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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. Inside
    Dafoe is captivating as always, but not even his slinking, slippery presence can save the film from turning into a rather torturous endurance test.
  2. Creed III
    The actor is as engaging and captivating as ever on-screen as Adonis, yet he’s just as present and committed behind the camera, delivering a stirring string of heartwarming and jaw-breaking moments that add up to something if not exactly unique, than certainly rousing, effective and entertaining.
  3. Queens of the Qing Dynasty
    The film is simply operating at a speed constantly one click ahead of expectations, never satisfied that any one viewer could know where it might all be heading.
  4. Return to Seoul
    Return to Seoul is not a dour, sombre thing – it is intense, electric and confrontational.
  5. We Have a Ghost
    We Have a Ghost is a desperate mix of feel-good sentimentality, watered-down surreality, and comedy as transparent in its hackiness as the film’s title spook.
  6. Cocaine Bear
    The movie, about a doped-up black bear, is a much more lethargic affair, as if the apex predator’s supply was swapped out for some Ativan.
  7. BlackBerry
    BlackBerry is funny, fast and nerve-rattling. And it is always – always – intensely entertaining.
  8. Black Ice
    In order to move forward, it’s imperative we look at the past. Black Ice is a worthwhile ice-breaker to that end.
  9. 80 for Brady
    The condescending vibe and the whatever-ness of it all are disappointing given the collective calibre of the stars, revered, funny veterans who deserve better.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    When You Finish Saving the World
    Perhaps a first-time director can be forgiven, like those teenage puppeteers, for not knowing how to get a message across without wearing it on his sleeve.
  11. Pathaan
    Pathaan is by no means flawless. It tries to marry a Hollywood-style action film with Bollywood camp. Sometimes it delivers, and sometimes the script is just too banal. It could also be edited more judiciously. But the film entertains and leaves you grooving to an infectious tune at the end.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Of an Age
    Call the film sensitive or tender all you want, but one thing it doesn’t have is nuance
  13. Magic Mike's Last Dance
    Soderbergh’s film tosses the many lessons of its predecessors, leaving us with a movie that is utterly devoid of its own magic.
  14. Close
    Fans of stunning cinematography, thoughtful writing and pure, unadulterated emotional torture will find Close to be worthy of the Oscar nod.
  15. Sharper
    When the narrative knife is as dull as it is here, there is just no fun in bleeding out. If Caron and his collaborators don’t learn their lesson, though, at least we will. Work smarter, not Sharper.
  16. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
    Coloured wall-to-fake-wall with cheap-looking CGI, the film looks like it was shot from inside the guts of a first-generation iPhone – there is an aesthetic emptiness to it all that is soul-crushing.
  17. Alice, Darling
    Alice, Darling does so much right that it is acutely painful when it goes wrong.
  18. Knock at the Cabin
    Finally, by tethering his story’s uneasiness to the rock that is Bautista, Shyamalan delivers a star vehicle built for two. It isn’t quite right to say that the director and his star deserve each other – more like they need one another. Just as we do. To the end of the world, fellas.
  19. Infinity Pool
    There are so many elements that seduce and beguile – including the rusted-out Brutalism of the Li Tolqan prison where the cloning procedure takes place, and Goth’s supremely unhinged work as James’s seductress, a performance more Looney Tunes than human – that the entire thing swallows you whole. There is no more delightful way to drown.
  20. You People
    The familiar and facile elements are drowned out – often, and loudly – by the impeccable comedic talents of Hill and Murphy, two performers whose very different styles clash and complement one another.
  21. The Son
    The Son is a film that is very cruel to its characters, and by extension to its long-suffering audience.
  22. Missing
    Missing packs in enough mystery and intrigue that the film never feels boring. It ends up working as good, light and thrilling entertainment.
  23. Saint Omer
    Whether, in making Saint Omer, Diop has found the answers that she’s been searching for since 2016 remains an open question. But the truth of the film is that she has certainly compelled her audience to take a complicated, fraught, and harrowing journey of their own.
  24. Living
    Living just doesn’t quite vault over its self-imposed challenges. Except, that is, when it comes to Nighy.
  25. Plane
    It is all such gloriously smart stupidity that you cannot help but applaud everyone involved for sticking the landing.
  26. Corsage
    It is tempting to compare her to Princess Diana, a narcissistic media manipulator on the one hand and a sensitive woman deeper than the icon she has created on the other. But Corsage is a work of fiction, and its main character is, thankfully, far more complicated and interesting than the real thing.
  27. M3GAN
    It is a highly entertaining romp that doesn’t take itself too seriously and is unapologetic in both its self-awareness and sense of humour.
  28. A Man Called Otto
    It is as if every time Forster is presented with an opportunity to do something mildly unconventional – or even, gasp, European in sensibility – he defaults to the easy and cheap Hollywood option.
  29. Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody
    While the content of the film is flat, Ackie truly shines as Whitney throughout the various stages of her career, and manages to bring the star’s energy and charisma to life.
  30. Broker
    Broker too frequently goes broad and wide, resulting in a story that doesn’t earn the happiness that its flawed characters desire, and eventually achieve.
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