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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. All the Old Knives
    Maybe a little unexpectedly, Amazon Studios have given us a very watchable and classily upscale espionage drama-thriller in the spirit of John le Carré.
  2. Ronnie's
    Much of the film’s pleasure lies in the glimpses of Soho over the decades: a wealth of photographs, sound clips and archive footage bring the club and the neighbourhood to life. Free of obtrusive talking heads, contributors feature as voices only, and none overstays their welcome.
  3. Servants
    Pure evil permeates this brief, 80-minute film, whose cold visual brilliance reminds me of the recent movies of Paweł Pawlikowski. It wasn’t until some time after it had finished that I grasped one of the reasons it was so oppressive: there are no women in it at all. There is a chill of political fear.
  4. F@ck This Job
    Narrating the film with occasional gonzo outbursts (“We were so fucking stupid”), Krichevskaya is perhaps over-infatuated with her subject, but then Sindeeva seems like quite a character.
  5. Rebel Dread
    Letts is a brilliant entrepreneur, an inter-disciplinary artist and eloquent speaker about what life was like in the punk era, and despite his (correct) refusal to see things in these tiresomely nostalgist or sentimental terms, there is a pang in recognising the spark of that time.
  6. Streamline
    Streamline’s narrative doesn’t go in the expected direction, with structural and emotional surprises making good on its promise to deliver a different kind of sports story, even if its final stretch is a tad neat.
  7. I Love My Dad
    However grotesquely culpable Chuck has been, you find yourself wanting to hug him. It’s a clever comic trick to bring off.
  8. Josep
    It’s a delicate, thoughtful film, moving and real.
  9. To Leslie
    The ending of this film does not entirely measure up to the standard of tough realism set in the rest of the drama, but what a great performance from Riseborough.
  10. Olga
    In its unexpected way, this film speaks to the new agony of banishment now being felt by millions of Ukrainians, and to the profound unease and concern and impotence spreading westward across Europe.
  11. Till
    Till is a fierce portrait of courage and a sombre study of the human cost involved in resisting this kind of barbarity.
  12. She Said
    The film coolly conveys the awakening-from-denial horror that their investigation spreads through the film industry and I admire the way it takes the macho cliched nonsense out of journalism in movies: these are not boozy guys being adorable and chaotic, but smart, persistent people doggedly doing their job.
  13. Creed III
    The Rocky spin-off series continues to dazzle with another knockout drama with the magnetic Jonathan Majors.
  14. King Otto
    As with most great football stories, there is a tale of redemption underlying all this; you can’t say it isn’t fully deserved.
  15. The Sea Beast
    The Sea Beast gets the balance just right between rollicking action scenes, the inevitable didactic anti-hunting message about respecting other species’ right to exist and family-friendly humour.
  16. The Asphalt Jungle
    An early masterclass in the art of the caper movie, John Huston's 1950 thriller stands up wonderfully well, even if we've got used to far more convoluted scheming by movie robbers in the intervening period
  17. Small Body
    Samani’s film-making language has consistency and urgency, and there is an interesting streak of atheism that goes alongside this movie’s spiritual aura.
  18. Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle
    Here is a really well-made, old-fashioned anti-war epic in a forthright and robustly enjoyable style from director and co-writer Arthur Harari.
  19. Crimes of the Future
    It’s an extraordinary planet that Cronenberg lands us down on, and insists we remove our helmets before we’re quite sure we can breathe the air.
  20. The Earth Is Blue as an Orange
    A halo of kinship, love and the tenacious power of art is gathered around this film.
  21. Brian and Charles
    It isn’t easy to develop a sketch-length idea into a feature film and not easy to pivot from ironic comedy into dark Straw Dogs-style menace, and then into a sweet-natured happy ending. But Earl, Hayward and Archer have managed it. It’s the bromance of the year.
  22. Hello, Goodbye and Everything in Between
    It accomplished what few of its peers have been able to do: make me believe in a teenage romance, actually remember the confusion of growing up and feel satisfied with an ending that points to an open-book future.
  23. Hello, Bookstore
    It’s the only documentary I’ve ever watched with a reading list in the credits – what a treat this film is.
  24. The Big Sleep
    The movie's disturbing labyrinthine story of murder and betrayal now looks like a fable by David Lynch: and the witty, charged dialogue between the leads shows that no screen couple, before or since, had as much chemistry as Bogart and Bacall.
  25. Rodeo
    It’s a movie made dense and vehement with Julie’s passion for bikes and her angry sense of a death wish which is going to strike her, ahead of anyone else.
  26. The Silent Twins
    This is an engrossing, well-acted story – disturbing but also tender and sad.
  27. The Banshees of Inisherin
    There are plenty of genuine laughs in this movie, but each of them seems to dovetail into a banshee-wail of pain.
  28. Chevalier
    While Harrison’s performance may never fully reveal the nature of the man beneath these sumptuous layers of organza, silk and self-confidence, it’s enchanté Chevalier, all the same.
  29. The Son
    The Son is a laceratingly painful drama, an incrementally increased agony without anaesthetic.
  30. The Ipcress File
    Caine's star-quality and absolute ease in front of the camera are fully formed.
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