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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. Lolita
    Although it is often seen as a precursor to the multiple parts played in Dr Strangelove, Sellers' turn here is a reminder of his true potential, soon to be swallowed up by a stream of ever more awful Pink Panther films.
  2. 63 Up
    Apted has honed his skills over the years, becoming less presumptive and more content to let narratives unfold naturally. And, of course, the unprecedentedly long relationship between the maker and his subjects has led to more give and take between them.
  3. Shooting the Mafia
    Her photographs are like very bad dreams and simply looking for any period of time at dead bodies is a very strange experience.
  4. Judy & Punch
    It’s a mouth-puckeringly tart movie that’s tonally in a world of its own – darkly disturbing, absurd, brutal and silly, with a batsqueak of bonkers.
  5. Human Nature
    The film is at its most intriguing in its earlier half, when it simply takes you through the growing excitement within the scientific community as the reality of Crispr emerges.
  6. A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
    A little of the personality has been lost in adapting Shaun’s world for sci-fi (the Wallace and Gromit movie Curse of the Were-Rabbit pulled off horror with a little more finesse). It’s a minor quibble; Shaun is by no means past his prime.
  7. Away
    Not a word is spoken throughout, which harkens back to an older era of cinematic storytelling. At the same time, the extreme frame-to-frame fluidity of the computer-assisted animation style, composed entirely of fields of subtly modulated colour, no outlines and minimal modelling, looks completely 21st century.
  8. Let Him Go
    With its handsome, and expensive, period recreation, a wide rural American canvas and an audience-provoking last act, it’s a shame that more of us won’t get to enjoy Let Him Go on the big screen, where it truly belongs. But for those who will, they’re in for a wild ride.
  9. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
    Music is where the film’s emotional meaning is unveiled.
  10. The Vast of Night
    With great style and technical bravura, the film takes us on a fairground ride, running on rails right up to the final question.
  11. Acasă, My Home
    Ciorniciuc and his co-writer Lina Vdovîi, in allowing events to unfold slowly in front of the camera, have created a beautifully measured portrait of an amazingly resonant topic.
  12. 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.
  13. And Then We Danced
    The physicality of this picture is exciting.
  14. Sylvie's Love
    It’s a film that both looks and feels the part, a handsomely made love story that’s easy to fall in love with.
  15. Beastie Boys Story
    This film is a time capsule of the 1980s: an era that was crass and excessive in so many ways, but now seems weirdly exotic.
  16. Two of Us
    How refreshing to watch a film in which the sexuality and desire of women in their 70s is portrayed not as a novelty but simply part and parcel of their lives; and since this French movie is a lesbian drama, there’s two of them – even better.
  17. Vivarium
    Vivarium is a lab-rat experiment of a film, with flat, facetious humour and a single insidious joke maintained and developed with monomaniacal intensity. In its way, this film is an emblem of postnatal depression and simple loneliness.
  18. Candyman
    This film is a very tasty confection of satire and scorn.
  19. Shirley
    There’s a lot here to digest, a bitter cocktail with many confounding flavours and its abrasiveness will prove tough-going for some, especially those in search of a more polite and familiarly structured literary biopic. But for those willing to sink into the depths with Shirley, it’s a delicious journey down.
  20. Palm Springs
    It delivers some much-needed laughs.
  21. The Nest
    This is a film that swerves away from categorisation. It’s an 80-set picture that wears its period locations and its musical references lightly. It’s a city trader film where the main bad guy doesn’t do coke. And it’s a scary movie whose disturbing supernatural interludes happen almost incidentally, a sideshow to the emotional collapse.
  22. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
    This is a fascinating slice of Americana which reminded me of 70s movie-making, like John Huston’s Fat City. I half-expected young Stacy Keach and Jeff Bridges to roll in for a few whiskies.
  23. Dick Johnson Is Dead
    It all builds up to a remarkable coup de cinéma: a Buñuelian finale that is startling and moving. This is both an exploratory personal project and a thought-experiment of a film.
  24. Minari
    Chung’s nuanced portrait of a family figuring out their place in the world is both small and somehow rather grand.
  25. On the Record
    The film is forthright and intelligent on the difficulties and complexities involved in the discussion.
  26. The Painter and the Thief
    What an engrossing film – and the gender reversal of a male muse inspiring a female painter has got to be one small step for art-world equality.
  27. Zola
    Now this has been turned into a very entertaining lowlife crime comedy from director and co-writer Janicza Bravo, a film that preserves the fishy flavour of the online original – if perhaps only semi-intentionally – and has interesting things to say about the exhaustingly performative and self-promotional world of social media.
  28. Fear Street Part One: 1994
    There’s real, seat-edge fun to be had here, the sort of fun that’s too often missing from modern horror.
  29. Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
    It’s as involving as it is necessary, a rare ray of sunshine on yet another cloudy day.
  30. Black Bear
    The meta gets better in Lawrence Michael Levine’s dizzying but gripping comedy Black Bear, which is a recurring nightmare – or rather, an entertainment in two acts about the messy business of making a personal film based on actual events.
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