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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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    • 56 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Steel Magnolias
    This film is a true story and a brilliant depiction of friendship that manages to be witty, warm, uplifting, and, just when you thought you were safe, utterly heartbreaking. It’s also frequently laugh-out-loud funny.
  2. Threads
    It wasn’t until I saw Threads that I found that something on screen could make me break out in a cold, shivering sweat and keep me in that condition for 20 minutes, followed by weeks of depression and anxiety.
  3. Goldstone
    It’s a gorgeous film to watch, but a better and bigger one to think about. The key to unlocking this hugely ambitious genre hybrid – a classic Australian film and a masterpiece of outback noir – is understanding that Goldstone is a country, not a town, and its name is Australia.
  4. My Neighbor Totoro
    This inspirationally lovely and gentle film has a real claim to be Miyazaki’s masterpiece, or first among equals in his collection, with a simple hand-drawn design whose innocence only becomes more beguiling with repeated viewings, along with its bright, expansive, Gershwin-esque musical score.
  5. My Beautiful Laundrette
    It is a sharp, smart picture, with English eccentricity, sly quirk and political subversion, that represents a brilliant and almost unique engagement with contemporary history in 80s British cinema.
  6. Prick Up Your Ears
    Gary Oldman’s superb livewire performance is now virtually an authentic testament of the man himself. Alfred Molina’s morose, self-hating Halliwell is also utterly convincing: Bennett’s script cleverly conveys their long years of bickering domesticity.
  7. The Wife
    It is a smart, supremely watchable and entertaining film, and Close gives a wonderful star turn.
  8. The Elephant Man
    It is an absorbing and satisfying drama, and Hurt’s Merrick is very powerful.
  9. Eraserhead
    It's beautiful and strange, with its profoundly disturbing ambient sound design of industrial groaning, as if filmed inside some collapsing factory or gigantic dying organism.
  10. Mean Streets
    The movie's blazing energy is still astounding; the vérité street-scenes are terrific and Scorsese's pioneering use of popular music is genuinely thrilling.
  11. Cold War
    The crystalline black-and-white cinematography exalts its moments of intimate grimness and its dreamlike showpieces of theatrical display. It is an elliptical, episodic story of imprisonment and escape, epic in scope.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Deliverance
    For all the furious excitement of its river-rafting sequences, and the harshness and humiliation of its explosive central rape scene, Deliverance is an elegiac movie, mourning the rural mountain culture soon to be inundated by a new hydro-electric dam.
  13. Happy as Lazzaro
    Happy As Lazzaro itself is a weightless enigma, an unfathomable promise of happiness, gently tugging you upward, like a balloon on the end of a string.
  14. Long Day's Journey Into Night
    There is such artistry and audacity in this new film by the 30-year-old Chinese director Bi Gan. Long Day’s Journey Into Night, a hallucinatory experience whose sinuous camera movements take you on a long journey into memory and fear and a night full of dreams.
  15. Shoplifters
    It is a movie made up of delicate brushstrokes: details, moments, looks and smiles.
  16. The Wild Pear Tree
    The Wild Pear Tree is a gentle, humane, beautifully made and magnificently acted movie.
  17. Dogman
    A movie with incomparable bite and strength.
  18. Five Easy Pieces
    This superbly composed film comes as close to perfection as it gets.
  19. The Last Picture Show
    Peter Bogdanovich's 1971 ode to a Texan small town is still a masterpiece whichever way you look at it.
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