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For 6,585 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: 2,496 out of 6585
  2. Mixed: 3,770 out of 6585
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6585
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  1. Last and First Men
    Last and First Men is an interesting if minor work, perhaps comparable to Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s Homo Sapiens or Michael Madsen’s Into Eternity.
  2. Make Up
    It’s a clever and expertly made movie; Oakley luxuriates in its winter chill.
  3. Summerland
    Strong on lush cinematography, period knitwear and sincerity, but less effective in terms of historical plausibility, the mostly second world war-set drama Summerland is a mixed bag – a blend of fizzy sherbet lemons and humbug.
  4. Ghosts of War
    This effort is similarly infuriating and entertaining by turns, and features pretty good performances from a handful of up-and-coming young male actors, including Brenton Thwaites and Kyle Gallner, along with lovable old ham Billy Zane putting in a last-act cameo.
  5. Fatal Affair
    There are no left turns or bumps along the way, just a smooth straightforward journey from cliche to cliche, boredom setting in fast.
  6. Father Soldier Son
    It’s an intimate portrait that at times borders on meandering but it remains free of judgment throughout, with Einhorn and Davis using their background as journalists to let the story happen without coercion or commentary.
  7. Benjamin
    Amstell creates a detailed ecosystem of in-jokes from the worlds of media and film, and from that cynical context he conjures a miraculously heartfelt love story, sweet and poignant in all its awkwardness.
  8. Above Suspicion
    The stranger-than-fiction weirdness and emotional dysfunction are what’s interesting here, and the film doesn’t quite take the lid off it.
  9. A White, White Day
    This bizarre and sometimes scary film from Iceland has a way of keeping you off balance and on the edge of your seat.
  10. Arkansas
    Not much about this film is original, but the buddy-pairing of two equally competent criminals is something we haven’t seen too often.
  11. I Am Vengeance: Retaliation
    For all its rough edges, there’s a pure-hearted passion for movie-making evident here, that’s often awol in slicker productions.
  12. Inmate #1: The Rise of Danny Trejo
    This documentary is a bit reticent on the subject of racism. It’s not a subject that Trejo addresses, other than to say that cops who used to pull him over now do so to get selfies. Yet it’s an amazing true-life success story.
  13. Relic
    Fundamental to Relic’s psychological oomph are three excellent performances, perfectly complementing that sticky-icky ambience.
  14. Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly
    A very absorbing and valuable documentary about the creation of this artwork, which relates to Ai’s honourable record of using art as memorialist-activism.
  15. Palm Springs
    It’s a goofy, drunken scrap of escapism and while the romantic comedy is not fully back, despite think pieces assuring us that it is, Palm Springs energetically reminds us, yet again, that it’s never really going away.
  16. Spaceship Earth
    Like the structure at its centre, Spaceship Earth is a smart concept that never really takes off.
  17. The Way Back
    It sleepily hits the beats we expect but without the emotion or passion required to make them land, a by-the-numbers exercise from someone with barely enough energy to count.
  18. Greyhound
    As well as death and tragedy, war is full of absurdity, indignity, chaos, all sorts of bizarre and embarrassing things that don’t get mentioned in the official record. Greyhound is content with its keynote of sombre reverence.
  19. The Old Guard
    The adjective in the title is right. It gets old pretty quickly.
  20. Suzi Q
    This is a fan-servicing but not necessarily hagiographic documentary.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  25. Homemade
    Homemade is a diverting but indulgent collection, and the experiences of genuine hardship don’t shine through very much.
  26. Carmine Street Guitars
    It is 80 minutes of pure woodwork-musicianship-upcycling erotica for a very specialist but passionate market.
  27. On the Record
    The film is forthright and intelligent on the difficulties and complexities involved in the discussion.
  28. The Booksellers
    The interest of this garrulous, convivial documentary creeps up on you by degrees.
  29. 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.
  30. Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
    The movie is not a disaster, just weirdly pointless.
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