Total Film's Scores
- Movies
For 2,045 reviews, this publication has graded:
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61% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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35% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.9 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 69
| Highest review score: | Predator: Killer of Killers | |
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| Lowest review score: | Sir Billi |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,054 out of 2045
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Mixed: 953 out of 2045
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Negative: 38 out of 2045
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Snowden proves surprisingly sympathetic. His intentions appear to have no subtext, but sadly neither does the doc; the irony of an infodump approach to mass surveillance goes disappointingly unexploited.- Total Film
- Posted Jan 9, 2015
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Neil Smith
Reichardt and Williams reunite to muted effect to create a portrait of an artist that feels a little unfinished.- Total Film
- Posted May 27, 2022
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Matt Maytum
Spielberg lovingly restages the classic musical – but while the songs still soar, it feels more indulgent than essential.- Total Film
- Posted Dec 2, 2021
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A visually stunning directorial debut that’s too intimidated by the original source material to be effective.- Total Film
- Posted Feb 2, 2021
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Philip Kemp
Anders Danielsen Lie gives a compelling, deep-etched lead turn, and you'll find yourself drawn in as he searches for a reason to continue living.- Total Film
- Posted May 21, 2012
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Matt Glasby
Like an arthouse Ghost, this is bold, original filmmaking with a pervasive sense of amused detachment.- Total Film
- Posted Aug 15, 2017
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Matt Glasby
All politics and posturing, the first two-thirds of the film are stiff and uninvolving, and although the climatic 45-minute free-for-all is genuinely spectacular, it’s clear where the director’s heart lies.- Total Film
- Posted Aug 16, 2016
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Jane Crowther
Filmmaker Azazel Jacobs follows up the highly mannered (and highly strung) French Exit (2020) with a slow-burn study of sibling rivalry, parental mortality and the ties that bind.- Total Film
- Posted Sep 9, 2024
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Matt Maytum
This solid if unspectacular finish to the Apes trilogy features an A-game Andy Serkis and incredible VFX, but its darker excesses threaten to suffocate at times.- Total Film
- Posted Jun 26, 2017
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Kate Stables
Musing on memory and machine-emotion, it echoes Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Her. But despite its fine portraits of loss, it never escapes its stage-play origins.- Total Film
- Posted Dec 7, 2017
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James Mottram
One of the strangest films you’ll see this (or any) year, it unsettles, bores, elates and amuses in equal measure. Not for everyone, but there’s plenty to chew on.- Total Film
- Posted Apr 20, 2015
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Neil Smith
The results – achieved through small cameras clipped to nets, masts and the crew – will hook some and induce seasickness in others.- Total Film
- Posted Nov 29, 2013
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Matt Maytum
Two immensely enjoyable central performances and some of the best race sequences yet filmed fuel an otherwise standard sports movie.- Total Film
- Posted Sep 12, 2019
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Russell follows "The Fighter" with a softer, soapier family dysfunction drama, lightly comic enough to make for palatable Friday-night viewing. As its nutty lovebirds, Cooper and Lawrence save Playbook from the director's surprisingly mundane impulses.- Total Film
- Posted Oct 27, 2012
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As noble as his ideals are, watching a series of interminably lengthy conversations inside a car makes for stultifying viewing. And the abrupt ending, which highlights the fictional nature of the whole enterprise, is mystifying.- Total Film
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Matt Glasby
An impressive study of guilt, responsibility and the bad things that happen to good people.- Total Film
- Posted Apr 25, 2013
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Jane Crowther
This (will’o-the-)wisp of a film is a beauty depending on the eye of the beholder; frustratingly slender yet with moments of profundity.- Total Film
- Posted Sep 6, 2022
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Matt Glasby
There are some stunning moments, such as the eerily green-screened opener, and an unsettling underwater sequence up there with Dario Argento’s Inferno. But the 145-minute runtime feels increasingly indulgent, and Bonello borrows heavily from Kubrick, Lynch and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.- Total Film
- Posted May 28, 2024
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James Mottram
Not the promised insider’s peek but Assayas and Binoche are still a potent combo, nailing the fragility of an actress facing the ageing process.- Total Film
- Posted May 12, 2015
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Matt Glasby
A sombre crimer that resists easy thrills, investing instead in grit, intelligence and complex characterisation.- Total Film
- Posted Jan 21, 2015
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Tom Dawson
Keep The Lights On feels lopsided in its focus on Erik, with Paul remaining a strangely remote object of the former's romantic devotion.- Total Film
- Posted Oct 27, 2012
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Kevin Harley
The resulting pickle may seem alien to many, but Yaron’s navigation of Shira’s struggles make it tangible.- Total Film
- Posted Dec 9, 2013
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Jane Crowther
It suffers an abrupt ending and, compared to the creativity displayed in Coppola’s other biopic, Marie Antoinette, is a more muted affair.- Total Film
- Posted Sep 4, 2023
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James Mottram
Assured, adult filmmaking from a writer/director who knows her way around the ups and downs of relationships.- Total Film
- Posted Oct 21, 2013
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- Posted Oct 4, 2023
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- Total Film
- Posted Jun 7, 2013
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James Mottram
While director Ceyda Torun lets the focus meander too much, it’ll leave you, ahem, feline good.- Total Film
- Posted Aug 11, 2017
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Neil Smith
For all its attempts to expand the original’s ensemble and embellish its themes, Dory is cod in batter beside Nemo’s smoked salmon. But still tasty.- Total Film
- Posted Jun 20, 2016
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Tom Dawson
The restlessness of the camerawork may drive you to distraction, but director/co-writer Calin Peter Netzer’s film is held steady by Gheorghiu’s staunch performance.- Total Film
- Posted Nov 3, 2013
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Writer/director Rachel Lang’s film lacks cumulative dramatic punch, its appeal rooted mainly in its easy humour.- Total Film
- Posted Nov 21, 2016
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