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For 6,554 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: 2,481 out of 6554
  2. Mixed: 3,754 out of 6554
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6554
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  1. Pope Francis - A Man of His Word
    Access to the great man has clearly been provided with an undertaking not to challenge, not even to ask questions, in the normal interview sense.
  2. Birds of Passage
    In the most reductive way, it is another mafia story. But as with their previous film, it is the specificity that counts, and while certain genre tendencies prevent the narrative from truly unmooring, hardly a scene goes by without something fundamentally familiar being rendered in a unique fashion.
  3. Ash Is Purest White
    What does the ending of Ash Is Purest White mean — and what does its middle or beginning mean? I’m not sure. It feels like a gripping parable for the vanity of human wishes, and another impassioned portrait of national malaise.
  4. 3 Faces
    Jafar Panahi has here created a quietly engaging quasi-realist parable, part of his ongoing and unique creative cine-autobiography, full of intelligence and humility and a real respect for women and for female actors. It is gentle, elusive, and redolent of this director’s mysterious Iranian zen.
  5. Arctic
    Mikkelsen hurls himself into proceedings. It’s a performance of intense commitment, one where every grunt and yowl feels agonisingly authentic.
  6. Climax
    It is as if Noé has somehow mulched up the quintessence of dance, coke and porn together and squooshed it into his camera. If that sounds horrible, then yes it is, but also, often, demonically inspired.
  7. Mandy
    Either you are one of the devoted or you’re not. You won’t know what camp you’re in until you see it.
  8. Leave No Trace
    It’s a movie that will live with me for a long time.
  9. Get the Gringo
    However agonising it is to admit it, this film isn't half bad, a sparky black-comic actioner with a cute "con trick" scene showcasing Gibson's Clint Eastwood impression.
  10. Wildlife
    It’s an extremely watchable movie, beautifully and even luxuriously appointed in its austere evocation of smalltown America – though maybe a little self-conscious in its emotional woundedness.
  11. The Seagull
    Mayer’s The Seagull is not a masterpiece, but it is impressive, and for those who agree that it is important to check back in with the classics, the whole company deserves its huzzahs.
  12. Revenge
    A well made film, which slithers confidently in its slick of blood.
  13. Mountain
    The pictures are remarkable. It’s something to seek out on the big screen.
  14. Lu Over the Wall
    It seemed overextended and self-conscious.
  15. Breaking In
    These 88 minutes never drag their heels long enough for us to get hung up on their myriad implausibilities. One of those low-expectation releases that’ll see you right if Infinity War remains sold out.
  16. Life of the Party
    Life of the Party’s predictable and lethargic box-ticking of scenes (accidentally getting high – check; dance off – check), gives it the unremarkable stench of something you’ve half-watched on cable before.
  17. Everybody Knows
    Farhadi’s storytelling has overpowering force.
  18. Manhunt
    This film offers something that is never in sufficiently plentiful supply: fun.
  19. Anon
    Anon lacks identity and arrives at the finish line in a desiccated, cerebral, unsatisfying style.
  20. Tully
    It’s a marvellous movie about the lies we tell ourselves to stay sane—and the reasons why we might need to tell the truth.
  21. The Week Of
    There are laughs, but they’re meek.
  22. Beast
    [Pearce] gives us a carefully crafted dramatic setup, an intriguingly curated selection of suspects for the crime and all of it building to a fascinating, finely balanced ambiguity in the movie’s climactic stages.
  23. Journeyman
    Journeyman is flawed, but intelligent and heartfelt.
  24. Duck Butter
    Watching a couple bicker about the specifics of their relationship can be illuminating when done right, but here it becomes a chore, the problems they encounter feeling contrived and silly.
  25. Avengers: Infinity War
    Somehow in its pure uproariousness, it works. It’s just a supremely watchable film, utterly confident in its self-created malleable mythology. And confident also in the note of apocalyptic darkness.
  26. Woman Walks Ahead
    Woman Walks Ahead is a solidly crafted and well shot, if basically unchallenging film.
  27. October
    If October feels more tentative than Piku, which had rock-solid star turns to ground it, its emotion is at the last earned honestly: any structural wobbles will be nothing compared with the audience’s lower lips come the finale.
  28. Cake
    Uncommonly alert to small, telling details, while more expansive in its attitudes, the result proves far richer and worldlier than anything previously observed coming down the Khyber Pass.
  29. Jet Trash
    Belleville cranks up the colour saturation and ironic Yuletide soundtrack, but all his slo-mo hedonism can’t disguise an otherwise addled story treatment: we chop haphazardly between hemispheres, leaving characters and subplots treading crystal blue water.
  30. In the Last Days of the City
    It’s a melancholy, interesting film, slightly opaque, a cine-journal about the way youth is clouded by experience.
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