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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. Killers of the Flower Moon
    This is an utterly absorbing film, a story that Scorsese sees as a secret history of American power, a hidden violence epidemic polluting the water table of humanity.
  2. For Sama
    Sifting six years’ worth of rubble, al-Kateab turns up beauty and one earthly miracle to set alongside the horrors, but horrors there are.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    White Heat
    Cagney builds a weird tragedy, and there is no more apocalyptic ending than when he and his world blow up to his triumphant cry, "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!"
  4. The Hidden Fortress
    The comedy co-exists with a dark view of life's brevity, and Kurosawa devises exhilarating setpieces and captivating images. Arthouse classics aren't usually as welcoming and entertaining as this.
  5. Elle
    The film is utterly gripping and endlessly disturbing.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gangs of Wasseypur
    Slightly overlong and convoluted at times, it presents compelling, sexy characters spouting sharp, believable dialogue.
  7. After Hours
    A peculiar, potent film.
  8. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
    This is a heartfelt movie, a documentary unafraid to spread itself across its vast subject matter, and a fierce denunciation of the arrogant political classes, still in denial about one of the biggest tragedies in American history.
  9. Minari
    Chung’s nuanced portrait of a family figuring out their place in the world is both small and somehow rather grand.
  10. Barry Lyndon
    Barry Lyndon is an intimate epic of utter lucidity and command.
  11. The Farewell
    It’s a slight film at times but one that builds to a crescendo of emotion.
  12. Marty Supreme
    The pure craziness is a marvel.
  13. Uncertain
    Uncertain is a vivid, pungent ode into a world that is fast disappearing.
  14. Great Freedom
    Great Freedom is a formidably intelligent and well-acted prison movie and also a love story – or perhaps a paradoxically platonic bromance, stretching from the end of the second world war to the moon landing.
  15. System Crasher
    A grisly, gripping watch.
  16. It's a Wonderful Life
    The film is gripping enough simply with the telling of George's lifestory. A genuine American classic.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Madness of King George
    The 1994 film of the play by Alan Bennett is a model of historical accuracy and psychological tact. A triumph.
  18. Phoenix
    It’s a testament to Petzold’s sane head, steady hand and effortless storytelling skill that implausible plot-points are smuggled past us in their own blood-soaked bandages.
  19. Gunda
    The secret life of farm animals remains a secret, but a fascinating and even poignant one, in this strange and unexpectedly subtle film from the Russian documentary-maker Viktor Kossakovsky.
  20. The Power of the Dog
    It’s a brawny, brooding drama about the wreckage caused by men, beautifully framed in muted neutral tones as the camera circles the ranch-house with a deliberate, stealthy tread.
  21. Sullivan's Travels
    There are some marvellous supporting performances. This film comes as close as possible to a distillation of pure happiness.
  22. Alien
    Editors Terry Rawlings and Peter Weatherley cut the film so cleverly so that we never have a clear notion of what the alien actually looks like until the very last shots.
  23. Columbus
    Columbus is an engrossing and unexpectedly passionate film, although much of the passion is displaced outwards into a feeling for space, for mass, for building materials. It is a static passion, but not inert.
  24. Night of the Living Dead
    It remains a nightmare experience that’s not easily brushed off. And despite its ramshackle scrappiness in production terms, and some dated gender politics, the storytelling is first class, pitching us straight into the action, but only revealing its full hand gradually.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Foreign Correspondent
    A breathless yarn with the most serious of intents that soars well beyond mediocrity but just below genius, yet remains a film that I feel should be included on the master of suspense's top table.
  26. Zama
    [Martel's] film is haunted, haunting and admittedly prone to the occasional longueur insofar as it runs to its own peculiar rhythm; maybe even its own primal logic.
  27. Dead Souls
    Wang’s film is a vital excavation of history in danger of being eroded away.
  28. Cameraperson
    To make the movie work, the audience needs to put in a little effort, but a philosophy of connectedness is present.
  29. Dick Johnson Is Dead
    It all builds up to a remarkable coup de cinéma: a Buñuelian finale that is startling and moving. This is both an exploratory personal project and a thought-experiment of a film.
  30. Rebel Without a Cause
    There is some stuffy, faintly reactionary stuff in this famed 1955 teen drama, but James Dean is truly extraordinary, and it has some brilliant scenes
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