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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. Alone in Berlin
    Filmed with competence rather than actual verve, Alone in Berlin works – just about. There’s enough of a thriller about it to hold the interest, even if it’s a bit on the stodgy side.
  2. Speed Sisters
    It’s not exactly hard-hitting stuff, and isn’t meant to be, but it spins an entertaining yarn.
  3. The Son of Joseph
    The Portuguese Nun (2009) was a gem of gentle comedy, and his new drama, The Son of Joseph, has the same droll innocence and lovability. With its carefully controlled, decelerated dialogue, it is weirdly moving in just the same way.
  4. Reset
    Not so much a documentary, more a sleek two-hour commercial for itself, Reset is a glossily produced non-look behind the scenes at the Paris Opera Ballet.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Great Wall
    It won’t be remembered as Zhang’s best film, but the director’s artistic touch is on display in his long panoramic sweeps and artful use of colour. Simultaneously futuristic and historic, the visual spectacle carries the film.
  6. Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
    These were two women who reached a state of balance thanks to an almost aggressive honesty.
  7. Live by Night
    By the end of a long two hours, there’s not much life left.
  8. The Girl with All the Gifts
    There are substantial talents involved in this film, but it doesn’t come together.
  9. Gold
    There’s not much that glitters in Gold, a lackluster caper that proves that even the priciest ore can bore.
  10. Monster Trucks
    It has tentacles and hot wheels, yes, but not the legs or bright ideas to sustain itself.
  11. Dangal
    Very solid, very sound entertainment, with thumpingly good Pritam songs that make Eye of the Tiger seem like pipsqueakery.
  12. The Ardennes
    A disappointment.
  13. The Pass
    The film is a bit stagey sometimes, but ambitious and insightful. Tovey is excellent as he shows someone progressing from innocence to fear and then to loneliness.
  14. Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism
    In the hands of director Christopher N Rowley and an assortment of screenwriters (including Byng), the result is a rebarbative mess – mirthless and shoddy like a disposable Christmas stocking novelty.
  15. Assassin's Creed
    It’s rare to see a film quite so lacking in animus. It exists only to gouge money out of gamers. They might well want to stick to the game.
  16. Behemoth
    What this exceptionally lucid film-survey reveals is what has to go on at ground level, and beneath the surface, in order to power a powerhouse.
  17. Passengers
    Stalking tactics bolstering romantic comedies are by no means new, and over the decades, film-makers have proved adept at somehow planing down real-world nastiness, but here it’s gruesomely inescapable.
  18. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
    This is another really entertaining fantasy with fan-fiction energy and attack.
  19. Collateral Beauty
    This horrifyingly yucky, toxically cutesy ensemble dramedy creates a Chernobyl atmosphere of manipulative sentimentality, topped off with an ending which M Night Shyamalan might reject as too ridiculous.
  20. Hidden Figures
    Hidden Figures is a bouncy, almost garish feelgood girl pic. A movie that knows right from wrong and doesn’t see any use in complicating matters.
  21. Silence
    With ambition and reach, and often a real dramatic grandeur, Scorsese’s film has addressed the imperial crisis of Christian evangelists with stamina, seriousness and a gusto comparable to David Lean’s.
  22. Office Christmas Party
    It’s a film destined for iTunes rental status, but kept from flatlining with a pretty dependable string of stupid yet funny one-liners, and a nice turn from TJ Miller as Aniston’s slacker brother.
  23. All We Had
    It’s Holmes brazen performance that remains the chief drawing point in seeking out All We Had. She burrows deep under the skin of Rita, a woman firmly aware of her many flaws and tragically unable to address them.
  24. I Am Bolt
    Raised up on the big screen, the victories look even easier and more jaw-droppingly elemental: flashes of lightning, allowing us to share in the pleasure of watching a fellow human doing something simple preternaturally well.
  25. Bad Santa 2
    Mark Waters wrings occasional snickers from a patchy script, but the whole feels tamely conventional: misanthropy passed through the usual Hollywood motions.
  26. Magnus
    Even though director Benjamin Ree has accessed the family archive of footage showing young Magnus as a socially awkward prodigy through the years and interviewed him directly many times, the film barely dents his inviolate wall of polite reticence.
  27. The Tree of Life
    This is visionary cinema on an unashamedly huge scale: cinema that's thinking big. Malick makes an awful lot of other film-makers look timid and negligible by comparison.
  28. Fences
    This film is conceived as a showcase for its performers, and, as that, it is immaculate.
  29. Baden Baden
    It is such a beguiling performance from Richard, natural, unaffected, unselfconscious, you find herself rooting for Ana, although what form success might take for her is a mystery. Very impressive work from Lang.
  30. 100 Streets
    The complete jigsaw doesn’t fit together, hampered by plot implausibilities and unrealities.
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