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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. 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.
  2. Alice, Darling
    It’s a chilling little film, avoiding maximalism at every turn, a bold debut from Nighy (whose only real slip-up is a score that can feel dull and uninspired) and a difficult reminder of a difficult experience. The chill will linger for a while.
  3. Eternal Spring
    This is a painful, important film, made more urgent in light of China’s tightening of religious freedoms and human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Muslims.
  4. Project Wolf Hunting
    The slaughter does start to get monotonous, but the film rallies in its final third.
  5. Young Plato
    The school is no more dysfunctional than any other institution and a lot more intelligent and self-questioning than many. A very engaging film.
  6. Sr.
    This is a tender tribute.
  7. Piggy
    In contrast to lesser horrors that attempt to be socially conscious, Piggy is much more specific and detailed in how it builds moods and atmosphere, especially the gossipy dynamics that run rampant in a tight-knit community.
  8. Emancipation
    This is a strong, fierce, heartfelt movie.
  9. Last Flight Home
    This is an almost unbearably painful and emotional group family portrait.
  10. Sissy
    Sissy is a deranged pleasure to watch, though a strong stomach and an appreciation of genre protocols is highly recommended.
  11. Challengers
    Moment by moment, line by line and scene by scene, Challengers delivers sexiness and laughs, intrigue and resentment, and Guadagnino’s signature is there in the intensity, the closeups and the music stabs.
  12. Midwives
    This is a dark reminder that even childbirth, that most universal human experience, can be clouded by sectarianism and suspicion.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Of an Age
    In other hands, Of an Age could have been gimmicky or indulgent but Stolevski imbues his characters with such lived-in specificity that we can’t help but be swept away.
  14. Memories of My Father
    This is a wonderfully sympathetic, deeply felt and tenderly funny family drama with a novelistic attention to details and episodes – a little like Alfonso Cuáron’s Roma, about growing up in a similar era in Mexico City. Cámara thoroughly inhabits the figure of Gómez: unselfconsciously inspiring and lovable.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Train
    This long, exciting second world war thriller (based on a true-life incident involving art conservationist Rose Valland, who appears briefly in its opening sequence) has particular present-day relevance in view of the mindless destruction of art works and ancient ruins by Islamic State and our responses to these iconoclastic barbarities.
  16. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
    It has the ruminative lightness, almost weightlessness, the watercolour delicacy and reticence of the emotions, the sense of the uncanny, the insistent play of erotic possibility and that Murakami keynote: a cat.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Theater of Blood
    Grand Guignol with nobs on: Vincent Price hams epically as bloodlusting luvvie Edward Lionheart, who with wacky daughter Diana Rigg starts taking gruesome revenge on the critics. One by one he dispatches them in macabre variations on great Shakespearean death scenes. [05 May 2007, p.53]
    • The Guardian
  18. You Resemble Me
    A strong, muscular, heartfelt film.
  19. Polite Society
    Manzoor’s fight scenes, so amusingly executed by Kansara, effectively dramatise the terrible struggle that women are going to endure – especially the ongoing duel with that certain special in-law. This film delivers a spinning back kick of laughs.
  20. Wildcat
    What an intimate, thoughtful film. I can’t remember the last time I watched a documentary so desperately wanting a happy ending for everyone – human and ocelot.
  21. Sharper
    Like the luxury goods that in one scene we see being stolen, the performances are out of the top drawer, and it is a great pleasure to see Moore on such good form: no one cries more needily, and with more nakedly sinister intent, than her.
  22. Retrograde
    It seems almost frivolous to note this, but the hyper high-definition cinematography is both beautiful in a savage way and adds immediacy to the viewing experience.
  23. The Long Good Friday
    Hoskins’ bullish, black-comic Napoleonism makes this movie: pugnacious, sentimental, a cockney Cagney.
  24. Joyland
    Joyland is such a delicate, intelligent and emotionally rich film. What a debut from Sadiq.
  25. If These Walls Could Sing
    It’s a diverting private tour.
  26. A House Made of Splinters
    The film is a fine document of a few precious lives; what comfort can be taken from that is unclear.
  27. The Blackening
    As a horror The Blackening isn’t the scariest. But that’s not the point of this film – a Fubu satire smack in the sweet spot between Get Out and Scary Movie.
  28. Scream VI
    It’s the goriest movie of the series so far but without veering into grimness, again that tonal balance perfectly modulated. The last act reveal is as goofy as one would expect but satisfyingly so for reasons impossible to explain without entering spoiler territory.
  29. Children of the Mist
    From behind the camera, Ha Le Diem attempts to protect Di by reasoning with kidnappers, but is pushed away; she admits to the young girl later that she did not anticipate the tradition could be so brutal. The decision to leave in such details is particularly thought-provoking, fracturing the supposed neutrality of documentary film-makers.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    36 Hours
    George Seaton's 1964 36 Hours is complete tosh but clever and zestful tosh, and there's not a lot of that about. [13 Apr 1999, p.20]
    • The Guardian
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