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For 7,291 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Red Turtle
Lowest review score: 0 The Mod Squad
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,349 out of 7291
  2. Mixed: 1,826 out of 7291
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7291
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  1. Unfrosted
    It’s not about nothing, but it is nothing special.
  2. The Idea of You
    Whenever the camera is on Hathaway, which is almost always, the film feels a hundred times more rich and substantive.
  3. The Fall Guy
    The film’s most egregious misstep, though, is sabotaging its own best stunt: the high-wire chemistry between Gosling and Blunt.
  4. Occupied City
    As much as Occupied City’s observational eye is rooted in a humanistic and cumulative approach to history, it will, no doubt, leave those in search of a less austere approach wanting.
  5. Boy Kills World
    it’s a cheeky post-Deadpool comedy – irreverent to a fault – with grindhouse aesthetics that tend to feel inspired by Quentin Tarantino rather than the movies that inspired Quentin Tarantino.
  6. Challengers
    This is a startlingly entertaining, erotically charged movie that hits its many targets with a kind of ferocious and crazed accuracy that’ll knock the wind, among other things, right out of you.
  7. Humane
    Cronenberg offers a light touch to the material, spiking the deeply depressing dystopia with a sibling-rivalry battle royale that eagerly, if sometimes wobblily, shifts between sharp humour and slippery sentimentality.
  8. Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
    Weaving in footage from Lucian Bratu’s 1981 film Angela Moves On (a melodrama following a female taxi driver and set during the heart of Nicolae Ceausescu’s crushing reign in Romania), and capped off by an extended movie-within-a-movie contained in one static shot, Jude’s film is an ambitious experiment of the mad-science variety.
  9. The Beast
    Classical and ultramodern – Bonello closes things off with a QR code, of all things – The Beast is an experience both bold and rich.
  10. Housekeeping for Beginners
    In lesser hands, this chaos might tumble into melodrama or farce. But Stolevski’s actors deliver such naturalistic performances, and he writes such specific dialogue . . . that you care deeply about what happens to these people.
  11. Carol Doda Topless at the Condor
    What I see is a social media influencer before social media, a person who did whatever it took to keep us looking, especially if that meant she didn’t have to look too deeply at herself.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Food, Inc. 2
    Food, Inc. 2 follows the formula of its predecessor so closely, it’s difficult to understand why it was made at all.
  13. In Flames
    When In Flames premiered at Cannes last year, I compared it with Ari Aster’s Hereditary, but suggested Kahn’s film has more heart and conviction. I stand by that.
  14. Civil War
    Raw and electrically presented, Civil War is an ugly odyssey and an audacious premonition.
  15. North of Normal
    The movie takes its time to get going, which can be frustrating given how thin the material feels along the way. But that patience also works in its favour during a lovely final act that doesn’t come off as maudlin and forced as this sort of melodrama usually tends to.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Monkey Man
    Patel is not reinventing the wheel here, nor is he establishing a coherent visual language to build upon in future films, but Monkey Man is cleverly castigating and proud of its lineage – a digestible bit of mythmaking with knife work to boot.
  17. Girls State
    Girls State is a powerful documentary that showcases just how invested and determined young women are in their desire to run for the highest office – despite the challenges they face.
  18. Wicked Little Letters
    It’s saved, first by strong performances from Buckley, always effortlessly believable, and Colman, expert at laying bare the clammy soul of easily dismissible women. And second, by the letters themselves.
  19. The First Omen
    While unable to fully deliver on the promise of its artistic potential, The First Omen remains, nonetheless, a fun, low stakes introduction for horror newbies to The Omen franchise and an enjoyable enough tribute to the original film (offering, also, a more contemporary take on visualizing the grotesque).
  20. Club Zero
    Hausner is clearly talented, and I’m all for a film without easy answers. But I wish this one was less insistently opaque.
  21. The Beautiful Game
    The Beautiful Game shines because of Nighy.
  22. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
    A slow and visually hideous crawl to an underwhelming brawl.
  23. Road House
    Liman makes the most of what most would assume are flaws. He leans into the simplicity and familiarity of Road House’s premise, keeping the space open for big personalities to make it cartoonishly good fun.
  24. Immaculate
    While its penultimate scene returns to its affections for shock and gore, there remains a feeling that it’s been apologetically tacked on to a final act that is, overall, lacking in any other sort of fun or thrilling narrative twists and turns.
  25. The Queen of My Dreams
    While The Queen of My Dreams works in some places, it’s too disjointed a narrative to truly immerse the viewer into the technicolor universe.
  26. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
    It is a fun, serviceable, family-oriented exercise in reprise that counts on nostalgia as it brings history and present day together.
  27. Hey, Viktor!
    Hey, Viktor!, a raucous mockumentary, is a mixed bag, veering wildly from self-deprecating humour and a downright cringefest to moments of heartfelt candour.
  28. One Life
    Throughout it all, Winton remains a cypher. There’s no curiosity here about him or the people he dedicated his time to. There’s no emotional journey to help us understand him and the stubborn modesty that made him so reluctant to share his story.
  29. French Girl
    French Girl’s crude and at times infantile slapstick humour is offset by livelier beats between the cast, whose cross-cultural banter is littered with flashes of genuine wit.
  30. Imaginary
    Imaginary is as dour a slog as M3GAN was a bloody bit of self-aware camp.
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