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For 6,577 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 2.2 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: 2,494 out of 6577
  2. Mixed: 3,764 out of 6577
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6577
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  1. Phantom Thread
    There is such pure delicious pleasure in this film, in its strangeness, its vehemence, its flourishes of absurdity, carried off with superb elegance.
  2. Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
    The movie is perfectly composed with a light touch that is the work of a certain kind of gravity and sophistication.
  3. The Birds
    The essential Hitchcock movie, the purest and most confident, a brilliant distillation of the themes that had fueled him ever since he sent the lodger creeping to his upstairs room.
  4. It's Such a Beautiful Day
    Funny, oddly affecting and cherishably personal.
  5. The Souvenir: Part II
    This rich and mysterious film is a real achievement.
  6. This Is Not a Film
    This Is Not a Film is a compelling personal document, a quietly passionate statement of artistic intent, and an uncompromising testament to his belief in cinema.
  7. Sound of Falling
    It is dense with fear and sadness.
  8. Sugarcane
    [A] deeply disquieting and indeed enraging documentary.
  9. Small Axe: Mangrove
    As with McQueen’s previously premiered Small Axe film, Lovers Rock, there is real fervour and real meaning here: it is film-making with visceral commitment and muscular storytelling.
  10. Green Border
    Green Border is a tough watch: a punch to the solar plexus. But a vital bearing of cinematic witness to what is happening in Europe right now.
  11. Days and Nights in the Forest
    Ray's language of cinema is a kind of miraculous vernacular, all his own. It has mystery, eroticism and delight.
  12. Oppenheimer
    Oppenheimer is poignantly lost in the kaleidoscopic mass of broken glimpses: the sacrificial hero-fetish of the American century.
  13. Paths of Glory
    It is arguably the best film about the first world war, and still has a reasonable claim to being Stanley Kubrick's best film.
  14. Cold War
    The crystalline black-and-white cinematography exalts its moments of intimate grimness and its dreamlike showpieces of theatrical display. It is an elliptical, episodic story of imprisonment and escape, epic in scope.
  15. Sorry, Baby
    Sharply written, smartly structured and well-acted, with a star-making turn from Victor herself, the 93-minute black comedy is not only nimble and consistently funny, but one of the best, most honest renderings of life after sexual assault that I’ve seen.
  16. The Tale
    I want more people to see The Tale because it’s such an innovative, honest and important film. It is a landmark, and Laura Dern is absolutely extraordinary. But I know for certain I’ll never watch it again.
  17. Paterson
    What a lovely film Paterson is.
  18. The Fits
    Holmer draws confident, luminous performances from the cast that rise to the occasion but never seem over-coached or phony.
  19. Raging Bull
    I can still remember my 19-year-old self's awe at how Jake provokes a gorgeous, reluctant smile from the incandescently beautiful Moriarty. Throughout university, I was obsessed with this film, and watched it about once a month.
  20. United 93
    Paul Greengrass and his cinematographer Barry Ackroyd have created an intestinally powerful and magnificent memorial to the passengers of that doomed flight. It is the film of the year. I needed to lie down in a darkened room afterwards. So will you.
  21. The Lavender Hill Mob
    It's tremendously good fun, though lighter in tone than Ealing's two scabrous masterpieces Kind Hearts and Coronets and The Ladykillers, and not quite matching their elegant perfection; I've never been able to rid myself of the feeling that, however superbly set up, the aftermath of the heist itself is ever so slightly lacking in tension.
  22. American Hustle
    It is an intriguing confection of a movie, announcing its influences candidly, but exerting its originality too.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
    It is, on the other hand, enormous and exhilarating fun for those who are prepared to settle down in their seats and let it all wash over them. Which I firmly believe, with the extra benefit of hindsight, is more or less exactly what the vast majority of the cinema-going public want just now.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Age of Innocence
    I love all those close-ups of fires blazing when the mood gets frosty. I love the lavish operas they attend, using the glasses to spy on each other. I love Elmer Bernstein's score, its ghostly waltzes and the way it seems to inspire the birds to soar upwards in the final heartbreaking scene in Paris, Wharton's adopted home.
  25. The Deer Hunter
    The idea of sacrifice permeates everything, along with the cruelty and horror. This is Cimino's masterpiece.
  26. Whiplash
    It's rare to see a film about music that professes its love for the music and its characters equally.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Two-Lane Blacktop
    Two-Lane Blacktop should have established Hellman as one of the great directors of his generation. Instead, its box-office failure made him an enduring cult figure.
  28. 63 Up
    Apted has honed his skills over the years, becoming less presumptive and more content to let narratives unfold naturally. And, of course, the unprecedentedly long relationship between the maker and his subjects has led to more give and take between them.
  29. Minding the Gap
    This is a fluent, watchable piece of work, though not quite as lucid as it might have been. A poignant tribute, at any rate, to the lost innocence of skateboarding.
  30. Two Days, One Night
    A tense dramatic situation and a subtly magnificent central performance from Marion Cotillard add up to an outstanding new movie from the Dardenne brothers.
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