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For 1,771 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 48% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 71
Highest review score: 100 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Lowest review score: 20 Victoria and Abdul
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,013 out of 1771
  2. Mixed: 727 out of 1771
  3. Negative: 31 out of 1771
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  1. April's Daughter
    Franco has a hardlined style and a kind of story that play like an apprentice Haneke. However, as each film arrives, the power diminishes, because the stories are now easily predictable.
  2. The Square
    There is much to enjoy here - especially at the beginning - and Östlund's ambition and vision are to be applauded. However, The Square would have been greatly improved had the director taken his scalpel and his demanding critical eye and applied it to the film itself.
  3. Whisky Galore!
    A dry and surprisingly dull film, it is a comedy which doesn't induce a single laugh and a drama that doesn't engage emotionally or pull on the heartstrings at all.
  4. The Red Turtle
    From its first moments, The Red Turtle is a captivating ultra-sensory experience; sounds are crisp and images are hand-drawn perfection.
  5. The Levelling
    The pint-sized simplicity of this acutely well told and acted tale should not be underestimated.
  6. Miss Sloane
    While Chastain, and the surrounding cast, drive the narrative there is no denying that as time runs on it begins to unravel frustratingly, reaching an unsatisfying conclusion. Yet, Chastain's performance is one that lingers in the mind.
  7. Good Time
    The journey through a nighttime New York is rich in realistic characters, observational details and some original locations.
  8. Radiance
    Fans of Kawase will likely enjoy this delicate tale of people finding their way in the dark.
  9. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
    In Farrell and Kidman, he has found two performers who are utterly willing to go the whole hog and their performances are brilliant deadpans.
  10. The Beguiled
    It has a powdery dryness, a sly wit which is indeed beguiling.
  11. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
    Baumbach writes his dialogue with a sharp pencil and the film bursts with non-sequiturs, put downs and hilarious lines.
  12. Wonderstruck
    The fraudulent nature of the mystery makes Wonderstruck feel like a technical exercise: albeit one which is enlivened by some great visuals and excellent performances, particularly the wonderful Millicent Simmonds.
  13. Wind River
    Though it can't bear too much comparison with Sicario, Wind River is far better than its title suggests and a promising directorial debut.
  14. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
    It's hardly original nor necessary, but it's a fun and absorbing escapade on the Seven Seas.
  15. Okja
    Okja is exuberant and wild filmmaking.
  16. Icaros: A Vision
    Sidestepping the question of whether or not shamanic methods 'work' in a scientific sense, Caraballo and Norzi directly depict the psychedelic experience of Ayahuasca itself by seamlessly blending dream and reality into a single stunning whole.
  17. Afterimage
    For all of the perfection of the period-detail browns and greys, Afterimage could have done with a touch more colour.
  18. Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
    By focusing on the family, James makes Abacus about resilience and humility rather than the mechanics of litigation and in doing so underscores - perhaps more strongly than in other louder films on similar subjects - the injustice of the situation.
  19. The Commune
    The Commune is a film built around the intangibility and melancholy of childhood memories. What should have been a gritty work about a generation confronted with the implausibility of their beliefs is ultimately a banal and self-absorbed drama.
  20. Mindhorn
    Mindhorn is a ridiculous comic creation taken to extraordinary, laugh-a-minute heights.
  21. Alien: Covenant
    As a return to the dark, primal and transgressive terrors of the original movie, Alien: Covenant is a success.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    River
    Whilst Sutherland gives an impressive and powerful performance as an American on the run, the lack of substance and originality leaves you feeling somewhat unsatisfied.
  23. LA 92
    The superb editing of news footage, the home video recording of the King beating and a dizzying amount of imagery from the heart of darkness during the riots throws us into the unfolding disturbances with minute-by-minute immediacy.
  24. Their Finest
    Their Finest by no means reinvents the wheel but in the hands of Scherfig - who previously directed An Education - it looks wonderful, has enough substance to back up its gleaming charm and is a very enjoyable period piece that wears its heart and intentions firmly on its well starched sleeve.
  25. Rules Don't Apply
    There's a wry comic sensibility that sees Hughes himself as an absurdity who seems half aware of his own ridiculousness.
  26. Heal the Living
    Quillévéré has created a poignant exploration not just of death, but of life, love and fragility.
  27. Lady Macbeth
    Oldroyd has made a film here that's incredibly tied to its nineteenth century setting, yet modern at the same time in the way it addresses femininity - more importantly, the power women have no matter how they're viewed by society or expected to behave by their male counterparts.
  28. Urban Hymn
    Led by a trio of tremendous performances from its female leads, Wright, front and centre as Jamie, is the stand-out.
  29. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
    The choice soundtrack, accompanied by the candyfloss aesthetic make for moments of fun, but it ultimately lacks the originality of the first.
  30. Tommy's Honour
    Though it may tell of one family's story in the late nineteenth century, and the superb costume and period attention to detail are firmly rooted in its time and place, the case that Tommy's Honour makes for breaking tradition, being true to oneself and challenging authority establishes thematic ties that are timeless.
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