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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. Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey
    The awful truth is that this is a generic derivative horror script.
  2. True Spirit
    The cast of True Spirit had no such chance: the schmaltz and mushiness overpower everything. The film’s daytime-soap vibes render an unquestionably inspiring true story into an experience that feels so false, so rinky-dink, I had to remind myself it was based on real life.
  3. Gandhi Godse Ek Yudh
    Gandhi Godse Ek Yudh is, at the end of the day, a mediocre effort. Deepak Antani’s Gandhi and Chinmay Mandlekar’s Godse do share a startling resemblance with the real historical figures, but their characterisation in this fanciful piece of fiction lacks any real conviction.
  4. Rebel Moon Part 1: A Child of Fire
    Going mad with power should be at the very least fun, exhilarating in the indulgence of an artist’s most outlandish whims. Instead, Snyder’s would-be magnum opus is merely boring.
  5. Extraction 2
    The first Extraction was entertaining enough but this new one is just cynically about extracting the cash.
  6. The Mother
    It’s a script which shows every sign of having had plenty of rewrites, though perhaps it could have done with a few more.
  7. Mummies
    Not only is it as derivative as chatbot-written free verse, it’s also not even pleasant to look at. Walk like an Egyptian very quickly away from the multiplex.
  8. Ghosted
    Ghosted is content dictated by algorithm at its absolute, industry-shaming worst, so carelessly and lifelessly cobbled together that we’re inclined to believe it’s the first film created entirely by AI.
  9. A Good Person
    Braff puts us through a gruelling “relapse” montage as Allison hits the pills again after an illusory breakthrough and then a “recovery” montage as she gets it together. And the film’s single valuable lesson – the one about not looking at your phone while driving – is all but forgotten.
  10. Insidious: The Red Door
    The writing expends more effort on teasing out the logistics of seeing dead people than making the phenomenon frightening or emotionally resonant.
  11. Gran Turismo
    Commerce contaminates the whole endeavour.
  12. Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain
    As comedy writers and movie actors, the members of Please Don’t Destroy – Martin Herlihy, John Higgins and Ben Marshall – are out of their depth. That’s not a knock on their brand of comedy, which works in small doses.
  13. A Brighter Tomorrow
    Everything about it is heavy-handed and dull: the non-comedy, the ersatz-pathos, the anti-drama.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Out-Laws
    The wittiest thing about The Out-Laws is its title.
  15. Sound of Freedom
    This is just a dull and badly acted movie.
  16. Two Tickets to Greece
    Calamy gives it everything she’s got but this film is fundamentally heavy-handed.
  17. Bleeding Love
    This unbearably cute joint selfie of a movie is gruesomely indulgent and entitled from the first; it allows Ewan McGregor little or no opportunity to show his natural wit and flair and there is oddly no real chemistry between him and his co-star.
  18. Best. Christmas. Ever.
    At less than 80 minutes, it’s barely even a movie, more one long montage of bits that never run on long enough to be defined as scenes.
  19. Vacation Friends 2
    The bar was low after the first, a half-assed waste of actors who deserve better, but the sequel is somehow even worse, a maddeningly unfunny string of bad decisions, the worst of which was deciding to make it in the first place.
  20. Freelance
    Brie and Cena look lifeless and blank-faced; they’ve got no chemistry, and the objectionable dynamics of him manfully rescuing her shrieking from the clutches of the bad guys on repeat feel like a satire of the genre – which this isn’t.
  21. How to Date Billy Walsh
    It’s a weird facsimile of a movie – plot with no momentum, plenty of character facts without substance, a pastiche of better movie moments and classic romcom notes. Even for lowered expectations or couch-day fluff, this is a skip.
  22. Wicked Little Letters
    There’s something equally impressive and depressing about the squandered potential of misfiring period comedy Wicked Little Letters, a joyless waste of cast, premise and setting.
  23. Old Dads
    When not being used to grind dull culture-war axes, sputtering impotent anger is a comedy staple. It just needs to be funnier than this.
  24. Dashing Through the Snow
    In film-making as in gift-giving, it’s the thought that counts, and there’s not much to go around in here.
  25. Argylle
    This could theoretically be a fun movie, but it is all so self-conscious and self-admiring, with key action sequences rendered null and void by being played on two levels, the imaginary and the real, so cancelling each other out.
  26. Sumotherhood
    Any stabs at thematic seriousness have an incongruous feel. It’s admirable that Deacon, who has been vocal about his own mental health issues, has made his character bipolar, but the subject isn’t explored so much as mentioned repeatedly.
  27. Imaginary
    Aiming for more fun is no bad thing but Imaginary is far too dumb and ungainly to move at the pace required and bring the thrills it should, a theme park ride that should be closed for repairs.
  28. Genie
    It’s as if everyone involved is terrified of actually making people laugh in case that gives offence somehow, or disrupts the algorithmic calculation that theoretically makes this a palatable piece of content. The whole thing is as bland as cellophane.
  29. Animal
    Despite its obvious desire to push buttons, Animal doesn’t have the guts to actually own its transgressions.
  30. War Blade
    This pointless, aimless mission is expedited by the usual logic-slips, like inexplicably letting fanatical SS officers escape when you have them at your mercy.
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