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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. System Crasher
    A grisly, gripping watch.
  2. Nobody
    It’s all very been here, seen that yet there’s something infinitely pleasing about a film doing very little but doing it very well, knowing just how high to aim without aiming any higher, aware of exactly what it can and can’t do. In a tight 91 minutes, without any bloat, Nobody gives us exactly what we want.
  3. Spaceship Earth
    The Biosphere 2 project now looks like reality TV, or maybe a conceptual art happening. Its quixotic extravagance is rather amazing.
  4. The Shop Around the Corner
    This is a sharp, elegant, unsentimental picture in which Stewart plays a character who is often gloomy and downright unsympathetic.
  5. Who You Think I Am
    Binoche’s performance and the movie are elegant, ingenious and sexy.
  6. The Infiltrators
    The varied ingredients blend together well.
  7. DAU. Degeneration
    It is commonplace to say that some films are scary and mad. But this really is scary and mad.
  8. The Invisible Man
    The Invisible Man boasts a brilliantly chill and confident performance from (an almost entirely unseen) Claude Rains and a gloriously over-the-top supporting turn from Una O'Connor as his inquisitive landlady. Moreover, its tart, acid tone largely honours the spirit of the novel.
  9. Inmate #1: The Rise of Danny Trejo
    This documentary is a bit reticent on the subject of racism. It’s not a subject that Trejo addresses, other than to say that cops who used to pull him over now do so to get selfies. Yet it’s an amazing true-life success story.
  10. Seahorse: The Dad Who Gave Birth
    We all share universals like hurt and hope, it’s just that their expression differs for McConnell. Like the act of childbirth itself, something that has happened trillions of times and yet always feels intimately personal, he’s one of us and one of a kind.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Brute Force
    Brute Force was the first important assignment of leftwing director Jules Dassin.
  12. Babette's Feast
    Twenty-five years on, the story is still charming and beguiling.
  13. Sweetie
    Campion offsets what could have been a morose drama with an atmosphere that becomes increasingly, and unnervingly, mystical.
  14. Great Expectations
    It is a wonderfully fluent, engaging story, with beautiful cinematography by Guy Green.
  15. Days of the Bagnold Summer
    Here’s a movie that tells us that the days of summer, like the boys of summer in Don Henley’s song, are going to get outlived by the love they inspire. It’s what happens in this thoroughly sweet-natured, charming and unassuming British film.
  16. Salesman
    If you want a genuinely Millerian cinematic experience, the best way to go is to get hold of Salesman, a 1968 documentary made by Albert and David Maysles, along with Charlotte Zwerin. 
  17. In My Blood It Runs
    Despite such a heavy context, the tone of the film is soft and pensive rather than polemical, constructed with a lightness of touch. It is often inspirational, in a quiet sort of way, and this is derived almost entirely from Hoosan himself.
  18. Look Back in Anger
    Sixty years on, the big-screen adaptation of the landmark play looks more conservative than revolutionary but Burton’s firepower is undimmed.
  19. The 39 Steps
    It is witty, daring and exuberant; like his hero, Hitchcock shows himself to be energetic and resourceful in dealing with changes in locale. [11 Apr 2008, p.10]
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  20. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
    This is a heartfelt movie, a documentary unafraid to spread itself across its vast subject matter, and a fierce denunciation of the arrogant political classes, still in denial about one of the biggest tragedies in American history.
  21. All I Can Say
    It’s a quizzical time capsule of pre-internet fame from the perspective of a troubled but capable young man who knew his way around a camera.
  22. Point Blank
    An intriguing, disorientating 60s artefact.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Black Is King
    It is compelling in every sense and takes you on a moving journey: not only through the story of The Lion King, but through a small portion of the beautiful cultures and traditions that exist within black communities globally.
  24. Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly
    A very absorbing and valuable documentary about the creation of this artwork, which relates to Ai’s honourable record of using art as memorialist-activism.
  25. The Card Counter
    Schrader has carpentered a strong and vehement film, hypnotically watchable and squalid with nightmarish flashbacks and a typically apocalyptic ending that grows plausibly enough out of what has gone before. There’s a horrible, queasy urgency to this high-stakes game.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Killing
    Thematically, The Killing anticipates themes, motifs and incidents to come in Kubrick’s oeuvre, most famously the notion of master plans undone by human fallibility, that are also to be found in the tales of fate and life’s absurdity of by his mentors Lang and Huston.
  27. Benjamin
    Amstell creates a detailed ecosystem of in-jokes from the worlds of media and film, and from that cynical context he conjures a miraculously heartfelt love story, sweet and poignant in all its awkwardness.
  28. I Used to Go Here
    What’s so funny about the film is that it shows how very little divides your early-twentysomething self from your mid-thirtysomething self – you’re never too old to be humiliated.
  29. Make Up
    It’s a clever and expertly made movie; Oakley luxuriates in its winter chill.
  30. F for Fake
    F for Fake is a minor work in some ways, but there is fascination and poignancy in seeing Welles's elegant retreat into this hall of mirrors.
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