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For 6,610 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: 2,503 out of 6610
  2. Mixed: 3,787 out of 6610
  3. Negative: 320 out of 6610
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  1. The Theory of Everything
    It's a film to leave you reeling but cheered, too. It's about battling love, as well as illness. A universal story, extracted from a unique one.
  2. REC
    Midway through, the plot blows a gasket and the camerawork turns altogether crazed, joggling us about in the semi-darkness while the soundtrack rings to distorted screams. Expect pitch and yaw and lots of gore.
  3. Dogman
    A movie with incomparable bite and strength.
  4. Unicorns
    Co-directing Unicorns with James Krishna Floyd (the star of My Brother the Devil), who wrote the script, El Hosaini brings a streak of hopefulness to gritty social realism, with the added attraction of superstar drag queens.
  5. Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time
    It is at once a relief and an obscure disappointment that the mystery is not left enigmatically unsolved.
  6. Blitz
    Steve McQueen finds the key of C major for this well made and unashamedly old-fashioned wartime adventure, heartfelt and rousing and – yes – a bit trad overall, sometimes even channelling the spirit of Lionel Jeffries’s The Railway Children, although for me that’s no put-down.
  7. Letters from Baghdad
    It does serve as a handy summary for those who want a cinematic introduction to Bell’s sprawling, singular story.
  8. Undergods
    A riptide of surrealism runs through Chino Moya’s ambitious debut feature, a fantasy suite of tales that don’t so much interlock as butt into one another and blurt out alarming, dreamlike correspondences.
  9. Gazer
    Gazer’s atmosphere of looming disaster and dreamlike oppression crowds in on you as the movie progresses; an intriguing, genuinely scary picture.
  10. The Brink
    What emerges from Klayman’s film is how very important Brexit Britain is as a self-vivisecting research animal in Bannon’s experimental thinking.
  11. Shazam!
    It’s a film in need of a tighter edit with a script in need of a sharper polish, an imperfect franchise-launcher that nonetheless represents significant progress for DC.
  12. The Evil Dead
    You could say this is all good gory fun, and The Evil Dead remains a triumph of brains over budget. But in retrospect, you can’t help wondering if Raimi and co didn’t have some women issues to work through?
  13. Banel & Adama
    While it is flawed, this film finds an assured place in the quietist tradition of African cinema with beautiful images and strong moments, and with relevant things to say about community, a woman’s place and the climate crisis.
  14. The Room Next Door
    I myself found it as extravagant and engrossing and doggedly mysterious as anything he has done recently, with luxuriously self-aware performances from Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, and an undertow of darkness often overlooked by yeasayers and naysayers.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Light Sleeper
    The cast is skillfully alert and Schrader's vision is unencumbered either by sentiment or cynicism.
  16. L'Immensità
    I don’t think L’Immensità quite encompasses what it’s straining for and I’m not sure that Penélope Cruz is directed towards her greatest strengths, very good though of course she always is. But Crialese has fervency and style and those fantasy worlds might even have a touch of De Sica’s miraculous Milan.
  17. Vesper
    Vesper plays like a cult film waiting to be discovered. It adeptly fuses a compelling YA-friendly story about a teenage girl’s survival in a hostile environment with dense, thoughtful world-building, the sort required to draw in nerdy-minded viewers. That savvy combination creates a narrative that breathes and expands, like one of the freaky mycelium-like life forms that populate the story.
  18. Prisoners
    In his first English language film, Quebeçois director Denis Villeneuve has produced a masterful thriller that is also an engrossing study of a smalltown America battered by recession, fear and the unrelenting elements.
  19. I Love Boosters
    While every actor gets to make a brash and indelible impression, their characters can feel frustratingly limited.
  20. The Yellow Sea
    A deafening explosion of energy, gruesome violence and chaos.
  21. Never Steady, Never Still
    There are some heartfelt moments, but this is an opaque and frustrating experience.
  22. Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story
    In the end, Collins emerges as an opaque figure, as resistant to interpretation as her famously 2D fictional heroine Lucky Santangelo.
  23. The Thief Collector
    The film offers a fascinating glimpse into the mystery of other people, especially other people’s marriages. Friends and family still look dazed that the Alters – Rita and Jerry! – were behind the theft.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Niagara
    Hitch would have played it for laughs; this is a little overwrought, but steamy enough. [22 Apr 2006, p.53]
    • The Guardian
  25. Werner Herzog - Radical Dreamer
    Calling a film-maker a “dreamer” sounds hackneyed, but it does justice to his idealism. Perhaps no other description will do.
  26. Finding Emily
    Finding Emily shares DNA with Richard Curtis’s comedies – the same warm heart and charm, plus levels of cheesiness that some may find cringe. In the end I found it impossible to hate, though one or two performances felt a bit lacking in comic flair.
  27. 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.
  28. Theater Camp
    For all the grand gestures of musical theater, there’s an odd flatness to Theater Camp, a half-hearted and lackluster comedy from a group of Hollywood friends set at a summer performing arts community.
  29. Where's My Roy Cohn?
    What this by-the-numbers approach lacks in artistry it makes up for in an avalanche of facts.
  30. Memory: The Origins of Alien
    What this solemn and enlivening documentary plunge into the history of Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic reiterates is the idea of film as a collective art form – not just the wider circle of writers, performers and technicians beyond the director, but in the case of the truly great films, serendipitous access to a deeper collective unconscious to which we all have the keys – even if few know how to use them.
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