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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. A Ghost Waits
    Chock full of delightful narrative surprises, imaginative genre tweaks, and warming performances from its two leads, this low-budget romcom-horror story is worth seeking out.
  2. Mirror (1975)
    A startling piece of film-making, floating free of the conventional demands of period and narrative.
  3. Zack Snyder's Justice League
    Snyder’s film may be exhausting but it is engaging. Justice is served.
  4. Censor
    With production designer Paulina Rzeszowska and cinematographer Annika Summerson, Bailey-Bond creates something almost unbearably close and oppressive, like the bottom of a murky fish tank. It’s a very elegant and disquieting debut.
  5. Cryptozoo
    While a certain disarming naivety infuses the work, it nevertheless packs an evocative punch, with a moral message about intolerance and the need to protect more vulnerable species. It’s also one of the few films that could potentially induce a psychedelic trip with its visuals alone.
  6. In the Earth
    In the Earth brings us back to Wheatley’s classic world of occult loopy weirdness and cult Britmovie seediness, with a new topical dimension of pandemic paranoia, and what keeps you watching is its unreadable, almost undetectable thread of black comedy.
  7. In the Same Breath
    Business as usual has largely resumed in Wuhan, but Wang’s film contends that that’s just the problem. The same apparatuses of messaging and censorship are still in operation, ensuring that the full extent of the malfeasance may never be fully known
  8. Mass
    Mass is performed with impeccable intelligence and sensitivity, although sometimes it feels like an exercise in award-winning acting. But I admit it: the final, unexpected dialogue scene, though arguably as stagey and showy as everything else, does deliver a punch.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Scum
    This grim picture of borstal life packs a real punch. And kick, and headbutt. [13 Feb 2010]
    • The Guardian
  10. Passing
    There is such sensitivity and intelligence in the performances from Thompson and Negga and the cinematography from Eduard Grau and production design by Nora Mendis are both ravishing. It’s a very stylish piece of work from Hall.
  11. The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet
    This film is enigmatic and yet very digestible, deadpan in its comedy and so insouciant and casual in its form, you might almost think that Katz had written it in five minutes, filmed it in a week. There is real artistry here.
  12. The Sparks Brothers
    It is simultaneously exasperating and magnificent that he shows no interest whatever in asking the Mael brothers anything about their personal, emotional or romantic lives.
  13. Strawberry Mansion
    Beneath the crazy candy-coloured palette, there is actually some real human warmth in the love story, and the acting ensemble features some great comic performers in supporting roles.
  14. Wild Indian
    Amid the current explosion of affirmative diversity-driven film-making, there is a kind of strength in such a self-excoriating and uncompromising point of view. Corbine Jr is one to watch.
  15. We're All Going to the World's Fair
    What an uncanny, exhilarating experience.
  16. Hive
    This is a richly intelligent drama, in which every word and every shot counts.
  17. Sator
    Graham uses darkness and a very sparse score/soundscape to create a truly disturbing work that relies not so much on gore as the uncanny in its most potent form: stillness, pools of darkness and just-visible figures.
  18. Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell
    These mid-90s, north-west Brooklyn specificities are fascinating and relevant; to Biggie’s art, certainly, but possibly also to his death.
  19. Werewolves Within
    This goofy horror comedy, based on an online game of the same name, just goes to prove that if you have a great cast, smart direction and witty script you can just about get away with murder.
  20. Lucky
    This clever thriller teeters on the brink of abstraction, and walks a razor wire between horror and an incredulous absurdity meant to stand for how women must live in the modern world: the daily toll of living in fear of aggression, physical assault and withstanding the misogynistic structures that excuse them.
  21. Come True
    As for interpreting what it all means, leave that to Burns’s therapist. The flamboyance on display here, though, promises great things.
  22. Rose Plays Julie
    It is a really powerful film and Brady’s final dialogue scene exerts a lethal grip.
  23. Ted K
    It is a riveting, dreamlike evocation of this man’s tortured, unhappy life, whose transient successes bring him no pleasure of any kind.
  24. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
    This trio of stories is elegant and amusing, with a delicacy of touch and real imaginative warmth.
  25. A Cop Movie
    It’s a movie bristling with ideas and ingenuity.
  26. Natural Light
    This is a world of brutality and fear from which the movie averts its gaze at key moments, but the chill is unmistakable. The title appears to refer to a light which is inexorably fading.
  27. Romeo and Juliet
    This has elegance, vigour and charm.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sonatine
    Mostly, Kitano is as expressionless as Buster Keaton, but now and then a smile breaks out on that weather-beaten face. He doesn't use much camera movement either, but the combination of understatement and outrageousness is unique, and oddly appealing.
  29. WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn
    Jed Rothstein’s very entertaining documentary is another horror story from the tulip-feverish world of tech startups.
  30. Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
    With its really smart deep dives into cultural criticism, this is a seasonal stocking overflowing with spooky fun.
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