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For 6,576 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 2.2 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: 2,493 out of 6576
  2. Mixed: 3,764 out of 6576
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6576
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  1. 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.
  2. Eismayer
    The film is a surprisingly gentle, touching story about acceptance, though it is less than sizzling as a romance.
  3. Thanksgiving
    Roth thinks in hooks and punchlines, which keeps the copious slayings inventive and gratifying while also enlivening the connective tissue between them.
  4. Journey to Bethlehem
    If you feel the need to watch a faith film, you could do far, far worse than this one, a decently staged musical treatment of the nativity that feels like a Christian version of a live action Disney movie.
  5. Mafia Mamma
    Not even the fierce wattage of Toni Collette’s talent can light up this hokey crime comedy.
  6. Napoleon
    Phoenix is the key to it all: a performance as robust as the glass of burgundy he knocks back: preening, brooding, seething and triumphing.
  7. Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose
    In the end, the film looks like something that’s been salvaged in the edit, as it muses boringly on life’s great imponderables.
  8. Stamped from the Beginning
    The film’s particular innovation is to privilege Black women’s perspectives on the history of American racism, and with the exception of Kendi himself, every expert commentator here is a Black woman.
  9. Driving Madeleine
    Both of the leads keep it low-key, with 95-year-old Renaud’s unfussy reminiscences dotted with defiant irony, and the initially unforthcoming Boon opening up under her cajoling as naturally as a flower.
  10. Queens of the Qing Dynasty
    It’s a disorientating, unrelaxing two-hour experience, but rewarding.
  11. Desperation Road
    The direction by Nadine Crocker has all the authenticity of a daytime soap opera. But all the same, there’s no denying that Hedlund and, to a lesser extent, Fitzgerald are pretty good, offering better performances than the film surrounding them deserves.
  12. Inside Man
    In the end this feels a bit too much like a knockoff of a superior product, like something one of these guys would sell out of the boot of their car.
  13. The Mission
    Though effective in filling in the gaps of Chau’s story, the impressionistic animation dramatising his final moments commits a similar sin as the swashbuckling tales of yore, and makes a spectacle out of a tragedy that is ultimately not all that mysterious or abstract – but in fact grounded in material sociopolitical contexts.
  14. The Great Escaper
    Well, Caine and Jackson and their ineffable class give this film some real grit: it’s a wonderful last hurrah for Jackson and there is something moving and even awe-inspiring in seeing these two British icons together.
  15. Peter Doherty: Stranger In My Own Skin
    The fly-on-the-wall camera has had privileged, intimate access, there’s no doubt about it. But it still always looks like a film which is happy to go so far and no further. Perhaps some more detailed, critical analysis of the music itself would also have been welcome.
  16. Muzzle
    The dogs give the film a touch of class, but as a whole this is forgettable.
  17. Leo
    Directed with verve and enthusiasm by 37-year-old former bank employee Lokesh Kanagaraj, who moved into directing after winning a short film competition, the influence of the likes of Quentin Tarantino on all of this is very much evident.
  18. Lockdown Tower
    The Tower is a hellish vision of isolation that must surely have been dreamed up during the pandemic lockdown; it made me want to switch on The Road for a bit of light entertainment. Not easy to recommend, this.
  19. Dream Scenario
    Too well-schooled in the social physics of the internet to come off as a scold against it, writer-director Kristoffer Borgli dexterously skewers a callous culture that cultivates, digests, and disposes of its novelty acts with the blazing-fast speed of a good WiFi connection.
  20. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
    This movie finally ties itself into various knots to prefigure the later world of Katniss, but the time to end the Games came long ago.
  21. The Eternal Memory
    Sometimes God is just too on the nose when he makes his creations suffer; but at least Alberdi’s humane, profoundly empathic film-making offers some balm.
  22. The Marvels
    Larson, Harris and Vellani are an entertaining intergalactic ensemble.
  23. Showdown at the Grand
    It makes for some fun moments and a funny showdown with the baddies. In the old days this would probably have gone straight to tape, so straight-to-download feels like the right place.
  24. In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50
    There’s nothing sentimental about this documentary, which looks at people with the clear, unflinching gaze of a portraitist.
  25. Fingernails
    The evasive, guarded acting from the main players can only do so much to elevate the paltry material Nikou gives them to work with. A long, fitfully amusing walk down a short road.
  26. Quiz Lady
    The 99-minute film is long on yelling and guffaws, short on punchlines.
  27. The Royal Hotel
    The hoary sub-genre that is “attractive American tourists find something nefarious on their travels” is given a vigorous polish in thoughtful thriller The Royal Hotel, a film light on exploitation and heavy on interrogation.
  28. Bottoms
    Bottoms is actually a bizarrely violent film, and its plot is always teetering on the brink of pure incoherence, but it’s always funny, thanks to the goofy and winning comic presences of Sennott and Edebiri.
  29. Wingwomen
    Laurent, to her credit as director, is less interested in how a shootout can work as an aphrodisiac, and more invested in how it would affect a female friendship.
  30. Subject
    The question of who gets to tell stories is discussed (spoiler: mostly white men, until recently), and for a 97-minute film, Subject squeezes in a lot of ethical biggies.
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