The Guardian's Scores

For 6,554 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:
6554 movie reviews
  1. Silverstone’s easy charisma, and initial lived-in chemistry with Hudson, can’t overcome a script that isn’t witty or involving enough for us to care about another milquetoast Netflix family frantically hugging and grinning to show how close they are.
  2. What 100 Meters lacks in narrative subtlety and pacing, it makes up for in dazzling visuals.
  3. The Running Man sometimes feels retro-futurist and steampunky, though it is always watchable and buoyant. Wright has hit a confident stride.
  4. It’s a stark, fierce, wonderfully acted film.
  5. Despite the franchise being nearly old enough for a legacy sequel, there’s a light musicality to its various feats of showmanship that makes it feel like a scrappy upstart. So does the perpetual feeling that it might disappear in a puff of smoke.
  6. This is a little too slight and breezy to really make much of an impression, like a dream you’ll forget as soon as you open your eyes.
  7. The film is essentially a legal procedural: solid, mostly entertaining and occasionally gripping.
  8. Greg Kwedar has adapted the 2011 novella by Denis Johnson; the director is Clint Bentley, and they have created a lovely looking, deeply felt film, clearly absorbing the influences of Terrence Malick in some of the low camera positions, sunset-hour compositions, narrative voiceovers, and epiphanically revealed glories of the American landscape.
  9. There are moments of creaky comedy and some bluntly emotional dialogue that one can more easily picture in front of a specifically catered-to live audience.
  10. The younger Day-Lewis shows promise as a film-maker – Anemone certainly looks serious, the correct scowls and swirling skies and wordless, eerie montages to suggest weighty themes, big emotions and ominous suspense. The tools to back up that style with emotional punches that land like the real ones of the brothers – best believe they tussle it out, because of course – are not yet refined, but in this father-son duo, at least, I have faith.
  11. Fully committed to a radical irresolution, this simultaneously alienating and beautiful film bears repeat viewing.
  12. The sheer pointlessness of everything that happens subtracts the oxygen and even Fanning’s imperishable star quality can’t save it.
  13. The work is the most important thing and Addario’s speaks for itself.
  14. There are some very coolly orchestrated scenes in the big city and Mackenzie ratchets up the tension in style.
  15. The effect is tender, sympathetic, diverting and often very elegant and indirect. But it withholds from us the full, real pain of damaged love.
  16. More persuasive is the testimony from the half dozen men we meet, who bravely discuss their pain and distress while the cameras roll.
  17. None of these characters quite flares passionately into life but all are persuasively portrayed, and it’s a vehement reminder of what doesn’t get taught in British schools.
  18. The film’s artistry is undeniable.
  19. Regretting You seems unsure of its own melodrama, and careens between what should be tear-jerking moments of unfathomable grief and too-cutesy romcom fluff like a teen learning stick-shift.
  20. An intriguing, bittersweet family study.
  21. The film is a derivative, if well intentioned, piece of fan fiction.
  22. Even in an oversaturated genre of increasingly diminished returns, Shelby Oaks is about as dispensable as it gets.
  23. This is a movie whose absurdities need to be indulged.
  24. Horror director Michelle Garza Cervera opts for the muted slow-burn (it’s a convincing argument for more studio work) and Winstead gives an earnest performance, the film for the most part existing in a recognisably grounded dramatic universe. But the plotting is often laughably hokey and its flashes of violence so distractingly grotesque that it’s never quite clear how seriously we should be taking any of this, a campy good time masquerading as prestige drama.
  25. This is a family film with an IQ higher than the average – though before you book your half-term tickets, ask yourself if your little one is ready to watch a kid take a DIY flamethrower to the face of a scary monster.
  26. & Sons doesn’t deliver on the promise of all its film-making talent but Nighy is always amusing.
  27. This is a fascinating and neatly realised horror riff on the 2020s’ most popular genre.
  28. Gender, sexuality, status and power are all in flux here, a playful effect that is however withdrawn when we arrive at the sacrificial seriousness. It is a sweet tale which floats self-consciously out of the screen.
  29. It’s a terrific performance from Hawke.
  30. Conti manages the feat of being funny, emotionally astute and kinda sexy throughout.

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