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For 6,608 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: 2,502 out of 6608
  2. Mixed: 3,786 out of 6608
  3. Negative: 320 out of 6608
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  1. Blade of the Immortal
    If you are going to see one outlandish and occasionally nauseating bloodbath samurai pic this year, this is the one.
  2. Summer in the Forest
    This is a calm and often affecting study of L’Arche, a community of people with learning disabilities in Trosly-Breuil, northern France.
  3. My Rembrandt
    It features an awful lot of very rich, clever, cordially self-satisfied collectors and connoisseurs; their pink, twinkly-eyed faces positively beam out of the screen, and surely Hoogendijk is inviting us to wonder how Rembrandt himself would have painted them.
  4. The African Desperate
    Stingily is relaxed and amiable, but in acting terms there may be nothing else there and the film doesn’t develop in any interesting direction.
  5. Nelly & Nadine
    The film gives us a precious glimpse into LGBTQ+ life in the postwar period.
  6. The Beta Test
    Part delicious satire of Hollywood culture and part frustratingly muddled thriller. But the good bits are sufficiently impressive it wouldn’t be fair to hold its flaws against it too much. We mustn’t be greedy for perfection.
  7. The Untamed
    In all honesty The Untamed doesn’t seem to go anywhere special. But connoisseurs of oddness may cherish it.
  8. The Eagle Huntress
    Even if Aisholpan’s training – which includes hoodwinking, responding to calls, dragging dead foxes and other hallmarks of falconry – is for the camera, it doesn’t make it any less extraordinary. Especially in this remarkable environment, captured in breathtakingly crisp digital video.
  9. El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
    While it has both style and content, El Camino feels more like a feature-length TV episode than an actual movie. It is too compact and fragmented to truly stand on its own, and viewers who have not seen the preceding 62 hours of Breaking Bad will likely struggle to enjoy it.
  10. Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
    Though I was willing myself to enjoy this fourth film, about the heroine’s adventure with a younger man, the Bridget Jones series has frankly run out of steam.
  11. Candyman
    This film is a very tasty confection of satire and scorn.
  12. The Encampments
    Perhaps the full story of the encampments has yet to be told.
  13. Redux Redux
    If it’s not quite devious enough overall, Redux Redux still opens up a punchy murder-revenge side alley for the genre.
  14. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
    The script does a solid job of making it an accessible world to those not already steeped in it although Goldstein and Daley, writing alongside Michael Gilio, are less effective with the film’s many attempts at comedy.
  15. El Conde
    This is another powerful addition to Larraín’s movies about the ongoing agony of Chile, and the Chilean people’s struggle to confront the past, armed with the hammer and the sharpened stake.
  16. Arco
    For a film about the inevitable eradication of most life on Earth, Arco isn’t as depressing as you might expect, as it finds a tiny thread of optimism to hold on to.
  17. LifeHack
    It is efficiently executed, though its relentless cursor-nudging will probably make older viewers want to unplug and retreat into an 18th-century novel.
  18. Barry
    The movie is rich on its own as a character piece about the difficulties of being bi-racial, especially at the very specific location of Columbia University.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Let It Be
    Neither an overlooked masterpiece nor the disaster the Beatles and the critics thought, it’s finally getting a fair shake. [2024 Restored Version]
  20. A Compassionate Spy
    James’s sleek telling excels at intertwining the personal and the political with illuminating detail.
  21. Post Mortem
    With its pale, washed-out colour palette, its eerily slow, almost somnambulist pacing and occasionally bizarre emotional demonstrations, Post Mortem is strangely gripping.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Your Sister's Sister
    A captivating examination of criss-crossing relationships permeated by incisive performances.
  23. Midsommar
    It’s a thoroughly enjoyable film, a crescendo of paranoid trippiness building to an uproarious grossout in its final moments.
  24. Society of the Snow
    This is a fervent film, heartfelt and shot with passion and sweep.
  25. Summertime
    It is well acted, well shot, earnest and high-minded in its eroticism, but with a certain Mills-and-Boony-swoony-ness that creates something unsubversive in the love affair itself.
  26. Die My Love
    It hardly needs to be said that subtlety is not really among this film’s attributes - but it is fierce, angry, engaged, and intensely, sensually alert to every detail of its own pleasure and pain.
  27. Is This Thing On?
    I’d like to see a film about a comedian who, like Bishop, really does flower into being funny.
  28. Bull
    There are moments of inspiration that light up this film like flashes of lightning.
  29. Doctor Strange
    It’s a tremendously engaging and likeable superhero ride, in which the classiest of casts show they know exactly where to take it seriously – and where to inject the fun.
  30. Watcher
    Unimprovably brisk at 91 minutes, Watcher is not messing around – and probably won’t hang around long in cinemas with starry awards fare in the offing. But a few more of these nifty diversions, and the multiplexes might once again be a viable night out.
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