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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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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
    It's all sweat, death and bloody retribution: one of Peckinpah's finest. [03 Apr 2010, p.53]
    • The Guardian
  2. Alice in the Cities
    It is an intriguing movie that lives in the mind for hours after the lights have come up.
  3. The White Tiger
    An absorbing tale of feline ambition.
  4. The Killing of Two Lovers
    Machoian, who is also the editor, composes each scene with studied care and Oscar Ignacio Jiménez’s clear, crisp cinematography and framing is beautifully achieved. This is a compelling portrait of a toxic marriage.
  5. Monsoon
    It is about a homecoming that isn’t quite a homecoming, a reckoning with something not exactly there, an attempted reconciliation with people and places that can’t really be negotiated with.
  6. Being a Human Person
    A valuable introduction to the movies and to the man.
  7. Dirty God
    It’s intense but not unwatchably painful, and so much more than an issue film or portrait of a victim. I really hope Knight finds a place in the film industry; with her terrific performance here she’s earned it.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Offence
    The atmosphere and performances are sustained at a terrifying pitch, and the movie ends suddenly, leaving the audience to deal with the ideas and emotions aroused.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Robin and Marian
    Sean Connery's weary Robin returns from the crusades to confront Robert Shaw's Sheriff Of Nottingham once more, but despite their heroic final duel, it's Connery's scenes with Audrey Hepburn's Marion that make the magic. [03 Jun 2006, p.53]
    • The Guardian
  10. White Christmas
    It's a nice, if undemanding, Yuletide treat.
  11. The Mystery of D.B. Cooper
    As much as this gripping documentary is about the mysterious DB Cooper, it is about human nature, too. These brilliant characters, some deeply entangled in the story, some distant from it but connected, are believers. This film asks what keeps them believing, and it is a far bigger question than the mystery itself.
  12. Overseas
    It is hauntingly sad.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Other
    Mulligan knows how to lead us up and down the garden paths of his bucolic world, and as with Psycho you need a second viewing to appreciate the various skills that have gone into this movie.
  14. Cowboys
    Cowboys is a film that relaxes into its ideas and themes, and the performances from Knight, Zahn and Bell – with Ann Dowd as the cop on Troy’s trail – are all tremendous.
  15. Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry
    Its strongest element, aside from Eilish herself, is the generosity and empathy afforded to the experience of fandom.
  16. Il Mio Corpo
    Their faces are vivid and Pennetta’s film somehow returns you to the simple, fundamental fact: these are real people whose lives carry on outside the movie screen’s perimeter.
  17. The Reason I Jump
    It is an intriguing and empathic study, which could help all of us to understand.
    • 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
  19. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
    Taylor-Joy and Hemsworth are a great pairing and Taylor-Joy is an overwhelmingly convincing action heroine. She sells this sequel.
  20. My Rembrandt
    It features an awful lot of very rich, clever, cordially self-satisfied collectors and connoisseurs; their pink, twinkly-eyed faces positively beam out of the screen, and surely Hoogendijk is inviting us to wonder how Rembrandt himself would have painted them.
  21. The Human Factor
    It’s a blow-by-blow account in measured – but nailbiting – detail, told by the American diplomats in charge of the high-stakes negotiations. You could imagine John le Carré basing a character on one of these polite, ferociously bright people.
  22. Cockroach
    Apart from anything else, it’s a spectacular action movie that begins with a shot that had me gasping: a Hong Kong protester on a rooftop is cornered by police and, in an attempt to escape, he tries climbing down the unstable scaffolding on the front of the building, with other protesters at street level screaming their alarm. The result is heartstopping.
  23. Stray
    At last, just what world cinema really needs right now: an exquisitely made film about street dogs in Istanbul, satiating that universal desire to see distant lands, coo over beautiful, noble animals, and satisfy the audience’s need to feel guilty about the misfortune of poorer, unluckier people.
  24. You Will Die At Twenty
    The film is a parable about the dangers of blind faith in religion and authority, but it’s also warmly compassionate and accepting of human nature.
  25. The Map of Tiny Perfect Things
    The Map of Tiny Perfect Things holds a contained, idealized world – a trove of romcom enjoyment and small treasures I had no problem looping through.
  26. Bad Tales
    It is a superbly shot, viscerally acted ensemble drama.
  27. Baby Done
    Baby Done is funny; it’s sweet; it means something. Most of all it’s charming.
  28. Nightmare Alley
    This film has a horribly ingenious premise and there is something chilling in the central concept.
  29. The Dry
    Director Robert Connolly’s adaptation is a very gripping and polished film, commandingly performed and directed, with an airtight sense of tonal cohesiveness – despite lots of, well, air in the frame, derived from countless mid- and long-shots capturing barren exterior locations in a fictitious Australian outback town.
  30. The Road to Mandalay
    Compassionate and honestly told, it is a real empathy machine of a movie.
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