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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. 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.
  2. The Climbers
    The gusto and pace put many of 2019’s American blockbusters to shame, and – right through to a wildly overcranked final act that throws up surprises like spindrift – Lee balances vertiginous, windswept set-pieces with satisfying character beats.
  3. The Gentlemen
    Ritchie has made an entertaining return to his mockney roots.
  4. Richard Jewell
    Hauser is the star and he keeps the film on track: poignant, lonely and vulnerable – maintaining the tricky balance of laugh-at and laugh-with.
  5. The Last Tree
    It’s a charismatic performance from Adewunmi, and Amoo’s camera often comes in close to his face and his gaze, suggesting that Femi is on the verge of some kind of epiphany or vision – and it’s nothing to do with the drugs.
  6. 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.
  7. Farming
    Farming is a tough film on a tough subject. There’s not much light and shade – but there can’t have been much light and shade going through it in real life – and Gubu Mbatha-Raw’s role as the concerned teacher is weakly drawn.
  8. The Current War
    This a watchably stylised period film, with interesting visual setpieces and faces looming up at us out of intricately contrived backgrounds.
  9. Tales from the Lodge
    With well-timed rhythms and backchat, the ensemble is quite credible as a gaggle of slightly obnoxious, mildly likable millennials on the brink of middle age.
  10. Holiday In The Wild
    It’s cheesy, it’s stupid, but it’s also really quite charming.
  11. To Kid or Not to Kid
    Even though Trump puts herself, her husband and many members of her family at the heart of the story, the end result never feels navel-gazing or narcissistic.
  12. When Lambs Become Lions
    I’m not sure that I was completely on board with this film, which appears to have smoothly carpentered its narrative in the edit. Is it almost too good to be true?
  13. The Banker
    Inspiring until the end if not entirely entertaining.
  14. The Call of the Wild
    The result is a bit corny, a bit cheesy and you might feel self-conscious going, “Aww …” at creatures that are not real dogs but laptop fabrications. But it’s a robust and old-fashioned entertainment with some real storytelling bite.
  15. Emma.
    Sometimes the casting and staging work well, sometimes not so well.
  16. The Willoughbys
    While The Willoughbys might not boast the slick structure or beating heart of a Pixar animation, there’s enough offbeat charm to make it an easily digestible watch and for any concerned parents, the practice of “orphaning” involves so much work, your kids will likely be scared off.
  17. 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.
  18. Spies in Disguise
    As with so many family animations right now, I felt that the script stays on the safe side, with fewer smart lines and ironic gags than I might have wished for, but this is a good-natured entertainment.
  19. Free Guy
    Free Guy isn’t going to have many MA theses written about it, but it has entertainment value.
  20. The Roads Not Taken
    Sally Potter’s The Roads Not Taken is a sad, painful, self-conscious vignette of a film with forthright performances; it’s a chamber piece in many ways, but with bold flashback excursions that come close to causing its emotional engine to overheat.
  21. The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
    A handsomely made return to form for a series that had been showing signs of fatigue.
  22. The Lovebirds
    Nanijani and Rae work well together, although “chemistry” is perhaps a stretch.
  23. Scare Me
    It works for the most part because of Ruben and Cash and the spiky chemistry they share.
  24. Amanda
    [A] good-natured and well-intentioned film.
  25. Sergio
    The sweeping, full-throated romance of the last act might not work for some, who could conceivably argue its dominance leaves gaps in Sérgio’s professional life, but it makes for an emotionally satisfying ending.
  26. Detective Chinatown 3
    There’s a puppyish charm here.
  27. The Booksellers
    The interest of this garrulous, convivial documentary creeps up on you by degrees.
  28. The Amusement Park
    The important thing is to be disturbed.
  29. Present.Perfect.
    This is a film in touch with modernity, but I wonder if the livestreamers were quite as apolitical as this film makes them appear. And I was unsure about Zhu’s decision to correct all the images from colour to black-and-white, an arthouse-ification that the film didn’t need.
  30. The Many Saints of Newark
    Michael Gandolfini is goosebump-inducing as the young Tony Soprano, amid race riots and antagonism towards rival African American gangs.
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