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For 6,585 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: 2,496 out of 6585
  2. Mixed: 3,770 out of 6585
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6585
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  1. Thunder Force
    This is by-the-numbers stuff, not quite funny enough for comedy or having enough of the crazed seriousness that marks out a successful superhero franchise.
  2. Next Door
    It’s not a vanity project (Brühl does not seem in the least vain) but an actor’s project, nonetheless.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Grass Is Greener
    The classy cast is willing enough, but let down by Hugh and Margaret Wilson's stodgy adaptation. [28 Jun 2008, p.53]
    • The Guardian
  4. Every Breath You Take
    The whole thing hangs on a twist that anyone who has ever watched a trashy thriller will have cottoned on to at around the 20-minute mark.
  5. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
    There are some entertaining meta-touches here, but the entire Gutierrez plot is strained and borderline dull. Pascal isn’t a natural comic and the movie winds up fudging his crucial bad-guy status.
  6. Stay Out of the Attic
    Strictly in terms of generating jumpscares and gross-out moments this is efficient enough as a cinematic machine, but the script credited to four different people including Lauder hasn’t got a lot of finesse or subtlety.
  7. Six Minutes to Midnight
    A lively idea for a drama, but the sheer oddity of the real-life premise slows it down.
  8. Long Weekend
    Chao is the standout here. She deserves more – a leading role of her own, at the very least, and a character with an inner life and interests of her own.
  9. Vanquish
    Rose looks great – her androgynous poise reminiscent of the young Angelina Jolie – and does a capable job carrying Vanquish. But you wonder if this noir-filtered, John Wick-apeing thriller is a little too stripped-back for its own good to advance her career.
  10. The Man Who Sold His Skin
    The supposedly important themes of immigrants and Syria are cancelled by its naive flippancy.
  11. Here Are the Young Men
    There’s certainly an impressive cast lineup for this one, but there’s also something weirdly formless and frustrating about it as well; the film gestures at some dark and disturbing possibilities in human nature without quite knowing if or how to follow through.
  12. The Tunnel
    All the traditional ingredients are there, and I do have to say that the film does a good initial job of being claustrophobic and spectacular at the same time.
  13. He's All That
    It’s the same feeling, really, as watching a bunch of straight TikToks. While Rae offers flashes of promise, especially when she pops her genuinely winning smile, she doesn’t make the case for TikTok-to-film-stardom here. The chemistry between her and Buchanan is stilted, at best.
  14. Cry Macho
    There’s a creak of old leather (and other things) in this outrageously dated and hokey sentimental western, made from a script that’s been knocking around the industry for decades; it’s a Swiss cheese of bizarre plot-holes set in 1979, clearly because that is when it was conceived.
  15. The Virtuoso
    When it’s all over and the big twist you saw coming in the first 15 minutes has been revealed, you feel empty, a bit depressed, and like you need another cup of coffee.
  16. The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
    There are some almost-laughs here and there, but please tell me that we aren’t in for The Hitman’s Mother-In-Law’s Agent’s Bodyguard in 2023.
  17. Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
    The competence of the action sequences compensates somewhat for the underlying lack of wit or humour throughout, unless you count the smile-inducing call backs to ancient 90s technology.
  18. Things Heard & Seen
    Berman and Pulcini bank on suspense, despite a queasy inevitability being the strongest thing this retread of the familiar has going for it.
  19. Demonic
    The connective circuitry is too identikit for Demonic to be especially distinctive.
  20. The Columnist
    Ivo van Aart’s movie gives full rein to that desire and is snappily directed – but in the end there is something self-satisfied and sententious about his feminist revenge flick.
  21. The Djinn
    Charbonier and Powell like moving through the apartment in Steadicam but this results in a soupy style that seeks to cover for the lack of positional imagination and rigour in the script.
  22. Here Today
    Any movie that helps us to talk about dementia is to be welcomed, and they are becoming more commonplace. But the pure treacliness of Here Today is very dispiriting and there are some tonal missteps.
  23. Naked Singularity
    Not even an impending apocalypse adds much in the way of urgency. Still, Boyega is very credible and at 29 he’s beginning to look like a leading man with real gravitational pull. Likely he’ll file this on his CV under misfire.
  24. For the Sake of Vicious
    The daft title tries to promise splatterhouse brazenness, but actually fesses up to the film’s lack of imagination.
  25. Dear Evan Hansen
    In the end, this film suffocates you with ersatz compassion and personal growth.
  26. The Scary of Sixty-First
    To me this feels like a silly smirking film with zero insights into abuse or conspiracy theories.
  27. Last Letter from Your Lover
    The central romance here is, on paper, a love for the ages, a story of all-consuming passion. It’s not quite so in practice.
  28. Edge of the World
    Edge of the World fails to do justice to this fascinating and deeply complex chapter in British colonial history.
  29. Good on Paper
    It all goes off the rails in the worst way in the chaotic final act, as Schlesinger invents a farcical, and increasingly ludicrous, way to wrap things up, the truth of what happened proving far too pedestrian for the framework she’s created.
  30. The Ice Road
    While The Ice Road might not be quite as cut-and-paste as some of the others (there’s less revenge-taking, skill-listing and name-taking than usual), it’s still familiar enough for it to feel like we’ve seen him do this exact thing before.
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