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For 6,616 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: 2,508 out of 6616
  2. Mixed: 3,788 out of 6616
  3. Negative: 320 out of 6616
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  1. The Smashing Machine
    The film does not really permit the various emotional crises and issues to supersede the importance of fighting all that much, and the fighting itself is not transformed or transfigured in the drama.
  2. GoldenEye
    From the current vantage point, this film, not yet entirely dominated by digital effects, looks like a 1960s-vintage second world war film.
  3. The Fantastic Four: First Steps
    Overall a very silly movie – though it’s keeping the superhero genre aloft.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Curse of Frankenstein
    Cushing relishes the role of his career as the sociopathic dandy whose passion for science overrides all moral considerations, while Christopher Lee conveys the dire plight of the creature through body language alone.
  5. Black '47
    It is a harrowingly effective film, though flawed by the actions of Weaving’s officer being unconvincingly motivated at the end, and perhaps born of an emollient screenwriting need to split the difference between the Irish avenger-hero and his enemies.
  6. Leo
    Brightly animated and with moments of surprising insight, there’s a warm likability to Leo that radiates, for those still in the classroom and those who left it long ago.
  7. The Lovers and the Despot
    It’s one hell of a yarn, which makes The Lovers and the Despot’s strangely soporific style something of a disappointment.
  8. Plus One
    It needed bigger laughs and more of the big, ironic comedy that Erskine can clearly deliver.
  9. Bonsái
    Jiménez's drama is crisply imprinted; another fine recent Chilean effort.
  10. Touch Me Not
    People will want to make their own minds up about the film, but for me there is something worryingly crass and naive in it.
  11. Please Baby Please
    The film feels over-determined and self-satisfied.
  12. Photograph
    It is weirdly opaque and internalised, and doesn’t ever really come to life.
  13. Last Breath
    Riveting, seamless, at points genuinely shocking, Last Breath exemplifies the possibilities of human collaboration – a feat that has stuck with me and, yes, took my breath away.
  14. Fassbinder: To Love Without Demands
    We leave the documentary loving the films rather than the film-maker.
  15. 100 Nights of Hero
    Gender, sexuality, status and power are all in flux here, a playful effect that is however withdrawn when we arrive at the sacrificial seriousness. It is a sweet tale which floats self-consciously out of the screen.
  16. The Rover
    Michôd creates a good deal of ambient menace in The Rover; Pearce has a simmering presence. But I felt there was a bit of muddle, and the clean lines of conflict and tension had been blurred: the dystopian future setting doesn't add much and hasn't been very rigorously imagined.
  17. True Mothers
    There is a sustained emotional seriousness in this movie, with committed performances.
  18. Suffragette
    Director Sarah Gavron does well to galvanize her story with a degree of urgency: the result of swift, assured camerawork and a brilliantly understated performance by Carey Mulligan.
  19. Coup de Chance
    The strong, credible performances oil the wheels during these clattering shifts of gear and serve to distract from its occasional moments of implausibility.
  20. I Am Bolt
    Raised up on the big screen, the victories look even easier and more jaw-droppingly elemental: flashes of lightning, allowing us to share in the pleasure of watching a fellow human doing something simple preternaturally well.
  21. Digger
    It’s a shame that, as it ramps up, this generational tension isn’t dramatised with the sharpness it might have been.
  22. George Michael Freedom Uncut
    There’s perhaps not enough new material to justify a re-release, but as a whole it’s still great, and a reminder of just what a class act Michael was.
  23. Colours of Time
    For all that this film is about the revolutionary and disruptive business of art, it takes a pretty un-subversive view of art and artists, compatible with the museum gift shop. But I have to admit, it’s executed with brio and comic gusto – the “past” sections, anyway – and Lindon’s performance has charm.
  24. A Desert
    Director Joshua Erkman’s feature debut manages to deliver an impressively creepy horror exercise that’s also a bit of a send-up of horror conventions.
  25. Alien: Romulus
    The resulting movie is a technically competent piece of work; but no matter how ingenious its references to the first film (let down, however, by borrowings from the A Quiet Place franchise) it has to be said that there’s a fundamental lack of originality here which makes it frustrating.
  26. Enforcement
    There are plenty of heart-pumping moments, plus a fair few false notes, a couple of implausible coincidences and some exposition-y dialogue spelling out the film’s message, which is about how the two sides see each other.
  27. 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.
  28. Attachment
    The refreshing – and rare – blend of Jewish humour and horror makes Attachment a fun Valentine’s Day watch for those who like their queer romance with a sprinkle of spooky chill.
  29. 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.
  30. Thelma the Unicorn
    In a sea of family content that’s more often than not annoying, Thelma the Unicorn surfs, for the most part, above the crowd.
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