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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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    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wild Style
    Nothing else comes close to capturing the atmosphere of the early days of hip-hop and spraycan art, of the burned-out and derelict Bronx; the only colour comes from the impressive artwork as b-boys and fly girls dream of making "cash money" while scratching and rapping in kitchens, dingy bars and, in an impressive DIY turn from Double Trouble, on stoops. This isn't old skool, this is pre-school.
  2. Piece By Piece
    The Lego Pharrell is an intriguing, absurdist high concept, but not nearly as interesting as the real thing.
  3. Nyad
    This heartfelt story is always watchable.
  4. Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets
    You can't help thinking he's missed the point of Pulp. Their music denigrated the people as much as it celebrated them. Habicht leaves the city in love with a surface-level reading of Cocker's take on it.
  5. On Swift Horses
    Kass and Minahan combine old and new while rubbing suggestively against the grain: the familiar pleasures of watching charismatic young actors meet the novelty of seeing them plugged into situations our period dramas have historically overlooked.
  6. The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
    Director Will Sharpe is a potent talent whose early movies Black Pond and The Darkest Universe I loved – but this is a strained film, overwhelmed with self-consciousness at its own unearned period-biopic prestige.
  7. A Cat in Paris
    It's a slight, attractive tale: a childlike fable of a little girl and her preternaturally intelligent cat that swiftly devolves into a very old-school cops and robbers yarn.
  8. Denial
    Under the workmanlike direction of Mick Jackson (The Bodyguard), what should have been a rousing and ragingly topical crowdpleaser, instead feels more like a Lifetime movie.
  9. Heel
    The movie’s ironies and cruelties clatter across the screen, but Komasa also allows the audience to consider who it is Chris really wants to train.
  10. Cheap Thrills
    The script is smarter than the premise sounds, with writers David Chirchirillo and Trent Haaga dispensing enough information to make victims both sympathetic and despicable, the instigators charismatic and sinister.
  11. Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.
    Black church is all about feeling – the building, the people, the message. But Honk has none of that soul. At best, the film is an abstract commentary on a culture it doesn’t fully understand; at worst, it’s half-hearted creative license. And at this late stage, sadly, not even Jevus could save it.
  12. Downton Abbey: A New Era
    As hammy, silly, and undeniably entertaining as ever.
  13. Pope Francis - A Man of His Word
    Access to the great man has clearly been provided with an undertaking not to challenge, not even to ask questions, in the normal interview sense.
  14. Piercing
    It all works pretty well until the abrupt ending lets all the air out of the balloon. The dream-team pairing of Abbott and Wasikowska, two of the most interesting, subtle and risk-loving performers of their generation, is a huge compensation.
  15. The Sound of Music
    Robert Wise's adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical still has a little soul in its bones, with its reactionary nature tempered by Ernest Lehman's supple screenplay, and its elephantine running-time eased by a set of songs that lodge in your system like hookworms.
  16. I Want Your Sex
    It’s certainly a return to what many know him for – vibrant colours, unfettered sex, madcap plotting – but it’s also missing that same sense of infectiously boisterous energy. The parts are here but there’s nothing to truly animate them, just the vague hope that maybe nostalgia might be enough.
  17. Path of Blood
    As a film this is anything but banal, and operates as a potent reminder of the randomness, and casual cruelty of modern terrorism, the way it leeches out the humanity of victims and perpetrators on both sides.
  18. A Coffee In Berlin
    This debut for German writer-director Jan Ole Gerster seemingly aims to transplant a mumblecore aesthetic into Berlin, with all the requisite aimless hipsters, whimsical touches and rambling narrative dips and dives; but someone forgot to add spontaneity or edge.
  19. I'm Your Woman
    Even when it’s coasting, the cast still works hard to sell what they’re given and it remains visually handsome until the very end, an immersive and slickly captured last-act car chase proving a standout.
  20. Anna Karenina
    The Wright/Stoppard Anna Karenina is not a total success, but it's a bold and creative response to the novel.
  21. California Schemin'
    California Schemin’ is, in the end, a kindhearted film about integrity, about art for art’s sake, about embracing one’s roots.
  22. Burning Sands
    There’s no clumsy exposition here to explain motivations but delicately scattered crumbs involving status, family and the crippling strain of competitive masculinity.
  23. Banana Split
    There is no law that says a movie like this has to be funny exactly, and it needn’t be something in the style of Booksmart – but there is something rather solemn about it.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Beach Boys
    Perhaps the last 48 years are omitted for reasons of space. The film would need to be twice as long to cover them, and the second half would feel more like a particularly lurid soap opera than a music documentary. But it seems more likely it’s out of a desire to append a happy ending on to a story that doesn’t really have one.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Gaga: Five Foot Two
    Five Foot Two never quite shakes the feel of a longform advert for Gaga’s new phase that’s preaching to the converted.
  26. Human Capital
    It may be no more than the sum of its parts, and the slightly soap-operatic finale doesn’t entirely distract your attention from untied plot threads, but there is some great fancy footwork in the narrative and fierce satirical strokes that recall Tom Wolfe.
  27. Lupin III: The First
    Forgettable story aside, the film is a visual treat, full of joy and zaniness.
  28. The Eyes of My Mother
    Pesce asks viewers to go along with the absurdity while offering nothing to justify any of it. It’s a murder ballad gone out of tune.
  29. Les Miserables
    By the end, you feel like a piñata: in pieces, the victim of prolonged assault by killer pipes.
  30. Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge
    It’s an amusing, affectionate tribute.
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