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For 6,610 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: 2,503 out of 6610
  2. Mixed: 3,787 out of 6610
  3. Negative: 320 out of 6610
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  1. blur: To the End
    Throughout the film, the band remain affable company.
  2. Smile 2
    As stylishly made as these films might be, there’s still not enough of a distinctive identity away from its inspirations and not enough away from the (very loud) sound and fury to give us hope that this is a story worth retelling time and time again.
  3. The Front Room
    The Front Room does capture one delicious, rich truth: hell hath no fury like a mother-in-law scorned.
  4. The Sheep Detectives
    The film scoots smartly past the death and brings us briskly on to the entertaining business of sheep-oriented crime detection. It’s all very silly, although, as with Babe, I have to confess to agnosticism about digital talking animals, even if the technology here is next-level. It’s an entertaining tale of ovine law enforcement.
  5. Place of Bones
    It’s pretty evident that this is a fairly low-budget film, with that faint sense of hired costumes about the western gear. But it’s entertaining enough and keeps you guessing.
  6. Wilding
    Knepp is a heartwarming speck of biodiversity good news among the depressing headlines.
  7. Heretic
    Heretic might not be good clean fun but Grant makes it worth us getting dirty.
  8. Here
    The dreamy quirkiness keeps you watching and the folksy warmth of performances from Tom Hanks and Robin Wright encourage you to cut it some slack.
  9. Skincare
    Skincare is a worthy contribution to the growing microgenre of female-led beauty-themed horror, and some of us out here are ready for more.
  10. Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
    The film is very silly and always watchable in its weird way.
  11. The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
    It never provokes full-on out loud laughs, but there are wry chuckles to be had and the ferocity of the execution is pretty fun.
  12. Only the River Flows
    This film is an intriguing and well-made diversion, a puzzle whose missing pieces make a disquieting pattern.
  13. Unicorns
    Co-directing Unicorns with James Krishna Floyd (the star of My Brother the Devil), who wrote the script, El Hosaini brings a streak of hopefulness to gritty social realism, with the added attraction of superstar drag queens.
  14. Swan Song
    By the end, ballet as practised here does indeed look a bit punk rock.
  15. We Live in Time
    I felt that the film was evasive about the uncinematic reality of what serious illness and death actually looks like, and the final choice is too simplistic. But the film is still something to see, if only for the marvellous performances from Garfield and Pugh.
  16. Hounds
    The film is perhaps flawed by its ending, which loses a bit of narrative momentum and insists too strenuously on the metaphorical properties, but there is a tang of real evil in the story’s chaos and its final image.
  17. Never Let Go
    [Aja's] never quite sure if he wants to trick us with a jump scare or make us ponder weightier issues and, unable to do both efficiently, the film becomes lost in the murk in-between. Berry is, as ever, a strong anchor but by the time the credits roll, we’re ready to let go.
  18. Bonus Track
    It’s an entertaining and sympathetic movie, if a bit route one, and audiences might possibly feel that TV shows like Sex Education and Heartstopper go a bit further and with more contemporary nous. But nice performances from Anders and Small bolster this movie’s likability factor.
  19. Hell Hole
    Existing as a labour of love isn’t enough by itself to earn any film a pass mark, but when the result is a committed piece of indie genre work with a suitably silly sense of the macabre, this gets the job done.
  20. The Killer
    It humbly presents the optional but delightful spectacle of watching John Woo have fun again.
  21. Coup!
    The film is fun, broad and exuberant, like a primetime Marxist sitcom, although it does feel indebted to a number of recent, better films around the same theme.
  22. Bookworm
    This is a shameless heartstring plucker. But it’s charming and sometimes very funny.
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