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For 6,576 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 2.2 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: 2,493 out of 6576
  2. Mixed: 3,764 out of 6576
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6576
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  1. Aquarela
    Victor Kossakovsky’s Aquarela is an absorbing and disturbing spectacle, a sensory film about the climate crisis, and it begins with what might be the soundtrack to the end of the world – a persistent tinkling, crackling, trickling.
  2. 6 Underground
    For pure gonzo outrageousness and steroidal silliness, this action spectacular made for Netflix by Michael Bay has a certain amusement factor and thumpingly unsubtle oomph.
  3. Gorillaz: Reject False Icons
    With Hewlett Jr often chronicling events in cool monochrome, shooting in close proximity if not exactly total intimacy, this snappy scrapbook tips the hat to the infectious creativity of Albarn’s travelling circus.
  4. The Kingmaker
    Lauren Greenfield’s film about the Philippines’ former first lady Imelda Marcos reveals a grotesquely self-pitying, wholly unrepentant and very rich woman.
  5. Black Christmas
    It’s an unwieldy and messy thing, drearily directed and boringly written, taking its agenda seriously yet not providing a robust enough framework to surround it.
  6. Honey Boy
    Honey Boy is a fluent, heartfelt, tightly structured and well acted personal story.
  7. The Cave
    To say The Cave would break anyone’s heart feels flimsy. Like Ballour, it has a purpose: to focus the world’s attention on the suffering of Syrian people.
  8. Jumanji: The Next Level
    What gives Jumanji its likability is that it has the emphases and comedy beats of an animation, but also the performance technique of live action – and the occasional reshuffling of avatars and players lets the actors show off a little bit further. Jumanji’s next level is rather satisfying.
  9. So Long, My Son
    So Long, My Son is a piercingly, profoundly moving picture that peels and exposes the senses.
  10. Bombshell
    It is a strange film in some ways, speckled with powerful, insightful moments but also with some strained acting, pulled punches and fudged attitudes, unable to decide if its heroines are compromised through having been loyal Fox staffers.
  11. Playmobil: The Movie
    Disappointingly, it is a borderline dopey, sentimental children’s adventure mostly without the wit and spark that converted grownups and kids to the Lego films.
  12. The Cat Returns (2002)
    The story has a moderate charm, but is less baroque and ambitious than many Japanese animations.
  13. Knives Out
    What we have is a straightforward murder mystery, but it is told with gusto and humour.
  14. 1917
    1917 is Mendes’s most purely ambitious and passionate picture since his misunderstood and under-appreciated Jarhead of 2005. It’s bold, thrilling film-making.
  15. Little Women
    This is such a beguiling, generous film from Gerwig. There is a lot of love in it.
  16. Driven
    What keeps the film going is simply the factual chaotic bizarreness of what is happening: an improvised deal on Iran-Contra levels of crookedness. Sudeikis is authentically bland and slippery.
  17. Meeting Gorbachev
    Despite the film’s obvious interest, it is a bit conceited and stately, a little like Wim Wenders’ movie about Pope Francis, though without the sycophancy.
  18. 21 Bridges
    Boseman carries off the drama with flair and style.
  19. Black and Blue
    It’s a film with something to say but it’s not all that good at saying it.
  20. The Cotton Club Encore
    This is a gift to cinephiles everywhere from deep in the cellar and we’re all lucky to get a sip.
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