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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. 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.
  2. Distant Voices, Still Lives
    Its austere beauty, artistry and wrenching sadness are undimmed after 30 years, and there is nothing distant or still about it.
  3. Destination Unknown
    Claire Ferguson’s documentary is a powerful, valuable addition to the Holocaust testimony genre.
  4. The Seventh Continent (1989)
    A chilling and utterly brilliant film whose final, excoriating sequence is frankly sufficient on its own to justify the genius tag.
  5. A Quiet Place
    In its simplicity and punch, this is a film that feels as if it could have been made decades ago, in the classic age of Planet of the Apes or The Omega Man.
  6. Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood
    Quite simply, I just defy anyone with red blood in their veins not to respond to the crazy bravura of Tarantino’s film-making, not to be bounced around the auditorium at the moment-by-moment enjoyment that this movie delivers.
  7. Heaven's Gate
    It is a demanding film, without a doubt – but a passionate one.
  8. The Muppet Christmas Carol
    Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy are joined by Caine as a hilarious Scrooge in this irresistibly sweet musical adaptation of Dickens’ festive tale.
  9. Broadway Danny Rose
    This story is not about consummation, but about reconciliation; it's a recognition that we want wrongs to be righted, that good will prevail, and that the faithless will be punished or reformed.
  10. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
    The law about movie characters needing to be sympathetic is defied in this horribly fascinating true-crime black comedy.
  11. Doctor Zhivago
    It’s impossible not to be swept along and caught by the details: the pompous army officer falling into the barrel, the anarchist (played by a young Klaus Kinski) watching an old couple affectionately cuddling on the train, Zhivago himself suddenly shocked at his own haggard reflection in the mirror. Lean was hunting big game, and catching it.
    • 98 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    All About Eve
    If you're not interested in all the backstage tittle-tattle, just settle back and enjoy a film whose script is studded with barbed and quotable bons mots, the finest ever part by suave cad George Sanders and a memorable cameo by Marilyn Monroe as an aspiring starlet (practically everyone was playing variations of themselves).
  13. High Life
    As with so many of Denis’ films, the point is to contrive an overwhelmingly powerful mood and moment, an almost physiological sensation, this one incubated in the vast, cold reaches of space. It throbbed and itched with me long after the film was over.
  14. Leave No Trace
    It’s a movie that will live with me for a long time.
  15. Roma
    At times it feels novelistic, a densely realised, intimate drama giving us access to domestic lives developing in what feels like real time. In its engagingly episodic way, it is also at times like a soap opera or telenovela. And at other times it feels resoundingly like an epic.
  16. The African Queen
    A ripping, gripping yarn, a surprisingly erotic love story and, as it happens, a premonition of Herzog's Fitzcarraldo.
  17. The Maltese Falcon
    The strange, dreamlike tension of the film escalates with each new confrontation, each new tailing, each new beating, with Gutman and Cairo shot from a queasy low angle, and the nightmare culminates in a gripping series of closeups on each strained face.
  18. American Animals
    I was utterly absorbed in this teeth-clenchingly exciting story and the “heist” sequence itself stands up really well – as well as anything I’ve seen.
  19. Hereditary
    Hereditary is basically a brilliant machine for scaring us, and Collette’s operatic, hypnotic performance seals the deal every second she’s on the screen.
  20. Persona
    Persona is a film to make you shiver with fascination, or incomprehension, or desire.
  21. 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.
  22. The Kindergarten Teacher
    The Kindergarten Teacher is probably the only movie about poetry with an ending as tense as any thriller.
  23. The Irishman
    No-one but Scorsese and this glorious cast could have made this movie live as richly and compellingly as it does, and persuade us that its tropes and images are still vital.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Pass Over
    As a drama, Pass Over is a masterful tragedy. As a reflection of the world, it is all too real and utterly woeful.
  25. It Happened One Night
    As buoyant and elegant as bubbles in a glass of champagne, Frank Capra's sublime 1934 comedy, written by long-time collaborator Robert Riskin, survives triumphantly because of its wit, charm, romantic idealism and its shrewd sketch of married life.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Shirkers
    This is so much more than a film about a film, it’s about young women breaking the rules set in a conservative country - the process of doing that was a lot more powerful than finishing the actual film.
  27. The Miseducation of Cameron Post
    This is a gripping and sad drama that puts a tremendous amount of faith in its performers and audience, and for all the emotion and tenderness in the rest of this year’s Sundance crop, this is the first film that left me a complete broken-down mess by the end.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Double Indemnity
    I love Double Indemnity because it's about a couple who are cheap and greedy, but achieve a kind of tragic heroism; because it has one of the great father-son relationships (although they aren't actually father and son); because it's a thoroughly cynical thriller redeemed by just a fading touch of romance. And it also has a trio of superb performances.
  29. North by Northwest
    [A] sublime classic.
    • 100 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Rear Window
    What's extraordinary, for a film that works on these different levels, is that it also manages to be a riveting thriller.
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