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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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  1. Nickel Boys
    This is Ross’s first fiction feature and its power comes as no surprise to those familiar with his 2018 calling card of a documentary. Hale County, This Morning This Evening announced a gifted photographer driven by sensitivity to his subjects’ dignity. Accordingly, Nickel Boys miraculously goes against the grain of the story’s devastating trajectory by leading with the same loving eye.
  2. Jackie
    Jackie pummels you with grandeur, with its epic visions of the funeral and that terrible moment in the convertible (all of it rendered in pitch-perfect detail and a subtle 16-millimeter shudder). Yet the film's lasting impact is dazzlingly intellectual: Just as JFK himself turned politics into image-making, his wife continued his work when no one else could.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    They Cloned Tyrone
    Far from a clone of its Blaxploitation predecessors, Taylor’s exhilarating debut taps into the conspiracy theorist within us all.
  4. The Power of the Dog
    Campion reveals her characters slowly, drawing out crucial details that we should have seen all along with a subtly that will make repeat watches richly rewarding. It’s a triumph. A ten-year wait for her next film would be too much.
  5. Nightcrawler
    Gilroy, vastly supported by cinematographer and Los Angeles specialist Robert Elswit (Boogie Nights, Magnolia), directs with the verve of a seasoned pro, even though Nightcrawler is his debut.
  6. 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.
  7. Escape from New York
    The pleasures are right in your face, beginning with the million-dollar idea of turning NYC into a walled-off prison where criminals run free. Even born-and-raised New Yorkers (of which Carpenter was decidedly not) could smile at that histrionic setup; it’s an outsider’s joke made funny by our willingness to be entertained.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Incredible Shrinking Man
    Not merely the best of Arnold's classic sci-fi movies of the '50s, but one of the finest films ever made in that genre.
  9. Possession
    There are plenty of movies which seem to have been made by madmen. Possession may be the only film in existence which is itself mad: unpredictable, horrific, its moments of terrifying lucidity only serving to highlight the staggering derangement at its core. Extreme but essential viewing.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Bride of Frankenstein
    Whale's most perfectly realised movie, a delight from start to finish.
  11. My Uncle
    The comic jabs — Tati makes brilliant use of a gaudy, gurgling fish fountain — never overwhelm the humanity of these disparate characters. [09 Sep 2010, Issue#780]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Aristocats
    The ersatz Parisian atmosphere, circa 1910, is a wonder. As Scatman Crothers has it: 'Everybody's picking up the feline beat, 'cos everything else is ob-so-lete!' Purr-fect.
  13. The Piano Teacher
    Ambitious, profoundly articulate, and despite its avoidance of sentimentality and sermonising, very compassionate.
  14. The Room Next Door
    The hot Latin lovers have been replaced by pink snow, and the homoeroticism has been dialled down, but this is Almodóvar’s America and it’s a delight.
  15. The Brutalist
    The Brutalist is a major work of art that asks something from its audience but gives back in spades.
  16. The Substance
    The tone is incredibly specific – darkly funny, exuberant, sad and enraged – and the small cast nails it.
  17. The Naked Gun
    In the thick of reboot culture, The Naked Gun is a prime example of filmmakers taking a nostalgic piece of cinema and making good on its legacy. It honours the humour above all, and you’d be hard-pushed to find a funnier film this year.
  18. Wild Grass
    Alain Resnais's mind-bending new feature.
  19. The Velvet Underground
    If you already love the Velvet Underground, this is two hours of visual and aural bliss. If you don’t, same.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Monsters, Inc.
    It's unfailingly lively entertainment that doesn't stint on (earned) feeling. Ideas about fear of the unknown, industrial corruption, and the splendours of polymorphity are all taken in stride. The balance tilts towards action and gags, and does them gloriously.
  21. My Neighbor Totoro
    An animated achievement almost without parallel.
  22. Midsommar
    A savage yet evolved slice of Swedish folk-horror, Ari Aster's hallucinatory follow-up to Hereditary proves him a horror director with no peer.
  23. Brief Encounter
    David Lean's wondrous romance, adapted from Noel Coward's story, is one of the most emotionally devastating movies of all time.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Cry-Baby
    Replete with a thumpingly good soundtrack mixing old standards with modern pastiches, this is Waters' finest film to date, a worthy successor to Hairspray which exudes teen angst and young lust from every pore...Seriously sexy stuff.
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