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For 6,818 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 20 Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,006 out of 6818
  2. Mixed: 3,654 out of 6818
  3. Negative: 158 out of 6818
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  1. Innocence of Memories
    This is a fascinating insight into the mind of the Nobel laureate and his city muse. Coolly intelligent and noirishly compelling.
  2. Hail, Caesar!
    It’s not like the film is hollow — hidden at its heart, in fact, is a struggle for the soul of Hollywood — it’s just that it feels more like a series of pleasant diversions rather than a single, solid journey.
  3. Dad's Army
    It has a strong, game cast but this is karaoke filmmaking, trading on nostalgia rather than breaking new territory. Affable but forgettable.
  4. The 33
    The astonishing true life story of The 33 deserves a better movie than this. Trite above and below ground, it is not suitable for miners. Or anyone else really.
  5. Janis: Little Girl Blue
    Although packed with compelling archive footage, this never quite gets into Joplin's head, heart or soul.
  6. Point Break
    A joyless and pointless remake. The new take on Bodhi and co. squanders a potentially enjoyable premise and rarely delivers, except on the occasional stunt.
  7. Goosebumps
    This modern riff on Monster Squad is a very pleasant surprise, and so ’80s in spirit that it’s a shock one of the villains isn’t a giant Rubik’s Cube.
  8. Trumbo
    It feels terrestrial rather than cinematic, but the joy of Trumbo is in the heroism of its subject and an amazing performance from Cranston.
  9. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
    The premise promised Regency class and Romero shocks. The results, though, are only intermittently entertaining, and a better adaptation of Austen than a monster mash.
  10. Eddie the Eagle
    Eddie The Eagle turns a long-running joke of British sport into a crowd-pleasing story of inspiration. It’s a solid gold winner.
  11. Rams
    Switching from dour humour to humanist drama without seeming contrived, this is a masterclass in combining character and landscape that is played with deceptive poignancy by the excellent leads.
  12. Youth
    An Alpine study of ageing and creativity that’s as fresh and bracing as the mountain air, although occasionally just as chilly.
  13. Antarctica: Ice and Sky
    The archive footage is compelling, but the soundtrack is a muddle of voice-over, music and effects.
  14. Our Brand Is Crisis
    Sparks fly, but the grim cynicism of modern politics adds subversive weight to the film’s screwball comedy stylings and has a lot to say about modern politics, in the US as well as abroad.
  15. The Assassin
    It might also be the case that the film is more taken by emotions, beauty and passing fancies than plot and character.
  16. The Big Short
    Witty, absurd and far more entertaining than it has any right to be, this could finally shed light on the financial crisis for those of us who found it all too boring to contemplate.
  17. The 5th Wave
    Everything that comes after the confident, dangerous first half-hour just makes you pine for what could have been as this devolves into ten-a-penny teen-lit sludge.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sleeping with Other People
    Luckily, the two leads’ chemistry make it a happy, if not completely satisfying, ending.
  19. At Any Price
    Heather Graham and Maika Monroe add heat to this handsome, slow-burning thriller that lacks the urgency of Bahrani’s previous effort, "99 Homes."
  20. The Hateful Eight
    On a par with "Inglourious Basterds" and "Django Unchained," The Hateful Eight starts low-key but ultimately delivers big, bold, blood-soaked rewards. Roll on, QT Western number three.
  21. Bolshoi Babylon
    More interestingly, it paints the Bolshoi as a microcosm of Russia, in thrall to tradition but beset by greed, backstabbing and corruption.
  22. A War
    It’s a riveting, complex film that asks one simple question: what do you do when there’s no right answer?
  23. Creed
    The best Rocky film since the original, honouring the Stallone legacy while setting it in a different direction. Feel the need. The need for Creed.
  24. Room
    Tough, but resilience is amply rewarded. If last year’s larky Frank suggested Abrahamson was a director to watch, this makes him a director to be cherished.
  25. A Simple Life
    Director Hui shows a different side to Hong Kong cinema in a tender drama that's illuminated by the marvellous Ip.
  26. In the Heart of the Sea
    For all the special effects and half-starved A-listers, this is a sodden beast. Perhaps there’s a reason that Melville only told half the story.
  27. The Peanuts Movie
    Charming in that neurotically adorable way Charles Schulz established over many years, this is a fond continuation of the Snoopyverse.
  28. The Danish Girl
    Redmayne’s transformation may grab the headlines but it is Vikander’s touching turn that steals the show. Sedate, certainly, but The Danish Girl is touching, timely and exquisite.
  29. Daddy's Home
    If it all ends in cornball reconciliation, the dumb, fuzzy smile it leaves suggests it’s well earned.
  30. Sherpa
    Refocused on the hoof after the catastrophic 2014 earthquakes, Jennifer Peedom's film pulls no punches in exploring the culture and work of this unheralded group, as well as their frequent exploitation by Westerners.
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