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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. Shadow Dancer
    Marsh's movie is calm, level, downbeat. The tension is subtle – perhaps subtler than it really should be.
  2. The Wonder
    Pugh’s pure force carries everything, and conveys the central paradox: to unlock this mystery, Lib is going to have to surrender to it, to believe in it, in order to gain Anna’s confidence and learn the child’s own awful secret. The wonder reverberates with the pangs of hunger and fear.
  3. Emma.
    Sometimes the casting and staging work well, sometimes not so well.
  4. Disco Boy
    Italian director Giacomo Abbruzzese makes a really stylish debut with Disco Boy, a visually thrilling, ambitious and distinctly freaky adventure into the heart of imperial darkness, or into something else entirely: the heart of an alternative reality, or a transcendent new self.
  5. Macbeth
    There is a lot of sound and fury in this Macbeth, but not without meaning. It’s not perhaps a very subtle version, and I felt that Kurzel should have perhaps worked more closely with Fassbender with the contours of his speeches, and shown the painful mind-changing and nerve-losing in the early stages. There is an operatic verve.
  6. The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
    It’s not The Exorcist, Sorcerer or The French Connection. But it makes for a worthy late addition to the great director’s armada.
  7. Bobby Sands: 66 Days
    Sands is still an opaque figure by the end of this film. We have his sombre writings and journals but, interestingly, there are hardly any clear photographs, and we learn little about him as a human being.
  8. Far from the Madding Crowd
    There is ultimately something very unbalanced in this movie: the female lead and one male support are outstanding; another supporting male is fine and the third is frankly uncomfortable and miscast.
  9. The Perfect Candidate
    The Perfect Candidate is the sort of film I can imagine getting a remake in contemporary America or Britain, with not as many changes as we might assume.
  10. Paint It Black
    Like its distraught protagonist, Amber Tamblyn’s Paint It Black is unforgiving, flawed and ferocious.
  11. Enzo
    It is another powerful, absorbing picture from Campillo and a fitting swan song for Laurent Cantet.
  12. Run & Jump
    Peake, warmly sketching a woman busy fooling herself that everything will work out, and Forte, as precise as he was in Nebraska, keep it honest, and within touching distance of real poignancy.
  13. All My Friends Hate Me
    This struck me as that kind of comedy horror in which (like much romantic comedy) the “comedy” half of the equation has gone missing.
  14. The Breaking Ice
    There are some great scenes, strong images, nice setpieces and Chen triangulates the sexual tension interestingly. The Breaking Ice is not as absorbing or fully realised as his award winning debut Ilo Ilo, but his film-making has an arresting fluency and openness.
  15. Revoir Paris
    It’s a measured, quietly powerful film with a performance from Virginie Efira that seems almost telepathic at times; in scenes where she doesn’t say a word, barely twitching a muscle in her face, yet somehow you know what she’s feeling.
  16. RBG
    For good or ill, the film does not directly engage with Ginsburg’s views on contemporary feminism and sexual harassment and what is sometimes derisively called identity politics.
  17. Wild Men
    There are some very funny scenes and a reasonably tense shootout finale – though the sentimental ending felt to me like a bit of a cop-out.
  18. The Survivor
    The Survivor wins on points, a decent and honourably intended picture about one man’s ordeal in the horror of the Holocaust and the heartbreak that came afterwards.
  19. Eternal Beauty
    This is substantial and rewarding.
  20. Billie
    James Erskine’s film showcases the unforgettable Holiday voice: her elegantly casual, almost negligent readings of melodies, with a sensual moan or purr that was on the verge of a sob.
  21. Kusama - Infinity
    The film is a respectful and valuable tribute.
  22. Don't Breathe
    Don’t Breathe is a master class in tension, and while its script could have been written on the back of an envelope, its editing and use of sound design is a triumph for film theorists.
  23. Molly's Game
    Sorkin is spellbound by his subject, fascinated by the many details of her admittedly impressive life, but the magic he clearly feels fails to translate on screen.
  24. Training Day
    It’s fair to say Washington has never quite topped this performance. It’s an unparalleled treat to watch him messing with the bewildered Hoyt at their first meeting at a diner, and then to watch the two men striding out to the car, filmed from a low camera angle. It is all thrillingly ominous.
  25. Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger
    Dense thickets of information, told via rostrum-shot photos and documents plus angry mob’s worth of witnesses, become a grind after a while, as does the trite guitar-led mystery music.
  26. I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story
    It’s tremendously reassuring to find out that Spinney is just the sort of kind-hearted sweetheart you’d expect, a man who’s spent a lifetime making children happy. And it’s a kick to see archive footage and interviews with some of the old, non-puppeteer cast members.
  27. Makala
    It is a sad and lonely world, sympathetically captured, beautifully photographed.
  28. You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah!
    It’s both amiable and original enough to distinguish itself from the slush pile of youth-appealing Netflix content. Couple that with a moving finale on the supreme joys of best friendship, and that’s reason to celebrate.
  29. Blinded by the Light
    There’s something so constructed and suffocating about watching a tried and tested formula not working, the over-sentimental string-pulling on show for all to see.
  30. A Prince
    A Prince might reinterpret the pastoral through a queer lens, but the point of view remains a white, French one.
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