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For 6,571 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: 2,490 out of 6571
  2. Mixed: 3,762 out of 6571
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6571
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  1. Fear Street: Prom Queen
    A misfire not quite bad or powerful enough to undo Janiak’s great work but one that questions whether the world of Fear Street is one we need to spend much more time exploring. If the introductory trilogy started us off on a thrilling journey, here we’re brought to a sudden dead end.
  2. The History of Sound
    Everything here is out of the top drawer of production value: but it never really comes to passionate life.
  3. Sentimental Value
    It’s a baggy comedy, sentimental in ways that are not entirely intentional, but there is value, too.
  4. Fountain of Youth
    Amid interminable chases and fisticuffs, and tourist-board jaunts to Bangkok, Vienna and Cairo, there is the odd bright spot.
  5. Eleanor the Great
    This frankly odd film is misjudged and naive about the implications of its Holocaust theme. Its bland, TV-movie tone of sentimentality fails to accommodate the existential nightmare of the main plot strand, or indeed the subordinate question of when and whether to put your elderly parent in a care home.
  6. Leave One Day
    It is burdened by a trite and naive sentimentality that it doesn’t know how to make realistically plausible or transform into romanticism or idealism.
  7. It Was Just an Accident
    It’s another very impressive serio-comic film from one of the most distinctive and courageous figures in world cinema.
  8. Enzo
    It is another powerful, absorbing picture from Campillo and a fitting swan song for Laurent Cantet.
  9. Pillion
    It is a real love story, and the movie amusingly and touchingly takes us through the final stages and out the other side.
  10. The Little Sister
    It’s an elegant directorial performance from Herzi.
  11. Two Prosecutors
    It is a very disturbing parable of the insidious micro-processes of tyranny.
  12. When the Light Breaks
    The two women’s scenes together give the film its most interesting moments.
  13. Bob Trevino Likes It
    To knock its sentimental failings would be like kicking a puppy – and there are actual puppies in the film just to ensure it snags the heartstrings. Resistance is futile.
  14. Lilo & Stitch
    All told, there’s hardly a single smile in Lilo & Stitch ’25 not generated through the stolen valor of the earlier screenplay, and hardly a poignant moment that’s not more admirably raw in the G-rated version.
  15. The Secret Agent
    This movie, visually and dramatically superb in every way, moves with unhurried confidence across the screen, pausing to savour every bizarre bit of comedy or erotic byway, or note of pathos, on its circuitous path to the violent finale.
  16. Dossier 137
    It’s high-minded, valuable work.
  17. Alpha
    The madly, bafflingly overwrought and humourless storytelling can’t overcome the fact that everything here is frankly unpersuasive and tedious. Every line, every scene, has the emoting dial turned up to 11 and yet feels redundant.
  18. Highest 2 Lowest
    This is a big, muscular picture which aspires to the crowd-pleasing athleticism of Spike Lee’s sports icons; it’s very enjoyable and there’s a great turn from Washington.
  19. Urchin
    It is engaging and sympathetically acted and layered with genuinely funny moments, mysterious and hallucinatory setpiece sequences, and is challengingly incorrect thoughts about the haves who fear the contagious risk of coming into contact with the have-nots.
  20. A New Kind of Wilderness
    A deeply humane and emotionally literate piece of work.
  21. E.1027 - Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea
    The house is just there and the characters waft through it. Gray admirers might prefer Gray Matters, Marco Antonio Orsini’s documentary on the subject.
  22. The Phoenician Scheme
    It is always entertaining, and delivered with the usual conviction and force but with less of the romantic extravagance than we’ve seen before, less of the childlike loneliness that has been detectable in his greatest movies.
  23. Nouvelle Vague
    None of this, arguably, is inaccurate. But it’s all very smooth: a slick Steadicam ride through a historic, tumultuous moment.
  24. Die My Love
    It hardly needs to be said that subtlety is not really among this film’s attributes - but it is fierce, angry, engaged, and intensely, sensually alert to every detail of its own pleasure and pain.
  25. Bono: Stories of Surrender
    It’s a confident, often engaging mix of music and no-frills theatrical performance, with Bono often coming across like some forgotten character that Samuel Beckett created but then suppressed due to undue levels of rock’n’roll pizzazz.
  26. The Chronology of Water
    It borders on cliche a little, but there is compassion and storytelling ambition here.
  27. Eddington
    There is no accumulation of drama or tension or intellectual revelation and the setpiece shootout is ultimately valueless. What exactly is it saying that we didn’t know already? The wait for Aster to recover his directorial form goes on.
  28. Sound of Falling
    It is dense with fear and sadness.
  29. Hurry Up Tomorrow
    Tomorrow is too murky, meandering and self-indulgent an inside joke for audiences to remember it for more than its smirking moments. In time the Weeknd may come to regret this too, a missed opportunity.
  30. Deaf President Now!
    With a blend of archive footage and re-enactments the film-makers skilfully recreate the urgency, passion and energy of their protest.
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