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For 6,601 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: 2,500 out of 6601
  2. Mixed: 3,782 out of 6601
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6601
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  1. Heimat is a Space in Time
    I was sometimes captivated but often frustrated by this epic essay-film, a meditation on Germany and his own family history that is stark, fierce, austerely cerebral and almost four hours long.
  2. Whitney
    There are watchable moments, undoubtedly, and it is extraordinary to watch Houston’s sensational performance at the 1991 Super Bowl, singing The Star Spangled Banner with such passion: perhaps the greatest moment of her professional life. Her enigma remains unsolved.
  3. X-Men: Days of Future Past
    Non-devotees might well give up, but director Bryan Singer always has a neat special effect, a well-timed gag or an action set piece around the corner, whipping up the action towards a symphonic climax.
  4. Polite Society
    The first half is so energetically surefooted as to establish trust in Manzoor’s instincts and hopes for a second feature. But like The Fury’s would-be signature kick that Ria struggles to nail, Polite Society banks on one big swing it just isn’t able to pull off.
  5. The Bob's Burgers Movie
    It functions elegantly as both a victory lap for longtime fans and a belated introduction to the Belchers, a family of lovable misfits and cranks that’s as genuinely close as any on television.
  6. Bring Her Back
    The whole thing is underscored by barnstorming performances from Wong and Hawkins.
  7. The LEGO Batman Movie
    It doesn’t have the heart, the depth or the novelty of the first Lego movie, but it is relentlessly, consistently funny – which excuses everything.
  8. Kate Plays Christine
    Greene makes it clear early on that his interests lie less with a news report than with what Werner Herzog dubbed “ecstatic truth”. The dial swerves between “catching something” to “clearly rehearsed” and back again, and all to the betterment of the final project.
  9. Funny or Die Presents: Donald Trump's the Art of the Deal: The Movie
    All good stuff from Depp, although by sending up Trump’s 1980s period, it feels a little off the money, and this is a figure who has already somehow absorbed derision into his skin and made himself immune to it.
  10. Monica
    This is a tremendously crafted, impeccably intelligent film.
  11. Microbe and Gasoline
    If this film were a person, you’d want to give it a big hug, as you would a gawky teenager, and reassure it that it will be tough out there, that not everyone is going to get its idiosyncratic charms, but that’s OK because it’s awesome just the way it is.
  12. Trainwreck
    While there are things to quibble with, there is also so much to like, and Trainwreck is still an important film. The romantic comedy, which it ultimately becomes, has been a dying genre of late, and Schumer’s effort, while flawed, is a reminder of what can make the genre so likable
  13. Sister Midnight
    It’s a great comic turn from Apte who deserves to be better known.
  14. Emily
    This is a sensually imaginative dive into the life of the Wuthering Heights author: it is a real passion project for O’Connor, with some wonderfully arresting insights.
  15. Orlando
    I’ve never been sure exactly how profound this movie is, and it sometimes teeters on the edge of complacency, but it has a trance-inducing strangeness and Swinton is insouciantly magnetic at all times.
  16. When Lambs Become Lions
    I’m not sure that I was completely on board with this film, which appears to have smoothly carpentered its narrative in the edit. Is it almost too good to be true?
  17. Origin
    The result is a film with urgency and heartfelt sympathy, but one which I couldn’t help thinking may have been better served as a documentary to focus more directly on the issues involved.
  18. Rebuilding
    It is another highly sympathetic performance from O’Connor, who converts the British reticence of his earlier roles into Dusty’s strength and quiet vulnerability.
  19. Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami
    It’s a celebration of her musicality and extraterrestrial scariness, and a reminder that films about female singing stars need not be gallant tributes to tragically doomed fragility.
  20. Plot for Peace
    It's a fascinating story.
  21. A House of Dynamite
    I watched this film with translucently white knuckles but also that strange climbing nausea that only this topic can create.
  22. Okja
    The pure energy and likability of this film make it such a pleasure.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    National Bird
    With stealth and elegance, Kennebeck brings these alarming truths into the light.
  24. 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.
  25. Titane
    For its sheer silliness and towering pointlessness, Julia Ducournau’s gonzo body-horror shaggy-dog story deserves some points.
  26. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
    Billy Wilder's distinctive, irreverent slant on the world's greatest "consulting detective" holds up reasonably well 32 years on; you wouldn't expect anything directed by Wilder and scripted by his long-time associate IAL Diamond to be anything less than funny and watchable, and this is both.
  27. Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII
    One for the fans, perhaps, and a vivid Gradiva-esque glimpse of the past.
  28. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
    A sequel that is slick with silliness, but peppered with enough wit and peril to sustain the franchise’s momentum.
  29. In the Last Days of the City
    It’s a melancholy, interesting film, slightly opaque, a cine-journal about the way youth is clouded by experience.
  30. Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara
    Bellocchio shows us a brutal convulsion of tyranny, power and bigotry with echoes of the Dreyfus affair in France, and later, horrific events.
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