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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. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
    Fortunately, the animators get stuck in: the foodscape Flint's party passes through is again wittily realised, each frame sprinkled with colourful hybrid creations, from "flamangos" to "shrimpanzees".
  2. The Djinn
    Charbonier and Powell like moving through the apartment in Steadicam but this results in a soupy style that seeks to cover for the lack of positional imagination and rigour in the script.
  3. Godzilla vs. Kong
    The much-hyped battles deliver the giddy thrills we demand but in the moments when the pair aren’t at war there’s also a staggeringly well-built and extensive universe to explore and one that’s barely been teased in the trailers we’ve seen.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Terrifier 2
    Terrifier 2 is not for everyone, but this tasteless wonder meets nauseating expectations.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Cry Freedom
    A well-meaning film about the white liberal experience in South Africa – but, if you want to know about Steve Biko, look elsewhere.
  6. What's Love Got to Do with It?
    Khan’s script is one of competency rather than creativity: a sound structure, a propulsive pace and a learned awareness of genre conventions but dialogue that often feels a little first draft, a little placeholder-heavy, zingers not really zinging quite as they should.
  7. No Hard Feelings
    It’s a pleasure to find a comedy about bought sex that’s pretty funny – and funnier than the pun in the title might suggest.
  8. Doctor Sleep
    It is more than half an hour longer than the Stanley Kubrick film, although it seems more than that – laborious, directionless and densely populated with boring new characters among whom the narrative focus is muddled and split.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Streets of Fire
    Its subtitle, A Rock & Roll Fable, contains all the elements Hill looked for in a movie as a teenager in the late 50s, and in 94 minutes it manages to be an urban western, a backstage rock musical and a biker flick set in an unidentified, run-down rust-belt inner city that might be yesterday or tomorrow.
  10. Mr. Peabody & Sherman
    It's a headspinningly wacky premise, and it takes a little while for the audience to get up to speed, but once this is achieved, there's an awful lot of unexpected fun to be had, boasting zany adventures with various historical figures.
  11. The Railway Man
    From time to time, the script contextualises a little clumsily...but the playing and pacing are terrific.
  12. Extraordinary Tales
    Animator Raul Garcia’s 70-minute anthology of five Poe stories, Extraordinary Tales, has its moments, and will be a welcome respite for any middle schooler sitting through a boring lecture. But if we were ever asked if we wanted a second viewing, we’d have to quoth the raven: nevermore.
  13. Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno
    It spends its time among unfeasibly beautiful young people in microscopically tiny swimming costumes, and moves with them in a trance of heightened physicality, drifting across beaches, bars and dancefloors. The mood is dreamy unseriousness qualified occasionally by temporary stabs of jealousy or misery. The sexiness isn’t promiscuous exactly; more directionless.
  14. Lost in the Night
    Escalante’s storytelling vigour and his way with an unsettling image keep this film’s voltage high.
  15. Sing
    God, it’s so obnoxious. And the worst thing is that it works. I was smiling and applauding at the end, then I had to take a long walk alone to wonder what was wrong with me.
  16. Lizzie
    [A] gripping, well-acted and sharply-written low-budget drama.
  17. Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
    The film is a derivative, if well intentioned, piece of fan fiction.
  18. The Lovebirds
    Nanijani and Rae work well together, although “chemistry” is perhaps a stretch.
  19. On the Basis of Sex
    Subtlety isn’t this movie’s strong suit and it’s often needlessly chary about drawing the parallel between sexism and racism. But it’s got a worthwhile story to tell.
  20. Milius
    Fantasy invigorates reality in this fond retrospective of the director who embodied the renegade heart of 70s Hollywood.
  21. Kandisha
    The closing stretch – including an exorcism in an imam’s incantation-lined apartment (interior design goals!) – is brutally effective. By this time, Aisha Kandisha is a towering succubus; postcolonial theory stomping in on a pair of terrifying goat’s hooves.
  22. Bridget Jones's Baby
    What sealed the deal for me – by a whisker – was the gigantic physical comedy that Dempsey, Zellweger and Firth uncorked as they try to get through the hospital revolving door as Bridget is about to give birth, the traditional romcom rush to the airport having been re-invented for this maternal drama.
  23. Suntan
    It is superbly directed and shot with great scenes.
  24. Elvis & Nixon
    When you have two of today’s best working actors acting on a high-wire to do justice to two of the most recognisable figures of the 20th century, it’s best to keep the focus solely located on them.
  25. Quiz Lady
    The 99-minute film is long on yelling and guffaws, short on punchlines.
  26. Grigris
    It is a typically calm, lucid drama, presented in the director's unforced, cinematic vernacular and attractively and sympathetically acted.
  27. Good Grief
    There is a strenuous earnestness here, which is made to coexist with entirely artificial romcom dialogue of a kind not spoken by real human beings.
  28. Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
    Reasonably good fun.
  29. Savages
    Sadly, Savages plays up to Stone's worst tendencies: machismo, bombast and self-indulgence, and the factor that could conceivably have made this movie tolerable – humour – is off the menu.
  30. Salvo
    Salvo is a strange, involving, if flawed movie.
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