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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. Rocketman
    Rocketman is an honest, heartfelt tribute to Elton John’s music and his public image. But the man itself eluded it.
  2. We the Animals
    It is a thing of beauty: too beautiful perhaps, running a real danger of prettifying poverty.
  3. Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich
    The incessant bloodshed is delivered with imaginative aplomb in this witty reboot of the 90s trash franchise.
  4. In the Heights
    It’s impossible to object to In the Heights with its almost childlike innocence. Ramos is very good and it is great to see Stephanie Beatriz (from TV’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine) and Dascha Polanco (from Orange Is the New Black) round out the supporting cast. But this is a pretty quaint image of street life, whose unrealities probably worked better on stage.
  5. Love, Cecil
    The film is intelligent, thorough and sympathetic, with Rupert Everett narrating Beaton’s diaries. But it never quite persuades you that Beaton really deserves to be considered a substantial artist.
  6. Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts
    Eventually, the drama closes in on itself and attains the logic of a dream, though a dream that dissipates quickly on waking.
  7. Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
    Stephen Schible’s documentary portrait follows the musician in the calm and introspective period forced on him – but it also shows him participating in post-Fukushima demonstrations.
  8. On the Basis of Sex
    Subtlety isn’t this movie’s strong suit and it’s often needlessly chary about drawing the parallel between sexism and racism. But it’s got a worthwhile story to tell.
  9. Fahrenheit 11/9
    Moore never quite settles on a single, compelling riposte to Trump, never really hones his arguments to a piercing arrowhead of counterattack. Instead, he rambles over almost everything … entertainingly, but confusingly, ending on an image of Parkland School shooting survivor Emma González.
  10. The Apparition
    Xavier Giannoli’s The Apparition is a flawed but heartfelt film about the mysterious workings of divine grace, and things that can’t entirely be explained away.
  11. Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
    It is a poignant set-up but, disappointingly, Okada’s ideas about motherhood don’t cut as deep as they could.
  12. Mid90s
    I enjoyed it more when Hill showed a lighter touch.
  13. Studio 54
    An entertaining documentary. Maybe the full story of Studio 54 has yet to be told.
  14. Final Score
    Final Score puts a cheeky British spin on the set-up.
  15. Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings
    Dee’s investigations are not truly suspenseful, or governed by much hard logic. Without these, what remains is a restless action-comedy with a few nice reversals.
  16. 22 July
    The film is as intelligent and committed as you would expect from Greengrass, but basically pretty conventional, like a very classy TV movie.
  17. The Wild Boys
    Mandico has made a wildly strange debut, striking enough to make you sit up and pay attention.
  18. Stan & Ollie
    These are brilliant impersonations, the kind that can only be achieved by exceptionally intelligent actors; the superb technique of both is matched by their obvious love for the originals.
  19. At Eternity's Gate
    Julian Schnabel has made a heartfelt if straightforwardly reverent film about the last years in the life of Vincent van Gogh – acted by with all the integrity and unselfconscious ease that you would expect from this great actor.
  20. The Spy Gone North
    Yoon executes all the classic double-agent set pieces with finesse, and those enamoured of the genre will appreciate a change of setting.
  21. 47 Meters Down: Uncaged
    It’s refreshing to see a genre film-maker do more than rely on simple tricks and although his knack for dialogue might be questionable, he’s more than capable of constructing a nifty set-piece.
  22. Bel Canto
    It’s overripe and improbable, but you’d need a flinty heart to resist the message of solidarity, that if you spend time with someone, anyone, you’ll find common ground.
  23. Green Book
    Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen are two excellent actors outclassing their material in this amiable feelgood-liberal entertainment, inspired by a true story.
  24. Sicilian Ghost Story
    It’s a film whose initial charge of mystery and intensity dissipates over its running time, the narrative impetus slows, and there is that question of tone that is very much not solved by the revelation at the end. These drawbacks are offset by the directors’ terrific confidence and visual style.
  25. The Festival
    Very soon, O’Doherty will be the headline act in comedies like these, but this good-natured crowdpleaser generously lets her steal whole stretches.
  26. The Aeronauts
    It is a film with charm and the chemistry between Jones and Redmayne has something rather platonic and even sibling-like, but that isn’t to say there isn’t a spark of sorts.
  27. Songwriter
    There is no romantic tragedy, nor even a visible grit in the oyster: just a dogged, talented, unassuming professional showing us that it’s about the perspiration, not just the inspiration.
  28. Vox Lux
    What a commanding performance from Cassidy. And Scott Walker’s orchestral score offers a sinister caress.
  29. Ray & Liz
    The whole film is like an incomplete fragment, intriguing if frustrating.
  30. Distant Constellation
    It’s a thoughtful, dream-like film, but, in the end, I’m not sure what Distant Constellation is saying about age or memory.
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