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For 6,611 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: 2,504 out of 6611
  2. Mixed: 3,787 out of 6611
  3. Negative: 320 out of 6611
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  1. Sunshine on Leith
    A remorselessly rousing attempt to do for the Scottish pub rock twins what Mamma Mia! did for Abba or Tommy for The Who.
  2. The Pass
    The film is a bit stagey sometimes, but ambitious and insightful. Tovey is excellent as he shows someone progressing from innocence to fear and then to loneliness.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dark Star
    It's a smart, cynical look at space travel, treating it as a blue-collar job and not a divine calling as Kubrick and others would have you believe.
  4. The Life Ahead
    Loren still has an imperious address to the camera. I spent much of this film wishing she were allowed to let rip with something more spirited, but it’s a heartfelt performance. Loren has an undiminished screen presence and it’s great to see her with a substantial role.
  5. Peterloo
    Mike Leigh brings an overwhelming simplicity and severity to this historical epic, which begins with rhetoric and ends in violence. There is force, grit and, above all, a sense of purpose; a sense that the story he has to tell is important and real, and that it needs to be heard right now.
  6. Cordelia
    Perhaps this film doesn’t entirely work all the way through, but it is a shard of malevolence that jabs into your skin.
  7. Yossi
    It's a film full of tenderness, resting on a tremendous, sad performance from Knoller.
  8. Alan Partridge
    The genius of Alpha Papa, then, is in remaining faithful to Partridge's small-screen soul while also managing the demands of a big-screen Alan.
  9. Devotion
    Training its crosshair on the ingrained prejudice of the military and the question of how well-meaning white allies can best support its undoing, the film compensates for relatively middling action set pieces with a stolid maturity.
  10. Dark Horse
    There is little in the film's pitch-black interior that wasn't tackled better – with more bite, wit and abandon – in "Happiness," "Welcome to the Dollhouse," or "Storytelling."
  11. The Rule of Jenny Pen
    Film-maker James Ashcroft has created a scary and intimately upsetting psychological horror based on a story by New Zealand author Owen Marshall set in a care home, a film whose coolly maintained claustrophobic mood and bravura performances make up for the slight narrative blurring towards the end.
  12. Creed II
    There’s a delicate intimacy between the characters that feels raw and authentic and like Coogler, Caple Jr’s indie beginnings seem to steer him toward filling a big film with small moments.
  13. Ben Is Back
    There are good intentions and good performances here, but they’re squandered in a movie that isn’t quite sure what it should be and how far it should go.
  14. Wiener-Dog
    Wiener-Dog doesn’t find Solondz going light to deliver an inspirational medley. Instead, he’s created arguably his most caustic film since Happiness.
  15. Pamela, a love story
    Gentle, friendly, faintly bleary – and sans makeup – Pamela Anderson is an authentically likable screen presence in this intimate, if somehow elusive, documentary portrait from Ryan White; it is about her life and times and the super-strength misogyny she has faced from liberals and satirists in the long endgame of her celebrity career.
  16. The Founder
    The Founder is an absorbing and unexpectedly subtle movie about the genesis of the McDonald’s burger empire.
  17. Rabin, the Last Day
    Gitai has chosen stylistic cinema over propaganda, and he is a director who regularly gets bogged down a bit in form.
  18. Charlatan
    Charlatan is a film that does not quite satisfy the curiosity it arouses.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lewis Capaldi: How I'm Feeling Now
    Pearlman shows that Capaldi has become even more of a celebrity cliche, the star who’s been on a journey and come out the other side – but you imagine Capaldi, with his indefatigable wryness, is all too aware of that.
  20. Mulan
    An entertaining if straightforwardly glossy action-adventure from the Disney workshop.
  21. The Angels' Share
    Ken Loach's latest collaboration with screenwriter Paul Laverty is warm, funny and good-natured. It's a freewheeling social-realist caper – unworldly and at times almost childlike.
  22. Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall
    It’s a brazen celebration of Jackson, which unlike Lee’s other documentary work doesn’t look under the hood to tell the whole story and examine some of the more uncomfortable inner workings.
  23. Wander Darkly
    Miller is at the heart of the film; her natural and believable performance touches so many emotions, and makes them all look so real.
  24. The Last Showgirl
    The commentary on gender and age feels easy and unspecific and the world of the Vegas showgirl created from too great of a distance to really ring true.
  25. Fast Five
    For all its absurdity and the family friendly bloodlessness (despite the copious violence), it spins along very smoothly and efficiently.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Roberta
    Scintillating partnership of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, here still in supporting roles (to Irene Dunne), gives substance to otherwise flimsy fashion-set musical. [04 Oct 1990]
    • The Guardian
  27. Sasquatch Sunset
    It is entirely gripping and a witty and unnerving way of representing the mysterious silence of animals and a future world in which human beings can no longer exist.
  28. Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes
    This is a very entertaining account of an actor who appeared to ascend, singly, to a higher plane than all others of the Hollywood golden age.
  29. Seven Psychopaths
    There are scenes of complete brilliance, Walken is better than he's been in years, cute plot loops and grace notes.
  30. Bumblebee
    While Knight and team duck origin-story slavishness that has dogged so much recent franchise work, they succeed in reviving the playful Saturday-morning-serial spirit of the original 80s Transformers.
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