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For 6,573 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 2.3 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: 2,491 out of 6573
  2. Mixed: 3,763 out of 6573
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6573
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  1. Desperados
    It’s imperfect, sometimes frustratingly so, but also just about fun enough for yet another tipsy Friday night locked down indoors, its sun-drenched setting proving alluring and yet cruelly out of reach.
  2. Inheritance
    The characters are paper-thin and, even on paper, their motivations don’t make much sense.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Wages of Fear (1953)
    The inspired calculation of action and agonised human reaction is irresistible and inescapable. It is a film that leaves the audience shattered and exhausted.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Hamilton
    It keeps all the power of a live performance while simultaneously adding a filmic pizzazz including some breathtaking aerial shots. There is extraordinary direction – again under Kail – so that the cameras capture the mise en scène of theatre without losing any of the closeup intimacy of film.
  5. Homemade
    Homemade is a diverting but indulgent collection, and the experiences of genuine hardship don’t shine through very much.
  6. Carmine Street Guitars
    It is 80 minutes of pure woodwork-musicianship-upcycling erotica for a very specialist but passionate market.
  7. On the Record
    The film is forthright and intelligent on the difficulties and complexities involved in the discussion.
  8. The Booksellers
    The interest of this garrulous, convivial documentary creeps up on you by degrees.
  9. Ride Like a Girl
    Clearly marketed as inoffensive feel-good pap, I didn’t go into the film expecting a nuanced commentary on the racing industry. But nor did I expect what often felt like a thinly veiled 98-minute advertisement, interspersed with occasional moments of warmth and humanity.
  10. Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
    The movie is not a disaster, just weirdly pointless.
  11. Irresistible
    The supposed satirical attitude of Irresistible can’t conceal the fact that it’s contrived, unfunny and redundant.
  12. 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.
  13. Bad 25
    Lee wants to clear away the tabloid smoke and spite, and bring the focus back to Jackson's professionalism, his craftsmanship, his artistry and his pop genius; the movie defiantly insists that Jackson was and is superior to his detractors.
  14. Seahorse: The Dad Who Gave Birth
    We all share universals like hurt and hope, it’s just that their expression differs for McConnell. Like the act of childbirth itself, something that has happened trillions of times and yet always feels intimately personal, he’s one of us and one of a kind.
  15. To Kid or Not to Kid
    Even though Trump puts herself, her husband and many members of her family at the heart of the story, the end result never feels navel-gazing or narcissistic.
  16. The Ground Beneath My Feet
    The transgressive threat approaches and recedes like thunder, leaving us with a study in loneliness.
  17. Resistance
    Eisenberg does an honest job with the role of Marceau, but it is a subdued performance. Marceau emerges as animatedly nerdy before the Nazis invade, but when the film has to show his heroism, Eisenberg plays him pretty straight. The result is a performance that could have been turned in by anyone.
  18. You Should Have Left
    You Should Have Left should have left our nerves frayed and our dreams haunted but instead, it leaves us cold.
  19. Dads
    As the daughter of director Ron Howard, widely regarded as one of nicest men in Hollywood, Howard is herself blessed in the dad department; he is very likable here. His only parenting crime seems to have been to film the birth of all four of his kids. But the rest of the Hollywood contributions are irritatingly platitudinous.
  20. StarDog and TurboCat
    The action is relentless and laboured with the odd pause for a sentimental lesson or moment of personal growth. StarDog may work its slight charms on young children, but older kids will feel they’ve seen smarter, funnier and cleverer before.
  21. On a Magical Night
    Christophe Honoré, now edging into veteran status with his 12th film, once again steps up to the oche of desire and infidelity. But this peppy, flighty and self-involved film – a hybrid of marital drama, chamber piece, erotic farce and crypto-musical – hovers frustratingly outside the bullseye.
  22. 7500
    For fans of joyless screaming and stabbing, there might be something here worth your time but for those who expect more thrills from their thrillers or at least something close to a purpose, 7500 is a flight worth missing.
  23. Radioactive
    The movie partly follows the classic period-biopic template with the story extending in flashback from Marie being wheeled into hospital with her final illness. But the narrative is more unusual and ambitious – with its stylised flashforward sequences showing the consequences of Marie’s discovery, occurring like dream-premonitions.
  24. Mike Wallace Is Here
    This film does not offer any actual conclusions, but it is an atmospheric immersion in the old, smoky and very male world of American TV journalism.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Pass Over
    As a drama, Pass Over is a masterful tragedy. As a reflection of the world, it is all too real and utterly woeful.
  26. Guest of Honour
    Thewlis keeps the film from sinking completely: the haunted, unhappy man resigned to his unjust burden of guilt and shame.
  27. This Is Not a Movie
    After a lifetime reporting on conflict, Fisk reflects on the capacity of human beings to cause chaos on such a scale. Is there something deep in our souls that permits it because it feels natural? His painful, deeply serious question about the inevitability of war sets the tone of this documentary about his career.
  28. The Fanatic
    It would be risible if it weren’t so offensive, mean-spirited and, frankly, nasty.
  29. You Don't Nomi
    I’m not sure that this documentary completely nails the movie’s attraction, and it can’t quite bring itself fully to condemn the misogyny or the rape scene, in which a woman of colour is assaulted (so that the white heroine can get her revenge) and is then forgotten. But there are plenty of insights.
  30. In My Blood It Runs
    Despite such a heavy context, the tone of the film is soft and pensive rather than polemical, constructed with a lightness of touch. It is often inspirational, in a quiet sort of way, and this is derived almost entirely from Hoosan himself.
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