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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. Born in Flames
    The anarchic spirit of agitprop pulses from this scrappy, smart, subversive film.
  2. Separated
    The material is sobering and the mountain of evidence needs unpicking. The film-maker handles his brief with the cold, hard precision of an expert state prosecutor.
  3. Pleasure
    Pleasure doesn’t take a doomily disapproving line on porn, and real pornstars and agents are given cameos. Yet neither is it necessarily celebratory or porn-positive. The people in charge are overwhelmingly male and Thyberg shows how the power relations in the business are really the same as they ever were.
  4. Darkest Hour
    Gary Oldman is terrific as Churchill, conveying the babyishness of his oddly unlined face in repose, the slyness and manipulative good humour, and a weird deadness when he is overtaken with depression.
  5. 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.
  6. Nimona
    Nimona is likable and engaging entertainment that finds its way through self-created chaos to some humane life-lessons.
  7. Samson and Delilah
    The effect of this movie by the Australian director Warwick Thornton is cumulative, subtle, almost stealthy.
  8. I'll See You in My Dreams
    The three leads draw you in. The pace gives these actors time to breathe, show nuance and make their characters human.
  9. Our Little Sister
    The film is quiet, understated and gentle, allowing the audience to take pleasure in teasing out its narrative subtleties, and presented with wonderful freshness and clarity.
  10. Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
    It forces viewers to take long looks at his most controversial imagery, proving that he still has the power to provoke, seduce and enrage.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Absent Minded Professor
    Wacky, bouncy Disney comedy.
  12. 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.
  13. Santosh
    Writer-director Sandhya Suri has made a tense, violent and politically savvy crime procedural set in India: a film about sexism, caste bigotry and Islamophobia that doubles as a study in the complex relationship between two female cops, a cynical veteran and a wide-eyed rookie.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Jean de Florette
    What Pagnol wrote about his book was much more affecting than anything in this cliche-ridden film, full of cardboard characters and pretty views.
  15. Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost
    An intriguing, bittersweet family study.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Spy
    Spy confirms Feig’s and McCarthy’s instinct for both the zeitgeist and the funnybone, and is sure to ramp up anticipation for Ghostbusters even higher – as well as being a delight in its own right.
  17. A Chiara
    As Chiara, Rotolo’s face dominates the screen in closeup for much of the film, and she manages to look very young and yet very worldly wise at the same time. Another very impressive achievement from Carpignano.
  18. Night Moves
    This director, in the past, has shown herself to be an ace with the teasing, hanging ending and Night Moves saves the best for last.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Casualties of War
    An impressively faithful and highly effective film, aside from the misjudged [spoiler omitted] ending.
  20. Tanna
    Tanna has a warm, shimmering vitality. Like the trees and the birds, the frame feels alive.
  21. The Escape
    A superlative performance from Gemma Arterton is at the centre of this almost unbearably painful and sad film from writer-director Dominic Savage.
  22. Send Help
    It’s a time-honoured and perfectly enjoyable setup, and the first act, when the new reality dawns on clueless Bradley, is watchable. But the plot twists are derivative and the action then becomes dependent on weird stabs of grisliness that are not convincing or consistent with the characterisation.
  23. Belfast
    Love letters to the past are always addressed to an illusion, yet this is such a seductive piece of myth-making from Branagh.
  24. Destination Unknown
    Claire Ferguson’s documentary is a powerful, valuable addition to the Holocaust testimony genre.
  25. Civil War
    It’s a strange, violent dream of disorder, drained of ideological meaning.
  26. Blindspotting
    The film’s insidious crawl away from comedy into sweaty waking nightmare is arresting indeed. As is, finally, its insistence that some elements of American life remain too serious to joke about.
  27. A Private War
    The film’s relative failure to engage with the more quotidian details of Colvin’s behind-the-scenes existence is a shame, because it is here that some real clues to her personality might have been found.
  28. The Wolfpack
    Not since Grey Gardens has a film invited us into such a strange, barely-functioning home and allowed us to gawk without reservation. This is a nosy movie, but it is altogether fascinating.
  29. Infinite Football
    Infinite Football is an austere 70-minute experience, but the eccentric idealism of Laurențiu Ginghină lingers in the mind.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Morris from America
    Ultimately, it’s a sweet movie with some good laughs and a phenomenal rap soundtrack, but it fails to rise above the pack.
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