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For 6,608 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 54% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 London Road
Lowest review score: 0 Melania
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,502 out of 6608
  2. Mixed: 3,786 out of 6608
  3. Negative: 320 out of 6608
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  1. The Lure
    The Lure’s premise alone will turn heads but once the novelty wears off the question will remain: where’s the story?
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Morris from America
    Ultimately, it’s a sweet movie with some good laughs and a phenomenal rap soundtrack, but it fails to rise above the pack.
  3. Southside with You
    Southside With You uses our affection for the Obamas to add urgency in the otherwise simple script.
  4. Lovesong
    Keough and Malone convey a palpable sense of yearning for one another during these sequences, but Kim and Bradley Rust Gray’s barebones script doesn’t match their efforts.
  5. Mekong Hotel (2012)
    The ideas here were far more interestingly rehearsed in movies like Tropical Malady and his Palme-winning Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. A diverting footnote to the main body of work, no more than that.
  6. Jim: The James Foley Story
    The world needs people like Foley, and this film argues that cameras are every bit as important as firearms in the current struggle. This movie, despite its somewhat simplistic form, acts as a fine tribute to the man, his work and the bravery of others who are called to his field.
  7. Meet the Blacks
    Meet the Blacks is an asinine film (though with a kernel of seriousness) but whenever it feels like it is running out of steam, something strange and surreal will happen to elevate it above a typical spoof movie.
  8. They Will Have to Kill Us First
    Although many of the stories told here are deeply harrowing and the film sometimes seems to be trying to bite off too much, at least there’s a happy ending of sorts.
  9. Fast X
    Vin Diesel et al return for an overstuffed Fast and Furious chapter that delivers giddily effective action but an outsized and silly villain.
  10. Funny or Die Presents: Donald Trump's the Art of the Deal: The Movie
    All good stuff from Depp, although by sending up Trump’s 1980s period, it feels a little off the money, and this is a figure who has already somehow absorbed derision into his skin and made himself immune to it.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Mermaid
    This live-action cartoon finds Stephen Chow (Shaolin Soccer) elevating a Disneyish set-up – ruthless developer is mollified by the mermaid inhabiting the lagoon he’s plundering – with more of his usual good-to-inspired sight gags.
  12. Backtrack
    It’s a bit derivative, with borrowings from a handful of other films, but there are some nasty moments.
  13. Barney Thomson
    Emma Thompson gives us a scene-stealing performance which is enjoyably macabre.
  14. Lion
    Thanks largely to an affecting performance from newcomer Sunny Pawar, the first act is horribly effective.
  15. The Predator
    There’s definite fun to be had here and franchise fans will surely appreciate both Black’s nods to the past and his plan for the future but there’s something forgettable about its freneticism, and I struggle to imagine in 31 years if it will be thought of at all.
  16. The Meddler
    The ultimate reason why so much of this works is down to Sarandon herself. She sells the comic side as well as hitting all of the emotional beats.
  17. In a Valley of Violence
    As the violence escalates, an absurdist dose of humor is added to the mix, injecting the film with a distinctly modern sensibility that is welcome and does not let up.
  18. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
    This one has quite a bit of zip and fun and narrative ingenuity with all its MacGuffiny silliness that the last one (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) really didn’t.
  19. Life
    It’s a serviceable, watchable, determinedly unoriginal film.
  20. A Cure for Wellness
    The movie’s operatic claustrophobia makes its mark. Cult status beckons.
  21. Standing Tall
    It is a high-minded, often touching movie which replaces the nihilism and miserabilism often to be found in social realism, and replaces them with a positive vision of what the state can – and can’t – do to help.
  22. Café Society
    Woody Allen’s Café Society is a sweet, sad, insubstantial jeu d’ésprit, watchable, charming and beautifully shot by Vittorio Storaro – yet always freighted by a pedantic nostalgia for the 1930s golden age in both Hollywood and New York, nostalgia which the title itself rather coercively announces.
  23. Our Kind of Traitor
    Director Susanna White favours a generic spy-movie look: those chilly blue filters surely need resting now. Yet she works smartly with her actors: while Skarsgård wolfs down great handfuls of scenery, McGregor effectuates a thoughtful transformation from ineffectual tourist to man in the field.
  24. Manhattan Night
    It’s a film tremendously out of step with current tastes, and while I doubt that was its goal, this peculiarity makes it strangely watchable – even enjoyable.
  25. Julieta
    This is not as richly compelling as other Almodóvar films, but it’s a fluent and engaging work.
  26. Last Cab to Darwin
    Caton is a perfect fit; he is touching, tender and a little bedraggled, emoting with a worn-out visage that looks like the 71-year-old has been marinated in beer and left in the sun to dry.
  27. The Neon Demon
    When Fanning is off screen, we are marooned in a fashion shoot in a hell of silliness. Yet her star quality gives The Neon Demon what substance it has, and Refn’s film-making has self-belief and panache. Take it or leave it.
  28. Hockney
    It’s an engaging and garrulous film, and Hockney is now a cheerful, grandfatherly figure, and an object lesson in taking the boy out of Bradford, and not the other way around.
  29. Speed Sisters
    It’s not exactly hard-hitting stuff, and isn’t meant to be, but it spins an entertaining yarn.
  30. The Take
    It’s a bit silly maybe, with a plot that requires you to overlook the implausibility of a certain smartphone with no passcode protection. But there is a nifty premise.
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