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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. P.S. Jerusalem
    This is a conversation starter, not especially distinguished as film-making but vital and deeply felt.
  2. The Work
    The dry, strictly observational shooting style means the doc stays in the moment and rarely ventures out of the room where the programme unfolds, adding immediacy.
  3. Skyscraper
    This is stupid but it’s also mostly entertaining, thanks to Johnson and a plot that moves fast enough to retain our attention yet without enough, ahem, the originality to ensure it lingers in our minds once the fire has been extinguished.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Nightingale
    Weaving themes of colonialism and class into the broad strokes of a won’t-stop-can’t-stop revenge potboiler, the film marks a step forward for the Australian director in terms of ambition and scope. In execution, however, the songbird hits a few false notes.
  5. Battle of the Sexes
    It’s a decent tennis movie, solidly told and choreographed, but it’s in the film’s depiction of a same-sex romance between King and her hairdresser, played beautifully by Andrea Riseborough, where things truly comes alive.
  6. Rampage
    It is entertainingly over the top, although perhaps the CGI work isn’t quite out of the top drawer.
  7. Who's Gonna Love Me Now?
    [An] affecting and sincere documentary.
  8. Another Mother's Son
    A decent, heartfelt, robustly presented drama.
  9. Heal the Living
    It is every bit as beautifully made and intelligently acted as you might expect, with some wonderful visual imagery at the very beginning. Yet I was disappointed.
  10. LA 92
    LA 92’s reliance on news and eyewitness footage leaves it vulnerable to the same limitations as that footage – namely the prioritising of sensationalism over insight.
  11. Urban Hymn
    A mixed bag, but one that comes good in its closing stretch, working its way towards a place of quiet power.
  12. Deadpool 2
    The movie’s other major weakness is its continued foregrounding of the white guys at the expense of the consciously inclusive cast around them.
  13. The Lion King
    Basically, this new Lion King sticks very closely to the original version, and in that sense it’s of course watchable and enjoyable. But I missed the simplicity and vividness of the original hand-drawn images.
  14. Amazon Adventure
    Under Slee’s direction, even the teensiest creepy crawlies find themselves noted and taxonomized; it’s encouraging to see a format that generally sets audiences to non-specific gawping attempting to focus and refine our gaze.
  15. The New Mutants
    This film is no masterpiece, but the franchise has mutated, just a little.
  16. The Kid Who Would Be King
    None of the young stars shine as John Boyega did in ATB, but this movie is sentimental in all the right places, and impossible to dislike.
  17. Walk with Me
    The film has some startling moments.
  18. Frozen II
    It’s nice to see these figures again, but I couldn’t help feeling that there is something a bit underpowered and contrived about the storyline in Frozen II: a matter of jeopardy synthetically created and artificially resolved, obstacles set in place and then surmounted, characters separated and reunited, bad stuff apparently happening and then unhappening.
  19. The Day After
    The Day After is an elegant exercise. It feels like a chapter from something bigger.
  20. Good Time
    The film has its own kind of mad, migrainey energy and individuality, and Robert Pattinson gives a strong, charismatic performance.
  21. Jupiter's Moon
    It is a very odd, singular piece of work: not the visionary masterpiece it assumes itself to be and muddled in its effects and ideas. But certainly bold. It loses altitude yet never becomes earthbound.
  22. Godard Mon Amour
    Michel Hazanavicius’s Redoubtable is a reasonably funny, moderately interesting movie, wearing its sprightly colourful pastiche like dry-cleaned retro couture.
  23. Tully
    Much but not all of this movie’s good work is undone by its silly and unconvincing ending.
  24. Captive State
    Captive State is imperfectly constructed, at times frustratingly so, but it’s trying, doggedly, to do something different and given the bland efficiency of so many wide-releasing sci-fi movies, that’s hard to fault.
  25. Two Women
    It takes time to grow on you, but for me, there is a demure watchability.
  26. The Midwife
    It is a very good idea for a two-hander, and Frot and Deneuve give it their considerable all.
  27. Lover for a Day
    This brief, winsome feature is a typically stylish, if ephemeral piece of work in the classic New Wave manner – almost a time capsule.
  28. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
    Something in the sheer relentless silliness and uncompromising ridiculousness of this, combined with a new flavour of self-aware comedy, made me smile in spite of myself
  29. The Angry Birds Movie 2
    This is one sequel you can’t fault for effort, and the dud jokes are far outnumbered by the ones that are just about cute, smart or screwy enough to nudge out a laugh.
  30. Radiance
    A gentle, thoughtful and reflective movie.
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