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For 54 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 81% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 18% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 69
Highest review score: 90 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Lowest review score: 33 Zack Snyder's Justice League
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 42 out of 54
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 54
  3. Negative: 2 out of 54
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  1. West Side Story
    This West Side Story is an utter visual delight, filled with eye-popping color and heart-pounding movement, compelling characters whirling and flashing across a richly drawn city.
  2. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
    This second stab is another twist-filled treat, having fun with the whodunnit genre while also just being very funny.
  3. The Mitchells vs. The Machines
    A weird and joyful flick, brought to life with the help of the masterminds behind Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse.
  4. Top Gun: Maverick
    Top Gun 2 reboots the original film's heart-pounding aerial action, infectiously cheesy character drama and don't-think-about-it-too-much military fetishism in a winning spectacle of cinematic escapism.
  5. Dune: Part One
    Dune is a tour de force of cinematic sci-fi, a star-studded yet deeply weird fantasy epic, a thoughtful and thrilling movie experience... And then it stops right in the middle.
  6. The Suicide Squad
    This is a movie where the US government hires a shark that talks like Sylvester Stallone to tear people in half, and it is sick. It is sick as hell.
  7. The Batman
    It's more of a detective mystery than previous Bat-flicks, borrowing in particular from David Fincher's serial killer chillers Seven and Zodiac. And it's a gangster movie. Also a '70s conspiracy thriller. And a relentlessly bleak film noir. Most of all, though, The Batman is a horror movie.
  8. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
    Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings made me forget I was watching a Marvel movie, and that's a good thing.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Spider-Man: No Way Home
    And if you're not intimately acquainted with two decades of previous Spider-Man films? If you're here for simply a well-oiled and entertaining Marvel (and Sony) flick, you won't be disappointed.
  10. A Quiet Place Part II
    This suspenseful thriller is filled with precision-tooled suspense even if it doesn't expand on the 2018 original as much as it could.
  11. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
    It's worth finding the Roku remote, because Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, starring Daniel Radcliffe and Rainn Wilson, is funny as hell.
  12. No Time to Die
    This 25th 007 film is an epic, explosive and emotional swan song that throws everything against the wall for a genuinely unique entry in the long-running series.
  13. Black Widow
    Smart, sexy and perfectly cast, Black Widow barely has a story to speak of but still manages to be a huge amount of fun.
  14. Avatar: The Way of Water
    Director James Cameron's epic sequel has a lot to pack in: it's a decent sci-fi blockbuster, a visual effects masterclass, and the best nature documentary you'll ever see.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
    Black Panther: Wakanda Forever manages the delicate balancing act of working beautifully as a sequel to the 2018 movie, a touching tribute to Chadwick Boseman's character and a complex, thrilling MCU adventure.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Elvis
    Elvis is a compelling watch, with all the glitz and glamor you'd expect for a Presley biopic, but it skews more towards an ode to Luhrmann's cinematic style than an ode to the King.
  17. The Guilty
    Based on a nerve-shredding Danish thriller, this US remake loses something in the translation.
  18. The Matrix Resurrections
    You might expect slick remix The Matrix Resurrections to be just money-grabbing nostalgia, but it's also a comment on money-grabbing nostalgia, a refinement and updating of the original film's ideas, and an exasperated clapback to anyone who missed the damn point these past two decades. With guns. Lots of guns. And even a few jokes.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    All the Old Knives
    If you're looking for a good old-fashioned espionage thriller, All the Old Knives ticks most of the boxes -- as long as those boxes don't include suspense or trench coats or general spycraft.
  20. Free Guy
    Five minutes after finishing Free Guy I found myself looking up showtimes to rewatch one of the best films of the summer.
  21. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
    In the hands of director Sam Raimi, Multiverse of Madness is a marvellously assured balancing act of bizarre weirdness and affecting human drama.
  22. The Many Saints of Newark
    Willful questioning of the very concept of endings makes this Sopranos film feel like a pilot episode of a new series.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Lightyear
    It'll definitely keep the kids entertained and ultimately, if it gives another generation reason to fall in love with Buzz, that's all that matters.
  24. F9: The Fast Saga
    Fast! Furious! Family! Vroooommm!
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Thor: Love and Thunder
    Love and Thunder doesn't live up to the incredible stories that inspired it. It neither leans into its director's style or maximizes its cast's dramatic potential, feeling more like a shallow, unsatisfying mashup.
  26. Finch
    With no zombies or mutant biker gangs in pursuit, Finch often feels more like Little Miss Sunshine meets Short Circuit.
  27. Hocus Pocus 2
    The reunited Midler, Najimy and Parker running amok (amok, amok, amok) bring enough of that ol' black magic to carry this whimsical caper and keep it from feeling like too much of a cash-in.
  28. Old
    Life's a beach and then you die.
  29. The Adam Project
    Ryan Reynolds stars as a wisecracking time-flyer in Netflix's breezy but heartfelt version of ET, Back to the Future and Flight of the Navigator for the Marvel era.
  30. Hellraiser
    The new 2022 Hellraiser does some cool stuff when it reaches the back stretch, although the two-hour-long film spends way too long spinning its wheels to get there. It won't tear your soul apart, but at least it's a drop of fresh blood for a series that didn't deserve to stay dead.
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