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For 6,594 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: 2,497 out of 6594
  2. Mixed: 3,778 out of 6594
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6594
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  1. Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts
    Eventually, the drama closes in on itself and attains the logic of a dream, though a dream that dissipates quickly on waking.
  2. The Wife
    It is a smart, supremely watchable and entertaining film, and Close gives a wonderful star turn.
  3. And Tomorrow the Entire World
    The tale drifts and falters when I wished it would have hit home with more conviction, but that may be partly the point. The struggle is endless, unwinnable. Everybody is compromised.
  4. Dheepan
    This may not be the director’s most immediately electrifying film, but in its understated way, it’s an immensely powerful work.
  5. The Disaster Artist
    The dazzle of the cast and the targeted in-jokes never take away from the film’s core messaging about the importance of believing in one’s own ability as an artist.
  6. Bill Cunningham New York
    He lived until recently in bohemian chaos in one of the "artist apartments" in Carnegie Hall, and cares nothing for money or vanity. That's real class.
  7. Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
    For those looking for a ride through our modern technological world, or indeed a preview of what is to come, this is it.
  8. All Light, Everywhere
    While the effort put into research for this documentary is commendable, ultimately the aestheticisation of the information dampens its impact.
  9. Kneecap
    The film really comes to life in the actual hip-hop scenes; the musical sequences have originality, comedy and freedom. The rest of the time, the film looks worryingly like a late 90s-early 00s cool Britannia geezer-gangster romp.
  10. Leaning Into the Wind
    A friend who watched this with me said that it’s the kind of film she’d like to see again when she’s dying. That pretty much nails its meditative, melancholy tone and suits the kind of work Goldsworthy does, which is all about the ephemeral and the enduring; time and the tactile qualities of the instant.
  11. My Beautiful Laundrette
    It is a sharp, smart picture, with English eccentricity, sly quirk and political subversion, that represents a brilliant and almost unique engagement with contemporary history in 80s British cinema.
  12. Father Mother Sister Brother
    Basically, there is a contentment and calm here, an acceptance and a Zen simplicity that is a cleansing of the moviegoing palate, or perhaps the fiction-consuming palate in general. It is a film to savour.
  13. Maggie's Plan
    It’s unpredictable and a bit of a mess. And that’s what makes Maggie’s Plan such a delight.
  14. Like Someone in Love
    It is a beautifully shot, and very nicely acted beginning to something: but finally frustrating.
  15. Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
    Pamela B Green’s hectic, garrulous, fascinating documentary recovers the story of French film-maker Alice Guy-Blaché.
  16. Sid and Nancy
    Tremendously acted by Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb with exactly the right absence of sympathy, although Cox arguably loses his nerve on this score in the film’s dying moments.
  17. Lady Macbeth
    Cleverly, it gives us enigmatic backstory hints that may or may not help explain the sudden direction change the film takes in its third act, leading to a denouement of toxic ingenuity. And of all it driven by the sensuality and rage of Pugh’s performance.
  18. Much Ado About Dying
    I can think of few documentaries that are more honest, self-scrutinising and revelatory about ageing, familial love and its limits, and the whole tragicomic process of dying.
  19. By the Stream
    In its engaging and eccentric way, Hong’s film-making is diverting and intriguing and then it capriciously concludes, leaving things up in the air, yet without making you feel shortchanged. Perhaps this one is slighter than his recent work, but it has a comic charm.
  20. Something in the Air
    This is a great-looking movie with a sure sense of time and place; it is obviously a personal, and in fact, autobiographical work about Assayas's own youth. But for all its flair, I came away dissatisfied at its colossal self-indulgence and creamy complacency, and the way historical perspective and meaning are permitted to dissolve in its sunlit nostalgia.
  21. Dolemite Is My Name
    It’s a heartfelt, funny, satisfying film.
  22. Guardians of the Galaxy
    The movie practically satirises itself as it goes along, glossing over its own absurdity in the process.
  23. Lore
    Australian director Cate Shortland's drama is overflowing with such poetic visual touches, conjuring up a fairytale landscape of long shadows, wafting curtains and waving fronds.
  24. A Prayer Before Dawn
    No one would accuse it of breaking new ground, or finding fascinating new paths across its well-worn prison yard. But Sauvaire’s drama is lean and trim and unwavering in its task.
  25. I Carry You with Me
    Revolving around a tender true love story, this first narrative feature from seasoned documentary director Heidi Ewing (which won a couple of awards at Sundance) is a fascinating – though at times uneven – blend of film styles.
  26. Corsage
    In many ways this is a study in anger, and it is an austere and angular picture. Krieps gives an exhilaratingly fierce, uningratiating performance.
  27. Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
    The endlessly prolific Takashi Miike returns with this superbly acted revenger's tragedy.
  28. Escape from Alcatraz
    Dirty Harry director Don Siegel reunited with Clint Eastwood for this taut 1979 thriller about real-life bank robber Frank Morris, who led the one possibly successful (bodies were never found) escape attempt from the notorious maximum-security prison on San Francisco's Alcatraz Island.
  29. Dirty Wars
    The movie has rather silly, Bourne-style thriller graphics, which are unnecessary: it has an important story to tell.
  30. Red Rocket
    With Red Rocket, Sean Baker has given us an adult American pastoral, essentially a comedy, and another study of tough lives at the margin, close in spirit to his lo-fi breakthrough Tangerine.
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