The Observer (UK)'s Scores

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For 1,641 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Enys Men
Lowest review score: 20 Book Club: The Next Chapter
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 894 out of 1641
  2. Mixed: 714 out of 1641
  3. Negative: 33 out of 1641
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  1. The Forty-Year-Old Version
    [A] warm, funny and enjoyably rude debut.
  2. The Count of Monte Cristo
    It’s directed with verve and acted with gusto.
  3. His Three Daughters
    This is subtle, unshowy film-making that is entirely in the service of the screenplay and the performances – and what performances.
  4. Architecton
    Architecton is a gorgeously photographed poetic reverie on the subject of stone and concrete, permanence and profligate waste.
  5. Kajillionaire
    On relationships, July remains as perceptive as ever.
  6. The Adam Project
    The high-concept plot is held together more by force of will (and some decent special effects) than by logic, but the core of this engaging, kid-friendly Netflix production is a big-hearted tale of broken families made good.
  7. Mystify: Michael Hutchence
    The result is enlightening and affecting, providing a missing piece in the puzzle of a life prematurely ended.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Man Who Knew Too Much
    The classic thriller in which Hitchcock truly discovered his metier as the 'master of suspense' and never looked back. [08 Aug 1999, p.10]
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  9. Sing Sing
    It’s powerful and profoundly moving stuff.
  10. Turning Red
    Turning Red is a fizzing, squealing adolescent explosion of a movie that nails a fundamental truth about growing up.
  11. Azor
    As far as the plot is concerned, almost nothing happens, and yet Andreas Fontana’s sinewy debut teems with unseen threat. He crafts an atmosphere of grubbiness despite all the polished surfaces.
  12. King Richard
    It’s a very watchable picture, but one that, like the plan that Williams famously wrote for his daughters, feels at times like a checklist of challenges overcome and decisions vindicated.
  13. Doctor Sleep
    The new material is fresher and considerably more fun.
  14. Night Courier
    Seedily handsome cinematography captures a city full of secrets and simmering violence.
  15. Small Body
    With its colour palette of mossy greens, terracotta and earth tones, and its matter-of-fact approach to themes of folklore and mysticism, this gorgeous first feature from Italian director Laura Samani is as enchanting as it is unusual.
  16. Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time
    This crystalline tale of memory, love and brain surgery from writer-director Lili Horvát (who made 2015’s The Wednesday Child) is a treat – sinewy, seductive and beautifully strange.
  17. Sinners
    If you pick apart the story threads, Sinners is a little messy, but Coogler’s assurance and vision holds everything together.
  18. Maestro
    With its nonlinear structure, Maestro feels a little like a scrapbook of life moments – glittering career achievements; crackling explosions of domestic tension – and Cooper keeps up a zesty, kinetic energy throughout.
  19. The Devil All the Time
    However dark the narrative may seem, there’s a strong streak of black humour that accompanies the horror, often facilitated by a pointedly chosen tune.
  20. Queendom
    Ultimately, as Agniia Galdanova’s remarkable observational documentary shows, Gena is her own extraordinary creation.
  21. Ford v Ferrari
    Slick, thrilling and saturated with vivid hues and 60s can-do optimism, Le Mans ’66, James Mangold’s follow-up to Logan, is a precision-tooled machine of a movie.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Theater of Blood
    Arguably Price's finest single performance, certainly the one that called on all his varied talents as a comedian, aesthete, mellifluous speaker of verse, old-fashioned barnstormer and exponent of horror, is Douglas Hickox's classic black comedy Theatre of Blood, best of a string of horror pictures he made in Britain.
  23. The Power of the Dog
    The weathered earth tones of Campion’s subdued colour scheme conceal a vivid and full-blooded emotional palette.
  24. Return to Dust
    It’s a gorgeous, quietly affecting film that finds an unassuming beauty in this simple life in rural China, but which doesn’t shy away from the extreme hardships faced by the very poorest.
  25. Her Way
    [An] impressive drama.
  26. Leave the World Behind
    A provocative, superbly acted action drama that combines big-hitting ambition and spectacle with just enough humour to temper the whole end-of-civilisation meltdown scenario.
  27. Last Night in Soho
    For all its scattershot reference points, however, Last Night in Soho still emerges as Wright’s most personal film – you can feel how much he loves the material. Frankly, I felt the same way.
  28. The Eternal Daughter
    For all its decorous restraint, this is emotionally potent storytelling.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
    One of the best World War Two morale-boosting adventure movies. [07 Feb 1999, p.10]
    • The Observer (UK)
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Music Man
    Robert Preston unforgettably reprises his greatest stage role in this old-fashioned musical that challenged West Side Story on Broadway and proved quite as popular. [13 Nov 2005, p.87]
    • The Observer (UK)
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