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For 6,601 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: 2,500 out of 6601
  2. Mixed: 3,782 out of 6601
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6601
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  1. Demolition
    A frustratingly aimless soul-search that veers uncomfortably between quirk and melancholy.
  2. A Gay Girl in Damascus: The Amina Profile
    Bagaria’s personal journey has none of the gravitas on screen that the director wants it to have, especially when set against the backdrop of actual human rights crises in Damascus.
  3. Stonewall
    An outrageously misjudged drama that flirts with the story of the birth of the gay rights movement.
  4. Zipper
    What’s ultimately frustrating about Zipper is that it seems like it has something important to say about infidelity and the sex industry, but can’t decide what that should be.
  5. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
    There are some reasonably entertaining scenes and set pieces, but the whole concept feels tired and contrived, and crucially the dinosaurs themselves are starting to look samey, without inspiring much of the awe or terror they used to
  6. Goon: Last of the Enforcers
    Nobody lands the one knockout punchline to elevate matters above tolerable mediocrity.
  7. The Dressmaker
    The film is a tonally uneven, genre-shifting hurricane of a thing, wildly careering off the rails and smashing into everything in its view.
  8. Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism
    In the hands of director Christopher N Rowley and an assortment of screenwriters (including Byng), the result is a rebarbative mess – mirthless and shoddy like a disposable Christmas stocking novelty.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Ready Player One
    Those who come away cheering for Ready Player One will likely have enjoyed the film’s many references, the story’s breakneck speed and playful visual design. Others may want to unplug from the paint-by-number characters and shallow plot.
  10. Underworld: Blood Wars
    This has been a regular payday for Beckinsale and she certainly gives it her all, but you have to wonder why she bothers, certainly now that we know what she can do with more interesting material.
  11. Dad's Army
    It’s hard to escape the sinking feeling that this is a waste of talent – and that this is a good-natured, well-meaning but pointless kind of Brit-comedy ancestor worship, paying elaborate homage to a TV show that got it right the first time.
  12. Scoob!
    While a younger audience might be enthralled by the fast pace and bright colour palette, those understandably curious adults sitting nearby will find themselves watching in horror, a deep, sorrowful howl emerging.
  13. Love the Coopers
    Amid all this holiday melancholia, Wilde bursts into the film with an intensity that feels held over from another, better movie.
  14. The 5th Wave
    It’s written to a machine-tooled formula, with two more episodes naturally planned to gouge cash out of the fanbase, and whatever interest this film has dies about five minutes before the closing credits.
  15. The Reflektor Tapes
    It’s flabby and repetitive, but peppered with moments of exquisite sonic lusciousness – not unlike the album itself.
  16. My All American
    My All American is awful; but it gets points, I suppose, for at least looking professional.
  17. Hardcore Henry
    Naishuller’s technique is one that could be well served as a shorter gimmick; a solitary action scene in a larger film. Hardcore is unrelenting and unforgiving in its commitment to be loud, fast, destructive and gross.
  18. The Family Fang
    Saturation point when it comes to quirkily dysfunctional families in over-soundtracked dramedies was reached long ago.
  19. High-Rise
    Wheatley has made High Rise his story, instead of Ballard’s. That’s fine – but, unfortunately, it’s a less interesting take.
  20. Labyrinth of Lies
    While the topic of mass delusion is fascinating, this film is too unfocused to turn it into compelling drama.
  21. Into the Forest
    Patricia Rozema’s drama doesn’t burrow deep into its end of world scenario.
  22. London Fields
    Novelistic, rich and awfully silly, London Fields – like Ben Wheatley’s take on High Rise - is a long-awaited adaptation of a popular and gloomily prophetic book, that seems unnecessary.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    (T)error
    This information needs to be shown to the public, and some will be drawn to it regardless of its form. But as a well-crafted film, it has a long way to go.
  24. Extraordinary Tales
    Animator Raul Garcia’s 70-minute anthology of five Poe stories, Extraordinary Tales, has its moments, and will be a welcome respite for any middle schooler sitting through a boring lecture. But if we were ever asked if we wanted a second viewing, we’d have to quoth the raven: nevermore.
  25. The Forest
    The movie gets completely lost, unsure if it wants to be a serious exploration of repressed memories or a work of giddy, spooky trash.
  26. Going Away
    Director Nicole Garcia strains to give this pablum social grounding, but hair and make-up overtake her.
  27. Narcopolis
    Despite the surface sheen, and some enterprising plot twists, it doesn’t entirely convince.
  28. Submerged
    While we open with dazed individuals in a crashed limousine as it begins to take on water, Submerged’s frequent flashbacks eventually reveal a tiresome crime plot rife with soporific acting and unremarkable dialogue.
  29. Expend4bles
    Jason Statham is the only bit of genuine oomph in a tired tale whose digital effects could have been shot on an iPhone.
  30. Kill Your Friends
    The difficulty with black comedy is avoiding overkill and Kill Your Friends is a dictionary definition of the word.
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