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For 6,594 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: 2,497 out of 6594
  2. Mixed: 3,778 out of 6594
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6594
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  1. Stardust
    This is a strained, frustrating concoction that doesn’t do its subject justice. Flynn really can sing, though.
  2. Elvis
    It’s not a movie so much as 159-minute trailer for a film called Elvis – a relentless, frantically flashy montage, epic and yet negligible at the same time, with no variation of pace.
  3. The Man from Toronto
    Nothing is really offensive or incompetent, but it never rises to the level of funny or interesting, either.
  4. StarDog and TurboCat
    The action is relentless and laboured with the odd pause for a sentimental lesson or moment of personal growth. StarDog may work its slight charms on young children, but older kids will feel they’ve seen smarter, funnier and cleverer before.
  5. 7500
    For fans of joyless screaming and stabbing, there might be something here worth your time but for those who expect more thrills from their thrillers or at least something close to a purpose, 7500 is a flight worth missing.
  6. Chemical Hearts
    This elaborately contrived story feels as if it has been cobbled together from a dozen others, and it never escapes cliche.
  7. Becky
    Becky’s crazed kills get more and more gimmicky, and there’s nothing in the script to indicate what has turned her into a pint-sized death-dealer.
  8. Proximity
    This dorky, silly sci-fi feature offers a weird blend of high-grade craftsmanship (especially from the visual effects, cinematography and music departments), and guileless ineptitude, especially in the crucial realms of screenwriting, acting and editing.
  9. Intuition
    What propels us past the cliches of Intuition is a desire to see just how it all ties together, an assumption that a story as busily plotted as this must have an ace up its sleeve. But the last act is all fizzle, played out predictably with a mundanity that no amount of sweeping aerial shots can disguise.
  10. Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
    The movie is not a disaster, just weirdly pointless.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl
    At times it really does feel a lot more like an SD card dump than an exercise in storytelling.
  12. The Price of Desire
    Somehow the tacky piano score amplifies the ineptitude of Mary McGuckian’s direction, but even so one can’t fail to be impressed by a scene where Brady’s Gray literally dances about architecture, proving that it really is possible.
  13. Run Sweetheart Run
    It’s difficult to fault a film for being over-ambitious given the low-effort nature of so many genre films but the sheer, two-joints-in bizarreness of Run Sweetheart Run needed a surer hand to guide us through. As it is, that run to the finish line ends up feeling like a crawl.
  14. You Should Have Left
    You Should Have Left should have left our nerves frayed and our dreams haunted but instead, it leaves us cold.
  15. The One and Only Ivan
    Rather than a heartwarming family favourite-in-the-making, The One and Only Ivan is just a vaguely watchable cookie-cutter caper thrown together by people who should know how to make something far sweeter and substantial, a fleeting attraction for undiscerning young kids and a whelming waste for anyone older.
  16. Tom & Jerry
    Very young kids might find some enjoyment in the brightly hued, fast-paced mania of it all, but those with any real affection for the pair of violently opposed animals will leave unimpressed.
  17. Finch
    An adorable trio pootle around a post-apocalyptic world in this sentimental sci-fi that curiously lacks any sense of danger.
  18. Ghosts of War
    This effort is similarly infuriating and entertaining by turns, and features pretty good performances from a handful of up-and-coming young male actors, including Brenton Thwaites and Kyle Gallner, along with lovable old ham Billy Zane putting in a last-act cameo.
  19. I Am Vengeance: Retaliation
    For all its rough edges, there’s a pure-hearted passion for movie-making evident here, that’s often awol in slicker productions.
  20. The Rental
    It’s pretty basic boilerplate, scary-movie stuff, with tropes and tricks that have already been extensively satirised elsewhere.
  21. Sweat
    This film isn’t really sure where it’s taking us and how, or if, it wants to surprise us, and the key scene with Klaudiusz doesn’t work.
  22. All Together Now
    An awkward misfire at best and an uneasy and irresponsible one at worst.
  23. Stage Mother
    Nothing really comes to life and the dialogue is plodding and laborious.
  24. Spree
    Spree is meant to comment on the shallowness of social media culture; the trouble is, it’s a film with the depth of a puddle.
  25. We Can Be Heroes
    This is pretty ho-hum stuff, but it could keep very young kids quiet over a lockdown Christmas.
  26. Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins
    The script’s attempts at wisdom amount to little more than dime-store platitudes, and the internecine turmoil of the Arashikage clan never comes close to anything like emotional heft.
  27. The Big Ugly
    It plays like several plots, genres and mood boards all mashed together, which makes the end result interesting but not entirely successful.
  28. Black Water: Abyss
    This is paddling-pool-level entertainment.
    • The Guardian
      • Posted Aug 6, 2020
  29. Random Acts of Violence
    The movie falls apart with some moral handwringing that will likely infuriate genre fans, and for everyone else, feel like a tired airing of the debate around violence in movies – all the more objectionable in a film with its fair share of mutilated female victims.
  30. Cats & Dogs 3: Paws Unite
    Given how much CGI has come along since 2010, you’d expect a more convincing presentation of moving animals’ lips and eye muscles mimicking human expressions, but clearly the budget didn’t reach much beyond the tea budget for Tenet.
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