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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. Sweet Bean
    The film has an impeccable technical finish, but it is insipid, contrived, solemn, and ever so slightly preposterous.
  2. The Perfection
    There’s a rare unpredictability that initially proves alluring, at least until that confusion starts to feel less intentional.
  3. Trumbo
    [Jay Roach] wants the film to be fun, while the story is serious. It’s a good idea and an admirable intention. But it does suffer the odd wobble.
  4. XY Chelsea
    This is very much a sympathetic fly-on-the-wall with Team Chelsea, but, considering the high drama of Manning’s life, the resultant film is muted and disjointed, and given to impressionistic images – such as landscapes out of car windows – when really the time could have been spent telling us more.
  5. The Line
    [An] engrossing, unnerving but unexpectedly sympathetic drama of family dysfunction.
  6. 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.
  7. Mary Queen of Scots
    Ronan is just so good in this movie – so intelligent, so passionate, but she upstages Robbie, and Robbie’s parts of the film, often lumbered with leaden historical exposition dialogue, especially from Pearce, don’t have the same snap.
  8. Dracula
    It sometimes seems as if each Jude film is almost to be viewed once only; if you press play again, or go to the cinema to see it a second time, there will be only a blank screen, as if Jude and his ragged company have folded their tents and vanished.
  9. Allied
    Director Robert Zemeckis is usually known for his zestiness and zippiness; but this is arduous. Screenwriter Steven Knight scripted smart movies such as Locke, Dirty Pretty Things and Eastern Promises, and there are some nice touches, but it resembles an unconvincing and sluggish pastiche of a war movie.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dredd
    In a world of compromised adaptations, Dredd is something of a triumph.
  11. Medusa Deluxe
    Without a doubt, it is an impressive debut from director Thomas Hardiman, even if his script doesn’t quite pull off a first-class whodunnit.
  12. Bank of Dave
    It’s a film with a decent bit of charm, and it’s hard to argue with the greed-is-bad message.
  13. Scream
    Perhaps there is less zap in Scream nowadays and archly invoking the newer generation of indie horror - Jordan Peele is mentioned, with absolute respect - only serves in the long run to remind you how elderly Scream is. But it’s still capable of delivering some piercing high-pitched decibels.
  14. Erēmīta (Anthologies)
    The result feels a bit like being fed a plate of arthouse vegetables, a collection of not always easy-to-watch films, randomly connected and with a total running time of 58 minutes that, to be honest, is a bit of a slog.
  15. Lightyear
    The film just bounces along, zipping through its running time.
  16. Overlord
    There is something deeply crass about this facetious nonsense, and everyone involved in this film might want to reflect that Nazi medical experimentation during the second world war did in fact happen, under circumstances other than these. It was a very real thing, not just a death-metal horror movie gag.
  17. Men on the Bridge
    All in all, this is a carefully modulated plea for tolerance and mutual understanding.
  18. GOAT
    Goat lacks heart and soul, and a sense of genuine emotions.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Good Boys
    There’s just one problem. It’s mostly the same jokes over and over: cute kids cursing and not understanding sex stuff.
  20. In the Land of Saints and Sinners
    There’s bits and pieces of entertaining stuff here, a few sharp lines and a gonzo final shootout, but the overall tone of cliche is a bit wearing, correctly signalled in the title, which appears to misremember the phrase “saints and scholars”.
  21. Motherless Brooklyn
    It’s a heavy meal to digest, but this is a strong, vehement film with a real sense of time and place.
  22. The Whale
    Fraser does an honest job in the role of Charlie, and Hong Chau brings a welcome fierceness and sinew to the drama, but this sucrose film is very underpowered.
  23. Great Expectations
    A watchable and accessible revival, though not groundbreaking, and not quite matching the story's passionate fear and rapture.
  24. Warm Bodies
    Zombie-ism in the movies is traditionally inspected for metaphorical qualities. Here it could simply be that we males are emotionally dead … until love revives us.
  25. Crawl
    It’s a direct, nasty, entirely unpretentious B-movie and while this remains faint, faint, faint praise given the state of the genre, it’s one of the year’s sturdiest horror films. I wouldn’t exactly urge you to run rather then crawl to see it, but a brisk walk should do.
  26. The Mercy
    A more unforgiving approach might have been more interesting.
  27. Matthias & Maxime
    There is such tenderness and gentleness in this film.
  28. Get the Gringo
    However agonising it is to admit it, this film isn't half bad, a sparky black-comic actioner with a cute "con trick" scene showcasing Gibson's Clint Eastwood impression.
  29. McFarland USA
    There’s more to this movie than sweeping music and celebrating in slow motion. It all stems from Costner’s remarkable, taciturn performance as Coach White.
  30. Stillwater
    This is one to forget: a muddled, tonally misjudged, badly acted, uncertainly directed and frankly dubious drama, something that falls into the so-bad-it’s-bad bracket.
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