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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. The LEGO Batman Movie
    It doesn’t have the heart, the depth or the novelty of the first Lego movie, but it is relentlessly, consistently funny – which excuses everything.
  2. Rings
    This offshoot is essentially a well-produced, easily accessed B-movie. Still, it wouldn’t kill you to watch it, and it does more than expected to reinvent its particular wheel.
  3. Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Dark Side of Dimensions
    As must be obvious to real connoisseurs, I am hardly a natural consumer fit with this franchise. It may well play with fans, but will in all probability make no converts.
  4. Lovesong
    Keough and Malone convey a palpable sense of yearning for one another during these sequences, but Kim and Bradley Rust Gray’s barebones script doesn’t match their efforts.
  5. War on Everyone
    You can’t let your heroes be truly, purely horrible. But McDonagh’s moral twist comes in way too late and much too hard. It leaves you dizzy.
  6. Newness
    Surely there is a good movie to be made about caring polyamorous relationships, but as with any romantic story the audience needs to fall in love with the idea of these characters being in love.
  7. God's Own Country
    This debut feature from Yorkshire-born actor and first-time director Francis Lee is tough, sensual, unsentimental, with excellent lead performances from Josh O’Connor and Alec Secareanu.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    City of Ghosts
    The film is about more than simply personal loss and Heineman’s admiration of journalist activists. It’s a guide to the media war being fought between Isis’s video team and RBSS.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Casting JonBenét
    This isn’t really a film in search of a definitive truth – it’s a deliberate provocation to the conventional notion of truth in the age of media frenzies over salacious crime.
  10. The Polka King
    What’s key is that even though this is a movie about a scoundrel, it’s all very optimistic. Forbes and Wolodarsky keep the frame bright and the filmmaking calls attention to itself only when necessary.
  11. The Yellow Birds
    Yellow Birds goes heavy on the brooding, and even though a lot of it looks gorgeous and carries the whiff of great importance it is ultimately stunted by a central event that isn’t worth the mystery that surrounds it.
  12. Beach Rats
    Beach Rats is a captivating character study and one that feels vital.
  13. Whose Streets?
    Directors and activists Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis’s outstanding and incendiary documentary about Ferguson does a tremendous end run around mainstream news outlets and the agenda-driven narratives that emerge, particularly on television.
  14. iBoy
    For me the superpower idea can only work with humour and lightness of touch: and there is a persistent and disconcerting joylessness about this.
  15. Wilson
    As things go bad for Wilson, the movie, unfortunately, loses a considerable amount of steam as well.
  16. 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.
  17. Call Me by Your Name
    Call Me By Your Name is a masterful work because of the specificity of its details.
  18. Lost in London
    Harrelson is an affectionate director, finding memorable bits for performers all across the cast list, and his writing is peppered with arresting phrases.
  19. A Ghost Story
    Not all is explained in A Ghost Story, but enough is there for vibrant discussion to break out the minute the credits rolled.
  20. Landline
    The movie itself is a retread of indie story beats we’ve all seen time and again. Slate’s tornado of a central character doesn’t quite overcome the rote aspects of this production.
  21. The Discovery
    The final act is a pineal flooding of baffling explanations and twists. What’s worse is that there is very little drama underpinning it; by this late stage the collected characters are still stuck dredging up their backstories, doing little to propel the narrative forward.
  22. An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
    An Inconvenient Sequel is more a portrait of Gore than a call to arms. It ends with a sort of forced positivity, much of which is recycled directly from the first movie: political change is hard, but we can do it, morality demands it.
  23. T2 Trainspotting
    Danny Boyle’s T2 Trainspotting is everything I could reasonably have hoped for - scary, funny, desperately sad, with many a bold visual flourish.
  24. xXx: Return of Xander Cage
    Vin, great ridiculous beefcake lunk that he is, does provide us with some fun.
  25. Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo
    The film has its own specific vibe, thanks in part to the writer-directors’ unique, immersive sense of the milieu and the leads’ tender chemistry.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Strike a Pose
    The film makes clear that being fearless and bold is a luxury megastars can enjoy, but the rest of us end up having to make compromises.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Starless Dreams
    [A] brilliant documentary.
  28. The Founder
    The Founder is an absorbing and unexpectedly subtle movie about the genesis of the McDonald’s burger empire.
  29. The Book of Love
    As well as its plot being eerily similar to that of Demolition, it’s just as misguided.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies
    The acting is wooden and the special effects aren’t all that special, but it’s a spirited effort and doesn’t drag during its 78 minutes. You’ll never approach après-ski in the same way again.
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