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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. LaRoy, Texas
    If Atkinson isn’t quite the Coen inheritor he aspires to be, this hectic flurry of schemers, snatchers and low-lifes puts him three-quarters of the way to inventing a new genre: Texan noir farce.
  2. The Stolen Valley
    The cinematography here, capturing the fierce beauty of the craggy landscape, raises the quality an inch or two above hokey cheapness. In the end though, this is movie with right on its side but not a scrap of believability.
  3. Concrete Utopia
    If George Orwell had had a career stint as a Korean estate agent, this is the kind of story he might have turned out.
  4. 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.
  5. The First Omen
    This 70s-set prelude to the classic satanic horror has flair but struggles with the weight and familiarity of what came before.
  6. Scoop
    The drama is smothered by its own overwhelming sense of importance.
  7. Monkey Man
    If you have the stomach for singularly focused revenge and some truly graphic, visceral hand-to-hand combat, Monkey Man delivers the goods.
  8. Yannick
    Yannick doesn’t try blurring the lines between reality and performance in any Pirandellian way. The comedy is simpler than that. Yet there’s a touch of sadness as Yannick realises, as many other dramatists have done, that the actors are the ones getting the glory.
  9. Io Capitano
    Seydou and the others are not exactly masters of their fate, or captains of their souls, to quote WE Henley’s Invictus. They are swept along by power and inequality, but Garrone shows that their humanity and compassion are still buoyant.
  10. The Three Musketeers - Part 2: Milady
    It’s still a tremendous spectacle: all four of the musketeers are very attractive characters, particularly the noble and agonised Civil as D’Artagnan.
  11. Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus
    It’s a work suffused with emotional tones and shades, surprisingly not all of them sad even though the subject knew at the time of filming he had mere weeks left before he’d die of cancer.
  12. Kung Fu Panda 4
    It’s a hurricane of slapstick (some of it in fact very funny) and age-appropriate energetic fight scenes, but lacks the sweetness and charm of the franchise at its best.
  13. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
    It’s a still fun yet far sloppier outing, a second round that’s less of a win for us and more of a draw.
  14. Mothers' Instinct
    The movie starts out very serious and shocking and concludes on a note of pure farce, though I have to say Chastain’s performance has a clenched restraint which is marginally more convincing than Hathaway’s operatic but callow displays of hurt and entitlement.
  15. The Sweet East
    The section where Lillian tumbles down a film-making rabbit hole is by far the most amusing.
  16. Silver Haze
    Silver Haze is a sombre, thoughtful film about depression and what is (and isn’t) likely to promote emotional healing, performed with openness and honesty.
  17. The Origin of Evil
    Without a doubt this is easy entertainment, never dull, and it has some shrewd things to say about class and money – though the satire might have been sharper and the running time shorter by a good 20 minutes.
  18. Art Talent Show
    Film-makers Adéla Komrzý and Tomáš Bojar are interested not only in the individual subjects, but also the hidden machinations of cultural institutions.
  19. Shirley
    Shirley gets the job done, though I wish it was more worthy of her complexity.
  20. The Beautiful Game
    The tropes are a bit familiar.
  21. Our Son
    All the characters are rounded, fallible and likable in equal measure, and even if the score is a bit syrupy, it’s a pleasant, engaging watch.
  22. Robot Dreams
    This is a sweet, fuzzy movie, possibly a little soft-hearted. Still, I dare anyone to watch the final moments without a lump in the throat.
  23. Baltimore
    An entirely absorbing, coolly low-key movie.
  24. The Persian Version
    The Persian Version feels a bit soft focus some of the time, but it takes on real depth and force when the action hops further back, to 1960s Iran, where Shireen is a 13-year-old girl (now played by Kamand Shafieisabet).
  25. Immaculate
    Sweeney’s fight for bodily autonomy, against religious fanatics in Immaculate, transcends the screen in a way most B-movies like it could only pray for.
  26. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
    There are one or two laughs here and an attempt at a queer romance, but no real signs of life.
  27. Late Night with the Devil
    The directors and Dastmalchian – high on his own bogus gravitas – have fun with a fresh premise that reminds us that light entertainment is the anteroom of hell.
  28. Jacqueline (Argentine)
    Jacqueline (Argentine) isn’t just a bad movie – there are plenty of those. It’s infuriating.
  29. Lovely Rita (2001)
    The point is not motive, it isn't the elucidation of the human mind; it is more the simple juxtaposition of horror and bourgeois normality as a kind of Neurotic Realist motif: sinister, enigmatic, disquieting.
  30. Irish Wish
    There is of course more here to remind us of Lohan’s unwavering charm but that’s not quite enough to distract from just how tired and limply written the whole thing is and how depressing it is to watch her still stuck here.
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