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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. Gladiator II
    Scott’s return to the Roman arena is something of a repeat, but it’s still a thrilling spectacle and Mescal a formidable lead. We are entertained.
  2. The Piano Lesson
    There’s a struggle throughout the movie to marry the human emotions to the surreal and supernatural spectacle.
  3. Skincare
    Skincare is a worthy contribution to the growing microgenre of female-led beauty-themed horror, and some of us out here are ready for more.
  4. No Other Land
    No Other Land, for its many images of despair, still offers a stirring vision for what could be – Israelis and Palestinians working together in the name of justice, collaborating toward a world where both are free.
  5. Piece By Piece
    Pharrell’s rags-to-riches story is a familiar tale re-energised not just with his unique sound but the basic decision to animate his life so that it can thrive with his imagination and hit so many visual grace notes.
  6. Pedro Páramo
    Strangely, given Prieto’s visual acumen, the film is also a bit bland visually, bar a flashy prologue kicked off by the camera sinking into the bowels of the earth. But the story has enough residual power to deliver a dark night of the Mexican soul nonetheless.
  7. Meet Me Next Christmas
    It exists in Netflix festive movie world, an ever-expanding place of ever-diminishing returns, and while this won’t be a film someone would consider returning to next Christmas, it’ll just about do for now.
  8. Red One
    There’s nothing wrong with a big-hearted film for Christmas, but this commercial and formulaic slice of content is a toy destined to be forgotten.
  9. Bookworm
    This is a shameless heartstring plucker. But it’s charming and sometimes very funny.
  10. Dying
    This is a bleak, bold, extravagantly crazy story which is emotionally incorrect at all times.
  11. Paddington In Peru
    There are fewer jokes, moment by moment, but just as much sprightliness, spectacle and fun.
  12. Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
    Though the interviews with the Reeve children are poignant and insightful, directors Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui show no signs of trusting their material.
  13. Heretic
    Heretic might not be good clean fun but Grant makes it worth us getting dirty.
  14. Slingshot
    It labours for an hour to find its own thematic core, but as the psychological pieces accumulate, the film starts to exert an inexorable pull in its exploration of cognitive dissonance and mental illness.
  15. Music by John Williams
    Such is the narrative offered here, with no examination of how and why he so brilliantly understands the relationship between pictures and sound; nor are there insights into his composing methods, or indeed his own musical influences and icons.
  16. Martha
    Martha is, after all, the star – a fascinating narrator of her own life, sometimes direct, sometimes curiously opaque or self-contradictory, always evincing a glowing, undaunted ambition. As the OG influencer, she lived the rule: whatever happens, just keep pushing forward. The people will keep watching.
  17. Time Cut
    The lack of tension, innovative kills or atmosphere is far more of an issue, the film looking every bit as tinny and flat as the very worst that streaming has to offer.
  18. Juror #2
    Suspense is kept on a low flame but the film offers cosy pleasures, not least in the jury-room wrangles.
  19. Canary Black
    As visual wallpaper it’s serviceable enough, providing a constant backbeat of blam-blam gunshots and explosions, mostly at night.
  20. Don't Move
    The film is at its best when words are secondary to action.
  21. Venom: The Last Dance
    It’s quick and brash and seemingly aware of how goofy so much of it is but it’s also awkwardly overstuffed.
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    Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
    Zimny’s film-making style is certainly less adventurous, but his weaving of archive footage is deftly done – it’s fun to see the terrible sleeping arrangements on early E Street Band outings – and you’re left with the sense that this is a unit of people for whom rocking out and blowing minds is an irresistible lifetime pursuit.
  23. The Room Next Door
    It’s a lovely, mordant, tender affair; a lush September song in duet, performed with aplomb by Swinton and Moore as they stroll the secondhand bookstores or lounge by the pool they can’t be bothered to swim in.
  24. Classified
    The fight sequences are lethargic and feature a lot of extras waiting patiently for their cue to fall over dead. The Maltese architecture remains as lovely as ever; the dialogue is, however, shockingly bad.
  25. Family Pack
    This is a perfectly accurate board-game adaptation insofar as it’s well-packaged, undemanding fun.
  26. Black Box Diaries
    Itō is an amazing personality: an intelligent, courageous journalist who may have changed the course of Japanese history.
  27. Matt and Mara
    Here is a toothless, aimless dramedy from Canada, a lo-fi excursion into nothing very interesting; it’s what would happen if Harry met Sally and maybe they weren’t meant to be lovers or even friends and were both a bit bland.
  28. Brothers
    The quirkiest thing about it is how much of that time it spends accidentally calling attention to its own overwritten, under-thought weaknesses.
  29. The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
    By the end it’s nearly impossible not to shed a tear after the touching finesse and shape of this story.
  30. The Teacher
    Nabulsi hits the dramatic beats with confidence and Bakri has genuine distinction; his sensitivity and intelligence command every scene.
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