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For 6,418 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 Pain and Glory
Lowest review score: 0 Surf Nazis Must Die
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,499 out of 6418
  2. Mixed: 3,444 out of 6418
  3. Negative: 475 out of 6418
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  1. Blue Heron
    An obvious point of reference is Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin – and Lionel Shriver’s source novel – which charted the slow descent into despair for the parents of a troubled child. Blue Heron is a gentler, kinder film, introspectively exploring the nature of memory and the idea that trauma twists and manipulates it like heat warping a strip of celluloid.
  2. jackass: best and last
    Montages set to Holding out for a Hero by Bonnie Tyler and My Way by Frank Sinatra bookend the whole bonanza. You’ve gotta have balls and heart for these torch songs to land. Jackass: Best and Last has both – and isn’t afraid to show how they hurt.
  3. The Last Viking
    Warmth, empathy and severed fingers in the same film? Scandi noir is back.
  4. Nino
    Spiced up with some wry wit, cool music moments (Foals, Fontaines DC), a memorable cameo from Mathieu Amalric, and a touching-sexy use of Anaïs Nin erotica, this one’s a real keeper.
  5. Leviticus
    By stripping away anything even remotely extraneous, [Chiarella's] achieved a palpable sense of gothic anguish. And by casting his leads so perfectly, he’s also made one of the most touching romances of the year.
  6. Toy Story 5
    The message of finding balance between analogue and digital, old-school toys and tech, may seem woolly to some. But balance feels like the solution to this 21st century parental quandary – and maybe to Hollywood’s legacy sequel problem: play to your old strengths, but have timely purpose in doing so. Toy Story 5 strikes that balance nicely.
  7. The Death of Robin Hood
    Bold, brutal yet surprisingly sensitive, it’s about as far away from Errol Flynn’s Technicolor tights or Kevin Costner’s mullet as you can imagine.
  8. Rose
    Revered Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki adheres to the concept of ‘Ma’, or intentional emptiness. Likewise, Austrian filmmaker Markus Schleinzer’s equal-parts effervescent and unsettling third feature, Rose, sings with thoughtful silence and enriching stillness.
  9. Gentle Monster
    Kreutzer threads a fine needle through difficult material in a film that, even if it occasionally pulls its punches, will niggle on in your mind.
  10. The Invite
    This is a real return to form from Wilde, who finds her Booksmart groove again after the misstep of Don’t Worry Darling. Cue it up and get the neighbours round. Or not.
  11. Erupcja
    At a slight 71 minutes, it nevertheless manages to be an engaging misadventure with a wanderlust spirit, replete with a jolly voiceover narration from Jacek Zubiel, constantly reminding us life is one big joke.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Masters of the Universe
    Where other reboots lean into dour origin stories, this one is as brightly coloured as a bowl of e-numbered breakfast cereal.
  13. Backrooms
    Backrooms is hard not to recommend as a genuinely surreal horror experience. It has shades of the two Davids, Lynch and Cronenberg, but with its horrifically rendered malformations, both architectural and organic, it also feels like a commentary on the risible rise of AI slop art.
  14. Pressure
    Pressure is less of a traditional war flick than a satisfying chamber piece about how people use and communicate information when the stakes are sky high and groupthink is kicking in.
  15. The End of It
    It’s a striking debut from writer-director Maria Martinez Bayona with a fearless performance from Hall, as Claire rebels against convention and reflects on her life.
  16. Moulin
    Director László Nemes (Son of Saul) returns to World War II to force two real-life foes – French Resistance chief Jean Moulin and Nazi interrogator Klaus Barbie – into a grim dance macabre in this elegant and viscerally intense wartime thriller.
  17. Minotaur
    Zvyagintsev has made another remarkable film full of moral clarity that will get up the nose of all the right people. He may just be the greatest Russian filmmaker since Tarkovsky, and he’s definitely the ballsiest.
  18. I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
    Overall, though, this is a timely drama from a director with a growing canon of eloquent humanist work – a melancholy torch song to the stories that play out beneath our changing skylines.
  19. Bitter Christmas
    Bitter Christmas finds the Spaniard at his most raw and introspective – looking inwards and not entirely enjoying what he finds.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Finding Emily
    Alicia MacDonald’s Finding Emily is a charming and heartfelt romcom that explores what happens when the ‘what if?’ goes too far.
  21. The Beloved
    The Beloved is a fabulous film about filmmaking, and an astute and hard-hitting one about family dynamics. It’s also a great argument that the two should be kept apart at all times.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    All of a Sudden
    At heart, it is about the importance of nurturing relationships, an ode to decent people doing the best they can for others.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Romería
    It’s a bold tilt into magical realism, but the effect is never jarring – rather, it’s a moving capstone to a film which argues that the act of remembering is itself a form of magic.
  24. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
    Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is a meta horror-comedy and a whip-smart entertainment industry satire. Still, on a deeper level, in a hole at the bottom of its lake, is a hard-won sexual awakening.
  25. Fatherland
    Fatherland is an elegant, engrossing film; chilly at times, but also poignant as repressed feelings finally bubble to the surface. This is another expansive, enriching work from a modern master.
  26. Obsession
    Perhaps it isn’t such a terrible thing to remind us that this is, essentially, just a dark exercise in genre: a romcom gone horribly, upsettingly wrong. In this sense – and we suspect Barker would take this as a huge compliment – Obsession is the worst date movie imaginable.
  27. Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D)
    Apart from the confetti-cannon finale, this isn’t the hackneyed stereoscopic where things burst through the screen, but an immersive front row and on-stage spot at Billie Eilish’s 2025 world tour.
  28. The Devil Wears Prada 2
    The Devil Wears Prada 2 is one of those nice surprises, a so-called legacy sequel made with love and executed with flair. Think Top Gun: Maverick with better hats.
  29. Kim Novak's Vertigo
    The timelines fuzzy (it’s difficult to discern when she actually left movies behind) and other personal details are scant, but what shines through is the obvious affection between interviewer and subject. It’s a rapport that engenders an engrossing, conversational tribute to a mostly unsung great.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Normal
    Admittedly, the dialogue could be sharper – a few too many zingers zonk out – but Normal goes about its carnage with such sincerity, it’s impossible to resist.
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