Total Film's Scores

  • Movies
For 2,046 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 61% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 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: 100 Predator: Killer of Killers
Lowest review score: 20 Sir Billi
Score distribution:
2046 movie reviews
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Uses all the tricks in the Final Destination book to weave an intricate thrill ride packed with jaw-dropping, gasp-inducing, laugh-out-loud moments of gory fatality. With its killer set pieces, blood-soaked spectacle and knowing nods, Bloodlines delivers a worthy addition to a well-loved horror franchise that should satisfy existing fans and garner new ones to boot.
  1. In today’s world, silence is a highly prized virtue, as this vital documentary exploring the philosophy, spirituality and practice of silence points out.
  2. Proving there’s life in the zom-com yet, Forsythe’s down under rib-tickler might just be 2019’s funniest film.
  3. A rigorous and handsome drama, finely hewn by Costner and his cast, this is an absorbing ride into the Old West.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There is some doubt as to the facts of the story (isn’t there always, with Hollywood biopics?), and Longoria hardly shakes up the biopic formula. But the result is a tasty treat that will satisfy a thirst for entertainment.
  4. If you’re willing to let a few things slide, this is one of the best family blockbusters in years. Clooney and Robertson (literally) soar, the madcap action always feels grounded and Bird’s world is bursting with visual invention.
  5. Clever, violent, and wicked, with a fabulously unhinged turn from Goth, West’s period psycho tale truly does have the X Factor.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Packed with fine performances, this attack on suburban conformity is surprising, darkly hilarious and cleverly leaves the insanity judgement to its audience.
  6. Willow Creek is a movie to believe in.
  7. More fever dream than film, Love Lies Bleeding shows that Glass is the real deal. Who knows what sights she has to show us next?
  8. With echoes of the Dardennes and Lucrecia Martel, Corpo Celeste's acute sense of place, feel for adolescent confusion and miraculous resolution suggest that Rohrwacher is a talent to watch.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Not quite the intimate parable of the first movie nor a balls-to-the-wall battlefield extravaganza, Dawn is pitched somewhere in the middle, with much of its two hour-plus running time powered by the simmering, expertly sustained tension both between and within the two species.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Forget what you think you know… The Matrix Resurrections is a twisty metanarrative anchored by a love story for the ages.
  9. “You did well!” Bening tells Driver. Writer/director Burns deserves the same praise, and more besides.
  10. A superbly detailed account of a notorious miscarriage of justice and how it was gradually unravelled. It's a tad overlong, but the passion, skill and revelations on display will captivate you.
  11. An existential flipbook and a heartbreaking black joke: stickmen have never looked so alive.
  12. With A+ acting, a solid script and sensitive handling, there’s enough here to move even the hardest of souls.
  13. Chazelle broadens his horizons with this superbly detailed account of the Moon landing. Gosling and especially Foy are out of this world.
  14. Making his feature debut after directing a couple of Pixar shorts and co-writing Inside Out, Josh Cooley proves there’s life beyond the trilogy.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The sight of SPECTRE’s alligator-jawed spacecraft, its maw opening like an evil steel bloom, is one of the single most brilliant visuals in the Bond canon.
  15. Marshalling formidable technique and force of feeling, Bayona's tale of courage and empathy in the face of catastrophe fulfils his debut's promise, its harrowing conviction hammered home even harder by the spot-on casting.
  16. This is an impactful and at times profound film, with a hauntingly lovely turn from Sandler.
  17. Al-Mansour carefully dodges easy uplift, but her message of hope to future generations of Saudi women is clear.
  18. Bleak as a morgue, even more brutal than the play, Kurzel’s stark psycho-drama can’t unseat its source, but is still mighty screen Shakespeare.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Thankfully, the Russos imbue the often grim proceedings with the right amounts of light and levity to keep you gripped. Meanwhile, the subversive humor peppered throughout lends an anarchic energy that entertains as well as it moves.
  19. With a string of gratifying action sequences, and a breakneck pace leavened by a frequently witty script, The Winter Soldier stands alone as a solidly entertaining blockbuster.
  20. Their wry, odd-couple chemistry is comfortingly familiar, but kept fresh by an insouciant realism that deftly avoids exotic cliché.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An engrossing, influential movie, which screams to be watched on the big screen. Few films will provoke your thoughts so fiercely.
  21. Impressively designed throughout, The Unbeatables also keeps the laughs kicking.
  22. Cruise is on top form in a based-on-fact thriller that overcomes its familiar trappings with audacious details and flat-out pacing.

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