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For 6,573 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 2.3 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: 2,491 out of 6573
  2. Mixed: 3,763 out of 6573
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6573
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  1. 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.
  2. Sound of Falling
    It is dense with fear and sadness.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Hallow Road
    This is a really exhilarating, disturbing picture which foregrounds excellent writing and performances.
  6. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
    It is a wildly silly, wildly entertaining adventure which periodically gives us a greatest-hits flashback montage of the other seven films in the M:I canon - but we still get a brand new, box-fresh Tom-sprinting-along-the-street scene, without which it wouldn’t be M:I.
  7. Final Destination: Bloodlines
    Where Bloodlines excels is in the clever and often diabolical storytelling craft and visuals. There’s a decadence in the film-making that isn’t at odds with the campy nature of Final Destination but instead realizing its full potential.
  8. Good One
    It is very intelligent and humane, and what a great performance from Collias.
  9. Nonnas
    Nonnas has a straightforward sincerity that makes it go down easily.
  10. Shadow Force
    Though it’s positioned in the early days of the summer movie reason, Shadow Force winds up as an unintentional advertisement for staying home.
  11. Clown in a Cornfield
    The big reveal, while illogically daft, does have a certain on-paper thematic novelty to it but it’s cursedly both over-explained and hard-to-really-understand, a “why are you doing this?” response that rambles into nonsense.
  12. Summer of 69
    Actor turned writer-director Jillian Bell’s naked, and sometimes literally naked, attempt to craft a new rewatchable comfort food favourite with notes of both sweet and salt is charming when it works but distractingly effortful when it doesn’t.
  13. Riefenstahl
    Andres Veiel’s sombre documentary tells the gripping, incrementally nauseating story of Helene “Leni” Riefenstahl, the brilliant and pioneering German film-maker of the 20th century who isn’t getting her name on a Girls on Tops T-shirt any time soon.
  14. Sharp Corner
    Buxton gains confidence as the film heads into the murky final stretch, neatly gliding around the, ahem, sharp corners that would have seen others crashing into the darkness. He leads his story to a knockout ending that’s both hauntingly downbeat yet crushingly inevitable without going to new, unnecessary extremes.
  15. Ocean with David Attenborough
    Attenborough matches the natural world’s grandeur with his own intellectual and moral seriousness.
  16. Seeking Mavis Beacon
    The resulting documentary is anything but conventional.
  17. The Uninvited
    We’re invited to laugh at the characters gently but The Uninvited never goes for all-out satire and is all the better for it, even if the last act is overly neat.
  18. It Feeds
    It may not stick around in your memory with the persistence demonstrated by the entity towards its victims, but it passes the time chillingly enough.
  19. Rust
    Halyna Hutchins is the movie’s saving grace. Without her work, it wouldn’t be worth a look at all.
  20. Thunderbolts*
    Thunderbolts can be messy, sure. Pugh is the kind of star who can thrive in such mess.
  21. Havoc
    Evans certainly brings the craziness and the violence but, for me, without the stylish martial arts of his Raid films and without any plausible sense that anything is believably at stake.
  22. Until Dawn
    It’s held together by Sandberg, a director who has mastered the art of totally competent studio horror with slick, equally forgettable films like Lights Out and Annabelle: Creation and he again shows himself to be a crisply efficient commercial film-maker again let down by a far less effective script. For a film all about repetition, one viewing will suffice.
  23. Cloud
    The final half-hour seems to be a neo-western style melee which seems to go on for ever. Odd … and unrewarding.
  24. Night Call
    It feels confident, inventive and as grippy as duct tape throughout.
  25. The Ugly Stepsister
    Blichfeldt has made an elegant debut.
  26. Last Swim
    Last Swim looks slightly callow sometimes, but forthright and likable and Hekmat’s performance has delicacy and intelligence.
  27. The Thicket
    It is an odd, mostly compelling yarn, and acted with gusto and shot with real physical commitment to the wide open spaces and raw chill of the elements.
  28. Neil Young: Coastal
    It’s always good to witness Young’s authentic acoustic presence.
  29. The Penguin Lessons
    Weirdly, I felt that this odd film might have worked better if it was just about the lonely man and the penguin without the Argentinian tyranny – or just about the lonely man and the Argentinian tyranny without the penguin. The real non-CGI bird itself is very sweet.
  30. The Legend of Ochi
    The soul of the movie isn’t particularly in the human/creature relationship at its center, but in the stunning craftsmanship that surrounds (and in the creature’s case, creates) them.
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