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For 6,576 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: 2,493 out of 6576
  2. Mixed: 3,764 out of 6576
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6576
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  1. Sandy Wexler
    There is something so authentic in this film that once you get past the annoying voice and some of the dreadfully unfunny side characters, it is disarmingly sweet and even occasionally clever.
  2. Tommy's Honour
    In the end, it’s Lowden’s fresh-faced enthusiasm and Mullan’s gravitas – operating at about a quarter of the level we know he’s capable of – keeping things afloat.
  3. The Fate of the Furious
    This is a big dumb action movie in its purest, most honourable sense: fast, furious and frequently fun.
  4. City of Tiny Lights
    Too often City of Tiny Lights is let down by an overeagerness to play up its source material, and hampered by unnecessarily showy direction and inadvisable attempts at gumshoe dialogue.
  5. Another Mother's Son
    A decent, heartfelt, robustly presented drama.
  6. Who's Gonna Love Me Now?
    [An] affecting and sincere documentary.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Last Men in Aleppo
    Last Men in Aleppo is one of the most difficult documentaries you’ll see this year.
  8. The Ticket
    Admirably cynical until it loses its way in the final stretch, The Ticket nevertheless maintains a provocative allure, bolstered by a fiercely committed performance from Dan Stevens.
  9. All These Sleepless Nights
    It’d be easy to dismiss as jaded hipsterism but the film isn’t scared to laugh at itself and the unsustainable lifestyle its protagonists are clinging to.
  10. Aftermath
    This is a two-dimensional piece of work.
  11. Smurfs: The Lost Village
    Fans of smurfiness may well like it, and Gargamel gets some nice lines, but I have to say that both script and animation are entirely predictable, as if generated by some computer software.
  12. A Silent Voice
    It’s a beguiling film: subtle, sensuous and delicate.
  13. The Blackcoat's Daughter
    The frozen landscapes are undeniably gorgeous and the empty school halls are chilling. There are crafty moments here and there, glimpses of the midnight movie that could have been. February’s big villain is precisely what the film is lacking: a devilish spirit.
  14. Salt and Fire
    For all his faults as a narrative film-maker, Herzog can at least be counted on to keep his non-documentary excursions unpredictable.
  15. Truman
    Camara and Darin contribute outstanding work here, a beautifully meshed pair of performances that reveals nearly everything you need to know about the characters and their inner lives through exchanged looks, shrugs and the odd arched eyebrow.
  16. Ghost in the Shell
    It’s a spectacular movie, watchable in its way, but one which – quite apart from the “whitewashing” debate – sacrifices that aspect from the original which over 20 years has won it its hardcore of fans: the opaque cult mystery, which this film is determined to solve and to develop into a resolution, closed yet franchisable.
  17. Despite the Falling Snow
    It features laborious acting and directing, and a screenplay whose revelations are uninteresting, even were they not guessable long in advance.
  18. All This Panic
    Gage’s remarkably intimate portrait of female youth on the verge leaves you with a largely hopeful feeling that this particular group of women will make good on that advice.
  19. I, Olga Hepnarová
    Even if you go into this film knowing absolutely nothing about the true story on which it’s based...you’ll sense something dreadful is going to happen because so much of it is crushingly dull.
  20. Life
    It’s a serviceable, watchable, determinedly unoriginal film.
  21. Saban's Power Rangers
    The film achieves a functioning mediocrity we perhaps might have thought beyond this franchise, offering a modicum of diversion in return for the cash disappeared from your wallet.
  22. The Zookeeper's Wife
    All told The Zookeeper’s Wife is a story worth telling, even if there are a good number of not-so-hot spots along the way.
  23. Get Out
    Get Out is very creepy, very funny and as pitiless as a surgeon’s scalpel.
  24. The Time of Their Lives
    There is a creeping and depressing awfulness to this sentimental silver-years comedy.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Devil's Candy
    It’s the deeply felt affection for metal that really makes The Devil’s Candy sing.
  26. P.S. Jerusalem
    This is a conversation starter, not especially distinguished as film-making but vital and deeply felt.
  27. Burn Your Maps
    We can debate if Burn Your Maps merely fetishises a different culture or holds it in true reverence, but I’d like to give it the benefit of the doubt. If nothing else, the performances are terrific all around.
  28. The Transfiguration
    The Transfiguration is a character study first and foremost, spending all of its time with Milo. Problem is, he’s so opaque that as a protagonist, he’s completely impenetrable.
  29. Song to Song
    Song to Song is, once you root around for a story, the best of a recent trilogy.
  30. Raw
    What is very impressive about Raw is that absolutely everything about it is disquieting, not just the obvious moments of revulsion: there is no let up in the ambient background buzz of fear.
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