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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. 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.
  2. Memory
    This is an absorbing story, acted with superlative delicacy and maturity by Chastain and Sarsgaard.
  3. Io Capitano
    Seydou and the others are not exactly masters of their fate, or captains of their souls, to quote WE Henley’s Invictus. They are swept along by power and inequality, but Garrone shows that their humanity and compassion are still buoyant.
  4. The End We Start From
    Comer’s vulnerability and idealism are authentic as are her determination and a dash of real ruthlessness . . . She carries everything with unselfconscious strength and style.
  5. Woman of the Hour
    It’s a fascinating and frightening stranger-than-fiction tale and is an unusual choice for Kendrick’s directorial debut. She makes a convincing first-time film-maker, capturing the feel of a time and a number of places with ease.
  6. Dream Scenario
    Dream Scenario is a cousin to Spike Jonze’s Being John Malkovich and Richard Linklater’s Waking Life, and very enjoyable; it is at once strangely light-hearted and heavy with menace.
  7. A Symphony for a Common Man
    With Russia trying to further circumvent the OPCW, this coolly outraged film shows how Washington’s unilateralism has been a gift to even more belligerent parties.
  8. Sleep
    It is only with the explicit possibility of a supernatural explanation, combined with full-on psychiatric breakdown, that the movie loses its light touch and its plausible detail. Yet there’s always a hyper-vigilant twinge of fear.
  9. Society of the Snow
    This is a fervent film, heartfelt and shot with passion and sweep.
  10. Miranda's Victim
    Building in power and finesse, Danner oversees a very satisfying dialectical dustup.
  11. Sing Sing
    Sing Sing isn’t just telling an uplifting story. The story of its own making is uplifting.
  12. Another Body
    This is a powerful and important documentary, though I have one tiny qualification.
  13. Stamped from the Beginning
    The film’s particular innovation is to privilege Black women’s perspectives on the history of American racism, and with the exception of Kendi himself, every expert commentator here is a Black woman.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Housekeeping for Beginners
    Stolevski’s film-making is deft. He weaves a social consciousness into his narrative without retreating to mawkish parables of resistance and redemption.
  15. Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé
    Admittedly some of these moments get a little gushy. Beyoncé has much to be thankful for and she spends a little too long doing the thanking, from her parents to her dancers to guests like Diana Ross. But there’s always another slab of concert action round the corner to jolt the whole show back to life.
  16. Strange Darling
    It’s in uncompromising bad taste but made with lethal precision and discipline.
  17. Night of the Hunted
    Night of the Hunted may fall a bit short of moral substance, but it certainly holds us in its grip.
  18. 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.
  19. Typist Artist Pirate King
    With natural sympathy and warmth, film-maker Carol Morley has created this likable, generous, imaginative response to the work of the neglected English artist Audrey Amiss.
  20. Werner Herzog - Radical Dreamer
    Calling a film-maker a “dreamer” sounds hackneyed, but it does justice to his idealism. Perhaps no other description will do.
  21. Little Palestine: Diary of a Siege
    It is a record of the past, but an almost unbearable warning of agony yet to come.
  22. Subject
    The question of who gets to tell stories is discussed (spoiler: mostly white men, until recently), and for a 97-minute film, Subject squeezes in a lot of ethical biggies.
  23. The Fall Guy
    It’s all a fizzy, funny, convincingly romantic delight, a tribute to the craft of making big movies with big stunts that is heartfelt in its appreciation without taking itself too seriously.
  24. Anora
    What would Pretty Woman look like if it bore the smallest resemblance to the reality of sex work? Maybe something like this, Sean Baker’s amazing, full-throttle tragicomedy of romance, denial and betrayal.
  25. Terrifier 3
    It’s not for everyone, but for gorehounds this film delivers and then some.
  26. In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50
    There’s nothing sentimental about this documentary, which looks at people with the clear, unflinching gaze of a portraitist.
  27. Conclave
    Berger orchestrates marvellously tense, explosively dramatic scenes and with cinematographer Stéphane Fontaine and production designer Suzie Davies contrives some spectacularly strange and dream-like tableaux.
  28. Leo
    Directed with verve and enthusiasm by 37-year-old former bank employee Lokesh Kanagaraj, who moved into directing after winning a short film competition, the influence of the likes of Quentin Tarantino on all of this is very much evident.
  29. Merchant Ivory
    This documentary includes witty and insightful interviews with MI stalwarts like Thompson and Hugh Grant; it is a great pleasure to watch and will send people back to Merchant Ivory films themselves, particularly perhaps their Quartet (1981) and The Golden Bowl (2000).
  30. The Great Escaper
    Well, Caine and Jackson and their ineffable class give this film some real grit: it’s a wonderful last hurrah for Jackson and there is something moving and even awe-inspiring in seeing these two British icons together.
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