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For 6,577 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: 2,494 out of 6577
  2. Mixed: 3,764 out of 6577
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6577
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  1. The Seagull
    Mayer’s The Seagull is not a masterpiece, but it is impressive, and for those who agree that it is important to check back in with the classics, the whole company deserves its huzzahs.
  2. Revenge
    A well made film, which slithers confidently in its slick of blood.
  3. Mountain
    The pictures are remarkable. It’s something to seek out on the big screen.
  4. Lu Over the Wall
    It seemed overextended and self-conscious.
  5. Breaking In
    These 88 minutes never drag their heels long enough for us to get hung up on their myriad implausibilities. One of those low-expectation releases that’ll see you right if Infinity War remains sold out.
  6. Life of the Party
    Life of the Party’s predictable and lethargic box-ticking of scenes (accidentally getting high – check; dance off – check), gives it the unremarkable stench of something you’ve half-watched on cable before.
  7. Everybody Knows
    Farhadi’s storytelling has overpowering force.
  8. Manhunt
    This film offers something that is never in sufficiently plentiful supply: fun.
  9. Anon
    Anon lacks identity and arrives at the finish line in a desiccated, cerebral, unsatisfying style.
  10. Tully
    It’s a marvellous movie about the lies we tell ourselves to stay sane—and the reasons why we might need to tell the truth.
  11. The Week Of
    There are laughs, but they’re meek.
  12. Beast
    [Pearce] gives us a carefully crafted dramatic setup, an intriguingly curated selection of suspects for the crime and all of it building to a fascinating, finely balanced ambiguity in the movie’s climactic stages.
  13. Journeyman
    Journeyman is flawed, but intelligent and heartfelt.
  14. Duck Butter
    Watching a couple bicker about the specifics of their relationship can be illuminating when done right, but here it becomes a chore, the problems they encounter feeling contrived and silly.
  15. Avengers: Infinity War
    Somehow in its pure uproariousness, it works. It’s just a supremely watchable film, utterly confident in its self-created malleable mythology. And confident also in the note of apocalyptic darkness.
  16. Woman Walks Ahead
    Woman Walks Ahead is a solidly crafted and well shot, if basically unchallenging film.
  17. October
    If October feels more tentative than Piku, which had rock-solid star turns to ground it, its emotion is at the last earned honestly: any structural wobbles will be nothing compared with the audience’s lower lips come the finale.
  18. Cake
    Uncommonly alert to small, telling details, while more expansive in its attitudes, the result proves far richer and worldlier than anything previously observed coming down the Khyber Pass.
  19. Jet Trash
    Belleville cranks up the colour saturation and ironic Yuletide soundtrack, but all his slo-mo hedonism can’t disguise an otherwise addled story treatment: we chop haphazardly between hemispheres, leaving characters and subplots treading crystal blue water.
  20. In the Last Days of the City
    It’s a melancholy, interesting film, slightly opaque, a cine-journal about the way youth is clouded by experience.
  21. I Feel Pretty
    Even though the script might let her down, Schumer does still manage to sell a smattering of the comic moments (the opening scene has a promising knockabout tone), but when she reaches the more dramatic elements, she struggles to convince.
  22. The Wife
    It is a smart, supremely watchable and entertaining film, and Close gives a wonderful star turn.
  23. A Quiet Place
    In its simplicity and punch, this is a film that feels as if it could have been made decades ago, in the classic age of Planet of the Apes or The Omega Man.
  24. Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc
    One can never quite tell with Dumont if he’s deadly serious about all this or laughing up his sleeve. That’s sort of what makes his work fascinating, although in this instance, viewer patience is severely tested.
  25. Come Sunday
    The good news is that Ejiofor is great even in the scenes that don’t go anywhere. Those who find heaven here on earth in the form of strong film performances ought to commune with Come Sunday. The rest can sleep in.
  26. Rampage
    It is entertainingly over the top, although perhaps the CGI work isn’t quite out of the top drawer.
  27. Blumhouse's Truth or Dare
    The director, Jeff Wadlow, has a puppyish eagerness to impress, shock and entertain and as silly as the film might get, it’s never dull.
  28. Samson and Delilah
    The effect of this movie by the Australian director Warwick Thornton is cumulative, subtle, almost stealthy.
  29. Sweet Country
    This is fiercely powerful storytelling, simple and muscular in one way, but also conveying nuance and sophistication in its depiction of character.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Ready Player One
    Those who come away cheering for Ready Player One will likely have enjoyed the film’s many references, the story’s breakneck speed and playful visual design. Others may want to unplug from the paint-by-number characters and shallow plot.
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