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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. La Mif
    This is an engaging ensemble piece, acted with vehemence and sincerity, though it concludes a little melodramatically.
  2. Colossal
    Given the bizarro conceit, there’s something surprisingly, and frustratingly, safe about the film.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Late August, Early September
    Assayas uses the same fluent handheld style as Irma Vep, and there's a practised ease with which he draws fine, naturalistic performances from his ensemble. [20 Aug 1999, p.5]
    • The Guardian
  4. The Justice of Bunny King
    The strength of the writing is in portraying Bunny’s reality, allowing us to wonder – like the social workers – whether she really is a reliable parent. This is thoughtful film-making, though I didn’t quite buy into the explosion of drama at the end.
  5. Emilia Pérez
    Audiard brings his usual ambition and sweep, energy and attack; although I wondered at certain points if the musical numbers functioned at some level as an alibi, to pre-empt objections about being the film being contrived.
  6. Monkey Man
    If you have the stomach for singularly focused revenge and some truly graphic, visceral hand-to-hand combat, Monkey Man delivers the goods.
  7. Capital in the Twenty-First Century
    Justin Pemberton’s documentary, based on the bestselling book by French economist Thomas Piketty, tells us a story no less depressing or gruesomely hypnotic for being so familiar – like observing a slo-mo driverless car crash from the passenger seat.
  8. Last Cab to Darwin
    Caton is a perfect fit; he is touching, tender and a little bedraggled, emoting with a worn-out visage that looks like the 71-year-old has been marinated in beer and left in the sun to dry.
  9. Herself
    There’s a strong basis of originality here, and the warmth and good nature of the movie carries it along.
  10. Ant-Man and the Wasp
    It buzzes with uncomplicated enjoyment.
  11. Mia Madre
    Mia Madre is a tremendously smart and enjoyable movie.
  12. Sun Children
    Energetic and heartfelt, tipping towards tragedy, Sun Children crawls through the mud and emerges all the stronger. The quest is a red herring; the real treasure is the film.
  13. Paddleton
    Duplass and his co-writer, director Alex Lehmann, deliver this strange concoction – an improv bromance mixed with a tragic love story – with delicacy.
  14. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
    In the first movie, an injection transformed wimpy Steve Rogers into strapping Captain America; similarly, this sequel gives the flagging comic-book movie an adrenaline shot of relevance. You've got to hand it to them.
  15. The Brand New Testament
    The Brand New Testament is a peppy, original and (importantly) very sweet story.
  16. Home from Home: Chronicle of a Vision
    It is superlatively well performed and well directed with a real narrative grip.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Here After
    This knotty psychological study is an impressive debut from Poland-based Swedish director Von Horn.
  18. Moon, 66 Questions
    Kokkali persuasively enacts both the emotional hurt and emotional healing.
  19. Food, Inc. 2
    Like I say, there’s nothing new here for even casual followers of the food crisis. But it will make you think twice about what you put in your supermarket basket.
  20. The King
    Just when we thought it was impossible to say something new about , documentary film-maker Eugene Jarecki pulls it off.
  21. Together Together
    Together Together suffers a little from being too polite, as a comedy it lacks snarl, and as a drama it lacks, well, event. Nothing much really happens – but maybe that’s the point.
  22. The Italian Job
    The brio and ambition of The Italian Job can’t be doubted and Caine has enormous charisma.
  23. Who You Think I Am
    Binoche’s performance and the movie are elegant, ingenious and sexy.
  24. Post Tenebras Lux
    An irritating, baffling, fascinating film.
  25. Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
    Preposterous though it may be, this is a terrific family movie in a style audiences may not have seen since Mary Poppins.
  26. The 12th Man
    This extraordinary story has unfortunately been turned into a handsomely produced but laborious, drawn-out and dramatically inert movie.
  27. The Dead Don't Hurt
    Violence and tragedy is where the story is naturally heading, and this trajectory is plain in every scene and every shot: a world where aggression must either be violently and dangerously resisted or accepted.
  28. Dead Calm
    It’s Nicole Kidman who steals the show. Forced to endure the brunt of Hughie’s attacks, Rae is both cool and desperate, calculating and vulnerable, with a strange energy that feels young and tender but wise beyond her years.
  29. Brother
    Heavy with grief the film may be, but it’s always a beautiful mourning.
  30. The Weight
    It’s carried through by an all-in Hawke who is really put through the wringer, arguably his most physically gruelling role to date (the upside of a low budget is that his hardships are made to look that much harder), a muscular and entirely persuasive performance that continues his winning streak.
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