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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. To the Bone
    It’s a dismal TV movie of the week: trite, shallow, cautiously middlebrow and blandly complicit in the cult of female prettiness that it is supposedly criticising.
  2. 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.
  3. Bombay Rose
    The disparate ingredients do not always gel. But in fits and starts Bombay Rose casts quite a spell.
  4. Coma
    There are stabs of the same fear and revelation that made The Beast so fascinating, but this is in the main unfocused and undisciplined, and the isolation of each character merely drains the film of oxygen.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Cross of Iron
    Cross of Iron is an atmospheric, unflinching tale of the German retreat, though its sedate pace holds it back from greatness.
  6. Miss Sloane
    Chastain single handedly prevents it all from veering off the rails by dominating Miss Sloane with her forceful presence. She grounds her heroine to ensure you’re with her.
  7. Vivarium
    Vivarium is a lab-rat experiment of a film, with flat, facetious humour and a single insidious joke maintained and developed with monomaniacal intensity. In its way, this film is an emblem of postnatal depression and simple loneliness.
  8. The Chaser
    It's atmospheric but derivative, and I didn't find the denouement's Christian imagery convincing.
  9. Lion's Den
    Frustratingly, the film tells us little about the crime itself and the denouement is a little unconvincing. The taste of sweat and fear is, however, real enough.
  10. Turtles All the Way Down
    The successes are in large part owed to Merced’s sensitive, grounded performance, her open face able to pass amusement, anxiety, self-loathing vitriol, panic attack and relief like quicksand. Her performance alone can absorb the film’s rougher edges, vaguer lines and dramatic whiffs, especially when assisted by a strikingly natural Cree.
  11. The Happy Prince
    This film is a deeply felt, tremendously acted tribute to courage.
  12. Ant-Man
    Ant-Man is a cut-and-shut muddle, haunted by a ghost, produced by a high-end hot dog factory, by turns giddying and stupefying. Watching it is like channel-surfing between "Hot Fuzz", a duff early 90s Michael Douglas drama and the very schlockiest bits of "Interstellar".
  13. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
    Director Francis Laurence ekes a paltry story out. The special effects are limp and the script a little creaky, although somehow it still manages to thrill.
  14. Where to Invade Next
    Where to Invade Next is a romantic film, equally affecting and annoying in its simplicity.
  15. Big Time Adolescence
    It’s a gentle, predictable film that doesn’t exactly put any steps wrong in its depiction of adolescence but Orley doesn’t quite do enough right for it to linger in the memory for longer than the credits.
  16. Give Me Pity!
    Everything about this film is very well observed.
  17. Tip Top
    There's so much thrown into Tip Top that nothing stands out.
  18. Ali's Wedding
    This is a film in which you will hear a letter read aloud, with a voice-over saying the words “you dared to dream”, delivered without irony. It is, as they say, what it is. Perhaps most interesting is Walker’s depiction of the mosque congregation. With its politics and divided factions, this part of the film feels utterly authentic and is dramatically interesting.
  19. Possum
    This film induces a grisly shiver, like a slug dropped down the back of your neck, and there are some amazing images. But I wondered if it was finally unfinished and anticlimactic.
  20. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
    Now Guardians of the Galaxy has reached the threequel stage: overlong, yes, and finally reaching for an importance and emotional closure (perhaps inspired by Gunn’s own emotional corporate redemption) that it doesn’t quite encompass, while leaving the GOTG brand open for a next-gen reboot. But it’s still spectacular, spirited and often funny.
  21. Skywalkers: A Love Story
    You get the impression they are only comfortable sharing their lives when they’re perched above where the rest of us live. But I’d be lying if I said I didn’t find them swoon-worthy, never mind the cryptocurrencies and branded partnerships circling their pursuits.
  22. Bookworm
    This is a shameless heartstring plucker. But it’s charming and sometimes very funny.
  23. Crown Heights
    It’s an earnest rather then energetic retelling but Stanfield’s stare is indelible.
  24. Cold Storage
    Where it initially threatens to be a new The Thing, it finally serves up sloppy zomcom; just about enough for a Friday night but not much else.
  25. Elizabeth: A Portrait in Part(s)
    Sad to say, it goes down like a cup of tepid, milky and over-sugared tea.
  26. Spelling the Dream
    While it doesn’t have the same tense grip of Spellbound, it’s an amiable enough diversion.
  27. All You Need Is Kill
    It might work if Rita was a more appealing protagonist, capable of wringing out gallows humour or personal tragedy from her predicament.
  28. We Have a Pope
    Nanni Moretti's new film is occasionally amusing, but is also a frustrating and directionless experience.
  29. I Am Mother
    I Am Mother is undoubtedly a strong calling card with plenty on its mind. I just wish it had figured out what to do with it all.
  30. Becoming Led Zeppelin
    Overall, this is a likable and well-researched film, but there is something unsatisfying in ignoring the band’s later stages. Perhaps Part II is in the works.
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