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For 6,656 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: 2,521 out of 6656
  2. Mixed: 3,814 out of 6656
  3. Negative: 321 out of 6656
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  1. Apostle
    Polarizing yet undeniably fascinating, the bait-and-switch horror film lures its viewer into a false sense of terrified security before pouncing in an anything-goes frenzy, and Evans’s latest is a prime specimen.
  2. Widows
    It is a film with a sledgehammer punch.
  3. Bad Times at the El Royale
    For all its twisty unexpectedness, it didn’t deliver a really satisfying denouement. The performances are interesting.
  4. Mandy
    It’s an uncompromising midnight movie.
  5. Kusama - Infinity
    The film is a respectful and valuable tribute.
  6. Columbus
    Columbus is an engrossing and unexpectedly passionate film, although much of the passion is displaced outwards into a feeling for space, for mass, for building materials. It is a static passion, but not inert.
  7. Private Life
    What an intelligent, emotionally grown-up film. More of this please.
  8. Viking Destiny
    The film dies an agonising death long before it ever reaches Valhalla.
  9. Studio 54
    An entertaining documentary. Maybe the full story of Studio 54 has yet to be told.
  10. 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.
  11. Tehran Taboo
    The script crackles with such bleak little jokes like this, relieving the tension in a work that could otherwise prove overwhelmingly depressing and borderline melodramatic.
  12. Blindspotting
    The film’s insidious crawl away from comedy into sweaty waking nightmare is arresting indeed. As is, finally, its insistence that some elements of American life remain too serious to joke about.
  13. Blue Iguana
    It is a story seemingly meant to be funny but only fitfully successful in this mission, and way too pleased with its own brand of deadpan wisecracking.
  14. Venom
    There are in fact one or two big gags, but no real sense of fun - not compared to something like Thor: Ragnarok. Director Ruben Fleischer, who made Zombieland and Gangster Squad, is uninspired. Venom is riddled with the poison of dullness.
  15. Skate Kitchen
    Just as in Stacy Peralta’s classic 2001 documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys, this gives its audience a sense of the almost pastoral innocence of skateboarding, its devotion to nothing more or less than having fun: a subversive urban vocation that is dedicated to the art of pleasure.
  16. Night School
    Hart’s brilliant hyperactive comedy has been dampened and smothered in this disappointingly unfunny showcase, which he has produced and co-scripted with five other credited writers.
  17. The Gospel According to André
    Talley strikes you as a man of sincerity and depth behind all the air-kissing and lamé.
  18. Johnny English Strikes Again
    The humour feels as if it is pitched at kids rather than adults, and for me Johnny English’s wacky misadventures aren’t as inventive and focused as Atkinson’s silent-movie gags in the persona of Bean.
  19. 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.
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