Criticker: Recent Ratings https://www.criticker.com/ A list of all the films CineMat has rated at Criticker, ordered by rating date Sat, 24 Oct 2026 19:45:12 +0000 en Ein Lied geht um die Welt (1933) - 70 - 24 Oct 2026 https://www.criticker.com/film/Ein-Lied-geht-um-die/ Ein-Lied-geht-um-die-cinemat Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 CineMat gave Ein Lied geht um die Welt a rating of 70 Ein Lied geht um die Welt24 Oct 2026
Ein Lied geht um die Welt (1933)

Rating: 70
Percentile: 20
Review: It is impossible to watch Ein Lied geht um die Welt detached from the historical moment of its creation. Premiering in May 1933, the film stands under the dark shadow of the fate awaiting its star, the tenor Joseph Schmidt, who was forced to flee Germany shortly after the release, descending into a spiral of persecution, misery, and early death solely because of his Jewish heritage. Blessed with a magnificent, soaring lyric tenor voice, Schmidt...
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]]> White Heat (1949) - 70 - 24 Oct 2026 https://www.criticker.com/film/White-Heat/ White-Heat-cinemat Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 CineMat gave White Heat a rating of 70 White Heat24 Oct 2026
White Heat (1949)

Rating: 70
Percentile: 20
Review: On the surface, White Heat plays like a conventional, almost shallow police procedural. Yet beneath this formulaic crime framework lies a deeply unsettling psychological portrait driven by a constant, simmering dread: the fear of sudden, unpredictable violence. At the center of this tension is James Cagney’s Cody Jarrett, a gangster boss who isn't a calculating criminal, but a volatile psychopath plagued by debilitating migraines. Cagney plays h...
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]]> The Others (2001) - 100 - 24 Oct 2026 https://www.criticker.com/film/The-Others/ The-Others-cinemat Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 CineMat gave The Others a rating of 100 The Others24 Oct 2026
The Others (2001)

Rating: 100
Percentile: 72.8571
Review: The dread never relies on loud cheap shocks or flashy jump scares. Instead, it creeps up from behind in absolute silence, settling over you like cold damp fog and making the hairs on the back of your neck stand straight up. The Others defies easy categorization: it is no ordinary thriller, nor is it merely conventional horror. Rather, it unfolds as a pure, spellbinding Gothic mystery, a claustrophobic psychological drama drenched in creeping...
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]]> Die Ratten (1955) - 80 - 24 Oct 2026 https://www.criticker.com/film/Die-Ratten/ Die-Ratten-cinemat Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 CineMat gave Die Ratten a rating of 80 Die Ratten24 Oct 2026
Die Ratten (1955)

Rating: 80
Percentile: 32.8571
Review: An outstanding highlight of post-war German cinema, Die Ratten avoids the shallow, safe nonsense churned out under Allied occupation. Instead, it dives straight into raw, dirty social criticism, tackling morality head-on to expose the inner tear between humanity's darkest instincts and its best intentions. The performances feel closer to intense stage theater than light movie entertainment, packed with unapologetic drama and emotional weight....
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]]> Parasite (2019) - 40 - 24 Oct 2026 https://www.criticker.com/film/Parasite-2019/ Parasite-2019-cinemat Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 CineMat gave Parasite a rating of 40 Parasite24 Oct 2026
Parasite (2019)

Rating: 40
Percentile: 5.7143
Review: Despite the mountain of universal acclaim and historic trophies, Parasite reveals itself less as a profound cinematic triumph and more as an exercise in manufactured prestige. While its setup might have worked as a quirky, mildly inventive television project, as a major international release it offers remarkably little reason to exist. There is no genuine depth beneath the surface and no compelling drama once the initial gimmick is spent; the...
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]]> The Fugitive (1993) - 100 - 24 Oct 2026 https://www.criticker.com/film/The-Fugitive-1993/ The-Fugitive-1993-cinemat Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 CineMat gave The Fugitive a rating of 100 The Fugitive24 Oct 2026
The Fugitive (1993)

Rating: 100
Percentile: 72.8571
Review: While the world remembers Harrison Ford as the swaggering space smuggler or the whip-cracking archaeologist, The Fugitive captures the true core of his screen persona: the ordinary, civilized man violently stripped of all safety, fighting his way through an impossible nightmare. Adapted from the iconic 1960s television series, Andrew Davis’s thriller works through its relentless narrative engine, driven entirely by Dr. Richard Kimble’s desperate ...
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]]> Catch a Fire (2006) - 90 - 24 Oct 2026 https://www.criticker.com/film/Catch-a-Fire/ Catch-a-Fire-cinemat Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 CineMat gave Catch a Fire a rating of 90 Catch a Fire24 Oct 2026
Catch a Fire (2006)

Rating: 90
Percentile: 42.8571
Review: Arriving somewhat late to the post-apartheid cinematic canon, Catch a Fire attempts to dramatize South Africa’s tumultuous transformation into the "Rainbow Nation," yet it does so wrapped in an ideological compromise that feels distinctly sanitized. At its center lies the quintessential modern prototype: the steadfast, dutiful white Afrikaner, in this case, Tim Robbins’ Security Branch officer Nic Vos, who is framed as fundamentally moral, dev...
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]]> Spy Game (2001) - 90 - 24 Oct 2026 https://www.criticker.com/film/Spy-Game/ Spy-Game-cinemat Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 CineMat gave Spy Game a rating of 90 Spy Game24 Oct 2026
Spy Game (2001)

Rating: 90
Percentile: 42.8571
Review: Yet, politically and ideologically, the film is almost shockingly brazen. It oozes an unvarnished American self-assurance, treating the entire globe as a playground for CIA chess maneuvers. It is soaked in an old-fashioned, thoroughly chauvinistic worldview where geopolitical conflicts, from the jungles of Vietnam to war-torn 1980s Beirut, exist largely as a romantic backdrop for male camaraderie and bureaucratic gamesmanship. There is something...
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]]> Trainspotting (1996) - 100 - 24 Oct 2026 https://www.criticker.com/film/Trainspotting/ Trainspotting-cinemat Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 CineMat gave Trainspotting a rating of 100 Trainspotting24 Oct 2026
Trainspotting (1996)

Rating: 100
Percentile: 72.8571
Review: It is almost impossible to write about Trainspotting without tripping over the usual cultural debris: the opening sprint to Iggy Pop, the heroin squalor, the gritty Edinburgh slang, and the endless nostalgia for mid-90s cool. Everything that can be said about its soundtrack, its rebellion, and its tragedy has already been cataloged. Yet reducing the film to its drug-fueled despair or pop-cultural zeitgeist misses why it still hits with the force...
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]]> In Fabric (2018) - 80 - 24 Oct 2026 https://www.criticker.com/film/In-Fabric/ In-Fabric-cinemat Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 CineMat gave In Fabric a rating of 80 In Fabric24 Oct 2026
In Fabric (2018)

Rating: 80
Percentile: 32.8571
Review: On paper, the premise sounds like something lifted straight from a 1980s B-movie: an ostensibly cursed, blood-red dress terrorizes anyone unfortunate enough to wear it. In less capable hands, this would have devolved into trashy, throwaway schlock. Yet under Peter Strickland’s singular direction, In Fabric transforms what could have been absurd silliness into a cinematic masterpiece. Rather than relying on conventional storytelling, the film o...
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]]> Indien (1993) - 100 - 24 Oct 2026 https://www.criticker.com/film/Indien/ Indien-cinemat Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 CineMat gave Indien a rating of 100 Indien24 Oct 2026
Indien (1993)

Rating: 100
Percentile: 72.8571
Review: Indien is, quite simply, pure Fremdscham (the excruciating sensation of vicarious embarrassment when watching someone humiliate themselves without realizing it) put on film. What begins as an almost painful study in petty provincialism slowly reveals itself as one of the most remarkably touching, wickedly funny road movies in European cinema. The setup introduces us to two archetypes of lower-tier Austrian bureaucracy: Heinzi Bösel (Josef ...
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]]> The Bellboy (1960) - 10 - 24 Oct 2026 https://www.criticker.com/film/The-Bellboy/ The-Bellboy-cinemat Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 CineMat gave The Bellboy a rating of 10 The Bellboy24 Oct 2026
The Bellboy (1960)

Rating: 10
Percentile: 1.4286
Review: Shot on a shoestring budget as a hurried side project, Jerry Lewis’s directorial debut frustratingly squanders a brilliant mistaken-identity premise in which he plays both a mute bellboy and himself, trading a cohesive screenplay and narrative momentum for a tedious, fragmented string of standalone slapstick sketches only worth the time of die-hard completists.
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]]> Absolute Giganten (1999) - 100 - 24 Oct 2026 https://www.criticker.com/film/Absolute-Giganten/ Absolute-Giganten-cinemat Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 CineMat gave Absolute Giganten a rating of 100 Absolute Giganten24 Oct 2026
Absolute Giganten (1999)

Rating: 100
Percentile: 72.8571
Review: Turning nocturnal, industrial Hamburg into a fourth main character, this deeply personal and nostalgic tale of one last night together captures the understated melancholy of youth and slipping freedom through quiet glances, table football, and late-night drives, carrying an extra layer of familiarity for me through a scene at the AK Wandsbek emergency department where I worked countless shifts.
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]]> Chungking Express (1994) - 100 - 24 Oct 2026 https://www.criticker.com/film/Chungking-Express/ Chungking-Express-cinemat Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 CineMat gave Chungking Express a rating of 100 Chungking Express24 Oct 2026
Chungking Express (1994)

Rating: 100
Percentile: 72.8571
Review: Drifting through fleeting encounters and lonely nights in pre-handover 1990s Hong Kong, Wong Kar-wai’s spontaneous, scriptless approach skips conventional plot and deep philosophy in favor of eccentric, lovable characters and fragmented memories that make this captivating time capsule feel like an intimate, nostalgic family album.
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]]> The Blues Brothers (1980) - 100 - 24 Oct 2026 https://www.criticker.com/film/The-Blues-Brothers/ The-Blues-Brothers-cinemat Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 CineMat gave The Blues Brothers a rating of 100 The Blues Brothers24 Oct 2026
The Blues Brothers (1980)

Rating: 100
Percentile: 72.8571
Review: Truly earning its cult status through pure, unapologetic excess, this high-octane musical epic disguised as a demolition derby serves as a monumental shrine to American soul and blues, carried by the ferocious physical genius of John Belushi and seismic musical set pieces from legends like Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, and James Brown.
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]]> Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) - 100 - 24 Oct 2026 https://www.criticker.com/film/Fear-and-Loathing-in-Las/ Fear-and-Loathing-in-Las-cinemat Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 CineMat gave Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas a rating of 100 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas24 Oct 2026
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

Rating: 100
Percentile: 72.8571
Review: Less a conventional road movie than a feverish audiovisual nightmare, Terry Gilliam’s adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s Gonzo masterpiece immerses the audience in a manic drug trip whose endless chemical excess reflects how the promised liberation of 1960s counterculture deteriorated into pure self-destruction.
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]]> 23 (1998) - 100 - 24 Oct 2026 https://www.criticker.com/film/23-1998/ 23-1998-cinemat Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 CineMat gave 23 a rating of 100 2324 Oct 2026
23 (1998)

Rating: 100
Percentile: 72.8571
Review: Authentically capturing the spirit of mid-1980s West Germany and the early computer revolution, this gripping psychological thriller dismantles the republic's self-important Cold War posturing as a mere superpower pawn that ultimately crushes an idealistic young hacker consumed by drug-induced paranoia.
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]]> 99 francs (2007) - 100 - 24 Oct 2026 https://www.criticker.com/film/99-francs/ 99-francs-cinemat Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 CineMat gave 99 francs a rating of 100 99 francs24 Oct 2026
99 francs (2007)

Rating: 100
Percentile: 72.8571
Review: 99 Francs is a vicious, electrifying demolition of the turn-of-the-millennium advertising industry, hitting with the genuine insider authenticity of creative director Frédéric Beigbeder’s kamikaze novel. More than just satire, it is a brutal takedown of a cocaine-fueled, cynical machine that commodifies human emotion and reduces love, rebellion, and ideals to raw consumerism. It remains one of the sharpest, most uncompromising portraits of corporate moral decay ever put to film.
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]]> Underground (1995) - 100 - 24 Oct 2026 https://www.criticker.com/film/Underground-1995/ Underground-1995-cinemat Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 CineMat gave Underground a rating of 100 Underground24 Oct 2026
Underground (1995)

Rating: 100
Percentile: 72.8571
Review: Pure, unbridled cinematic chaos, this tragicomic masterpiece by Kusturica distills decades of Yugoslav history into an intoxicating rollercoaster of emotions. Driven by Goran Bregović’s frantic Balkan brass, it thrives on sensory overload and raw poetic madness, shifting from drunken brawls to heartbreaking despair. Fearlessly embracing the absurd, it mourns the collapse of a nation through anarchic celebration, standing as a monumental epic that grabs you by the collar and never lets go.
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]]> Night on Earth (1991) - 100 - 24 Oct 2026 https://www.criticker.com/film/Night-on-Earth/ Night-on-Earth-cinemat Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 CineMat gave Night on Earth a rating of 100 Night on Earth24 Oct 2026
Night on Earth (1991)

Rating: 100
Percentile: 72.8571
Review: One of my all-time favorites, this poetic anthology brings together titans like Winona Ryder, Gena Rowlands, Roberto Benigni, Armin Müller-Stahl, and Matti Pellonpää with an effortless, raw brilliance that transcends simple indie labels. Unfolding simultaneously across five cities in the surreal vacuum between 4:00 AM and sunrise, each absurd vignette adapts seamlessly to the soul and humor of its location. Intimate, hilarious, heartbreaking, and deeply authentic, it is simply magnificent cinema
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]]> Ein Engel auf Erden (1959) - 60 - 24 Oct 2026 https://www.criticker.com/film/Ein-Engel-auf-Erden/ Ein-Engel-auf-Erden-cinemat Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 CineMat gave Ein Engel auf Erden a rating of 60 Ein Engel auf Erden24 Oct 2026
Ein Engel auf Erden (1959)

Rating: 60
Percentile: 11.4286
Review: Carried almost entirely by Romy Schneider’s effortless grace, this ideologically dated 1950s rom-com has aged poorly into a cultural artifact where a selfless angel must literally surrender herself to mend the fragile ego of a vain, childish man.
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]]> The Odyssey (2026) - 40 - 24 Oct 2026 https://www.criticker.com/film/The-Odyssey-2026/ The-Odyssey-2026-cinemat Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 CineMat gave The Odyssey a rating of 40 The Odyssey24 Oct 2026
The Odyssey (2026)

Rating: 40
Percentile: 5.7143
Review: A sprawling beast of a film, at times tough as old leather, this latest retelling of the Odyssey demands real stamina from its audience. It is a brooding chunk of cinema with stretches that unquestionably drag, yet something curious happens along the way: even though every twist of this mythic tale has been etched into collective memory for millennia, you still find yourself watching the screen to see how it unfolds. To call the narrative...
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]]> The Tiger and the Snow (2005) - 100 - 24 Oct 2026 https://www.criticker.com/film/The-Tiger-and-the-Snow/ The-Tiger-and-the-Snow-cinemat Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 CineMat gave The Tiger and the Snow a rating of 100 The Tiger and the Snow24 Oct 2026
The Tiger and the Snow (2005)

Rating: 100
Percentile: 72.8571
Review: Allowing Roberto Benigni’s unique warmth and absurdity to weave comedy and tragedy together amidst the brutality of war, this deeply moving love story stands as a powerful appeal to sacrifice everything for unconditional devotion and oppose the world's inhumanity with the most human thing we have.
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]]> La Haine (1995) - 100 - 24 Oct 2026 https://www.criticker.com/film/La-Haine/ La-Haine-cinemat Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 CineMat gave La Haine a rating of 100 La Haine24 Oct 2026
La Haine (1995)

Rating: 100
Percentile: 72.8571
Review: A brutal and uncompromising social study of the Parisian banlieues, the film follows a marginalized underclass condemned in advance and coping with a permanent state of crisis beneath a constant sense of impending disaster. Driven by outstanding performances and unsentimental direction that never loses its empathy, it captures social exclusion, police hostility, and the cycle of violence with raw, deeply human force. Decades later, it still feels disturbingly current.
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]]> Kleiner Mann - was nun? (1967) - 100 - 24 Oct 2026 https://www.criticker.com/tv/Kleiner-Mann-was-nun/ Kleiner-Mann-was-nun-cinemat Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 CineMat gave Kleiner Mann - was nun? a rating of 100 Kleiner Mann - was nun?24 Oct 2026
Kleiner Mann - was nun? (1967)

Rating: 100
Percentile: 72.8571
Review: This East German DEFA production is a remarkable piece of social romanticism that places the moral case for socialism firmly at its center. Its emotional power comes from the heartbreaking contrast between the modest dreams of ordinary, decent people wanting to live with dignity and the brutal logic of capitalism that gradually erodes them. Openly ideological yet genuinely humane, it is a deeply sympathetic social fable whose socialist pull is impossible to resist without missing the very heart
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