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For 6,571 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: 2,490 out of 6571
  2. Mixed: 3,762 out of 6571
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6571
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  1. Next Goal Wins
    The whole film is a little rough-and-ready in the way it’s put together, but it’s amiable and well-intentioned and the laughs are real.
  2. Simple Minds: Everything is Possible
    Both Kerr and Burchill come across as unpretentious, down to earth and likable.
  3. Society of the Snow
    This is a fervent film, heartfelt and shot with passion and sweep.
  4. The Color Purple
    This heartfelt movie-musical of The Color Purple sugars the pill and softens the blow, planing down the original’s barbed and knotty surfaces, taking away some of the shock of violence and tragedy and tilting the experience more towards female solidarity and triumph over adversity.
  5. 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.
  6. The Family Plan
    The script works efficiently and everyone involved sells it hard; there are continuous closeup cutaways to that cute and gurgling baby who never cries no matter what happens. But the sheer robotic sheen of the film in the end works against it.
  7. Apolonia, Apolonia
    As Sokol’s style matures, Glob’s direction also becomes visibly more assured. The meandering beginning in which the film-maker’s narration does a lot of the heavy lifting soon becomes more stylistically coherent.
  8. Godzilla Minus One
    This is not a cuddly version of Godzilla. He is rageful and entirely incomprehensible, seemingly not even motivated by hunger, desire or revenge. Like a god, he just is, an entity that has become death, the destroyer of worlds, as ineluctable as history itself.
  9. Every Body
    This is a sympathetic and very contemporary study.
  10. Monica
    This is a tremendously crafted, impeccably intelligent film.
  11. The Shift
    For every bright spot in The Shift, and every moment where it has value as a cultural curio or object of camp intrigue, you unfortunately have to sit through a fair amount of blathering on about Kevin’s mission.
  12. Animal
    Despite its obvious desire to push buttons, Animal doesn’t have the guts to actually own its transgressions.
  13. The Archies
    The whole shebang is quite bizarre but sort of works, thanks to the brisk pacing of the editing and the joie de vivre that directors Zoya Akhtar and Ryan Brophy inject into the proceedings.
  14. The Sacrifice Game
    You’re never left in any doubt that The Sacrifice Game is made by film-makers with affection and respect for horror movies – but it might not be the type of horror movie you thought it was at first sight.
  15. Earth Mama
    A piercingly emotional drama, acted with natural flair.
  16. A Tiger in Paradise
    It’s all quite lovely to look at or even just listen to, making for something that can easily be experienced at home while the viewer is knitting or chopping vegetables.
  17. Night Train
    The execution is dire, with cliche-riddled dialogue as cheesy as a packet of Kraft Singles, stodgy pacing, poorly developed characters and shonky acting.
  18. The Peasants
    There is visual interest here, but for me the drama isn’t sustained.
  19. Your Christmas or Mine?
    It’s a very small mercy, given what he’s working with, but director Jim O’Hanlon is at least able to competently conjure enough Christmas spirit for the film to visually feel of the season, evocative enough to pierce through for those of us who’ve made the journey from London to the sticks for the holidays.
  20. Your Christmas or Mine 2
    The script is mostly tasteless, a buffet of blandness. Instantly forgettable.
  21. Wonka
    I enjoyed this more than either of the two earlier filmed versions, with Gene Wilder in 1971 and Johnny Depp in 2005. It supplies the chocolate-endorphins.
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