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For 6,561 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 40% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 55% 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: 2,484 out of 6561
  2. Mixed: 3,758 out of 6561
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6561
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  1. Oppenheimer
    Oppenheimer is poignantly lost in the kaleidoscopic mass of broken glimpses: the sacrificial hero-fetish of the American century.
  2. Barbie
    It’s entertaining and amiable, but with a softcore pulling of punches: lightly ironised, celebratory nostalgia for a toy that still exists right now.
  3. My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
    Well, point-by-point, clip-by-clip, this film remains brilliant. As ever, there is real evangelism in Cousins’s work and in My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock there is so much to learn and enjoy. You come away from it with your senses fine-tuned.
  4. They Cloned Tyrone
    It all bounces along amiably enough, due to the high-octane work of Boyega, Foxx and Parris. Perhaps they deserve to be in a more serious film or in a comedy that was skewed more to grownups. Well, it’s a film with its own peculiarly unexpected innocence and charm.
  5. Quicksand
    It doesn’t help that the film takes itself with Deliverance-like seriousness, and fails to really acknowledge its absurdity.
  6. Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)
    Photographer and film-maker Anton Corbijn is the very best person to direct this very enjoyable documentary about design outfit Hipgnosis and its dynamic co-founders Aubrey “Po” Powell and Storm Thorgerson.
  7. Medusa
    This really is a very strange film, and perhaps doesn’t quite cohere the way a more rigorously refined and redrafted screenplay might, but each of its exotic elements suggests a mounting delirium – exactly the kind of unacknowledged, displaced group frustration that grows and metastasises in a police state.
  8. The Deepest Breath
    Rounding out the pervasive sense of fear and ecstasy is a mesmerizing, sometimes mind-altering, depiction of the ocean’s depths. When one beholds Zecchini’s figure undulating to the sound of nothing, it’s all too clear that thrill-seeking is only part of the story.
  9. Insidious: The Red Door
    The writing expends more effort on teasing out the logistics of seeing dead people than making the phenomenon frightening or emotionally resonant.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Out-Laws
    The wittiest thing about The Out-Laws is its title.
  11. Prisoner's Daughter
    One for Hardwicke, and everyone else, to forget.
  12. The New Boy
    After some robust storytelling at the start; the film drifts into a series of images and moods which perhaps don’t deliver as much impact as intended.
  13. Joy Ride
    A fun ride.
  14. Smoking Causes Coughing
    The cumulative effect is very pleasurable. The film has got some Python, Douglas Adams, Charlie Kaufman and also John Waters and Ed Wood Jr in it; it’s also possible that Dupieux has seen Peter Cook and Dudley Moore in Stanley Donen’s Bedazzled.
  15. Wham!
    It’s an enjoyable spectacle, and a madeleine for the 1980s: but there was something more to say about friendship, sexuality and the music itself.
  16. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
    In the past I have been agnostic and a nay-sayer about M:I, but the pure fun involved in this film, its silly-serious alchemy, and the way the franchise seems to strain at something crazily bigger with every film, as opposed to just winding down, is something to wonder at.
  17. Millie Lies Low
    It’s a testament to Scotney’s performance that Millie retains a perverse kind of integrity even as she dupes herself more than the people around her. A shrewd and promising debut.
  18. The End of Sex
    A smarter, sharper film might have explored what happens next in an otherwise happy marriage when the spark goes out. Instead, the comedy here is as broad as it gets, with some wildly unconvincing and unhilarious set-pieces.
  19. Hello, Bookstore
    It’s the only documentary I’ve ever watched with a reading list in the credits – what a treat this film is.
  20. La Syndicaliste
    It’s a political thriller that tells the story matter-of-factly, and is perhaps a little lacking in the pace department. But Isabelle Huppert carries it along with a performance every bit as gripping as you’d expect.
  21. Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
    Kraken anatomy differs from human in some aspects, but this is a film with its heart, at least, in the right place.
  22. The Perfect Find
    The Perfect Find is as much a tribute to Black love as it is a salute to the Roaring 20s – a fine romance to build a night in around. It meets the give-me-something-old-but-different Hollywood brief with style and wit, and takes care of anyone who might find family here.
  23. Nimona
    Nimona is likable and engaging entertainment that finds its way through self-created chaos to some humane life-lessons.
  24. No Hard Feelings
    It’s a pleasure to find a comedy about bought sex that’s pretty funny – and funnier than the pun in the title might suggest.
  25. Extraction 2
    The first Extraction was entertaining enough but this new one is just cynically about extracting the cash.
  26. The Blackening
    As a horror The Blackening isn’t the scariest. But that’s not the point of this film – a Fubu satire smack in the sweet spot between Get Out and Scary Movie.
  27. The Listener
    This is an intriguing, if undeveloped performance piece, elevated by Thompson’s class.
  28. Flamin' Hot
    It’s cheerily done and competently made but broadly sentimental to a fault, the strings being pulled too visible for the film’s many coerced moments of emotion to really work. For a film all about the importance of heat, it’s frankly lukewarm.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Run Rabbit Run
    Snook, of course, is typically excellent, fresh from her turn as Succession’s petulant, scheming Shiv Roy in another spiky role here – but even her performance, as it heightens towards a crazed delirium, recalls Toni Collette’s in Hereditary.
  30. Chevalier
    While Harrison’s performance may never fully reveal the nature of the man beneath these sumptuous layers of organza, silk and self-confidence, it’s enchanté Chevalier, all the same.
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