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For 6,656 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: 2,521 out of 6656
  2. Mixed: 3,814 out of 6656
  3. Negative: 321 out of 6656
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  1. Lights Out
    Lights Out is yet another half-baked, PG-13 scare-em snoozer centered on an underdeveloped supernatural concept that won’t even give kids a good nightmare.
  2. Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party
    Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party is the cinematic equivalent of a drunk man at a sports bar sucking back whole jalapeño peppers hoping for applause without ever being dared. The amusement in watching doesn’t compensate for the pity one feels for someone so desperate for attention.
  3. Summertime
    It is well acted, well shot, earnest and high-minded in its eroticism, but with a certain Mills-and-Boony-swoony-ness that creates something unsubversive in the love affair itself.
  4. Long Way North
    It’s a proper animation buff’s piece of work, and admittedly a little slow to get its yarn ripping, but mesmerising and moving in the later stretches.
  5. The Girl King
    This plumply preposterous film from director Mika Kaurismäki (brother of Aki) is an unconvincing and solemn account of the controversially mannish Queen Kristina and her secret sapphic yearnings in 17th-century Sweden.
  6. The Violators
    It’s flawed by a slightly unconvincing and anticlimactic gun-related ending, but well acted, forthright and confident in the universe it creates.
  7. The Killing$ of Tony Blair
    There are moments when the film aches for focus. This again is down to Galloway. He is, like Blair, charismatic, opportunistic and never entirely consistent. The documentary lives and dies on those strengths and weaknesses.
  8. Ice Age: Collision Course
    This could provide some small-screen entertainment for bored kids on a rainy day. But really: enough.
  9. Bayou Maharajah
    [A] richly enjoyable documentary tribute.
  10. Star Trek Beyond
    This new movie could arguably have given Elba more to do, earlier in the picture, but it is the inter-relationship of the Enterprise’s crew which is the real source of drama. An entertaining adventure.
  11. The Hollars
    A mawkish family comedy, intent to please, The Hollars plays like an extended sitcom.
  12. Ghostbusters
    Though hats are respectfully doffed, this is a four-woman show, deftly managed to allow all the leads – McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones – a chance to showcase their own distinct brands of comedy.
  13. Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
    What Dream is Destiny makes clear is that commercial success really isn’t everything, and that being a director who isn’t bothered by it can lead to a singular if perhaps undervalued career.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Captain Fantastic
    Not only is it wonderful – it is heartfelt, comedic, gorgeous and just the right amount of sad.
  15. In Order of Disappearance
    This is a derivative movie, whose comic entanglements are perhaps there to provide an alibi for the obvious plot implausibilities - but it’s well made, great looking, and nicely acted.
  16. The Secret Life of Pets
    It’s not ground-breaking, but there are laughs, and it is a good audience movie.
  17. Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
    Plaza has found her Ron Burgundy: the vessel of a true imbecile in which to pour her strange genius.
  18. From Afar
    [A] terrifically stylish work.
  19. The Mafia Only Kills in Summer
    It’s a winning and likable film.
  20. Queen of Earth
    It’s a one-note drama of simmering resentment. That note is sustained with impressive conviction.
  21. Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
    Reasonably good fun.
  22. The Legend of Tarzan
    The Legend of Tarzan ends up being a garbled, clunky production that tries to please everyone and ends up pleasing no one.
  23. The Call Up
    If it’s far from bleeding edge – within days, it’ll look as dated as Tron and The Lawnmower Man do today – it’s a modest upgrade on all those killer-website movies that popped up a decade ago, keeping us at least semi-interested as to who stands and falls.
  24. The Fundamentals of Caring
    Inevitably, perhaps, it pulls its punches, and soft-pedals on any authentic misery that its scenarios might evoke. But its essential amiability and decency comes through.
  25. The Shallows
    What could have been mere summertime chum is actually one of the more cleverly constructed B-movies in quite some time.
  26. Independence Day: Resurgence
    Joyless and tedious, a reboot quite without the first film’s audacity and fun... It’s a movie that is going through the intergalactic motions.
  27. Septembers of Shiraz
    This lifeless, by-the-numbers production is an excruciating exercise in cliche and tedium. Its sole joy is in trying to figure out which of its leads is overacting most.
  28. Microbe and Gasoline
    If this film were a person, you’d want to give it a big hug, as you would a gawky teenager, and reassure it that it will be tough out there, that not everyone is going to get its idiosyncratic charms, but that’s OK because it’s awesome just the way it is.
  29. Our Kind of Traitor
    Director Susanna White favours a generic spy-movie look: those chilly blue filters surely need resting now. Yet she works smartly with her actors: while Skarsgård wolfs down great handfuls of scenery, McGregor effectuates a thoughtful transformation from ineffectual tourist to man in the field.
  30. Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
    Eat That Question does a good job of giving us just a taste of nearly every era in Zappa’s multifaceted career.
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