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For 6,370 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: 2,473 out of 6370
  2. Mixed: 3,422 out of 6370
  3. Negative: 475 out of 6370
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  1. Dark Phoenix
    It’s not nearly as good as Logan or X2, but it’s a whole lot better than the eyeball-poking affliction that was X-Men: Apocalypse. On the flipside, it still feels like a fairly pointless retread of Chris Claremont and John Byrne’s The Dark Phoenix Saga, which we’ve already seen (and hated) in Brett Ratner’s 2006 disaster X-Men: The Last Stand.
  2. In Fabric
    Enveloping you in its vintage folds, Peter Strickland's hypnotic horror film turns fashion into a death sentence.
  3. Domino
    When De Palma started taking himself too seriously—circa Casualties of War—is when he lost the thread. His genius was always in voluptuous nonsense. He needs to drop the politics and get back to baby carriages.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Lighthouse
    The Lighthouse leaves you dazed, terrified and elated, and it signals Eggers as one of the most exciting directors working today.
  5. Ma
    When Ma breaks bad, it breaks bad hard, with some real wince-inducing moments of bodily harm.
  6. Godzilla: King of the Monsters
    Connoisseurs will thrill to hints of composer Akira Ifukube’s original orchestra motifs or the passing mention of an “oxygen destroyer,” but mourn the lack of political stakes. It’s big dumb fun (a sequel with King Kong is on the horizon), and maybe that’s what these sequels always were.
  7. Diego Maradona
    Diego Maradona has the football and the drugs – think Scarface with screamers – but it’s a surprisingly emotional ride too. In the spirit of all good docs, it’ll make you reappraise your feelings about the man and the myths around him.
  8. The Whistlers
    The Whistlers has a tonne of pulpy circuit-breakers – look out for a hilarious ‘Psycho’ tribute – to remind you not to take it all too seriously. Hitchcock would have approved.
  9. Young Ahmed
    Young Ahmed might not have answers, but it asks pertinent questions and makes acute observations. Its ending is hopeful, yet open. It’s a wise and sensitive contribution to a timely debate.
  10. Les Misérables
    It’s a hugely impressive debut and visually arresting from first to last.
  11. Little Joe
    Gardening has never been so creepy.
  12. Bacurau
    Maybe the film loses its head a bit at this point too, with its deeper message lost in the epic bloodshed, but the chances are you’ll be having too much fun to mind.
  13. Atlantics
    Diop tackles serious issues in the framework of a touching and romantic drama with intriguing sways into genre territory, leaving the viewer much like Ada: a little confused, but oddly bewitched.
  14. Sorry We Missed You
    What’s different is the detail with which Loach and his collaborators examine the effects of work and society on the nuclear family.
    • 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.
  16. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
    It’s deeply romantic and also deeply thoughtful – an electric combination.
  17. Parasite
    It’s rare for a movie to combine cinematic fireworks and social commentary in quite the thrilling and mischievous way that Korean director Bong Joon-ho manages with Parasite.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Black Coal, Thin Ice
    Black Coal, Thin Ice may well floor some viewers, as it did the Berlin jury. But others will find it too obtuse and remote, its characters too withdrawn to be relatable. See it, though, for those fleeting, unforgettable visual touches.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Aladdin
    When Aladdin gets it right, it propels you high on a magic-carpet ride. But the odd bum note thrusts you straight out of Arabia and back into your cinema seat.
  20. Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood
    It sits at the mature end of Tarantino’s work, bringing his tongue-in-cheek storytelling together with exquisite craft and killer lead performances from Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio. And yet, it’s still very much a Tarantino film, trading in genuine emotion one minute, unapolegetically silly the next.
  21. The Wild Goose Lake
    The story itself, a twisty, hard-to-keep-track-of tale of revenge and double and triples crosses, is not especially remarkable. But that barely matters when there’s such virtuoso image-making on display.
  22. A Hidden Life
    Diehl and Pachner are both terrific, mastering Malick’s improvisational style and bringing earthy authenticity to its playful family moments.
  23. Beats
    It’s absolutely a period piece (heightened by being in black and white), but its humanity is ageless, serving up an irresistible amount of thrills, spills and jaw-aches.
  24. Rocketman
    If there’s one thing Rocketman does have in common with Bohemian Rhapsody, it’s a commanding central performance.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Slaughterhouse Rulez
    Mills stages the B-movie mayhem with gleeful abandon and geysers of blood.
  26. The Dead Don't Die
    For all its inspired moments, this is a movie content to coast on the charms of its terrific cast of comedic actors. Welcome to Night of the Living Deadpan.
  27. Booksmart
    Actor-turned-director Olivia Wilde (shockingly, this is her behind-the-camera feature debut) shows off something rarer than technique or comic timing. She’s got loads of compassion and has somehow managed to make a high-school movie without villains.
  28. Arctic
    Mikkelsen is endlessly compelling.
  29. John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
    We’re here for the rigorously conceived, blessedly coherent action showdowns, the work of director Chad Stahelski.
  30. The Hustle
    Seriously missing the memo in a cringe-inducing way, The Hustle takes a perfectly fine premise from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels—two predatory men get played by a savvier woman—and obliterates it by swapping genders and ultimately selling out its feminist credibility.
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