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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. Ambush
    It’s both by the book and dispiritingly vague.
  2. Tótem
    This is clearly a very personal project for Avilés, and the heartbreak feels very real.
  3. Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything
    It’s a vehement movie, with a driving narrative force and a robust sense of time and place.
  4. Music
    It is a film that does not proceed in the narrative style and the title seems to suggest that we should think of it as a different art form entirely: a constellation of themes, ideas, tropes, moods in which the personae relate to each other as concepts rather than characters.
  5. Limbo
    It is a tough, muscular film with the grit of crime, but a heartbeat of compassion.
  6. Afire
    In the end I felt that the film fully achieves neither the ostensible comedy of the opening, nor the supposed sadness of its denouement.
  7. We Have a Ghost
    It’s not that its heart isn’t in the right place, it’s just that its heart has been transplanted from somewhere else.
  8. Selfiee
    Another broad, sitcom-bright crowdpleaser, prone to abusing the wacky sound effect button, this latest Mehta comedy has nevertheless been packaged with a professionalism that’s hard to deny.
  9. Reality
    This, the film says, is what it really feels like to be on the receiving end of the law in a case like this: a calm, professional, technocratic but relentless display of overwhelming power.
  10. Luther: The Fallen Sun
    It’s all socked over with great and gruesome conviction, but there isn’t the same character-related interest as the TV series could generate.
  11. Suzume
    It is an absorbing, intriguing, bewildering work: often spectacular and beautiful, like a sci-fi supernatural disaster movie or an essay on nature and politics, but shot through with distinctive elements of fey and whimsical comedy.
  12. Kiss the Future
    This movie is a time-capsule of Europe’s recent tragic past.
  13. Creed III
    The Rocky spin-off series continues to dazzle with another knockout drama with the magnetic Jonathan Majors.
  14. Cocaine Bear
    Not since Snakes on a Plane has a movie promised so much, but despite a great cast the plot is too tame.
  15. Golda
    As a war movie, it’s bafflingly dull; as a political-intrigue drama, it’s lifeless; as a personal portrait of Meir, it’s inert and superficial.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lonesome
    Where Teenage Kicks swung for the canon of LGBTIQ+ coming-of-age films, Lonesome is happy to be a provocative talking point, establishing Boreham as a queer film-maker unafraid of making an important or niche work.
  17. Joyland
    Joyland is such a delicate, intelligent and emotionally rich film. What a debut from Sadiq.
  18. The Survival of Kindness
    The Survival of Kindness has static elements of an art installation, a non-narrative dream state that is part arresting, part frustrating.
  19. The Strays
    British actor/writer Nathaniel Martello-White’s directorial debut nudges at some uncomfortable fault lines of race and class, but tends to over-index unearned suspense for character development or insight.
  20. Disco Boy
    Italian director Giacomo Abbruzzese makes a really stylish debut with Disco Boy, a visually thrilling, ambitious and distinctly freaky adventure into the heart of imperial darkness, or into something else entirely: the heart of an alternative reality, or a transcendent new self.
  21. Inside
    It is a strange, enclosed experience: Dafoe’s mastery of the screen keeps it meaningful.
  22. Stop-Zemlia
    This gentle, authentic-feeling coming-of-age drama from Ukrainian film-maker Kateryna Gornostai premiered at the Berlin festival in 2021. Released in the UK almost a year to the day since the Russian invasion, her film has become unbearably poignant.
  23. She Came to Me
    It’s a likeable confection, and a pleasure to see Marisa Tomei on very good form.
  24. Ocean Boy
    Atkins uses these settings as pretty scaffolding for otherwise ordinary scenes.
  25. Three Day Millionaire
    What’s missing is a sense of what’s at stake – we never quite get a feeling for how desperate these men are, and for the most part they feel a bit too familiar from the Britcom playbook. That said, Burrows brings cheeky-chappie warmth to the character of Curly.
  26. She Is Love
    A waste of great talent, sadly.
  27. Epic Tails
    Nearly everything about Epic Tails feels a bit underwhelming, and limited imagination-wise.
  28. Daughter
    At points I wondered if this is a film that tells us anything about anything. Some of its ideas feel a bit thrown together.
  29. Attachment
    The refreshing – and rare – blend of Jewish humour and horror makes Attachment a fun Valentine’s Day watch for those who like their queer romance with a sprinkle of spooky chill.
  30. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
    The film appears to exist in the Venn diagram-overlap between twee and hipster, which isn’t for everyone – but let it grow on you, and there is a real sweetness and gentleness in its absurdity, a savant innocence and charm.
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