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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. Music
    It is a film that does not proceed in the narrative style and the title seems to suggest that we should think of it as a different art form entirely: a constellation of themes, ideas, tropes, moods in which the personae relate to each other as concepts rather than characters.
  2. Mud
    Mud is an engaging and good-looking picture with two bright leading performances from Sheridan and Lofland.
  3. Nightcrawler
    From a subdued start Nightcrawler unfurls into a ghoulish and wickedly funny satire on journalism, the job market and self-help culture.
  4. The Woman King
    This is a big, bold picture with the vivid presences of Davis, Lynch, Atim and Mbedu giving it some real voltage.
  5. Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
    There is something winning in this calm, walking-pace drama – and the landscape is amazing.
  6. American Symphony
    Batiste is a cheerful and inspiring presence but there’s a guardedness to him that keeps us at a respectful distance. His relentless optimism, so integral when he’s trying to keep everyone’s spirits up, can also function as a shield.
  7. The Young Girls Turn 25
    Best of all, though, the film is a reminder of how deliriously odd Les Demoiselles was, with its MGM-style dance routines, kitschy pastels, and Gene Kelly as honoured guest hoofer. [21 May 1993, p.4]
    • The Guardian
  8. Asteroid City
    The movie rattles cleverly and exhilaratingly along, adroitly absorbing the implications of pathos and loneliness without allowing itself to slow down. It is tempting to consider this savant blankness as some kind of symptom, but I really don’t think so: it is the expression of style. And what style it is.
  9. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
    Here, the pipeline destroyers are the good guys; an interesting genre twist though one which arguably defangs the film, just a little, removing the addictive flavour of cruelty and chaos, yet not making it any the less gripping and ingenious.
  10. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
    What lets the movie down is its heart, or lack thereof. The reprise of the Games introduces new adversaries (and some allies) but has exactly the same dynamic as in the first movie.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Iceman Cometh
    One of the best movies in the American Film Theatre Collection. [22 Aug 2004, p.12]
    • The Guardian
  12. Nouvelle Vague
    None of this, arguably, is inaccurate. But it’s all very smooth: a slick Steadicam ride through a historic, tumultuous moment.
  13. The Tales of Hoffmann
    This is a hothouse flower of pure orchidaceous strangeness, enclosed in the studio’s artificial universe, fusing cinema, opera and ballet.
  14. Into the Inferno
    Into the Inferno is an intriguing, unnerving documentary.
  15. The Truth
    It’s handsome, it’s amusing, it knows exactly where it’s going. All that is missing is that crucial fifth gear.
  16. Pearl
    The film itself is terrifically accomplished and horribly gripping, with golden-age movie pastiche and dashes of Psycho and The Wizard of Oz.
  17. Paris, 13th District
    I’m not sure that Les Olympiades says anything too profound about any of its cast of characters, but Audiard achieves something very watchable and entertaining in anthologising them. This is a connoisseur date movie.
  18. Women He's Undressed
    The life of Orry-Kelly is a story that needed to be told, and Armstrong stocks up a lovingly rendered homage-cum-investigation with oodles of verve and panache.
  19. The Lovers
    Rather like its central relationship, the film is messy and flawed yet painfully familiar.
  20. Nothing Compares
    Nothing Compares is simply more about the Sinéad you already know. But a critic’s original sin is to review the movie you want to see, not the movie that exists. To that end, with expectations managed, Nothing Compares is a quite engaging document.
  21. Hokum
    It is an amusing and gruesome premise, which writer-director Damian McCarthy stretches out into a convoluted, bizarre extended narrative.
  22. Final Account
    Explicitly, his film shows how a hundred shades of grey combine to make a darkness. Implicitly, it warns that it could well happen again.
  23. The Love That Remains
    The effect is tender, sympathetic, diverting and often very elegant and indirect. But it withholds from us the full, real pain of damaged love.
  24. The Mend
    Many a first-time film-maker thinks they are too good to follow any sort of rules, and blends genres by writing from a purely instinctual level. More often than not, the result is unpalatable. The Mend, somewhat miraculously, is here to buck the trend. Let’s just hope that not too many people decide to follow its lead.
  25. The Fire Inside
    Her story is obviously astounding in itself, but what makes The Fire Inside, once called Flint Strong, such an upper-tier sports movie is that Morrison and the Oscar-winning screenwriter Barry Jenkins don’t rely solely on the facts of her life to compel.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Killing Fields
    Roland Joffé's 1984 masterwork is a solid piece of historical film-making, capturing factual detail without sacrificing fine storytelling.
  27. Encanto
    There are some nice moments and sweet showtunes, but Encanto feels like it is aspiring to exactly that sort of bland frictionless perfection that the film itselfis solemnly preaching against, with a contrived storyline which wants to have its metaphorical cake and eat it.
  28. Farewell Amor
    Refreshingly, Msangi’s empathy extends in every direction.
  29. Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
    Gere’s commitment to the role almost makes up for the film’s flaws.
  30. Kiss the Future
    This movie is a time-capsule of Europe’s recent tragic past.
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