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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 Untamed
    In all honesty The Untamed doesn’t seem to go anywhere special. But connoisseurs of oddness may cherish it.
  2. Dark Night
    Occasionally too emblematic as individuals, the characters collectively mesh into a portrait of a dislocated society elevated by Sutton’s talent for disorienting imagery.
  3. American Made
    The beamingly ingenuous Cruise, whose character is not burdened with any doubts or an inner life, somehow sells it to you.
  4. Killing Ground
    The elegance of Power’s approach belies the extremities of his blood-splotched, hard-nosed story. Which, as the film escalates conflicts and scampers towards closure, is more than grim – borderline misanthropic, perhaps.
  5. Bushwick
    Sadly the acting and dialogue needed a little work.
  6. Logan Lucky
    It’s all wonderfully preposterous, but also endearing and gratifying.
  7. Clash
    The movie stunningly replicates that sense of inside and outside that must be felt by witnesses to any historic moment: the private debate, the enclosed conflict, and the theatre of confrontation unfolding beyond. What a dynamic piece of cinema.
  8. England Is Mine
    It’s decently and honestly acted by Jack Lowden, who keeps the film alive, but it somehow winds up being a story about always following your dream and never giving up.
  9. Marjorie Prime
    It’s a haunting little film that ends with a somewhat overwhelming poignancy.
  10. The Queen of Spain
    Cruz carries the film. She has a ridiculous kind of heroism, and her disguises are hilarious, particularly as a knight, when she insists on wearing a false beard under her helmet.
  11. Patti Cake$
    Patti Cake$ is by no means a hopelessly bad movie, it’s just hampered by its desperate need to be a crowd-pleaser.
  12. The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature
    The summer of inessential animation continues with this very middling sequel to 2014’s semi-forgotten squirrel-based timekiller.
  13. Machines
    A sombre, relevant piece of work.
  14. After Love
    After Love is intelligent, compassionate, challenging film-making.
  15. The Dark Tower
    It’s rare that a film so convoluted also manages to be so determinedly boring.
  16. The Emoji Movie
    The Emoji Movie is a force of insidious evil, a film that feels as if it was dashed off by an uninspired advertising executive.
  17. Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life
    It’s a film to remind you of the almost miraculously collaborative nature of cinema, but also the radiant personalities of individuals.
  18. Detroit
    This is a sombre, grieving movie which appears to gesture to the ghost-town ruin that is still in Detroit’s future.
  19. A Family Man
    It’s run-of-the-mill, and crassly manipulative.
  20. The Midwife
    It is a very good idea for a two-hander, and Frot and Deneuve give it their considerable all.
  21. Kuso
    If the film wasn’t so cheekily self-aware it might be literally unbearable, but every so often it references its own grotesquerie.
  22. The Fencer
    The set-up is a bit schmaltzy and the only guesswork is how bitter the bittersweet ending will be, but Haro coaxes strong performances from the cast.
  23. Our Beloved Month of August
    Our ­Beloved Month Of August is a real one-off: ­eccentric and singular and ­cerebral: an arthouse event, yes, but also witty and emotionally engaged. I found myself thinking about it for days afterwards – and smiling a very great deal. Try it.
  24. Dunkirk
    This is a powerful, superbly crafted film with a story to tell, avoiding war porn in favour of something desolate and apocalyptic, a beachscape of shame, littered with soldiers zombified with defeat, a grimly male world with hardly any women on screen. It is Nolan’s best film so far.
  25. The Death of Louis XIV
    This quietly amazing film is conceived in terms of pure minimalist intimacy.
  26. To the Bone
    It’s a dismal TV movie of the week: trite, shallow, cautiously middlebrow and blandly complicit in the cult of female prettiness that it is supposedly criticising.
  27. Wish Upon
    This is carelessly made trash but worse, it’s carelessly made trash that thinks it will spawn not just a franchise but a cinematic universe.
  28. The Sea
    Hinds is a strong, wounded presence, but the laboured structure cuts insistently around him to get at a psychology mostly scrambled in translation. This Sea's just too choppy.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Chaplin
    Robert Downey Jr sparkles as the British comedy giant but Richard Attenborough's film feels somewhat dutiful around him.
  30. The House
    The exuberant comic talents of Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler are largely wasted in this uninspired addition to the frat movie canon, which resembles reheated leftovers of the Hangover, albeit with a curious detour into some heavy bloodletting.
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