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For 2,493 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 0.7 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Cantona
Lowest review score: 0 Cats
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,195 out of 2493
  2. Mixed: 1,123 out of 2493
  3. Negative: 175 out of 2493
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  1. Ad Astra
    Emotionally, the film operates in a classic Gray area, with barely perceptible eddies that build to a mighty existential wrench. All of which, it should be said, rests on Pitt’s shoulders – which feel like very different shoulders, somehow, to the ones that slouched so appealingly through Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. His performance here is as grippingly inward and tamped down as his work for Tarantino was witty and expansive – it’s true movie stardom, and it fills a star-system-sized canvas.
  2. Love & Mercy
    Pohlad’s film is good at probing the line between radical creativity and mental disarray; arguably less good at getting Wilson back on the safe side of it. But it leaves you in no doubt that the man’s a genius.
  3. American Honey
    You could also argue that this almost intentionally exhausting film is too much of a good thing. But there’s amazingly little of it you'd want to live without.
  4. You Hurt My Feelings
    The film is mature, relatable and risks being terminally uncool – full of evident chagrin from Holofcener that she can’t be a new voice these days, but also comfortably embracing the old one.
  5. A Hidden Life
    A sombre spiritual war epic which surges up to claim its place among the director’s most deeply felt, sturdily hewn achievements.
  6. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
    The film doesn’t stint on emotional complexity, but it might be Baumbach’s most accessible to date.
  7. What Richard Did
    An acutely compassionate account of unshakeable guilt.
  8. Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
    From the off, JJ Abrams’s film sets out to shake Star Wars from its slumber, and reconnect the series with its much-pined-for past. That it achieves this both immediately and joyously is perhaps the single greatest relief of the movie-going year.
  9. White God
    A social conscience movie with real cinematic bite.
  10. Lean on Pete
    [Haigh] hasn’t sacrificed a shred of the understated, observational style, lace-like emotional intricacy and lung-filling feel for landscape that all made his previous film, the Norfolk-set marital drama 45 Years, such a force to be reckoned with.
  11. Bergman Island
    A late narrative gambit made me worry that Hansen-Løve was pushing her conceit a little too far into the realm of the meta, but it pays off with thrilling clarity and elegance.
  12. Barbie
    Greta Gerwig takes on feminism and the patriarchy in this hilarious, deeply bizarre film.
  13. Wild Rose
    Landing the perfect ending is a challenge for any such story; A Star is Born, for all its guts and pathos, peaked early. Wild Rose holds its horses, and lets Rose-Lynn soar only when she’s worked out who she is.
  14. The Eternal Daughter
    The Eternal Daughter is a minor film at least partly by design, but it leaves an ethereal trail of sadness and creepiness.
  15. The Beast
    On a first viewing, I wasn’t quite convinced by some of the glitchy japes Bonello deploys here and there . . . But perhaps he wants us to think of the film itself like its torn heroine: a strange machine whose ghost refuses to give up.
  16. Compartment No. 6
    It’s the rapport between the actors – or the anti-rapport, to start with – that makes this such a winning diversion.
  17. Berberian Sound Studio
    It is one of the year’s very best films, a great, rumbling thunderclap of genius.
  18. Clouds of Sils Maria
    This is a complex, bewitching and melancholy drama, another fearlessly intelligent film from Assayas.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sweetgrass
    It’s a powerful testimonial to a fading way of life.
  20. The Other Side of the Wind
    Its relentless, almost hallucinogenic craziness makes it a hard film to engage with, and the viewer drop-off rate when it launches on Netflix later this year will undoubtedly be steep. But as a mad satire of movie-world tumult, and a furious love letter to the business that made and unmade its maker, it could scarcely be improved.
  21. Cow
    For all the placidity of its cud-chewing subject, Cow has a thrillingly alien charge.
  22. Which Way Is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington
    Junger’s film is a decent, heartfelt tribute.
  23. Wildlife
    It’s Dano’s handling of the actors, unsurprisingly, which shows the most confidence.
  24. Darby O'Gill and the Little People
    This Ireland-set fantasy adventure, starring Albert Sharpe and Janet Munro as a father and daughter vying with a local clan of leprechauns is benign and deeply genial stuff. [25 Mar 2020]
    • The Telegraph
  25. Get Carter
    There are no good guys in this quietly gripping adaptation of Ted Lewis's 1969 novel Jack's Return Home, but cinematographer Wolfgang Suschitzky brings out the stark beauty of the North-East while capturing their attempts to kill each other. [09 Mar 2020]
    • The Telegraph
  26. Harka
    Bessa’s contained fury goes haywire in this stretch, and brilliantly so: it’s a tour de force of social-realist acting to be notched up with the likes of Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves.
  27. Mank
    Mank feels like both a film for the ages and one hauled up from them: a forbidden tale grave-robbed from the Hollywood catacombs.
  28. Annihilation
    Portman’s high-tension acting, her inability to relax, suits the material down to the ground. It’s one of her best performances, moving through credible grief and bewilderment, but facing up bullishly to her fears by the end, and finding some kind of exhausted resolve to interrogate them.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An Unmarried Woman
    It's the stuff modern romantic dramas have turned into cliche, but that here feel anthropological and fascinating. [21 May 2018]
    • The Telegraph
  30. Babygirl
    Electrifying.
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