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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. Playtime
    Playtime offers us an even clearer view of the contrast between Tati’s broad physical comedy as an actor and his superbly cerebral detachment as a director.
  2. Blaze
    The result is a hot, sticky, trippy fusion of wild style and painfully genuine emotion, with plenty of moments that take your breath away.
  3. Back to Black
    Back to Black is essentially a gentle, forgiving film and there are other, tougher, bleaker ways to put Winehouse’s life on screen – but Abela conveys her tenderness, and perhaps most poignantly of all her youth, so tellingly at odds with that tough image and eerily mature voice.
  4. The Holdovers
    What a unique talent Giamatti is; it’s a pleasure to see him play a movie lead, his first for a while, and his prominence in this really good film is a signal that the cinema could be moving back to a more approachable world of authentic drama and analogue talent.
  5. 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.
  6. You Hurt My Feelings
    Holofcener and Louis-Dreyfus again make for perfectly pitched partners.
  7. Past Lives
    Song is a writer of elegant restraint and as the final act progressed, I worried that perhaps this restraint might end up a little too delicate for the years that have preceded and the feelings that have amassed. But then in a bar scene for the ages, we find ourselves floored, a slow buildup that finally hits like a bus.
  8. Earth Mama
    A piercingly emotional drama, acted with natural flair.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Theater Camp
    It’s a zippy 90 minutes or so, and packed with jokes. Gordon is note perfect as Rebecca-Diane, the camp’s folksy music teacher.
  10. Talk to Me
    Talk to Me is freaky and confrontational and hilariously crass; it crashes through its plot progressions with tactless verve.
  11. Passages
    In Passages the sex is the plot: the plot of all our lives.
  12. Little Richard: I Am Everything
    Little Richard emerges here as an exquisite figure, an aesthete and athlete: a butterfly who could never be broken on any wheel.
  13. Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
    Her poems, read by Giovanni herself and the actor Taraji P Henson, made the hairs on the back of my neck prickle.
  14. Beyond Utopia
    It’s an outstanding documentary.
  15. Kokomo City
    Truly, this covers the whole spectrum of experience, all of it eloquently explained by the subjects, an assortment of women who tell their truths about clients who can’t be honest with themselves, their complicated relationships with friends, family and cis women, the legacy of slave culture, and their favourite portable electric shavers.
  16. The Disappearance of Shere Hite
    If this documentary doesn’t make Hite a household name among a new generation of feminists, the biopic that should really follow it certainly will.
  17. The Deepest Breath
    Rounding out the pervasive sense of fear and ecstasy is a mesmerizing, sometimes mind-altering, depiction of the ocean’s depths. When one beholds Zecchini’s figure undulating to the sound of nothing, it’s all too clear that thrill-seeking is only part of the story.
  18. Full Time
    Calamy is utterly convincing, giving a performance that pulls us right into Julie’s inner world.
  19. I Get Knocked Down
    Chumbawamba split up in 2012. They’re still mates and come across here as extremely likable, not taking themselves at all too seriously. Scenes of them nattering together, having a giggle now, are lovely.
  20. Bottoms
    Bottoms is actually a bizarrely violent film, and its plot is always teetering on the brink of pure incoherence, but it’s always funny, thanks to the goofy and winning comic presences of Sennott and Edebiri.
  21. Gladiator II
    Scott’s return to the Roman arena is something of a repeat, but it’s still a thrilling spectacle and Mescal a formidable lead. We are entertained.
  22. The Integrity of Joseph Chambers
    The minute Joseph steps into this disenchanted forest, tripping over every tree root, you can sense the impending disaster, and the horror that Machoian’s movie is moving towards.
  23. Strays
    It is an entirely outrageous film with a lot of bad-taste laughs along the way, and a bizarrely real dramatic impact when Reggie finally confronts Doug in the horrendous finale.
  24. Judy Blume Forever
    Blume doesn’t present as somebody who is remotely besotted with herself. After all, keeping it real is her superpower.
  25. Kill Boksoon
    Like a lot of topline Korean films, this prestige action thriller is a little too long at 137 minutes, but it’s consistently entertaining throughout, and quite well-suited given the length to being viewed on a streaming platform.
  26. Disco Boy
    Italian director Giacomo Abbruzzese makes a really stylish debut with Disco Boy, a visually thrilling, ambitious and distinctly freaky adventure into the heart of imperial darkness, or into something else entirely: the heart of an alternative reality, or a transcendent new self.
  27. Kiss the Future
    This movie is a time-capsule of Europe’s recent tragic past.
  28. Limbo
    The cast, in weather-beaten and woebegone mode, are uniformly excellent, directed by Sen in beautiful unison, their performances different notes in the same melody.
  29. Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything
    It’s a vehement movie, with a driving narrative force and a robust sense of time and place.
  30. On the Adamant
    There is a gentle and very happy sense of freedom and possibility aboard the Adamant, and there is enormous warmth, sympathy and human curiosity in this film.
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