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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 Boys in the Band
    It is all unexpectedly potent, particularly in the absurdity and petulance and pain that Parsons crams into his performance. It’s a strange, compelling dose of unhappiness.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Lady in White
    LaLoggia directs with creepy effectiveness.
  3. Shanghai Blues
    It’s impossible not to be carried along by the delirious rush of silliness in this knockabout screwball comedy.
  4. Belén
    The film is essentially a legal procedural: solid, mostly entertaining and occasionally gripping.
  5. Hellbender
    Although made on a tiny budget, this highly original exercise in folk horror punches well above its weight with snappy dialogue, trippy visual effects and impressive camerawork.
  6. The Old Guard
    The adjective in the title is right. It gets old pretty quickly.
  7. Only the River Flows
    This film is an intriguing and well-made diversion, a puzzle whose missing pieces make a disquieting pattern.
  8. Black Coal, Thin Ice
    The final reel is visually interesting in ways nobody could anticipate; it is also smugly perplexing, as if the filmmaker took joy from the knowledge virtually nobody would understand it.
  9. Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song
    Hallelujah is one for the fans, thorough and informative, like a set of cinematic liner notes, largely content to marvel at the majesty of its subject and the vibrant afterlife of his work.
  10. Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
    A very touching and insightful film.
  11. The Ugly Stepsister
    Blichfeldt has made an elegant debut.
  12. Jethica
    Director Pete Ohs and his screenwriting-cast deftly manage the transition from creepy to comic by slow degrees. The two female leads hold down the fort with dry delivery and somewhat haunted-looking expressions; they are bright attractive women who have had to put up with crap like this from leering men all their lives.
  13. Color Out of Space
    The whole thing looks as if it was dreamed up under the influence of a quality batch of LSD. I laughed out loud at the hokiest bits. But I’ve got to admit I was sucked in and genuinely scared, too.
  14. Yellow Rose
    Noblezada has great pipes and a natural screen presence that augurs well for her future career.
  15. Double Lover
    It’s a wildly dated-looking and derivative film, a quaint adventure in fantasised naughtiness.
  16. The Day Shall Come
    It’s a diverting scenario, though maybe it doesn’t quite have the “danger – high voltage” thrill of Morris’s other works.
  17. Materialists
    When the decision is made, the final act has an almost morosely elegiac mood, as it must, as various speeches and set pieces reconcile its rather trudgingly earnest direction of travel with the witty, savvy materialism of the movie’s premise.
  18. We Are Many
    A very valuable film.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Farewell, My Lovely
    Elegant neo-noir with a perfectly cast Robert Mitchum, at 58 the oldest actor to play Marlowe.
  20. War Pony
    [A] terrific debut feature.
  21. The Phoenician Scheme
    It is always entertaining, and delivered with the usual conviction and force but with less of the romantic extravagance than we’ve seen before, less of the childlike loneliness that has been detectable in his greatest movies.
  22. Louder Than Bombs
    A rather silly, pointless and directionless film.
  23. What Josiah Saw
    It has a stubborn, almost literary feel for character that accumulates a baleful momentum by the time the finale hits.
  24. Radical
    Despite those based-on-a-true-story bona fides, the script is taut as piano wire, strings of inciting incidents strung like steel cables between concrete coincidences, ironies and tragedy.
  25. Cocote
    It is a film with its own miasma of unease.
  26. Sicilian Ghost Story
    It’s a film whose initial charge of mystery and intensity dissipates over its running time, the narrative impetus slows, and there is that question of tone that is very much not solved by the revelation at the end. These drawbacks are offset by the directors’ terrific confidence and visual style.
  27. Happy Christmas
    Joe Swanberg's follow-up to Drinking Buddies is short and slight, but undeniably charming.
  28. Okko's Inn
    Kōsaka keeps Okko’s quest light and perky, not fully drilling into the vein of childhood trauma-induced fantasy that the best of Ghibli and Pixar hit upon. It proposes attentiveness to others as a means of self-care, but it has the same brisk impatience with real inner conflict that the grandmother has towards Okko’s outbursts.
  29. The Threesome
    This is an all too rare romcom that delivers on every level. If you’re looking for well-drawn characters caught up in an outlandish situation that generates plenty of laughter and sentiment, look no further. Oh, and it’s sexy too. What more could you want?
  30. Relay
    The subdued carefulness of the buildup gives way to rote, poorly staged action and a twist that might fill in a few plot-holes but leaves us otherwise dissatisfied.
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