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For 6,576 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 2.2 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: 2,493 out of 6576
  2. Mixed: 3,764 out of 6576
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6576
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  1. Bad Samaritan
    Given the nasty taste in the mouth that the film leaves, it seems almost besides the point to worry about plot holes.
  2. Luis and the Aliens
    This bland and predictable animation about an outsider kid who makes friends with aliens pinches an awful lot of its ideas from superior family films, without reviving any of their wonder or fun.
  3. The Wild Boys
    Mandico has made a wildly strange debut, striking enough to make you sit up and pay attention.
  4. Makala
    It is a sad and lonely world, sympathetically captured, beautifully photographed.
  5. Alpha
    It is a bit silly, but is likable hokum.
  6. The King
    Just when we thought it was impossible to say something new about , documentary film-maker Eugene Jarecki pulls it off.
  7. The Spy Who Dumped Me
    It’s pretty much impossible for Kate McKinnon to dip below a basic level of funny, and her presence keeps the fizz in this spy spoof action-comedy from director and co-writer Susanna Fogel.
  8. The Happytime Murders
    As with all overwhelmingly poor movies, it’s the delicate confluence of many varied factors that creates the critic’s familiar feeling of despairing hopelessness in the cinema.
  9. Operation Finale
    The debate over the utility of violence and the dignity owed prisoners of war has raged since time immemorial, and recent developments have only amplified the decibel level. Operation Finale zeroes in on these complex dynamics, only to erase their nuance.
  10. The Bookshop
    It is a strange, subdued, rather miserable film, interestingly perceptive on conformism and philistinism as a way of life, and on the disconcerting wiles the inhabitants use in order to thwart Florence’s entirely reasonable plans.
  11. The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
    It is romantic and hallucinogenic, with an edge of softcore erotic sleaze.
  12. Gold
    It’s spry, stirring entertainment foremost – arguably indulging its star with one drunk number too many – but also evidence of a country beginning to tell its own stories with confidence and justifiable pride.
  13. Christopher Robin
    For all the expensive honey drizzled over this script, Forster’s film is just unpersuasively weird for an hour, before it tails off in the softest of focuses.
  14. Distant Constellation
    It’s a thoughtful, dream-like film, but, in the end, I’m not sure what Distant Constellation is saying about age or memory.
  15. The Guardians
    The beauty and the pathos of the film are vivid in every frame.
  16. Songwriter
    There is no romantic tragedy, nor even a visible grit in the oyster: just a dogged, talented, unassuming professional showing us that it’s about the perspiration, not just the inspiration.
  17. The Escape
    A superlative performance from Gemma Arterton is at the centre of this almost unbearably painful and sad film from writer-director Dominic Savage.
  18. Ant-Man and the Wasp
    It buzzes with uncomplicated enjoyment.
  19. El Mar La Mar
    Their film pushes the limits of documentary filmmaking and will likely push the tolerance of viewers. This is a demanding watch, the arthouse cinema equivalent of the marshmallow experiment, testing the attention span of audiences.
  20. Sicilian Ghost Story
    It’s a film whose initial charge of mystery and intensity dissipates over its running time, the narrative impetus slows, and there is that question of tone that is very much not solved by the revelation at the end. These drawbacks are offset by the directors’ terrific confidence and visual style.
  21. The Big Bad Fox & Other Tales
    The look is cute, deceptively simple and suggestive of the illustrations in children’s books, however, the 2D minimalism is executed with a high degree of craft. It is hard to make something like this look so easy and effortless.
  22. Damascus Cover
    The twist ending is muddled, and has a rather bland and emollient equivalence between intelligence agencies.
  23. Hearts Beat Loud
    You might need a sweet tooth for this gentle, Hornbyesque drama from writer-director Brett Haley. But it’s a likable heartwarmer and very decently acted.
  24. 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.
  25. Teen Titans Go! To the Movies
    A handful of jokes in this minipop Ragnarok, like the crack at Gene Hackman’s role in the 1978 Superman, land at the exact sweet spot where fond fanboy scholarship meets sublime goofiness.
  26. Acute Misfortune
    This is an enthralling drama: the best and most interesting Australian biopic since Chopper in 2000.
  27. The Darkest Minds
    The pieces of a potential franchise are put in play here without stakes being raised or pulses quickened.
  28. I Can Only Imagine
    For all the faith-based platitudes baked into the script, it has to be conceded that directing brothers Andrew and Jon Erwin steer the ship steadily and draw out sincere and persuasive performances from Finley, who really can sing gloriously well, and Quaid, who even with a now ravaged visage is still just as dangerous, compelling and sexy as ever.
  29. Beirut
    This isn’t a particularly chancy film, unless the decision to go old school is considered such. It is still, however, quite good.
  30. The Heiresses
    Martinessi shrewdly combines subtlety, melancholy, satirical observation and candour about sex.
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