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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. The Tale of King Crab
    What first-time feature directors Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis seem to be going for here is a Herzogian waking nightmare, but the necessary sense of horror and despair never fully comes off.
  2. Rust and Bone
    What could have been simply bizarre, sentimental or contrived here becomes an utterly absorbing love story.
  3. Inland Empire
    Though this is familiar Lynch stuff, it is never dull, and I was often buttock-clenchingly afraid of what was going to happen next and squeaking with anxiety.
  4. Eye in the Sky
    Eye in the Sky aims to thrill and covertly manages to inform simultaneously.
  5. Kiki
    It’s a kaleidoscopic and vivid rendering of a world that is larger than life, flamboyant but ultimately fragile.
  6. Concrete Utopia
    If George Orwell had had a career stint as a Korean estate agent, this is the kind of story he might have turned out.
  7. Frantz
    Ozon is often at his best when working with women, and he has a fabulous talent in Paula Beer to bring his protagonist, Anna, to vivid life. She’s stunning in the role.
  8. Val
    It’s pure hagiography and taken as that, it’s skillfully assembled, even stylishly so at times, and Kilmer’s insights into his art skirt just the right side of Inside the Actors Studio indulgence but as a portrait of a star known for his rough edges, it’s all far too smooth.
  9. Robin's Wish
    Robin’s Wish is not a wide-ranging documentary about Williams’s life. It only briefly sketches in his career, from early ambitions of serious acting at the Juilliard drama school in New York to standup stardom (“he drained every scintilla of laughter out of the crowd”) and Hollywood.
  10. This Is Not a Movie
    After a lifetime reporting on conflict, Fisk reflects on the capacity of human beings to cause chaos on such a scale. Is there something deep in our souls that permits it because it feels natural? His painful, deeply serious question about the inevitability of war sets the tone of this documentary about his career.
  11. Like Father, Like Son
    This is a sweet-natured, but essentially undemanding film from Kore-eda.
  12. Filmworker
    What shines through most here is the pure sense of pride felt by Vitali, in the trust Kubrick placed in him, and in his part in creating some of the last century’s most monumental pieces of cinema.
  13. Mystify: Michael Hutchence
    Frustratingly, Lowenstein doesn’t let the musician’s talent speak for itself.
  14. Fair Play
    It’s a film of many, many high-volume arguments but Dynevor and Ehrenreich remarkably avoid even the slightest sign of histrionic excess, expertly carrying over their sexual chemistry to the couple’s more horrible moments – a pair you buy in moments of love as much as you do in moments of hate.
  15. She Will
    It’s a fetching package, which makes it all the more frustrating that the script isn’t tauter and sharper. But Krige is terrific and there should certainly be more films about angry post-menopausal women tapping into their dark side.
  16. Queen of Katwe
    For what is, in essence, a by-numbers Disney sports flick, there’s endless freshness and vivacity to Mira Nair’s picture – her best in years.
  17. A Field in England
    Wheatley's new film is grisly and visceral, an occult, monochrome-psychedelic breakdown taking place somewhere in the West Country during the civil war.
  18. Wham!
    It’s an enjoyable spectacle, and a madeleine for the 1980s: but there was something more to say about friendship, sexuality and the music itself.
  19. Inside Out 2
    Inside Out 2’s view of growing up has nothing in it as powerful or real as the When She Loved Me song from Toy Story 2 – but there are a lot of entertaining moments, including a great demonstration of what sulky teen sarcasm does to the tectonic plates of your emotional geology.
  20. Bayou Maharajah
    [A] richly enjoyable documentary tribute.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Robin and Marian
    Sean Connery's weary Robin returns from the crusades to confront Robert Shaw's Sheriff Of Nottingham once more, but despite their heroic final duel, it's Connery's scenes with Audrey Hepburn's Marion that make the magic. [03 Jun 2006, p.53]
    • The Guardian
  22. The Fall Guy
    A solid serving of popcorn entertainment.
  23. Creed III
    The Rocky spin-off series continues to dazzle with another knockout drama with the magnetic Jonathan Majors.
  24. Wicked
    What an enjoyable spectacle it is.
  25. Laurence Anyways
    It goes on for ever without getting properly started: an epic of depthless self-indulgence.
  26. Hounds of Love
    For horror aficionados it is unmissable. For others, so intense it might be unwatchable.
  27. blur: To the End
    Throughout the film, the band remain affable company.
  28. A Most Wanted Man
    It's a professional old-school espionage outing, intricate as clockwork and acted with relish by the ever-watchable Hoffman. But it remains an oddly anonymous enterprise from this talented and distinctive director.
  29. Spaceship Earth
    Like the structure at its centre, Spaceship Earth is a smart concept that never really takes off.
  30. The World Is Yours
    Gavras has seized his chance, staging this uptempo, carnivalesque crime pic with panache and wit.
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