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For 6,601 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: 2,500 out of 6601
  2. Mixed: 3,782 out of 6601
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6601
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Frozen
    Frozen hews to real, recognisable plumb-lines and casts a lingering spell.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    They Died with Their Boots On
    They Died With Their Boots On is a shameful whitewashing of history. Great battles, though.
  3. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
    I can't help thinking that the most interesting things happen in the precredit sequence - the fraught childhood, Blanche's sinister "accident" - but it's still vivid, barnstorming stuff.
  4. Hatching
    An elegantly horrible coming-of-age.
  5. Diamantino
    The film is fun, but, for all its inventiveness, it’s a bit tame, with its nice-but-dim hero. But Diamantino is never dull.
  6. True History of the Kelly Gang
    It is a very grueling spectacle, often brilliant, sometimes slightly redundant and perhaps not able to maintain the storytelling rush of its first act. But it is always weirdly plausible in its pure strangeness and in the oddly poignant moments
  7. Life, Animated
    It’s a beguiling mix of animated storytelling and narration that doesn’t flinch from exploring the emotional highs and lows that accompany a life with autism.
  8. Mandibles
    Mandibules is a rollicking, rambunctious tequila-dream of a movie.
  9. 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.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
    High-school students have plenty of growing pains to offload, and Gomez-Rejon clearly knows what makes them tick. His film is at once buzzy, fun and confronting.
  11. Porcelain War
    A sombre, steadfast argument for art’s life-giving properties.
  12. Citizen Ashe
    The issues involved here might have been discussed a little more extensively and the provenance and context of the TV interview archive material could have been labelled more clearly. But this is a decent film.
  13. A Bigger Splash
    As with I Am Love, Guadagnino has put together something utterly distinctive here, a cocktail of intense emotions, transcendent surroundings and unexpected detours. A real pleasure.
  14. The Kid Detective
    In writer-director Evan Morgan’s unusual neo-noir The Kid Detective, it’s not just a suspect or a motive that’s a red herring, it’s an entire genre, a strange rug-pull of a movie that starts in the middle of the road before ending up off a cliff, in a way that both works and doesn’t, a fascinating gambit nonetheless.
  15. Very Semi-Serious
    It’s a minor work that knows its place in the margins, but is thought-provoking and surreptitiously insightful – and very funny.
  16. 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.
  17. What Maisie Knew
    The adults' behaviour is almost as confusing for us as it is for her. It's a neat trick that reminds us these weighty adult issues are both life-changing and, in the moment, somewhat insignificant to someone Maisie's age.
  18. Frankenweenie
    It's a likable film, though not a sensational development in Tim Burton's career.
  19. Strawberry Mansion
    Beneath the crazy candy-coloured palette, there is actually some real human warmth in the love story, and the acting ensemble features some great comic performers in supporting roles.
  20. Romería
    Simón has an instinctive and almost miraculous way of just immersing herself within extended freewheeling family scenes – her camera moving unobtrusively in the group, like another teenager at the party, quietly noticing everything.
  21. Southside with You
    Southside With You uses our affection for the Obamas to add urgency in the otherwise simple script.
  22. 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.
  23. Wild
    Vallée, in collaboration with screenwriter Nick Hornby, gives the film its energy by pulling the narrative apart. They create a two-hour hallucinatory montage of the hike and Cheryl's back story that's wound together with the songs, phrases and poetry that she recited to herself as she walked.
  24. Beastie Boys Story
    This film is a time capsule of the 1980s: an era that was crass and excessive in so many ways, but now seems weirdly exotic.
  25. On the Count of Three
    While it’s ultimately a little too messy to work quite as well as it could have, given the interesting and ambitious ingredients, On the Count of Three is proof that Carmichael is a director to be excited about, hoping that perhaps he finds time to write his next script himself.
  26. The Sea Beast
    The Sea Beast gets the balance just right between rollicking action scenes, the inevitable didactic anti-hunting message about respecting other species’ right to exist and family-friendly humour.
  27. Raya and the Last Dragon
    While some of the beats might be a little too predictable and while the emotional wallop at the end might be more of a gentle tap, Raya and the Last Dragon works for the most part, a charming, sweet-natured YA-leaning adventure that acts as proof that Disney needs to focus on moving forward rather than continuing to look back.
  28. The Stone Roses: Made of Stone
    Meadows is clearly not interested in lifting the biographical lid on anyone, just getting alongside the band, and picking up on their energy, vulnerability and excitement. He has no agenda; he just loves the Stone Roses, and it's a great, heartfelt tribute.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Salt of the Earth
    Salt of the Earth has humour, genuine feeling and great sincerity: it's a film about hope.
  30. Scala!!!
    A very entertaining madeleine for movie-going of the analogue age.
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