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For 6,628 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: 2,512 out of 6628
  2. Mixed: 3,796 out of 6628
  3. Negative: 320 out of 6628
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  1. A Real Pain
    A Real Pain is occasionally insightful on the subject of suffering, sometimes funny, a bit endearing, a little pretentious, often dry.
  2. Sebastian
    Mäkelä is too in bed with his protagonist’s objectives to develop the kind of perspective that might yield richer insights into the life/art trade-off.
  3. Skywalkers: A Love Story
    You get the impression they are only comfortable sharing their lives when they’re perched above where the rest of us live. But I’d be lying if I said I didn’t find them swoon-worthy, never mind the cryptocurrencies and branded partnerships circling their pursuits.
  4. Porcelain War
    A sombre, steadfast argument for art’s life-giving properties.
  5. Seeking Mavis Beacon
    The resulting documentary is anything but conventional.
  6. Nocturnes
    If you’re in the right headspace, the whole thing is quite entrancing. Still, it’s also an extremely rarefied sort of entertainment.
  7. Will & Harper
    It’s a generous, sensitive study of allyship and what that really means in the day-to-day with Ferrell working out in different, often potentially dangerous, situations how to do the right thing.
  8. Winner
    As far as zeitgeisty nonfiction goes, Winner is one of the better ones, at once entertaining and illuminative.
  9. Eno
    You could almost call [Eno] a meta-artist. And this is his meta-documentary; it is not, ultimately, as radical as it purports to be, or as revealing as it could have been perhaps (some external viewpoints would have been welcome), but stimulating and cerebral all the same.
  10. Thelma
    Squibb is however really good: no other casting is conceivable, and it is good to see her get the lead turn she deserves.
  11. June
    This is a respectful film, but it does pick a little at the myth of the Johnny’n’June love story.
  12. Kneecap
    The film really comes to life in the actual hip-hop scenes; the musical sequences have originality, comedy and freedom. The rest of the time, the film looks worryingly like a late 90s-early 00s cool Britannia geezer-gangster romp.
  13. Rob Peace
    Rob is turned from stereotype to person, thanks to Will’s incredible work and Ejiofor’s unwavering commitment to capturing a full life, supported by Rob’s mother off screen. It’s an involving yet troubling tribute.
  14. Layla
    It’s carried by a winning performance from Hasna.
  15. Sujo
    A strongly intended and conceived film, but without the passion of the earlier work.
  16. Road House
    You come to the Road House for a good time and some knuckle-cracking fights, and on that front, this film delivers, owing to some truly impressive stunt work, a fully convincing performance from Gyllenhaal in Southpaw form, and a crackling screen debut from UFC champ-cum-entertainer Conor McGregor.
  17. Monkey Man
    If you have the stomach for singularly focused revenge and some truly graphic, visceral hand-to-hand combat, Monkey Man delivers the goods.
  18. Sleeping Dogs
    This is certainly not a crime thriller in the dourly realistic “cold case” vein; it is outrageously over-the-top at all times, with crazy and almost dreamlike convolutions of plot, and yet its silliness is enjoyably dramatised.
  19. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
    As another one of the director’s mid-budget, mid-level crowd-pleasers, it mostly works – well-made enough to distract in the moment but not quite enough to last in the many after, unlikely to catapult him to the top or sink him to the bottom.
  20. Shirley
    Shirley gets the job done, though I wish it was more worthy of her complexity.
  21. Unfrosted
    As a whole, it’s not exactly a masterpiece, but amiable and funny in a way that’s much harder to achieve than it looks.
  22. Thelma the Unicorn
    In a sea of family content that’s more often than not annoying, Thelma the Unicorn surfs, for the most part, above the crowd.
  23. The Union
    The mood is light, the stunts impressive and, mercifully, the film is not nearly as cheap-looking nor dull as Netflix brethren such as The Man from Toronto or Lift.
  24. Trigger Warning
    Alba hasn’t always made the strongest impression as an actor but this mode works well for her, convincing both in her many hand-to-hand combat scenes (her weapon of choice is a knife rather than a gun) and as an old-fashioned movie star, light on emotional depth but heavy on charisma.
  25. Cuckoo
    But as effective as the film might be in the moment, Singer’s increasingly sloppy plotting starts to get in the way of the bigger picture by the frantic last act, which is both strangely filled with exposition info dumps yet still lacking in much sense.
  26. Joy
    It’s a somewhat stagey reconstruction but an approachable and humane account of a great moment in scientific history.
  27. Lonely Planet
    It’s better, more grounded and self-aware than expected, enough to overcome the cliches and occasionally clunky dialogue. It’s a mostly enjoyable addition to the welcome sub-genre about 40-plus, desiring women as considered, desirable subjects.
  28. Meet Me Next Christmas
    It exists in Netflix festive movie world, an ever-expanding place of ever-diminishing returns, and while this won’t be a film someone would consider returning to next Christmas, it’ll just about do for now.
  29. The Piano Lesson
    The ensemble cast work wonderfully and intuitively together; I loved the surges of emotion, and then the palate-cleansing moments of silence and calm. The song is a tremendous setpiece and the dialogue has a music of its own.
  30. Suspended Time
    It’s a movie which reminds us that for all the anxieties, this period of enforced inactivity was for grownups of a certain age and financial security not entirely unpleasant – a reminder of the endless, aimless summer days of childhood, an Edenic existence outside time which workaholic media professionals thought never to see again. A kind of miracle.
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