The Guardian's Scores

Select another publication »
For 6,571 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: 2,490 out of 6571
  2. Mixed: 3,762 out of 6571
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6571
6571 movie reviews
view
per page
  1. Holy Cow
    Holy Cow is sentimental in the best of ways, with its warmth and hope in human nature.
  2. One to One: John & Yoko
    If only more nostalgic music documentaries could muster such a fun, fierce and full-blooded take on old, familiar material. One to One, against the odds, makes Lennon feel somehow vital again.
  3. G20
    The action is serviceable enough, enjoyment based less on deftly staged choreography and more on the catharsis offered to Davis, as president and actor (she has spoken in recent press about the pleasure and freedom the role has provided).
  4. The Return
    Interestingly, it has the crowd-pleasing energy of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator films. There is real sinew here.
  5. Sinners
    For many, the movie could as well do without the supernatural element, and I admit I’m one of them; I’d prefer to see a real story with real jeopardy work itself out. But there is energy and comic-book brashness
  6. The Amateur
    As for Malek’s performance, his line readings and screen presence are very distinctive, but I have to say the moments when he has to present anguished emotion to the camera do not quite work, and feel eccentric.
  7. A Minecraft Movie
    Full-throttle star turns from Jack Black and Jennifer Coolidge raise laughs but don’t help the perfunctory plotting in this screen take on the game franchise.
  8. Sebastian
    Mäkelä is too in bed with his protagonist’s objectives to develop the kind of perspective that might yield richer insights into the life/art trade-off.
  9. The Hermit of Treig
    The film is elevated by the tender rapport between MacKenzie and Smith; when a film-maker is clearly captivated by their subject, the film can compel viewers to fall in love as well.
  10. The Life List
    The word “messy” is bandied around by its characters but The Life List is far too clean.
  11. Warfare
    The movie is its own show of force in some ways, surely accurate in showing what the soldiers did, moment by moment, though blandly unaware of a point or a meaning beyond the horror.
  12. The Woman in the Yard
    Deadwyler remains credibly frazzled, pushed towards monstrousness in ways that will be familiar to anyone who homeschooled during Covid, and the bundled figure closing in on her is genuine nightmare fuel. Yet the rest of this hotchpotch never matches it, and flails in trying to explain it away.
  13. A Working Man
    Some of the movie’s cartoon mayhem is fun enough. The rest feels like, well, work.
  14. When Fall Is Coming
    It’s an interesting, strange film, with a key moment withheld from the audience – and yet its omission, and the resulting ambiguity and mystery, is something we are almost supposed to forget about.
  15. That They May Face the Rising Sun
    Despite its somewhat diffuse centre, Collins’ film still has a straightforward poignancy, with subtle and dignified performances across the board.
  16. Santosh
    Writer-director Sandhya Suri has made a tense, violent and politically savvy crime procedural set in India: a film about sexism, caste bigotry and Islamophobia that doubles as a study in the complex relationship between two female cops, a cynical veteran and a wide-eyed rookie.
  17. Flow
    As visions of apocalypse go, it’s rather lovely: a world lush with nature, animals learning to get by together.
  18. Ne Zha 2
    Forget the adulterated, Communist party-sponsored attempts at blockbusters of the past, self-taught animator Jiaozi’s film is an utterly self-assured pageant of Chinese mythology that, with head-spinning visuals, is a fine technical advertisement for what the country is capable of, in this case on a comparatively small $80m budget.
  19. Brief History of a Family
    This works well just as simple drama, directed and performed immaculately, and as a glorious promise of films to come from Lin.
  20. Snow White
    This fudged, pseudo-progressive approach is so tiring you’ll want to put your head in your hands.
  21. The Alto Knights
    There is a kind of solidity and force to the film in its opening act, but its interest dwindles and we get little in the way of either ambition or moment-by-moment humour.
  22. Bloody Axe Wound
    Unfortunately, Bloody Axe Wound doesn’t have quite enough distraction technique, giving the audience far too much time to start wondering how on earth any of this is supposed to hang together.
  23. Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
    Her poems, read by Giovanni herself and the actor Taraji P Henson, made the hairs on the back of my neck prickle.
  24. The Parenting
    As a comedy, it stops being funny and as a horror it never starts being scary with Johnson’s direction far too drab and lifeless for something so cartoonish and schlocky. Big swing, bigger miss.
  25. The Rivals of Amziah King
    McConaughey may be a capable driver, but this is an unwieldy vehicle – oversized, overlong and altogether way too many parts to run smoothly.
  26. O'Dessa
    Everyone’s stumbling along in a vaguely defined universe, which really only serves as a backdrop to catchy musical numbers that evolve from folk to pop rock.
  27. A Sloth Story
    It’s perfectly adequate for little kids but with little character of its own and a straight-to-download-style blandness.
  28. September Says
    This is a movie that strains and contorts for its effects; the performances are strong – strong enough to carry the big twist – and Labed might have absorbed Agnieszka Smoczynska’s comparable film The Silent Twins, although that was unselfconscious and heartfelt in a way that this isn’t. It’s a film that feels actorly rather than real.
  29. Cold Wallet
    The film is to its credit much more interested in psychology rather than tech, and the fine lines between avarice, rage and impotence that make the capitalist world go round.
  30. Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods
    This has cosmic charm aplenty.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »