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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. Finding Dory
    The problem with Finding Dory is it doesn’t know when enough is enough. Its believe-in-yourself message is pounded with the subtlety of a hammerhead shark and the final action sequence is really too far-fetched to fathom.
  2. A Clockwork Orange
    Flawed or not, it is a compelling thought experiment.
  3. Human Flow
    This is an urgent, deep soak in the current refugee crisis.
  4. Paper Tiger
    It’s a meaty drama with big scenes and big but carefully considered performances: a really substantial piece of work from Gray.
  5. Longlegs
    This isn’t Perkins’ first shot but it’s his biggest swing and ultimately his clumsiest miss, a grab bag of ideas and tricks that can’t be coerced into anything resembling a whole.
  6. The Dark Horse
    The script could have done without the odd bout of heavy-handed chess symbolism (“a king for a king”) but it’s a solidly entertaining drama with an intriguingly unconventional lead.
  7. Seduced and Abandoned
    It's a guilty-pleasure romp of a documentary, filmed at last year's Cannes film festival, all about the gorgeous, deadly and heartbreaking business of cinema itself.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Burden of Dreams
    Films about film-making are usually deeply self-conscious, and sometimes deceiving. But there is one at least that succeeds in surpassing the movie whose making it describes.
  9. The Gift
    The debutant director applies himself with the same quiet assurance and attention to detail he’s displayed in his acting projects.
  10. Every Body
    This is a sympathetic and very contemporary study.
  11. Victoria
    Despite the strong performances, it’s Schipper’s single-shot conceit - and the fact that he and his team pulled it off with aplomb - that makes Victoria such a bracing triumph. While the entire enterprise is inarguably a stunt, Victoria manages to overwhelm in ways that few films do.
  12. You Will Die At Twenty
    The film is a parable about the dangers of blind faith in religion and authority, but it’s also warmly compassionate and accepting of human nature.
  13. Broker
    The movie is fundamentally silly, with tiringly shallow characterisation and broad streaks of crime-drama intrigue, which only underline the fact that not a single word of it is really believable.
  14. Queen of Earth
    It’s a one-note drama of simmering resentment. That note is sustained with impressive conviction.
  15. Paddington
    Full credit to the film-makers, who manage to map their digital bear against his human co-stars and marry Bond’s antique conceit to a high-concept story.
  16. Women Talking
    The film’s rather abstract conversation doesn’t convey much in the way of urgency or specificity. But there is a sustained moral seriousness in Polley’s work, a willingness to confront pain.
  17. Mississippi Grind
    Writer-director team Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (It’s Kind of A Funny Story, Half Nelson) must be applauded for refusing to let their shaggy dog tale line up with any predictable storyline.
  18. Las Acacias
    Exhilarating and moving. This is a very satisfying love story.
  19. Corpus Christi
    Often moving but also disquieting and even intermittently funny, this drama unfurls a spiritual parable that is uniquely Polish but accessible to all.
  20. The Royal Hotel
    There’s a lot to admire in the performances from Garner, Henwick, Yovich and Weaving.
  21. The Story of Film: A New Generation
    What is invigorating about The Story of Film is that each new clip, each new comment, is an exercise in back to basics, an exercise in looking, and looking again and looking harder – something that’s even more difficult when it feels like we’re drowning in content.
  22. Monty Python's Life of Brian
    But what a triumph this film was for Chapman, who gave a convincing, touching performance as the bewildered everyman who decides to make a stand, and in his battle with the evil empire makes a Luke Skywalker-style discovery about his lineage. Life of Brian is an unexpectedly earnest, sweet-natured hymn to the idea of tolerance.
  23. 24 Frames
    Yes, 24 Frames is rigorously experimental; it demands patience and engagement. But this haunted ghost-film had me completely entranced.
  24. Apolonia, Apolonia
    As Sokol’s style matures, Glob’s direction also becomes visibly more assured. The meandering beginning in which the film-maker’s narration does a lot of the heavy lifting soon becomes more stylistically coherent.
  25. The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo
    What gives the film its distinct flavour is a slightly feverish tone and dream-like logic. In places, it’s hard to see what the magic realism adds, and the script’s ideas about gender and gaze feel underexplored. Perhaps in the end, this sense of unreality opens the door to its characters finding love in this harsh and hopeless place. A touching and moving film.
  26. Personal Shopper
    It is actually Assayas’s best film for a long time, and Stewart’s best performance to date.
  27. Ailey
    What emerges is Ailey’s lifelong seriousness and his vocational purpose in dance.
  28. Ronnie's
    Much of the film’s pleasure lies in the glimpses of Soho over the decades: a wealth of photographs, sound clips and archive footage bring the club and the neighbourhood to life. Free of obtrusive talking heads, contributors feature as voices only, and none overstays their welcome.
  29. Babyteeth
    This debut feature from Australian film-maker Shannon Murphy, adapted by Rita Kalnejais from her stage play, is well acted, heartfelt, beautifully filmed.
  30. The Jungle Book
    A terrifically enjoyable piece of old-fashioned storytelling and a beautiful-looking film: spectacular, exciting, funny and fun.
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