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For 6,610 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: 2,503 out of 6610
  2. Mixed: 3,787 out of 6610
  3. Negative: 320 out of 6610
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  1. Hearts Beat Loud
    You might need a sweet tooth for this gentle, Hornbyesque drama from writer-director Brett Haley. But it’s a likable heartwarmer and very decently acted.
  2. Nancy
    An interesting and worthwhile drama.
  3. Puzzle
    There is modest craft and genuine heart here, not to mention an eye-catching centrepiece: an actor growing more certain of herself, and more capable than ever of holding an entire picture together – even one as unusual, and sometimes as unlikely, as this.
  4. Seeing Allred
    This woman, for all her flaws, is clearly a warrior first and foremost.
  5. Serenity
    The cinema calendar is chockablock with faulty efforts built around perfectly serviceable ideas, but realized without a modicum of distinction. Serenity offers the less-common inverse: a magnificently terrible idea, executed to perfection.
  6. El Mar La Mar
    Their film pushes the limits of documentary filmmaking and will likely push the tolerance of viewers. This is a demanding watch, the arthouse cinema equivalent of the marshmallow experiment, testing the attention span of audiences.
  7. Yardie
    A debut of unarguable promise, though – plenty to build on if Elba can resist the adolescent lure of running round with 007’s PPK.
  8. Infinite Football
    Infinite Football is an austere 70-minute experience, but the eccentric idealism of Laurențiu Ginghină lingers in the mind.
  9. Profile
    Profile is a pretty conventional thriller with pretty conventional stereotypes.
  10. Season of the Devil
    Season of the Devil is the work of a real auteur: every millisecond of his film has been rigorously created. There are moments of dreamlike intensity and the despair of the period is genuinely conveyed. Only the strongest devotee of Diaz could however deny the presence of longueurs in this film.
  11. Dark River
    Wilson and Stanley are both excellent performers and they are the mainstays of a valuable piece of work, but I felt the ending was contrived and a bit grandiloquent. However, the visual style and fluency of the film are obvious.
  12. Dance Academy: The Movie
    Subversive entertainment it ain’t. But nor is this well-paced yarn – with pleasing albeit narrowly scoped performances from a perky cast – bereft of pleasantries and surprises.
  13. Dora and the Lost City of Gold
    The knowing tone again feels like Hollywood confessing to trading in material few could take seriously, yet a certain sincerity is evident in Moner’s winning performance.
  14. The Seagull
    Mayer’s The Seagull is not a masterpiece, but it is impressive, and for those who agree that it is important to check back in with the classics, the whole company deserves its huzzahs.
  15. Unfriended: Dark Web
    Even if some of the late-stage plotting seems sloppy and increasingly preposterous, there’s a callousness to the brutal last act that, together with the far patchier, yet similarly hard-edged First Purge, feels like a definite product of the time we’re in, as war on terror-era torture porn did in the mid-2000s.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Whitney
    It’s a film principally and poignantly focused on the absence of Whitney, an aching void felt as much in life as in death. Many of us missed Whitney even before she left; this imperfect documentary preys calmly and effectively on that longing.
  17. Fireworks
    It’s confusing and disorientating but brings back dreamy teen angst like the strongest of madeleines.
  18. Thunder Road
    Cummings presents us with a guy whose heart is in the right place – he just can’t control himself. But, like me, others may find their tolerance for a clueless white man’s anger issues has maxed out.
  19. Summer in the Forest
    This is a calm and often affecting study of L’Arche, a community of people with learning disabilities in Trosly-Breuil, northern France.
  20. Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
    Stubby’s minimal anthropomorphism makes him a believably doggy sort of dog, whose expressions and behaviour clearly indicate that the animators spent many hours studying the real thing.
  21. Revenge
    A well made film, which slithers confidently in its slick of blood.
  22. The Informer
    The Informer is spread over a big canvas, but by the time of its big finale it is leaking energy. It might have made better sense as an episodic drama on television but it is brash and watchable, its world reeking with cynicism and fear.
  23. A Simple Favor
    Kendrick and Lively have never been funnier, snapping one-liners at each other like elastic bands; the script is hyper-alert to the undercurrent of competitiveness between stay-at-home and working mums.
  24. Bad Times at the El Royale
    For all its twisty unexpectedness, it didn’t deliver a really satisfying denouement. The performances are interesting.
  25. Beautiful Boy
    There are moments of crushing emotional weight but as the film progresses, they start to carry less power.
  26. Dune
    This is a film that doesn’t dramatically harness the vast forces it’s gesturing at, but trundles determinedly along with very little variation of tone or pace.
  27. The Gospel According to André
    Talley strikes you as a man of sincerity and depth behind all the air-kissing and lamé.
  28. Upgrade
    Whannell’s finite reserves of creativity have been meted out in an imbalance, going all in on world-building while giving the fight choreography and the cinematography listlessly documenting it the short shrift.
  29. 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.
  30. Journeyman
    Journeyman is flawed, but intelligent and heartfelt.
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