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For 6,556 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: 2,481 out of 6556
  2. Mixed: 3,756 out of 6556
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6556
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  1. Becoming Led Zeppelin
    Overall, this is a likable and well-researched film, but there is something unsatisfying in ignoring the band’s later stages. Perhaps Part II is in the works.
  2. Dog Man
    Dog Man is packed with goofy gags that whizz past, with no let up from the hectic pace.
  3. Kinda Pregnant
    Kinda Pregnant finds its groove in the more grounded and honest. The tiptoeing around big changes in one’s best friendship, the tension between joy and dread, the role of a friend when another is going through something irrevocable all get mentions that hint at something sharper and stickier. But what texture exists gets steamrolled by the loud and extreme.
  4. Last Breath
    This is a workmanlike iteration somewhat ploddingly true to its genre, from the style of lighting used for the interviews, to the sweeping, keening strings-led soundtrack, to the almost shocking moments of humour and honesty.
  5. Bring Them Down
    In plot terms there is something unsubtle, unconvincing and even absurd in where it’s all heading.
  6. Mr. Nobody Against Putin
    Mr Nobody Against Putin ultimately stands as both an act of service and a tribute – to a school that once was, to students whose lives were and will be irrevocably changed for the worse by the regime, to a once fruitful job. Talankin has produced a must-watch, indelible document of ideological warfare that echoes far beyond Russia. How’s that for a nobody?
  7. The Thing with Feathers
    What’s crucially missing is detail, both in the characters themselves and the weight of what they’re going through.
  8. Lurker
    While there’s a cynicism that clearly comes from someone who has done his time in both Los Angeles and the industry, it’s ultimately about something more human, and more unsettling, than just Hollywood. There are, after all, lurkers everywhere.
  9. Companion
    For a film about advanced technology, it’s all awfully simple.
  10. Rabbit Trap
    Chainey is certainly skilled at distracting us, drowning his film in atmosphere and mood to offset the devolving half-baked hokum of his plot.
  11. Oh, Hi!
    While the film does happen upon a real, and painful, truth of the problems that come from dating without a label, as things start to devolve, it becomes harder to understand how they ever found themselves here.
  12. Magic Farm
    There’s bits of misplaced humor, a firm sense of place and promising performances, but frustratingly little magic to be found here.
  13. Atropia
    The aimless and unfunny shenanigans of Atropia never really lead to anything and they certainly don’t lead us anywhere that demands the sudden level of dramatic seriousness that the ending brings about.
  14. You're Cordially Invited
    The real win here is watching Witherspoon and Ferrell show off, both unrestrained by a harder rating and a more raucous script than the norm and while their escalation of bad behaviour might not be quite as bad as it could have been, they both make for wonderfully petty antiheroes.
  15. All That's Left of You
    As the years go by and the trauma festers, the film grows into something thornier, surprising, beautifully textured and deeply moving.
  16. Opus
    It’s frustrating to see yet another first-time film-maker overstack their plate in such a way that feels less like the product of impressive ambition and more empty bravado.
  17. Detective Chinatown 1900
    Tightly paced and snappily directed, this is decent-quality Chinese screwball, if a touch overlong.
  18. Sorry, Baby
    Sharply written, smartly structured and well-acted, with a star-making turn from Victor herself, the 93-minute black comedy is not only nimble and consistently funny, but one of the best, most honest renderings of life after sexual assault that I’ve seen.
  19. Saturday Night
    There’s an odd, disconcerting tone of solemnity to this slice of cultural history.
  20. Together
    There’s something refreshingly blunt about what Together is trying to say about the dangers of codependency, a film too busy having fun to waste time writing a self-satisfied dissertation.
  21. Train Dreams
    At its best, writer/director Clint Bentley and co-writer Greg Kwedar have crafted a gorgeous and poignant film of quiet, bruised life in a fragile place, anchored by a magnificently sensitive and restrained performance from the still-underrated Edgerton.
  22. Rebuilding
    Recovery is shown to be a tough, jagged process and while Rebuilding might not offer much in the way of specifics, it offers a wealth of hope which might be enough for now.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Luther: Never Too Much
    Vandross’s specific power isn’t always fully articulated here – but his musical brilliance certainly is.
  24. By the Stream
    In its engaging and eccentric way, Hong’s film-making is diverting and intriguing and then it capriciously concludes, leaving things up in the air, yet without making you feel shortchanged. Perhaps this one is slighter than his recent work, but it has a comic charm.
  25. Young Werther
    A film that feels short on real passion, but big on banter and sharp suiting.
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