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For 6,656 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: 2,521 out of 6656
  2. Mixed: 3,814 out of 6656
  3. Negative: 321 out of 6656
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  1. Phantom Thread
    There is such pure delicious pleasure in this film, in its strangeness, its vehemence, its flourishes of absurdity, carried off with superb elegance.
  2. The Post
    Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep give excellent performances, though not exactly a stretch in either case, and both with a tiny, tasty touch of cheese. Their characterisations are luxuriously upholstered, effortlessly fluent, busting with relatability.
  3. Coco
    Coco is a rousing, affecting, fun and much-needed return to form after underwhelming Finding Nemo and Cars sequels and will help to ensure that Pixar’s legacy remains intact.
  4. Nails
    With its creepy music and only-just-adequate performances, this will serve nicely at future slumber parties for thrill-seeking tweens.
  5. Mudbound
    A hundred well-placed plot breadcrumbs lead us to our perfect ending, but apart from scriptwriting craft Rees gets in some bravura scenes of high tension.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Porto
    Whatever the reason, Porto – much of the action unfolds in the Portuguese holiday spot – struggles to convey its passions, despite considerable effort from its two leads, an intuitive soundtrack and handsome photography.
  7. Justice League
    There is something ponderous and cumbersome about Justice League.
  8. Wonder
    It is a film with all the depth of a fridge magnet.
  9. I Remember You
    It’s entertaining enough, but certainly didn’t have me reaching for a jumper.
  10. Destination Unknown
    Claire Ferguson’s documentary is a powerful, valuable addition to the Holocaust testimony genre.
  11. Bitch
    It’s an interesting concept, but the characters are thin and nothing here feels insightful.
  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. Murder on the Orient Express
    This film never gets up a head of steam.
  14. Paddington 2
    The film is pitched with insouciant ease and a lightness of touch at both children and adults without any self-conscious shifts in irony or tone: it’s humour with the citrus tang of top-quality thick-cut marmalade.
  15. In Between
    The script’s nuanced treatment of the complex relationships and a feel for the many-faceted, multicultural city in which it’s set – a unique urban blend of hedonism and tradition, bound together by hummus and history – redeem any shortcomings.
  16. Jigsaw
    Why drag the franchise back now? The screamingly obvious answer is sheer cash-grab cynicism. Or perhaps it’s to cater to the generation of kids who’ve grown up riding the Saw-themed roller coaster at Thorpe Park. Either way, it’s depressing.
  17. Thank You for Your Service
    Hall’s marching in lockstep with a lengthy platoon of directors who have already blazed this same path through enemy territory. And though he’s got some upstanding troops at his disposal, his plan of attack lacks that crucial unexpected element that can take an opposing battalion – or an audience – off guard.
  18. Geostorm
    We have been sold a false bill of goods.
  19. Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond — Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton
    It isn’t nearly as deep as it thinks it is, but it is marvellously entertaining.
  20. Thor: Ragnarok
    Comic book movies have spent a long time striving to be taken as serious, grown-up entertainment but Thor: Ragnarok is almost an admission that you can’t play this material straight. This is probably the wisest strategy with Thor.
  21. Liberation Day
    The mystery remains: did the North Koreans get it? Did they not get it? Or did they choose a foggy condition of semi-incomprehension as the only state in which they could reconcile ideological piety with reaching out the hated west?
  22. Wonder Wheel
    It’s by no means the worst of Allen’s later films (Cassandra’s Dream remains unrivaled in that department) and the flashes of brilliance from Winslet and stunning visuals do lift it but there’s an overwhelming, existential pointlessness to it all.
  23. Alex & Eve
    When the comedy becomes less of a focus and will-they-or-won’t-they drama rolls through tropey cogwheels, Alex & Eve loses some of its cheeky lustre and never quite gets its back again.
  24. The Snowman
    It’s a serviceable, watchable thriller, with very gruesome images.
  25. Only the Brave
    There is a sincere effort to get beneath the facade of what an extremely fit twentysomething firefighter’s life is like. There’s even a possibility that the film’s first act is intentionally distancing so that the later scenes will have a bigger payoff.
  26. Happy Death Day
    It’s Groundhog Day meets Scream, although lacking the first film’s novelty and the latter’s postmodern smarts.
  27. Bending the Arc
    Although the treacly soundtrack overpunches on the sentiment at times, this is undeniably moving stuff – especially scenes where some of the doctors see footage of patients they helped save, still very much alive and thriving today.
  28. Una
    Rooney Mara and Ben Mendelsohn bring a controlled intensity and force – and even a twisted kind of chemistry – to this disturbing if structurally flawed movie.
  29. Blade Runner 2049
    Blade Runner 2049 is a narcotic spectacle of eerie and pitiless vastness, by turns satirical, tragic and romantic.
  30. Last Flag Flying
    We don’t fully buy into the connection between these men and as a result, we care little about what happens to them. Nothing here feels lived in or real, it’s mere construct.
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