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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. Pirates
    It’s a bouncy, grin-inducing romp through Caribbean takeaways, designer boutiques stacked with Moschino streetwear and one ill-advised trip south of the river.
  2. Shoplifters
    It’s an eerily moving piece, masterfully blurring the divide between the unforgivable and understandable, finding tenderness in the bleakest and most traumatic of circumstances.
  3. Heretic
    It’s a tense, tight fairground ride of a film.
  4. Sisters with Transistors
    What a joy is a documentary that neither talks down to its audience nor diminishes its subject.
  5. Us
    Hats off, too, to choreographer and movement consultant Madeline Hollander for bringing a shiversome physicality to the shadow roles that recalls the creepiest moments from Hideo Nakata’s Ringu.
  6. Nobody
    It’s a blast.
  7. Happening
    Happening is a visceral, confronting experience.
  8. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
    This is a top-quality summer blockbuster, bringing fresh blood and new ideas into the series while staying recognisably within the worlds so meticulously created in the previous three movies.
  9. The Vast of Night
    That a film with such an apparently familiar narrative can keep us this intrigued is a credit to the film-makers – particularly Patterson, from whom we should expect to hear much more in the future.
  10. Freaks
    Today, Browning’s sympathies are clear; if there are “freaks” on display here, they are not the versatile performers to whom the title seems to allude.
  11. 1917
    For all the steel-trap visceral efficiency, it’s the more low-key moments that really pack a punch – those moments when we’re confronted with the simple human cost of war.
  12. R.M.N.
    The space that Mungiu leaves, both physically, with his immaculately composed wide shots, and temporally, in the unhurried plotting, allows for a satisfying complexity, and an eventual swerve into dreamlike symbolism.
  13. Annette
    By comparison with 1999’s Pola X and 2012’s Holy Motors, Annette (which Carax tenderly dedicates to his daughter Nastya) is surprisingly accessible fare: adventurous, anarchic and unexpectedly heartfelt.
  14. Moana 2
    The main selling point remains Moana herself: the sparkiest and most intrepid Disney heroine of them all.
  15. Parallel Mothers
    It’s Cruz who sets the tone, with a performance that radiates warmth and is refreshingly forgiving of her character’s flaws. She has never been better.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Performance
    It's an exhilarating commentary on Swinging London in its dying days and the worlds of popular music and crime, with the disturbing paintings of Francis Bacon and the fascinating fictions of Jorge Luis Borges as influences. [11 Mar 2007, p.14]
    • The Observer (UK)
  17. The Suicide Squad
    The Suicide Squad has found its place in the superhero pantheon: the gutter, and proud.
  18. Nothing Compares
    It’s small wonder that she effectively torpedoed the stardom she never much wanted anyway.
  19. Abigail
    Stevens is one of several reasons to watch this extravagantly gory botched kidnap horror.
  20. The Broken Hearts Gallery
    The premise of writer Natalie Krinsky’s directorial debut sounds cheesy, and it is, but watching the brooding Nick softening to putty in our goofball heroine’s presence while she remains sparkily oblivious is an earnest pleasure.
  21. The Three Musketeers - Part I: D'Artagnan
    The picture’s seductive power lies elsewhere, with a glorious, typically extravagant performance from Eva Green as the treacherous Milady. She’s great fun in a role that might have been tailor-made for her skill set: Milady is vampy, venomous and dripping with goth jewellery.
  22. The Nest
    Law manages to be both utterly authentic and glossily untrustworthy.
  23. Close
    Astonishingly natural and engaging performances from young newcomers Eden Dambrine and Gustav De Waele lend heartfelt authenticity to a film that builds upon the promise of 2018’s Girl, confirming Dhont as a deft and empathetic chronicler of the tumultuous anguish and ecstasy of adolescence.
  24. Tuesday
    There’s a real elegance and economy to Pusić’s direction, in the first half at least. She has a knack for packing layers of story into seemingly insignificant details.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Winchester '73
    Dan Duryea (manic outlaw) and Shelley Winters (pioneer wife) are excellent, as is the photography by William Daniels. [22 Jul 2012, p.43]
    • The Observer (UK)
  26. Brian and Charles
    The result has homemade charm to spare, proving delightfully ridiculous but also poignant.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Day the Earth Stood Still
    Wise achieved fame and riches with West Side Story and The Sound of Music, but he's most highly regarded for his splendid genre movies like this sci-fi classic, one of his numerous minor masterpieces.
    • The Observer (UK)
  28. The Irishman
    For all its flash-back/flash-forward tricksiness, The Irishman rarely seems disjointed or thematically fractured. It conjures a kaleidoscopic illusion of depth that only starts to shatter as the pace flags in the final act.
  29. Fighting with My Family
    It’s a delicate balancing act that Merchant handles with aplomb.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Young and Innocent
    Lightweight and immensely enjoyable Hitchcock thriller. [22 Oct 2000, p.11]
    • The Observer (UK)
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