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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. Child's Play
    Child’s Play bubbles with entertaining bad taste.
  2. Yesterday
    Although this film can be a bit hokey and uncertain on narrative development, the puppyish zest and fun summoned up by Curtis and Boyle carry it along.
  3. Mr. Jones
    Mr Jones is a bold and heartfelt movie with a real Lean-ian sweep.
  4. Varda by Agnès
    Two hours in this director’s company is a pleasure.
  5. TT3D: Closer to the Edge
    What could have been a pretty dull film just for motorbike fans and devotees of the Isle of Man TT race, achieves real human interest and excitement due partly to a focus on one competitor: likable motormouth Guy Martin.
  6. Cutter's Way
    An unclassifiably brilliant gem of American independent film-making.
  7. Booksmart
    Her film reaches the audience-friendly highs of a studio comedy while retaining an indie sensibility, both in its visuals and its tone, and coupled with the script’s rooted awareness of the moment we’re now in, it feels fresh, a film that will be rewatched and quoted, held on a pedestal by those who understand its necessity.
  8. The Day Shall Come
    Morris handles a delicate balancing act with an expected ease, the work of a satirist with so much to say yet with an awareness that saying less leads to so much more.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
    A film that displays most of the faults of his kind of on-the-hoof film-making - and all the virtues.
  10. Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy
    I would have loved to hear Kennedy on the tricky subjects of fusion cuisine or cultural appropriation. But there’s more than enough here to get your teeth into.
  11. Saint Frances
    This is a film with a hopeful message about people, and their ability and willingness to learn – and to get along.
  12. Opening Night
    Woody Allen said that he could watch a Bergman movie and feel himself gripped as if by a thriller; that's how I felt watching this restored version of John Cassavetes's 1977 picture Opening Night.
  13. Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story
    It’s appropriate that this absorbing, tender documentary has been driven by a surge of fan loyalty and love.
  14. The Chambermaid
    Cartol gives a very persuasive performance as Eve, whose inner life is always simmering and bubbling under, while she must maintain a facial blankness as cloudless and pristine as the towels and sheets.
  15. Honeyland
    Honeyland really is a miraculous feat, shot over three years as if by invisible camera – not a single furtive glance is directed towards the film-makers.
  16. Carmine Street Guitars
    It is 80 minutes of pure woodwork-musicianship-upcycling erotica for a very specialist but passionate market.
  17. Midnight Traveler
    A powerful, personal piece of work.
  18. See You Yesterday
    A smart, often ingenious, new film ... What’s most exceptional about the end result is just how deftly [the director] weaves the enraging horror of a racially motivated police shooting into a zippy genre piece.
  19. Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
    Having watched this documentary, I now think the project could also be seen as a gigantic adventure in conceptual art, and this is not to denigrate it in any way.
  20. Good Posture
    Wells’s coolly indirect way with dialogue prevents the movie becoming insufferable in the way that it might have done in other hands. It is like a short story that insouciantly signs off before you’ve quite decided what it means.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Zulu
    Zulu is a brilliantly made dramatisation of Rorke's Drift, and it does a fine job of capturing the spirit for which the battle is remembered.
  22. In the Aisles
    In the Aisles is a poignant and richly sympathetic film.
  23. Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
    Oprah Winfrey, Angela Davis and Morrison herself explore her work and legacy in this fascinating documentary completed shortly before the Nobel-winning author’s death.
  24. Atlantics
    Atlantique may not be perfect, but I admired the way that Diop did not simply submit to the realist mode expected from this kind of material, and yet neither did she go into a cliched magic-realist mode, nor make the romantic story the film’s obvious centre. Her film has a seductive mystery.
  25. Bacurau
    It is a really strange film, beginning in a kind of ethno-anthropology and documentary style, becoming a poisoned-herd parable or fever dream and then a Jacobean-style bloodbath. It is an utterly distinctive film-making, executed with ruthless clarity and force.
  26. Pain and Glory
    As ever, Almodóvar has made a film about pleasure, which is itself a pleasure: witty, intelligent and sensuous.
  27. Matthias & Maxime
    There is such tenderness and gentleness in this film.
  28. Parasite
    A luxuriously watchable and satirical suspense drama.
  29. The Whistlers
    Porumboiu gives us a knotty, twisty, nifty plot that’s quite involved but hangs together well, and there’s an amusing juxtaposition of gloomy, rainy Bucharest and the sunny terrain of La Gomera. We also get a neat and unexpected coda.
  30. Invisible Life
    The movie is saturated with emotion and colour, though its novelistic depth brings with it the slightly effortful running time of two hours and 20 minutes.
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