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For 6,573 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 2.3 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: 2,491 out of 6573
  2. Mixed: 3,763 out of 6573
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6573
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  1. Maya and the Wave
    Yes, it certainly is about her, but it’s almost as if everyone involved – Gabeira, people who were supposedly her closest associates, and even the director Stephanie Johnes – aren’t quite conscious of the fact that they’re also making a documentary about endemic sexism in sport.
  2. V/H/S/Beyond
    Usually anything this many generations into its evolution is pretty exhausted – but this is pretty good, or at least in parts.
  3. The Friend
    It can be borderline maudlin and easily teary, though The Friend is grounded enough, and Watts sufficiently understated, to not become outright eye-rolling.
  4. Hold Your Breath
    Paulson’s commitment is unwavering, and it’s refreshing to see her in genre material a little more grounded than what the various American Horror Stories have given her, but she’s an actor in search of better material and, sadly, Hold Your Breath means that search is ongoing.
  5. The Platform 2
    The grindhouse thought experiments can be engaging, and a sign that the movie is more interested in speculative fiction than in preaching toward a single specific theme. But the movie rampages too quickly and carelessly to really dig into any of its characters.
  6. House of Spoils
    There are tasty moments here, but genre fans looking for a full meal might leave a little hungry.
  7. Salem's Lot
    While Dauberman manages a handful of effective moments (a morgue scramble with a homemade cross and a drive-in movie light trick are particularly good), he’s never able to capture the slow, escalating dread that a story such as this demands.
  8. Nickel Boys
    This is a survivor’s coming of age: tough, disillusioned, brilliant.
  9. Hellboy: The Crooked Man
    No amount of budget could make up for the sputtering mess of a script, or the dead-on-the-inside expressions of the cast – apart from Rudolph who is consistently watchable.
  10. The Outrun
    In every shot and every scene, mostly in closeup, Ronan carries the film with her unselfconsciously fierce and focused presence.
  11. Killer Heat
    A dull and predictable sunshine noir that wastes the time of those involved as well as ours.
  12. The Wild Robot
    Clever, heartfelt and frequently stunning, The Wild Robot offers the type of all-ages-welcome animated entertainment that will delight kids and leave a lump in one’s throat.
  13. My Old Ass
    Plaza’s natural toughness gives this film some texture, but the truth is she isn’t in it much. You can spend very, very long stretches of the running time longing for her to re-emerge. So, when she doesn’t, it feels bland.
  14. Apartment 7A
    James had impressed with her debut, the dementia horror Relic, but any of that film’s texture or creepiness has dissolved on a larger scale.
  15. One Hand Clapping
    There’s plenty for nostalgists and completists to swoon over. . . . Such a pleasure.
  16. Azrael
    Gorehounds will appreciate the film’s many beheadings and bloody murders.
  17. On Falling
    This is a very impressive debut.
  18. Never Let Go
    [Aja's] never quite sure if he wants to trick us with a jump scare or make us ponder weightier issues and, unable to do both efficiently, the film becomes lost in the murk in-between. Berry is, as ever, a strong anchor but by the time the credits roll, we’re ready to let go.
  19. Strange Darling
    It’s in uncompromising bad taste but made with lethal precision and discipline.
  20. Girls Will Be Girls
    It’s a quiet film, and Panigrahi plays Mira with such poise and intelligence, conveying her innermost thoughts with a slight lift of the chin here or lingering look there.
  21. The Goldman Case
    Kahn orchestrates the angry energy with an expert hand.
  22. Greedy People
    Some good moments and a great cast, but this doesn’t come together.
  23. Sugarcane
    [A] deeply disquieting and indeed enraging documentary.
  24. My Favourite Cake
    There is something quietly magnificent in it. Moments like these in life are poignantly brief – but many never have them at all. It’s a lovely film.
  25. Transformers One
    Breezy, comically self-referential and totally likable. But its charms nevertheless feel like they came off an assembly line – one that has been engineered to deliver Marvel-like results, in animated form of course.
  26. Separated
    The material is sobering and the mountain of evidence needs unpicking. The film-maker handles his brief with the cold, hard precision of an expert state prosecutor.
  27. Astrakan 79
    In addition to confronting the past, Mourão’s film also makes possible an intergenerational dialogue between Martim and his son, the young musician seen in the beginning; he also harbours his own secrets. Emerging from their conversation are sparks of understanding and compassion, which constitute the emotional beating heart of the film.
  28. Last Straw
    It’s encouraging to see low-budget early-career film-making with ambition.
  29. Haunted Heart
    Matters would have been improved from the audience’s point of view, however, if said digging had happened a little sooner; the film takes its sweet time to get to where we sense it’s going, and then quickly runs out of steam when it does.
  30. Harvest
    The ploddingly unvaried pace and undirected, underpowered performances make this an exasperating experience: a directionless, shallow movie which seems bafflingly unconvincing and inauthentic at every turn.
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