  24. The Report
    The Report is an angry, urgent film that rarely raises its voice, smartly conveying inhumanity and injustice without unnecessary drama. I found it thrilling.
  25. The Brink
    What emerges from Klayman’s film is how very important Brexit Britain is as a self-vivisecting research animal in Bannon’s experimental thinking.
  26. The Lodge
    It’s a bruising movie, being sold on the promise that it’s “scary as hell”, a quote that I worry will mislead expectant horror fans. The scariest thing about The Lodge is how human it all is.
  27. The Italian Job
    The brio and ambition of The Italian Job can’t be doubted and Caine has enormous charisma.
  28. American Factory
    There are toe-curling culture clash moments.
  29. One Child Nation
    I would have liked (in a spirit of devil’s advocacy) to hear from an economist about the measurable benefits or otherwise of this brutal approach, and perhaps to ponder the climbing global population. These reservations hardly diminish the film’s force.
  30. The King of Staten Island
    The King of Staten Island is not structurally perfect. There is a rather contrived crisis the purpose of which is to bring Claire, Scott and Ray together at last, but there is charm and gentleness in this new stepfamily. Powley’s performance and the final shots of the Staten Island ferry brought back happy memories of Joan Cusack in Mike Nichols’s 80s classic, Working Girl. There are a lot of laughs here.
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