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For 6,581 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: 2,495 out of 6581
  2. Mixed: 3,767 out of 6581
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6581
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  1. Absolutely Anything
    A huge amount of talent here, including Joanna Lumley and Eddie Izzard. Sadly it goes nowhere.
  2. Marguerite & Julien
    This buttock-clenchingly embarrassing movie from director Valérie Donzelli is a pre-Revolutionary period drama from the quality end of the sugary French market – theatrically tricked out with one or two annoying and clumsy Brechtian touches of stylised self-aware modernity.
  3. The Sea of Trees
    For all its apparent sombreness and thoughtfulness, The Sea Of Trees is an exasperatingly shallow film on an important and agonisingly painful subject - depression and suicide. This it slathers in palliative sentimentality.
  4. My King
    Mon Roi, directed and co-written by Maïwenn (that is, film-maker and actor Maïwenn Le Besco) is an unendurable confection of complacent and self-admiring nonsense: shallow, narcissistic, histrionic and fake.
  5. United Passions
    Even without the current headlines, United Passions is a disgrace. It’s less a movie than preposterous self-hagiography, more appropriate for Scientology or the Rev Sun Myung Moon. As cinema it is excrement. As proof of corporate insanity it is a valuable case study.
  6. 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
    Abhorrent politics aside, it’s also a terrible movie. The dialogue is atrocious, the performances rote. One could make the case that its incoherence is a grand meta-narrative statement about the fluidity of combat, but I don’t think that’s the case.
  7. Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F'
    One innovation: the application of thrash metal to fight scenes, which at least hushes the shriller voice artists.
  8. Freeheld
    A film that should feel urgent and of its time, but instead is rendered cliched and dull by Sollet’s amateurish handling of the material.
  9. War Room
    One can always keep praying that the next of these films will be a little better.
  10. Mr. Right
    Mr Right is Grosse Pointe Blank meets Dexter. Liman meets Tarantino. Derivative idea meets sloppy execution.
  11. Lolo
    This romp is just embarrassing.
  12. Remember
    The inept script... makes for a perfect bedfellow with Egoyan’s flat TV movie direction and an overwrought score that sounds like a drunk impression of Bernard Herrmann.
  13. Singh Is Bliing
    Director Prabhudheva’s idea of comedy is broad and very much soundtrack-led.
  14. The Book of Henry
    In its pure misjudged ickiness, bad-acting ropiness, and its quirksy, smirksy passive-aggressive tweeness, this insidiously terrible film could hardly get any more skin-crawling.
  15. The Death and Life of John F. Donovan
    None of it rings remotely true and his insistence on playing out so many scenes at such a high level can make it an excruciating watch.
  16. God's Not Dead 2
    God’s Not Dead 2 is a much better movie than God’s Not Dead, but that’s a bit like saying a glass of milk left on the table hasn’t curdled and is merely sour.
  17. The Huntsman: Winter's War
    It really is a nuclear war of dullness.
  18. Yoga Hosers
    [A] lazy affair that aims for inspired lunacy but misses the mark by a mile.
  19. Solace
    This could be one of those rare and terrifying serial killer cases where the psychotic culprit apparently intends to bore and embarrass everyone to death with bad acting.
  20. The Emoji Movie
    The Emoji Movie is a force of insidious evil, a film that feels as if it was dashed off by an uninspired advertising executive.
  21. Baywatch
    By about halfway in, the gags dry up and the story sinks like an overweight tourist who took a dip too early after the all-you-can-eat surf ’n’ turf buffet.
  22. Nine Lives
    It’s lazy on every level.
  23. Collateral Beauty
    This horrifyingly yucky, toxically cutesy ensemble dramedy creates a Chernobyl atmosphere of manipulative sentimentality, topped off with an ending which M Night Shyamalan might reject as too ridiculous.
  24. Transformers: The Last Knight
    The final explosive showdown seems to be competing with Marvel movies for spectacle. But Marvel brings wit and fun. As far as those factors go, the Transformers franchise is in very short supply.
  25. A Haunting in Cawdor
    Here is a scary movie that is so hammy and so clunkingly written it will reduce your brain to the consistency of muesli mixed with diesel.
  26. The Girl in the Photographs
    It’s a film of remarkable idiocy, most notably in the portrayal of the local police who are so incredibly unhelpful that it borders on parody.
  27. The Last Face
    Nothing about the film comes close to authenticity and it’s largely down to Penn’s remarkably amateurish direction.
  28. The Assignment
    Every single decision made by Hill is bad.
  29. Septembers of Shiraz
    This lifeless, by-the-numbers production is an excruciating exercise in cliche and tedium. Its sole joy is in trying to figure out which of its leads is overacting most.
  30. Table 19
    After the unnatural way it plops this gruesome group in their social Siberia, it goes from (alleged) comedy to serious drama with all the subtlety of a 10-year-old playing Mario Kart.
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