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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. Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
    The film’s good-natured warmth wins the day, just.
  2. Emily
    This is a sensually imaginative dive into the life of the Wuthering Heights author: it is a real passion project for O’Connor, with some wonderfully arresting insights.
  3. Summit Fever
    Aided by its physical clout, Summit Fever does hit a kind of rhythm near the end – but last year’s The Summit of the Gods is a more substantial look at this kind of obsession.
  4. All That Breathes
    Shaunak Sen’s documentary is a complex, thoughtful, quietly beautiful film about the ecosystem and human community.
  5. Rosaline
    Rosaline . . . understands what makes a good adaptation: a sense of humor at least on par with if not exceeding the original, lighthearted lines with serious delivery, crackling romantic chemistry. And in the case of Rosaline, an unmissable lead in Kaitlyn Dever as a lovelorn medieval schemer left on read.
  6. Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
    Preposterous though it may be, this is a terrific family movie in a style audiences may not have seen since Mary Poppins.
  7. Some Like It Rare
    Some Like It Rare is a tasty treat for herbivores and carnivores alike.
  8. Hellraiser
    It doesn’t always work, and at times it really really doesn’t, but it feels confident and unfettered in a way that so many horror films don’t these days.
  9. Luckiest Girl Alive
    There are pieces of Luckiest Girl Alive that seem interested in a life splintered by trauma, in the relief of unburdening, the hunger for certainty over what happened, the thrill of playing on cultural expectations for women. But the story it ultimately tells is an empty, self-serving fantasy.
  10. Deadstream
    Although the whole concept is quite daft, Winter’s energetic and committed performance adds a bit of heft without ever forfeiting the comedy entirely.
  11. Mr. Harrigan's Phone
    It’s solidly acted by Martell and Sutherland, although the latter seems as desperate as we are to let loose and have a bit more fun, and has a confident sense of place as King adaptations often do but it’s all rather unforgivably dull, a call to be swiftly ignored.
  12. Nothing Compares
    This is a bracing guide to a brilliant individual who declined to conform.
  13. Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical
    Matilda is a tangy bit of entertainment, served up with gusto.
  14. After Blue (Dirty Paradise)
    After Blue is a preposterous film, easy to ridicule. But it’s surely already halfway to cult classic status – destined to play midnight slots, watched by students smuggling bottles of red wine into the cinema under their coats.
  15. The Cordillera of Dreams
    This is rich and valuable testament to Chilean courage.
  16. House of Darkness
    This feels like something LaBute wrote in an afternoon on the notes app on his smartphone while thinking about something else.
  17. The Woman King
    This is a big, bold picture with the vivid presences of Davis, Lynch, Atim and Mbedu giving it some real voltage.
  18. My Best Friend's Exorcism
    My Best Friend’s Exorcism could perhaps do with one or two genuine scares. But for anyone old enough to remember Tiffany and advice columns in teenage girls’ magazines, this is going to deliver a pleasing shot of nostalgia.
  19. Hocus Pocus 2
    Like many fan favourite follow-ups, Hocus Pocus 2 is stuck, trapped somewhere between different times, audiences and tones, trying to do so much yet, in this instance, achieving so very little.
  20. Sniper. The White Raven
    As a war movie written by a soldier this material feels oddly lacking in authenticity and authority. And yet it’s a noble attempt to honour the resilience of Ukrainians and the courage of ordinary people like Voronin, fighting for freedom.
  21. Inu-oh
    Retrofitting medieval Noh as a world of guitar gods and cavorting dancers, Inu-oh has its two disabled lead characters make a psychedelic plea in favour of slipping loose from dominant narratives, told in a fecund patchwork of styles by Yuasa that asserts its own outsider credentials.
  22. Amsterdam
    There is something weirdly heavy and foggy in Amsterdam that feels like it’s working against the lightness and nimbleness needed for a caper. It’s the reality of the history, which the movie makes explicit in the closing credits.
  23. The Girl with a Bracelet
    Viewers may be split on the question of exactly how satisfying it all is in the end. The performances are strong.
  24. Girl Picture
    This is such a vivid, lovable triple-decker performance from Milonoff, Kauhanen and Leino.
  25. Smile
    The movie is a shard of comic and cosmic spite, and the image of the malign smile carries force.
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