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For 6,594 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: 2,497 out of 6594
  2. Mixed: 3,778 out of 6594
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6594
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  1. 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.
  2. The Week Of
    There are laughs, but they’re meek.
  3. 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.
  4. Journeyman
    Journeyman is flawed, but intelligent and heartfelt.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Woman Walks Ahead
    Woman Walks Ahead is a solidly crafted and well shot, if basically unchallenging film.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. The Wife
    It is a smart, supremely watchable and entertaining film, and Close gives a wonderful star turn.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. Rampage
    It is entertainingly over the top, although perhaps the CGI work isn’t quite out of the top drawer.
  18. 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.
  19. Samson and Delilah
    The effect of this movie by the Australian director Warwick Thornton is cumulative, subtle, almost stealthy.
  20. 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.
  22. Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami
    It’s a celebration of her musicality and extraterrestrial scariness, and a reminder that films about female singing stars need not be gallant tributes to tragically doomed fragility.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Paradox
    Paradox is choppy and directionless, better seen as an experimental concert film that attempted to do something more ambitious than the average music video.
  24. Pacific Rim: Uprising
    It might drift out of the memory just as easily as it drifted in, but there’s a goofy likability to Pacific Rim: Uprising, a primal thrill to be had, and a confident slickness behind it that means, despite a nearly two-hour running time, it doesn’t outstay its welcome.
  25. Summer in the Forest
    This is a calm and often affecting study of L’Arche, a community of people with learning disabilities in Trosly-Breuil, northern France.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Workshop
    It’s a film which demonstrates that debate, the exchange of ideas, can be as thrilling as any ramped up action flick.
  27. Back to Burgundy
    The characters at one stage debate the merits of a smooth, fruity wine versus something more taut and acidic: it would be tempting to say that Klapisch goes too predictably for the first option, but the problems here are more with structure than taste.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    12 Days
    It’s a quietly devastating film.
  29. Ghost Stories
    Ghost Stories is a barnstormer of an entertainment, a fairground ride with dodgy brakes.
  30. Tomb Raider
    Throughout Vikander maintains a kind of serene evenness of manner. Blandness is Lara’s theme.
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