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For 1,246 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 48% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Dark Days
Lowest review score: 20 The Secret Scripture
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 512 out of 1246
  2. Mixed: 673 out of 1246
  3. Negative: 61 out of 1246
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  1. Dreamcatcher
    Dreamcatcher is harrowing.
  2. Richard III
    Rarely has a film used London’s landmarks so cannily, and rarely has screen Shakespeare been so sharp and satisfying.
  3. Krisha
    The extraordinary skill with which Shults’s camera prowls and probes the enclosed surroundings also channels Robert Altman in chamber-drama mode. Those are strong comparisons, but this unexpected and hugely impressive US indie debut is worthy of them.
  4. Carrie
    De Palma’s grasp on King’s material is never in doubt: this is a truly throat-grabbing horror movie, sporting a handful of pitch-perfect set-pieces, not to mention one of the few examples of effective split-screen.
  5. How to Survive a Plague
    This painful, beautiful doc chronicles the fightback.
  6. Stranger Than Paradise
    Not a lot to it, certainly, but the acting and performances combine to produce an obliquely effective study of the effect of landscape upon emotion, and the wry, dry humour is often quite delicious.
  7. Maidan
    Don’t watch this doc for a lesson in the crisis. Maidan is hard work, with no voiceover or interviews and just the odd scrap of information written on screen to guide you through.
  8. The Great Beauty
    It’s an exploration of all things surface, yes, but it has soul too.
  9. Distant Voices, Still Lives
    It’s a heartbreaking work. Its cast are phenomenal; its songs flow through the film like blood; and Davies is unflinching in his hunt for truth and full of nothing but love and understanding for his characters. A masterpiece.
  10. Only Angels Have Wings
    This isn’t quite tense or funny enough to become the masterpiece some Hawks lovers claim. But it is smart, incisive and often very funny.
  11. The Salesman
    As drama, The Salesman wanders, meanders and searches, mostly pleasurably, until it hits an over-engineered final chapter.
  12. Amy
    Anyone with a beating heart will be forgiven for allowing it to break during this unflinching and thoughtful account of the life and death of the soul singer Amy Winehouse.
  13. Night Will Fall
    The original footage – devastatingly intimate; familiar yet alien – still stops us in our tracks more than six decades later.
  14. Let's Get Lost
    Alongside archive material and new footage of Chet shot in his signature romantic, B&W style, Weber elicits frank reminiscences from his subject and a host of ex-lovers and friends.
  15. Kiki's Delivery Service
    As a story about how hard it is to make your own way in the world, Kiki’s Delivery Service is truthful and scalpel-sharp. That it manages all this while remaining consistently funny, optimistic and exciting – even for little ones – is a mark of Miyazaki’s genius.
  16. God's Own Country
    Writer-director Francis Lee has drawn on his own farming background and his film is full of convincing detail. The lack of chat feels especially truthful.
  17. Unforgiven
    A magnificent movie that transcends its familiar tale of a reformed gunman forced by circumstance to resume his violent ways.
  18. The Past
    It’s intricate and often mature as drama, but it’s also meandering and at times heavy-handed, even melodramatic, and the tight control of time, place and action which made ‘A Separation’ so gripping is just not there.
  19. The Tree of Life
    While it fascinates as much as it frustrates, the film’s saving grace is that it always feels honest and never cynical. It seems both relevant to us and personal to the filmmaker.
  20. Starless Dreams
    These young women have already witnessed enough horror to last a lifetime, and in this unforgiving society their lot seems unlikely to improve. A grim but necessary watch.
  21. After the Storm
    Kore-eda’s insight is so unflinching, his affection for his characters so intimate and sure, that not a moment here feels wasted.
  22. Harmonium
    This is a provocative, intelligent movie for those with a strong emotional constitution.
  23. Graduation
    It’s not a despairing movie – Mungiu even suggests that a new generation might put things right – but it’s a brutally honest one.
  24. The Other Side of Hope
    It’s a deeply humane film, as well as a quietly hilarious one.
  25. Museum Hours
    Its encouragement to let ourselves be captivated by everyday humanity as well as the old masters is both richly illuminating and quirkily endearing. Time well spent.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Bad News Bears
    Amiably engrossing satire on the 'win ethic' that offers a take-it-or-leave-it approach to its serious points about enforcing precociousness on kids, but consistently delights with its panoramic comic invention.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Coal Miner's Daughter
    For all the modern gloss, what with poverty and nervous breakdowns it's still highly conventional stuff, but lovingly constructed to produce unremarkable but heart-warming entertainment.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    13 Assassins
    The film is built as a long crescendo, opening at a level of considered, Zen-like reflection and ending with a prolonged cacophony of elaborate, town-wide annihilation.
  29. '71
    Demange is a strong storyteller and masks the script’s tendency to nod to every opinion and social division by offering a masterclass in tension as soon as his dramatic bomb starts ticking.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Young Frankenstein
    By and large, a rather pitiful parody of the Universal Frankenstein movies, taking typically Brooksian liberties with characters and plot, resorting to juvenile mugging, and relying to a great extent on fairly authentic sets and photography for its better moments.
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