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For 6,577 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: 2,494 out of 6577
  2. Mixed: 3,764 out of 6577
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6577
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  1. Another Year
    The power of this film creeps up on you by stealth; its dramatic idiom is admittedly mannered in the Leigh style but shy of caricature, and designed consistently to abrade the audience's consciousness without irritating – fingertips down the blackboard, not fingernails.
  2. Champions
    This big-hearted underdog sports comedy runs on rails, with no great surprises, but it’s likable.
  3. Ithaka
    Ithaka shows us how time and experience have lent perspective to it all, affectingly focusing on Assange’s elderly father John Shipton, and Assange’s fiancee Stella Moris (now his wife), who have doggedly fought for Assange’s rights as an investigative journalist and publisher.
  4. Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
    It’s slick in one moment and a little too scrappy the next but Ritchie’s puppyish insistence that you have as much as fun as his stars is hard to resist. The film’s bizarrely reticent rollout might have already killed any chance of further operations but there have been far, far worse franchise-starters in recent years.
  5. On the Adamant
    There is a gentle and very happy sense of freedom and possibility aboard the Adamant, and there is enormous warmth, sympathy and human curiosity in this film.
  6. Hello Dankness
    There’s a sense everything is up for grabs and the end is nigh: of consensus reality; of cinema and copyright legislation as we know it. Pop culture’s infinite cycle always spits out and reassembles content; here the process is explicit, amplified, and turbocharged.
  7. Ambush
    It’s both by the book and dispiritingly vague.
  8. Tótem
    This is clearly a very personal project for Avilés, and the heartbreak feels very real.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. Kiss the Future
    This movie is a time-capsule of Europe’s recent tragic past.
  18. Creed III
    The Rocky spin-off series continues to dazzle with another knockout drama with the magnetic Jonathan Majors.
  19. Cocaine Bear
    Not since Snakes on a Plane has a movie promised so much, but despite a great cast the plot is too tame.
  20. 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.
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    • 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.
  22. Joyland
    Joyland is such a delicate, intelligent and emotionally rich film. What a debut from Sadiq.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
  26. Inside
    It is a strange, enclosed experience: Dafoe’s mastery of the screen keeps it meaningful.
  27. 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.
  28. She Came to Me
    It’s a likeable confection, and a pleasure to see Marisa Tomei on very good form.
  29. Ocean Boy
    Atkins uses these settings as pretty scaffolding for otherwise ordinary scenes.
  30. 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.
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