The Guardian's Scores

Select another publication »
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
6585 movie reviews
view
per page
  1. Port Authority
    Port Authority is vehement, urgent and sensual – not perfect, and I would have liked to have seen more extended dance sequences. But it is made with storytelling gusto and heart.
  2. The Climb
    Tragedy and slapstick run through the film and it is very funny.
  3. 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.
  4. Deerskin
    The richness and strangeness of the comedy is somehow simply down to Dujardin’s frowningly serious and haughty face.
  5. First Love
    As ever with Miike, the sheer profusion of material, the torrent of wacky creativity, means that there is always something to hold the attention. It’s bizarre and very unwholesome. But weirdly inspired.
  6. The Cordillera of Dreams
    This is rich and valuable testament to Chilean courage.
  7. The Misfits
    For me, the film is itself a bit of misfit, full of big stagey speeches, contrived moments and some overemphatic performances, but opened out with muscular style by Huston. The faces of Gable, Clift and Monroe together in closeup have a Mount Rushmore look to them.
  8. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
    The film remains fascinatingly warped: an extended study in decaying flesh, set to a score mordantly trying to break into Hooray for Hollywood.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Giant
    It must be added that Giant, in spite of its length, seldom seems long – its story is too eventful, its effects too picturesque, and its director too skilful for that even over so long an expanse of time. It may not be a great film but it is certainly an awesome one.
  10. Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love
    Marianne Ihlen emerges as someone of enormous gentleness and dignity.
  11. Weathering with You
    Like Your Name, it’s thrillingly beautiful: Tokyo is animated in hyperreal intricacy, every dazzling detail dialled up to 11, but it’s less of a heartbreaker.
  12. DC League of Super-Pets
    True to its animated predecessors, Super-Pets pulls off what other superhero entries have struggled to summon from the CGI universe: lighthearted fun and self-aware humor woven with real evergreen themes – the fear of change, learning to love friends through transitions, trusting that love will remain through the seasons.
  13. An American in Paris
    The most distinctive things about the film are possibly Caron's personae-montage at the beginning, which showcases her virtuoso dance moves, and the final fantasy sequence, which resolves (a little hurriedly) the emotional obstacles to their love. An exotically contrived romance.
  14. Onward
    Beneath the bro-friendly, fantasy-art trappings, Onward finds a little bit of that old Pixar magic.
  15. Anatomy of a Murder
    Otto Preminger's fiercely austere courtroom drama was strong stuff in 1959.
  16. The Edge of Democracy
    Throughout, Costa’s voiceover adds shape but doesn’t intrude excessively and lets the powerful compilation of original and archive footage, material shot on the ground in the middle of riots and by drones soaring hundreds of feet above Brasilia, tell the story.
  17. Atlantic City
    Sarandon’s force and confidence are undeniable, and she easily holds her own against Burt Lancaster.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stalag 17
    Wilder takes the Broadway play, as well as the genteel camaraderie familiar from the British POW films, shakes it all up, makes it tougher, funnier, cruder and subtler.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Salt of the Earth
    Salt of the Earth has humour, genuine feeling and great sincerity: it's a film about hope.
  20. Swinging Safari
    Is this outrageous comedy sexy or revolting? Elliott proves – though this feels like the least of his achievements – that a film can be both.
  21. All Quiet on the Western Front
    An ambitious epic of tremendous sweep and scope, with trench-warfare battle scenes comparable to Kubrick's Paths of Glory.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Big Wednesday
    Maybe in the end it's just an exuberant collection of great scenes – but what Big Wednesday has is heart.
  23. The Ground Beneath My Feet
    The transgressive threat approaches and recedes like thunder, leaving us with a study in loneliness.
  24. Rojo
    It’s a disquieting parable of iniquity.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pumpkinhead
    Lance Henriksen's gaunt, anguished features have rarely been put to better use than in this superior horror story...Pumpkinhead would give the Predator nightmares. [23 July 1999]
    • The Guardian
  26. Rosie
    There is great sadness in this film – and great anger.
  27. The Personal History of David Copperfield
    Everything rattles and zings like a pinball machine, and it’s a bracing, entertaining, richly satisfying experience.
  28. Hustlers
    Lopez slinks through Hustlers with a deceptive ease, as in control of the film as her character is of her situation. It’s the sort of role that only a true movie star could pull off, so much of it reliant on a rare, intoxicating magnetism.
  29. Jirga
    This very fine film has a way of pulling you towards its wavelength.
  30. Black Widow
    For fans of Black Widow and everyone else, this episode is great fun and Harbour could well ascend to spinoff greatness of his own.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »