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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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    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lorenzo's Oil
    The film comes over as a tour de force version of the disease-of-the-week TV movie: half scientific detective story, half domestic drama, replete with scenes of suffering. Throughout, Miller points up every least thing: religious symbolism, snow-dusted Christmas windows for pathos, spinning news headlines, and swirling, diving camera movements. Finally, it begins to seem a little dishonest and self-conscious, as if Miller were trying to make an AIDS movie with hope and a positive ending.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Survivalist
    The cautious chemistry between the three characters means the atmosphere is never less than taut, and it provides the perfect launchpad for a tense, poignant finale that marks Fingleton out as a name to watch.
  3. The Pearl Button
    The connections might be a little more strained and diffuse than in "Nostalgia for the Light", but their cumulative power is strong nonetheless.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Day of the Jackal
    Low on documentary conviction and political context, but an intriguing exercise in concealing the obvious.
  5. I Am Not a Witch
    A startling movie, I Am Not a Witch is many things. It’s a magic realist fable set in present-day Zambia that has plenty to say about gender and superstition. It’s also a satire, a tragedy and a comedy. And, impressively, debut writer-director Rungano Nyoni makes this heady mix work.
  6. Which Way Is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington
    Intelligent and moving.
  7. The Hard Stop
    It’s not a happy watch – but it’s an essential one if you want better to understand the city and people around you.
  8. Hotel Salvation
    A leisurely, wise and ultimately affecting meditation on the benefits of letting go.
  9. Time Bandits
    An extraordinarily inventive fantasy in which schoolboy Warnock is rescued from a dull suburban existence by a band of renegade dwarfs, who emerge from his wardrobe and whisk him off on an incredible journey through time and space. Sometime Monty Python animator Gilliam fills the screen with bizarre images, and directs with a breathless ingenuity.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    She's Gotta Have It
    Structurally, it could be compared to Kurosawa's Rashomon for its subjective cross-examination of Nola's loves; but this delightful low-budget comedy, with its all black cast and black humour, is 100 per cent Lee.
  11. Pride
    It’s a joyous film, full of love and warmth but unafraid to admit that with sticking out your neck comes struggle and sorrow. Truly lovely.
  12. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
    This is a forceful, initially uplifting, ultimately sobering illustration of how much protest matters, how far those in power will go to stifle it, and how ugly and criminal those efforts look in hindsight.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Policeman
    This unnerving and enigmatic debut feature from Israeli director Nadav Lapid trains its steely focus on the group dynamics of the cops and robbers rather than asking us to get swept along in the specifics of their violence travails.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Midnight Cowboy
    Outrageously overrated... the film indulges in bland satire, fashionable flashiness, and a sodden sentimentality that never admits either to its homosexual elements or to the basic misogyny of its stance. Add to that a glamorisation of poverty and an ending that makes Love Story seem restrained, and you have a fairly characteristic example of Schlesinger's shallow talent.
  15. Loving
    This is a thoughtful film, but one that's slightly limited by its own careful restraint.
  16. The Crash Reel
    Don’t be put off by the jock-ish ‘extreme sports’ subject matter, this is an insightful, deeply affecting journey of emotional discovery beyond the thrill of speed and the roar of the crowd.
  17. Only Lovers Left Alive
    Only Lovers Left Alive drags its feet and shows serious signs of anaemia as a story.
  18. In a World...
    Bell goes easy on the preaching and heavy on the laughs without losing her feminist message.
  19. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
    It may lack its predecessor’s lofty ambitions, but once the bullets, spears and hairy fists start flying you’ll be too wrapped up to care.
  20. For Those in Peril
    There’s only so many times an audience will fall for the same manipulative editing tricks. Still, with fine performances and a rich sense of place, this is a promising start.
  21. Fences
    It’s easy to throw accusations of staginess at film adaptations of theatre like this, which honour the limitations of theatre and make only limited attempts to open up the play. But there’s a hothouse atmosphere to this domestic drama that works well on screen.
  22. Li'l Quinquin
    Here’s heavyweight French auteur Bruno Dumont demonstrating his gift for deadpan comedy.
  23. Enough Said
    Nicole Holofcener has a reputation for making Woody Allen-ish chick-flicks. Which sounds like a snidey compliment. Enough Said is her best yet.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Play Misty for Me
    Eastwood's first film as director, and first exploratory probe for the flaws in his macho image as outlined in Siegel's The Beguiled. A highly enjoyable thriller made under the influence of Siegel (who contributes a memorable cameo as a bartender).
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Airplane!
    It should be disastrous. But psycho ground controllers (Stack and Bridges), laff-a-second pace, and bludgeoning innuendo make this the acceptable face of the locker-room satire.
  26. In the Fog
    This philosophical war film is impressive and thought provoking but it’s also too restrained and pensive to ever completely connect.
  27. Welcome to Leith
    What Welcome to Leith does very well is dig deep and expose Cobb – and by extension the entire American neo-Nazi movement – as weak, confused and desperate, using a dying ideology as a way to feel less alone in the world.
  28. Blue Jasmine
    One of the most pleasing things about Blue Jasmine is that it feels truly knotty and never obvious in how it unfolds.
  29. The Innocents
    It’s an emotionally involving rather than harrowing film, with scenes as beautiful as oil paintings.
  30. Clash
    The story is fictional, yet it builds up a chastening picture of divisive separate political and religious agendas holding sway over common humanity, and leading the country deeper into chaos. A striking, tough-minded achievement.
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