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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. Not Going Quietly
    Smart, funny and endearingly sweary even when he loses the power to speak without computer assistance, Barkan is a charismatic character who’s easy to like, although one wonders how much the documentary crew resisted showing anything that might dent the halo the film sets round his head.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Arbitrage
    You've seen it all before, but lead Richard Gere drenches the proceedings in the old razzle-dazzle.
  3. Memory Box
    Edited with minute attentiveness, the film switches back and forth between time periods adroitly in a way that always moves the story forward, while the outstanding performances from the whole ensemble, especially the watchful Vauthier and the fierce Issa, anchor the film.
  4. Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
    The comedy takes a bit of an IQ dip when the film crosses the Channel and the dialogue switches to English. Still, it glides along on Rutherford’s performance as Agathe – witty, warm, keenly observant, a bit clumsy and Bridget Jones-ish, but never, not even for a moment, cringy.
  5. The World to Come
    Fastvold’s film is distinctive in that she shows us how physical constraint and violence are part of the fabric of living.
  6. Host
    Host is a lean, nasty little exercise that might not linger for very long but it shows what can be done during this difficult time. Once regular shooting resumes, we should look forward to whatever Savage comes up with next.
  7. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
    It’s an intriguing, disturbing, amusing twist on something which in many ways could be a conventional horror-thriller from the 1970s or 1980s, or even a bunny-boiler nightmare from the 90s.
  8. Wind River
    Sheridan is emerging as a master of the Mexican standoff, the shootout, the stomach-turning crime scene, the procedural office politics, but he’s also adept at tuning into the vulnerability and strength of the women and men called in to uphold the law. Wind River is a smart and very satisfying movie.
  9. Futura
    In the end, it’s a film with a melancholic feel, which probably has a lot to do with its timing.
  10. Air
    This film winds up looking like the most expensive in-house corporate promo in history: shallow, parochial and obtuse. By the time the credits roll, we’re apparently supposed to be euphoric – not so much at individual sporting achievement, but at all the billions of dollars that Nike has been making.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D)
    The film sags during the subtler moments of the setlist, which is a problem when half of it is composed of ballads performed at a mic stand or while lying on the floor. I will freely admit to not being particularly fond of Cameron’s recent work, but I couldn’t help wishing for a Na’vi to swoop from the rafters on a tetrapod to liven things up.
  12. John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
    As per the two previous films, Stahelski cranks up the body count with a string of fight sequences so balletic you might forget you’re watching violence – until Reeves sinks a knife into a man’s eye. But, three movies in, franchise bloat is beginning to set in; the dead dog jokes are definitely wearing thin.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sonatine
    Mostly, Kitano is as expressionless as Buster Keaton, but now and then a smile breaks out on that weather-beaten face. He doesn't use much camera movement either, but the combination of understatement and outrageousness is unique, and oddly appealing.
  14. Sorry Angel
    It is often poignant and humorous but also placid and complacent, with performances bordering on the self-regarding and even faintly insufferable.
  15. Sunset Song
    It’s all fairly indulgent. But Sunset Song also has a viciousness that stops it falling too deep into a slumber
  16. Free Chol Soo Lee
    What makes the film so engrossing is how much attention the film-makers give to Lee’s complicated life after prison.
  17. Supernova
    Lovely, heartfelt performances from Stanley Tucci and Colin Firth carry this intimate movie.
  18. The Matrix
    The metaphorical properties of The Matrix are part of what makes it so seductive, along with the no-filler-all-killer action.
  19. Lucy and Desi
    For all the amazement at Ball’s tireless hustle and explosive originality, there’s a terminal lack of both in this monument to her memory.
  20. Last Flight Home
    This is an almost unbearably painful and emotional group family portrait.
  21. The Impossible
    Part of the appeal of this affecting and powerful drama is that it puts the viewer right in the moment at every stage, using authentic locations and tsunami survivors to hammer home the reality of this tragedy.
  22. Le Week-End
    For all its flaws - in fact, perhaps because of them - Le Week-End is a work borne from, and provoking, real feeling.
  23. Innocence of Memories
    Perhaps no film can entirely compete with the simple fact of this novel/museum’s existence, but the movie circles around the dual conceptual artefact beguilingly.
  24. The Big Bad Fox & Other Tales
    The look is cute, deceptively simple and suggestive of the illustrations in children’s books, however, the 2D minimalism is executed with a high degree of craft. It is hard to make something like this look so easy and effortless.
  25. Dreamers
    Writer-director Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor’s script leans perhaps a little too hard on the show-don’t-tell theory of construction, but she and her team make evocative use of simple but effective flourishes.
  26. The Platform
    There’s a brutal efficiency to the storytelling, swiftly, heartlessly propelling us up and down the building, forcing us to bear witness to a great many horrors.
  27. Hoppers
    The film perhaps suffers from a loss of nerve about how villainous to make the villain, but it zaps along very entertainingly.
  28. Jim: The James Foley Story
    The world needs people like Foley, and this film argues that cameras are every bit as important as firearms in the current struggle. This movie, despite its somewhat simplistic form, acts as a fine tribute to the man, his work and the bravery of others who are called to his field.
  29. Emergency
    A ride somehow both warm and stressful, and an inviting mashup of familiar beats made fresh by a trio of grounded, endearing performances.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Flowers of Shanghai
    The tones are dark, but washed with a rich golden light. The costumes, make-up and domestic props are exquisite. But for all the period detail, there is a genuine spontaneity in the emotions. [21 May 1998, p.2]
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