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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. How to Build a Girl
    What a thoroughly likeable and funny film.
  2. Tuesday
    As for Louis-Dreyfus, she is very good in the way that only she can be: intelligent, sensitive, focused and intense, hitting the line-readings with percussive force. How overwhelming it might have been to see her and Petticrew play this story without the indie high-concept bird.
  3. Dragonfly
    It’s a stark, fierce, wonderfully acted film.
  4. Look Back in Anger
    Sixty years on, the big-screen adaptation of the landmark play looks more conservative than revolutionary but Burton’s firepower is undimmed.
  5. Charli XCX: Alone Together
    Charli XCX’s drive and heart are infectious, even for non-Angels.
  6. White Building
    This is a gentle-going watch, understated – underpowered even – and sometimes a little drowsy. Still, it has real sensitivity and insight into the transition to adulthood, as gradually it dawns on Nang that his parents don’t have all the answers.
  7. Bitter Christmas
    I confess that, for me, this movie doesn’t have the impact of his comparably modernist Parallel Mothers, but Almodóvar’s sensual, playful, melancholy films are always food for thought and feeling.
  8. The Vigil
    It still just about puts the id in Hasidic, thanks to spiritually atmospheric cinematography and a twitchy, expressive performance from Davis, who resembles Riz Ahmed, and wards off evil with that most Jewish of charms: heroic self-deprecation.
  9. I Am Greta
    Despite being a valuable reminder of Thunberg’s idealism and unselfconscious courage, the film doesn’t entirely work.
  10. Operation Avalanche
    The ending doesn’t quite land the gut punch it’s hoping for, but this is more about fun than about exposing deep, nefarious truths. At least, I think it is.
  11. Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
    She's entertaining enough, and like most fashion documentaries, it's a mine of pop-cultural history, but the unswervingly generous assessment of her achievements and permanently arch vocal style become a little wearying.
  12. Julia
    Without that initial fanbase buy-in, Julia feels like a redundant tribute, with something very indulgent about the “foodie” rhapsodising.
  13. The Dry
    Director Robert Connolly’s adaptation is a very gripping and polished film, commandingly performed and directed, with an airtight sense of tonal cohesiveness – despite lots of, well, air in the frame, derived from countless mid- and long-shots capturing barren exterior locations in a fictitious Australian outback town.
  14. Kill It and Leave This Town
    This is not animation which is there to exalt, or soothe, or celebrate human loveliness: it is animation which takes a fiercely miserable satirical stab at the world and itself, a language which is unreconciled, unaccommodated.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Blockers
    Despite an element of gross bodily fluid-laden gags, Blockers manages to be heartfelt and endearing – even if the film’s message is sometimes heavy handed.
  16. La Grazia
    Maybe this film, concluding as it does on a distinctive note of euphoric sentimentality, does not add up to quite as much as the director thinks; but it intrigues, it exhilarates and it shows that Sorrentino is Italian cinema’s heir to Antonioni.
  17. Green Book
    Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen are two excellent actors outclassing their material in this amiable feelgood-liberal entertainment, inspired by a true story.
  18. The Animal Kingdom
    The Animal Kingdom seems squeamish about going for the jugular in the way a proper genre movie would.
  19. The Mole Agent
    Sergio himself has real gentleness and is a lovely character, and there is some amiable comedy about how he is starting to enjoy himself in the home. But he is marooned in a tricksy, gimmicky film.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Of an Age
    In other hands, Of an Age could have been gimmicky or indulgent but Stolevski imbues his characters with such lived-in specificity that we can’t help but be swept away.
  21. Late Shift
    Benesch brings a tough, smart, credible presence.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Out of Africa
    A beautifully made film, but this version of Karen Blixen's life is thickly coated with sugar.
  23. Alps
    Follow the film-maker. Let him lead you by the nose. Lanthimos knows exactly where he's going.
  24. The Competition
    It’s clear that they want to run it as meritocratically as possible, but what’s interesting is how the criteria for what talent is and who gets to judge it come up for debate.
  25. Boy Erased
    It’s a curiously underwhelming, muted, often plodding two hours that fails to reach the emotional highs and devastating lows one would expect from the material.
  26. The Avengers
    It's fun to watch Whedon pitch his heroes against each other. Child's play, maybe, but entertaining all the same.
  27. Venus in Fur
    Venus In Fur is a playful if occasionally heavy-handed jeu d'ésprit on the subject of sexual role-play, the games we all play, illusion and reality, and directing as a sexual act.
  28. Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
    It’s a film that may be a bit sugary for some tastes, but it’s made with real care and craft.
  29. Beirut
    Despite possessing unusually detailed context for a thriller, it’s a bit like diplomatic efforts in the region: the same old story.
  30. Oh Lucy!
    Oh Lucy!’s plot feels overthought. The tone see-saws wildly. What prevents it collapsing are the warm, heartfelt performances, together with Hirayanagi’s obvious affection for her chief protagonist.
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