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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. Frantz
    Ozon is often at his best when working with women, and he has a fabulous talent in Paula Beer to bring his protagonist, Anna, to vivid life. She’s stunning in the role.
  2. Denial
    Under the workmanlike direction of Mick Jackson (The Bodyguard), what should have been a rousing and ragingly topical crowdpleaser, instead feels more like a Lifetime movie.
  3. Colossal
    Given the bizarro conceit, there’s something surprisingly, and frustratingly, safe about the film.
  4. Catfight
    This odd, nasty yet rather funny little film tears apart ideas of sisterhood and female friendship and replaces them with burning hate and gratuitous violence.
  5. Carrie Pilby
    Carrie Pilby the film is 100% Carrie Pilby the character, a living quirk machine that in a lesser actor’s hands might be insufferable.
  6. Lion
    Thanks largely to an affecting performance from newcomer Sunny Pawar, the first act is horribly effective.
  7. Jackie
    It’s a singular vision from an uncompromising director that happens to be about one of the most famous women in American history. Jackie is not Oscar bait – it’s great cinema.
  8. Una
    Mara and Mendelsohn have a compellingly toxic chemistry together and their initial confrontation is intriguingly tense. But once we’re locked into the meat of the story, the film has nowhere else to go, at least anywhere that’s of interest and the pace becomes laborious as their discussions turn repetitive.
  9. Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
    Gere’s commitment to the role almost makes up for the film’s flaws.
  10. Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids
    As Jonathan Demme’s concert documentary Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids indisputably shows, Timberlake is only truly in his element when on stage being a showman.
  11. Barry
    The movie is rich on its own as a character piece about the difficulties of being bi-racial, especially at the very specific location of Columbia University.
  12. Tanna
    Tanna has a warm, shimmering vitality. Like the trees and the birds, the frame feels alive.
  13. Chuck
    Falardeau draws exceptional character work from his cast.
  14. Deepwater Horizon
    When all hell breaks loose, Berg stages the action horribly well, capturing the panic and gruesome mayhem without the film ever feeling exploitative. It’s spectacularly constructed, yet it doesn’t forget about the loss of life, ensuring that, despite thin characterisation, the impact is felt.
  15. American Pastoral
    What we have on our hands is a dud, but there are a few grace notes that save it from being an unmitigated disaster.
  16. All I See Is You
    Even as All I See Is You descends into soapy nonsense, it remains visually engaging.
  17. The Assignment
    Every single decision made by Hill is bad.
  18. Sing
    God, it’s so obnoxious. And the worst thing is that it works. I was smiling and applauding at the end, then I had to take a long walk alone to wonder what was wrong with me.
  19. Blair Witch
    If The Blair Witch Project signalled a new dawn of horror, Blair Witch is the loud death rattle of a once exciting sub-genre, disappearing into the darkness.
  20. A Monster Calls
    Ultimately, it tries a little too hard to wring those tears.
  21. Anthropoid
    Cillian Murphy is excellent as the fiercely committed Josef Gabčík; Jamie Dornan does very well in the slightly more reticent role of his co-conspirator Jan Kubiš. An intelligent, tough, and gripping movie.
  22. Free Fire
    There’s something lacking, a touch of the bizarre or the perverse, with just one particularly nasty death to serve as a reminder that you’re watching a Ben Wheatley film.
  23. Maudie
    If anyone other than Hawkins were in this film, it would be very hard to recommend. With her in virtually every scene, it is a lovely, tiny character study.
  24. Snowden
    In his dry and uninvolving dramatic take, Stone has made a film aimed at breaking out Snowden’s story to the masses but it’s made with such limpness that a swift read of his Wikipedia page will prove far more exciting.
  25. Nocturama
    By keeping its characters at such a far remove, the film doesn’t condemn them nor cheer them on. At least, not on paper. In actuality, with all the crafty editing moves, slick music cues and stylish production design, Nocturama does the one thing it shouldn’t: it makes domestic terrorism look cool.
  26. The Magnificent Seven
    There’s a fine line between a slowburn and dull, and this Magnificent Seven frequently finds itself on the wrong side.
  27. Peter and the Farm
    Dunning recounts spellbinding tales that led to the gradual downfall of his expansive Mile Hill Farm, and the destruction of his two marriages.
  28. The Wild Life
    Each helter-skelter turn throws up story and design elements you’ll have seen better programmed elsewhere.
  29. Voyage of Time: Life's Journey
    Voyage of Time, in the end, is a perhaps an aesthetic experience rather than an particularly informative one, prizing images over data; but what images they are.
  30. The Bad Batch
    The film doesn’t quite live up to its creepy, savage opening, or carry through its best ideas.
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