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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. Strange Harvest
    This is a fascinating and neatly realised horror riff on the 2020s’ most popular genre.
  2. MadS
    The film has so much energy that its overall tone is fundamentally invigorating; this is the cinema of euphoric nihilism, and it’s a welcome return to form for Moreau.
  3. On Falling
    This is a very impressive debut.
  4. The Bibi Files
    The film’s real power is in the accumulated testimony from others about the Netanyahus’ entitlement and paranoia.
  5. Afternoons of Solitude
    Deeply caught up in decoding this tradition, perhaps Serra is too beholden to it. If only this admittedly riveting examination of dark human compulsions had found a way to also articulate the perspectives of the animals for whom the arena is a lethal experience.
  6. Flow
    As visions of apocalypse go, it’s rather lovely: a world lush with nature, animals learning to get by together.
  7. Goebbels and the Führer
    Perhaps there can be nothing totally new to say on film about Hitler and nazism, but Lang is interesting on the hidden disbelief and fear that existed among the leaders.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Frankenstein Created Woman
    Terence Fisher conjures up his customary dark fairytale atmosphere in one of Hammer’s best Frankenstein sequels. 
  9. Song Sung Blue
    This is a never-say-die story and its cheerful optimism makes it a calorific Christmas treat.
  10. Sweethearts
    Sweethearts thankfully avoids full predictability – a welcome relief, particularly in a film that embraces the rampant horniness of 18-year-olds. Even if you’ve suffered through the turkey dump, this one is a treat.
  11. The Colors Within
    While showing Totsuko’s religious beliefs respectfully, The Colors Within takes care to highlight how community can be meaningfully formed outside religion, in the embrace of creative arts.
  12. Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes
    This is a very entertaining account of an actor who appeared to ascend, singly, to a higher plane than all others of the Hollywood golden age.
  13. Witches
    All in all, this is a powerful example of a bricolage-like editing technique that relies heavily on exploiting the copyright laws around fair use to create a prismatic, provocative style of cinema that’s very 21st century.
  14. Sister Midnight
    It’s a great comic turn from Apte who deserves to be better known.
  15. The Taste of Mango
    A lucid, emotionally honest account of trauma that lies beneath the smiles of family photos and wedding videos.
  16. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
    This is an exciting, forthright, energised – though very gruesome – film in which there is real human jeopardy and conflict. Non-zombies are more cinematic.
  17. The Housemaid
    We get some tastily over-the-top acting and some huge rewind POV shifts to explain what has really been going on – and, of course, the heady whiff of gaslight as Millie can’t quite be sure she really understands anything that’s happening. Silly it may be, but Feig and his cast deliver it with terrific gusto; this is an innocent holiday treat.
  18. Night Call
    It feels confident, inventive and as grippy as duct tape throughout.
  19. Riefenstahl
    Andres Veiel’s sombre documentary tells the gripping, incrementally nauseating story of Helene “Leni” Riefenstahl, the brilliant and pioneering German film-maker of the 20th century who isn’t getting her name on a Girls on Tops T-shirt any time soon.
  20. The Ballad of Wallis Island
    A funny but also melancholy piece of work. It’s more interested in maintaining a consistent and sincere emotional connection than in wild virtuoso showboating.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sanjuro
    Mifune's slob is deceptive, and the film builds slowly to a shattering ending.
  22. Dreams
    This is an amiably talky film, and yet I never for a moment considered that the central relationship was being presented with anything less than seriousness, and there is much dry comedy to be enjoyed.
  23. Lurker
    While there’s a cynicism that clearly comes from someone who has done his time in both Los Angeles and the industry, it’s ultimately about something more human, and more unsettling, than just Hollywood. There are, after all, lurkers everywhere.
  24. Train Dreams
    Greg Kwedar has adapted the 2011 novella by Denis Johnson; the director is Clint Bentley, and they have created a lovely looking, deeply felt film, clearly absorbing the influences of Terrence Malick in some of the low camera positions, sunset-hour compositions, narrative voiceovers, and epiphanically revealed glories of the American landscape.
  25. If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
    Bronstein is brilliant at conveying mounting panic and a terrible, all-consuming sadness.
  26. 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.
  27. Twinless
    Sweeney’s smart and highly unusual film earns its boundary-pushing because he never loses sight of the inescapable, human sadness at its core. For all of its themes of identical mental and physical connection, Twinless is a true original.
  28. All That's Left of You
    As the years go by and the trauma festers, the film grows into something thornier, surprising, beautifully textured and deeply moving.
  29. Mr. Nobody Against Putin
    Mr Nobody Against Putin ultimately stands as both an act of service and a tribute – to a school that once was, to students whose lives were and will be irrevocably changed for the worse by the regime, to a once fruitful job. Talankin has produced a must-watch, indelible document of ideological warfare that echoes far beyond Russia. How’s that for a nobody?
  30. Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
    This is an engaging and thoroughly worthwhile movie.
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