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For 6,628 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: 2,512 out of 6628
  2. Mixed: 3,796 out of 6628
  3. Negative: 320 out of 6628
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Driller Killer
    If Ferrara is indeed a Van Gogh, then The Driller Killer is his Potato Eaters – an early work that displays, in rudimentary form, all the groundbreaking innovation of the mature works.
  2. I Get Knocked Down
    Chumbawamba split up in 2012. They’re still mates and come across here as extremely likable, not taking themselves at all too seriously. Scenes of them nattering together, having a giggle now, are lovely.
  3. Judy
    Zellweger gives us a tribute to Judy Garland’s flair and to that ethos of the show needing to go on being both a burden and driving force. Yet Garland’s terrible sadness is mostly invisible.
  4. Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
    Even if much of Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is in need of a rethink, it’s hard not to enjoy the scrappy, animated brainstorm taking place in front of us. The mess of it all is at least a very human one.
  5. Wonka
    I enjoyed this more than either of the two earlier filmed versions, with Gene Wilder in 1971 and Johnny Depp in 2005. It supplies the chocolate-endorphins.
  6. Kung Fu Killer
    The fight scenes are terrific, but the haphazard plotting, off-the-peg characterisations and drippy music elsewhere lack flavour.
  7. The Judge
    The Judge is a thoughtful, sympathetic study.
  8. Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap
    With a very simple premise, rapper Ice-T – this film's presenter and co-director with Andy Baybutt – has created a very enjoyable and often fascinating movie.
  9. Truth
    As high-class cheese goes, Truth slips down fine. It’s a noisy, one-note rally for the converted that gets your pulse racing even if you’re rolling your eyes.
  10. Disorder
    Winocour’s ability to build suspense is solid but she’s less confident when it comes to following through. She toys with perversity but sticks to formula.
  11. In Fear
    Lovering coolly sticks to a rule often disregarded by horror movies looking for an instant scare: the weird, tense build-up is just as disturbing as the reveal.
  12. Landline
    The movie itself is a retread of indie story beats we’ve all seen time and again. Slate’s tornado of a central character doesn’t quite overcome the rote aspects of this production.
  13. In Like Flynn
    This is a fun film constructed in a smart way: an anti-high art picture that happily prioritises embellishing legend over recreating life.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rolling Thunder
    Devane gives a performance of anguished depth, the final carnage is spectacular and it's a time capsule of a movie.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
    The characters are entirely credible and likable, the simply drawn figures highly effective against the lush background artwork. Time travel has rarely seemed so joyous.
  16. Last Swim
    Last Swim looks slightly callow sometimes, but forthright and likable and Hekmat’s performance has delicacy and intelligence.
  17. Pieces of a Woman
    The film is like an intensively bred hothouse flower that can’t exist in the open air.
  18. The Sky Is Everywhere
    Decker infuses Nelson’s screenplay with a potent dose of whimsical fantasy, morphing Lennie’s tortuous bereavement into a lonely house, a romantic musical journey and a garden where other complicated, confusing emotions grow.
  19. Slack Bay
    Ma Loute is a fascinatingly made film, theatrically extravagant and precise, although perhaps a little over-extended.
  20. Advanced Style
    It doesn't reflect too deeply on age and aging, doesn't dwell on the sadder and complicated side of things, and perhaps gravitates towards self-conscious eccentricity, but it's affectionate and watchable enough.
  21. White Noise
    Baumbach has landed a sizeable white whale in his tremendously elegant and assured adaptation.
  22. Roofman
    Another, more textured film might have tried to paint him as more than just lovable rogue but Roofman is too focused on making us feel good rather than bad. I would have settled for conflicted.
  23. Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
    It’s not quite on par with Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, the film it undoubtedly wants to be likened to, but it’s infinitely better than it had any right to be.
  24. Swan Song
    Mahershala Ali gives a heartfelt performance in this elegant and rather melancholy sci-fi mystery with which Irish film-maker Benjamin Cleary makes his impressive feature debut.
  25. VS.
    A movie with flair and force.
  26. The Integrity of Joseph Chambers
    The minute Joseph steps into this disenchanted forest, tripping over every tree root, you can sense the impending disaster, and the horror that Machoian’s movie is moving towards.
  27. The Real Charlie Chaplin
    This film may not have all that much new material but it piercingly asks the right questions about Chaplin’s elusive reality.
  28. Ultraman: Rising
    It drags a little in places, despite the appealing animation style, which really comes into its own during the action sequences.
  29. Dumb Money
    It’s perilously close to being overstuffed (one more introduction would have tipped it over the edge) but a controlled and nimble script justifies the large ensemble, using each thread to quickly switch back and forth between the anger, ecstasy, disbelief and fear that seeped from conference to dorm room at the time.
  30. The Good Dinosaur
    The Good Dinosaur looks great, of course, but it’s not in the league we’ve come to expect.
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