The Guardian's Scores

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:
6610 movie reviews
  1. This is a movie with, in the Scots phrase, no small opinion of itself; a movie of big scenes, big performances, big images, epiphanies and hallucinations. Not all of them work, but the presence of Day-Lewis settles and moors it.
  2. None of this, arguably, is inaccurate. But it’s all very smooth: a slick Steadicam ride through a historic, tumultuous moment.
  3. The only problem with this stuff is that you can’t help picturing how much more spectacular it would look in live action. The animation is all perfectly competent but it’s lacking a little something – that spark of life and ingenuity that can make even flawed animation so fascinating.
  4. It’s high-minded, valuable work.
  5. It’s an elegant directorial performance from Herzi.
  6. That Splitsville stays on track to the finish is mostly credit to chemistry – that ineffable, unpredictable thing between two, or three, or maybe four people, with just enough variation for each relationship here. Splitsville may take shots at the loose-boundaried, but they’re laced with truth: partnered or single, open or closed, we’re all working with the same raw material.
  7. It’s a baggy comedy, sentimental in ways that are not entirely intentional, but there is value, too.
  8. This is good-natured, buoyant entertainment. It’s wearing well.
  9. This is a serious and worthwhile film, though one that tells you what you know already, and yet somehow perhaps doesn’t tell you enough.
  10. A calm and interesting introduction to an important dissident author.
  11. Its fervency and its eroticism give the film its currency.
  12. There’s a fair bit to enjoy here, with the club sometimes resembling a kind of senior-citizen X-Men group whose collective superpower is invisibility; old people can do things without people noticing them.
  13. Making her feature-film debut, Elliott handles their story gently, with patience – though it might feel a bit slow for some.
  14. Finally, inevitably, at the end of the protracted tale, we get to the question of which of the two is the “real” monster. The answer, in this high-minded and eventually rather sanctified romance, would appear to be – neither of them.
  15. This is muscular stuff, with a firm grip on your attention.
  16. Fixed gets as much mileage as it can out of gags that largely centre on Bull’s gonads, with its entire narrative built around a wild night out when he discovers his owner’s plan to finally give him the snip. But that humour, and its shock value, wears thin in less time than it takes for Bull to satisfy his urges.
  17. The writing might be disappointingly inelegant but The Lost Bus is forthright and frightening regardless.
  18. This docu-portrait verges on corporate promo at times, though there are a couple of telling vignettes in the second half.
  19. Dockery maintains rigour and bite at the centre as the genial jailer, and there’s an edginess to Spielberg’s direction, the camera roving around this posse of junior desperadoes and suggesting she may have inherited a certain cinematic intuition. But, like the abomination upstairs, she takes a ragged first bite here.
  20. The movie is not lacking in adventure, perhaps what’s missing is a sense of fun.
  21. This is a little too slight and breezy to really make much of an impression, like a dream you’ll forget as soon as you open your eyes.
  22. Whether its spitballing silliness will linger when the lights come up is debatable, but it’s a solid SpongeBob movie.
  23. It has a seriousness, an unsentimental readiness to look reality in the face.
  24. It’s a movie of big moods and grand gestures, undercut by the banal inevitability of losing.
  25. This is a genuinely strange film, elusive in both tone and meaning, one which deploys the obvious effects and rhetorical forms of irony, while at the same time distancing itself from these effects and asking its audience to sympathise and even admire Lee, because she is not supposed to be the villain.
  26. Rudd and Black make the new Anaconda easy enough to accept as a comedy with a dash of clunky effects-based creature action, rather than a full-blown horror-comedy.
  27. I admired a great deal here, though, especially Freyne’s attempt to transport us back to a cinema landscape before it was dulled down by streaming. That’s an afterlife I would happily choose.
  28. The film is at its best when it homes in on the literary criticism – bringing in articulate readers of the text such as novelist Jay McInerney, who details the effort that went into making it look thrown together in a matter of weeks.
  29. I’d like to see a film about a comedian who, like Bishop, really does flower into being funny.
  30. Overall, this is better and glossier than some of the Adams-Poser posse’s earlier efforts, but perhaps not quite enough of an evolution to take their vision to the next level.

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