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For 6,373 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: 61
Highest review score: 100 Pain and Glory
Lowest review score: 0 Surf Nazis Must Die
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,476 out of 6373
  2. Mixed: 3,422 out of 6373
  3. Negative: 475 out of 6373
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Invisible Man
    The real strengths of the movie are John P Fulton's remarkable special effects (Rains removing his bandages to reveal nothing, footsteps appearing as if by magic in the snow), lending much-needed conviction to the blatant fantasy; and the fact that we never see the scientist without his bandages until the very end of the film.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Amadeus
    he entire cast speaks in horribly intrusive American accents, but Forman makes some perceptive connections between Mozart's life and work.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Long Goodbye
    Despite cries of outrage from hard-line Chandler purists, this is, along with Hawks' The Big Sleep, easily the most intelligent of all screen adaptations of the writer's work.
  4. Cairo Station
    It's a strikingly controlled, confident, bitingly effective display, which leaves you wondering where this film has been all our lives.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
    The centrepiece of Ford's cavalry trilogy (flanked by Fort Apache and Rio Grande) and a film of both elegiac sentiment and occasionally over-eloquent sentimentality, structured around a series of ritual incidents rather than narrative conflicts.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Imitation of Life
    Forget those who decry the '50s Hollywood melodrama; it is through the conventions of that hyper-emotional genre that Sirk is able to make such a devastatingly embittered and pessimistic movie.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Pain and Glory
    Almodóvar fills this poignant tapestry of recollections with bold colours and infuses them with emotional detail. It’s a deeply intimate experience and it’ll pierce your heart.
  8. Russian Ark
    The best style has a purpose to it, and Russian Ark, in its hypnotic, endless swirl, gets at a deep truth of the post-Soviet psyche, haunted by its legacy of czarist rule and Stalin-era sacrifice. The film is a sad home for ghosts.
  9. Eraserhead
    Eraserhead is a singular work of the imagination, a harrowing, heartbreaking plunge into the darkest recesses of the soul.
  10. Withnail and I
    The wit is sharp . . . and the lament to times past, friendships gone and experiences lost is affecting.
  11. Return to Seoul
    This captivating story of diaspora is a quiet gem.
  12. The Velvet Underground
    If you already love the Velvet Underground, this is two hours of visual and aural bliss. If you don’t, same.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Medium Cool
    A fascinating though not wholly successful fusion of cinéma-vérité and political radicalism.
  14. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
    McQuarrie also builds on the last film’s self-aware level of wit and, most importantly, its set-piece-crafting sophistication. No action sequence is allowed to peter out, or be chopped to ribbons in the edit, or lean on the crutch of CG augmentation.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    F for Fake
    For all its nods, winks and witty asides, it’s a richly personal work, picking over the questions every creative artist must eventually ask: Am I ‘for real’? Does it matter? And what is all this work worth, anyway?
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cléo from 5 to 7
    Quietly touching and profound, it epitomises the youthful delight Varda always shows for the tools at her disposal and her sensitive and easeful way of expressing the sways and shifts of life, love and desire.
  17. Level Five
    By using Laura as an avatar, Marker actually helps us see the visuals and their knotty meanings much more clearly. The more we watch, the more Laura softens, until — in a mind-bending conceit — her very status as a fictional creation is called into question. The effect is ecstatic.
  18. Robot Dreams
    Berger doesn’t make concessions for the easily teary: Robot Dreams is a film as much about separation as togetherness. But while the final reel is a low-key heartbreaker, the bubble never pops on the loveliness of what came before.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Jane
    The story itself is fascinating. And for any wannabe explorers out there, there’s joy to be found in hearing about how one woman fulfilled her wildest childhood dream.
  20. We Are the Best!
    The most gratifying thing about the film is feeling Moodysson’s warmth return to him.
  21. Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
    Scorsese’s doc appears like one thing but sounds like another. It totally gets it.
  22. About Endlessness
    It’s smaller in scale than his last two, 2014’s A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence and 2007’s You, the Living. It also has a more maudlin air to it overall than those others – which, if you’ve experienced their bleak absurdity, you’ll know is saying something.
  23. Portrait of Jason (re-release)
    You could spend a lifetime peeling the glass onion of Shirley Clarke’s merciless documentary, in which a born performer drops incinerating truth bombs while putting the con in confessional moviemaking.
  24. Nomadland
    This could all easily come over as hippie-dippie or hectoring, but it’s neither. As with her last film The Rider, a western masterpiece in its own right, Zhao is so expert at stitching together realism, moments of sheer transcendence and a lightly-worn radicalism in a way that feels nothing but unpatronising and empathetic.
  25. Lincoln
    Defiantly intellectual, complex and true to the shifting winds of real-world governance, Lincoln is not the movie that this election season has earned-but one that a more perfect union can aspire to.
  26. Elena
    Rarely do movies-never mind foreign ones, of any nationality - explore an honest-to-God ethical quandary. Elena, in its concentrated austerity, often resembles a lost chapter of Krzysztof Kieslowski's Ten Commandments–themed Decalogue.
  27. All Is Lost
    Redford, already a giant, has never been more suggestive. His character’s misadventure — might be a kind of cosmic penance. It’s the salvation of the moviegoing year.
  28. The Banshees of Inisherin
    What makes it work so well, aside from a rollickingly funny but never smirky McDonagh script that arms every member of its small ensemble with killer moments, is the reuniting of In Bruges’s two leads, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson.
  29. Love & Friendship
    The story is a little slight compared to the grand romantic ache of Pride and Prejudice, but Beckinsale and Stillman do their inspiration proud: Finally, a Jane Austen movie that's fresh and deliciously rotten at the same time.
  30. Hereditary
    A harrowing story of unthinkable family tragedy that veers into the realm of the supernatural, Hereditary takes its place as a new generation's The Exorcist—for some, it will spin heads even more savagely.
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