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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. August: Osage County
    It's bracing, but it does feel closer to panto than melodrama, more exhausting than illuminating.
  2. It: Chapter Two
    Like the first film, it becomes a virtual non-narrative anthology of standard jump-scares that could be reshuffled and shown in any order. The second time around, your tolerance for this is tested to destruction and beyond because, unlike the first movie, it is just so pointlessly long.
  3. Tokyo Tribe
    Amusingly tacky and offensive though it is, proceedings grow a bit monotonous, because all the tunes have pretty much the same beat and everything is pitched at the same hysterical, OTT level.
  4. F9: The Fast Saga
    This deafening fantasia of internal and external combustion delivers outrageous action spectacle magnificently divorced from the rules of narrative or gravity. . . . I think we can include Isaac Newton among the people who are getting their asses kicked here.
  5. The Strays
    British actor/writer Nathaniel Martello-White’s directorial debut nudges at some uncomfortable fault lines of race and class, but tends to over-index unearned suspense for character development or insight.
  6. Jason Bourne
    The Snowden/social media plotline of this film does a bit to make Bourne more relevant. But the ingredients are basically the same.
  7. Nocturne
    Nocturne is simpatico with a protagonist who, in lieu of greatness, decides to steal – then play it like she owns it. An elegant, forking finale proves as much.
  8. Flamin' Hot
    It’s cheerily done and competently made but broadly sentimental to a fault, the strings being pulled too visible for the film’s many coerced moments of emotion to really work. For a film all about the importance of heat, it’s frankly lukewarm.
  9. Victoria and Abdul
    What a peculiarly dodgy, conservative film this is – a lazy salute to a good queen and her faithful Indian servant. It’s a film about the Raj era that looks as if it was made back then, too.
  10. The Last Shift
    It’s a mismatched buddy film, but not entirely unsuccessful thanks largely to Jenkins, who can play a role such as this with his eyes closed, and McGhie who captures a mixture of righteousness and despondency.
  11. Boston Strangler
    A director like Jonathan Demme or David Fincher would have gone for the jugular on this kind of material, but writer-director Matt Ruskin seems a little squeamish and keeps everything on the right side of contemporary taste. The chill of fear is missing.
  12. No Stone Unturned
    For all his commitment and drive, Gibney shows us the trees but not the wood, and never quite nails the cover-up itself.
  13. Wolf Totem
    Annaud’s film can’t help itself galloping off in allegorical bursts barely under his control, and intriguingly off-course from the kind of bold messages of national conciliation officially sanctioned Chinese films tend to convey.
  14. Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
    Brainwashed is a bracing blast of critical rigour, taking a clear, cool look at the unexamined assumptions behind what we see on the screen.
  15. Freaky Tales
    For a film so clearly designed to be fun above all else, it ends up being a bizarre slog.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stoker
    Literary references and symbolism abound in Stoker. You can get tied up trying to figure out who is what. That is the idea. All the clues are there. You just have to look closely.
  17. Nerve
    It’s rare when you can pinpoint the exact moment a movie goes off the rails, but when Nerve downshifts from far-fetched parable into idiotic action, the film at least has the decency to speed itself along to get to the ending.
  18. Eternity
    I admired a great deal here, though, especially Freyne’s attempt to transport us back to a cinema landscape before it was dulled down by streaming. That’s an afterlife I would happily choose.
  19. The Highwaymen
    Hamer and Gault won the day in a hail of submachine fire, but even their hagiography can’t hide that they’re history’s losers.
  20. An American Pickle
    An American Pickle is a tasty, insubstantial snack of a comedy.
  21. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
    This pretty routine follow-up has some decent material and amiable bad taste, heavily diluted with gallons of very ordinary sequel product: more of the same.
  22. 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.
  23. Les Indésirables
    Rejecting partisanship to affect the appearance of balance doesn’t make sense when dealing with situations defined by imbalance. Both Ly’s Hollywood bombast and impulse to undue generosity in his political convictions fight the vulcanized hardness of his bracing outrage, and ultimately prove little about today’s powder kegs.
  24. High & Low: John Galliano
    The happy ending redemption narrative is not entirely earned.
  25. The Mule
    As a drama, it’s frustratingly insubstantial, failing to provide enough of an emotional centre or a convincing payoff.
  26. Apex
    The whole affair feels slick but soulless, with no personality or – despite the lush settings – any real sense of place.
  27. The Spine of Night
    It’s best not to think too hard about it and just let the striking imagery and saturated colours wash over your retinas.
  28. Sisters
    It’s silly and poignant and funny.
  29. The Dictator
    The Dictator isn't going to win awards and it isn't as hip as Borat. Big goofy outrageous laughs is what it has to offer.
  30. Quantum of Solace
    Quantum of Solace isn't as good as Casino Royale: the smart elegance of Craig's Bond debut has been toned down in favour of conventional action. But the man himself powers this movie; he carries the film: it's an indefinably difficult task for an actor. Craig measures up.
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