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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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  1. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
    It's solid entertainment.
  2. Hive
    This is a richly intelligent drama, in which every word and every shot counts.
  3. Palio
    It is a handsome-looking film, though it has a promo look to it occasionally, like a lavish tourist ad. I loved the horse’s-eye view Spender gave us at one stage, careering around the track.
  4. Grand Central
    Some critics have expressed reservations about melodrama and overworked symbolism, but I found it gripping, with an edge of delirium.
  5. Dead Pigs
    Dead Pigs is an unassuming topical entertainment (rather different from the movies of its executive producer Jia Zhangke), but diverting and well-acted.
  6. Mandabi
    Mandabi features an excellent performance from Guèye, who is innocent and culpable all at once. This is gentle, walking-pace cinema that leads us by the hand from vignette to vignette, from scene to scene, presented to us with ingenuous simplicity and calm.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Waterloo Bridge
    Glossy MGM weepie, a tale of loving sacrifice in the first world war to warm the cockles in the dark days of the second. [16 Dec 2006, p.53]
    • The Guardian
  8. 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.
  9. The Inspection
    It’s in the film’s queerest moments that things feel most inventive, narratively and visually, as Bratton steps most firmly outside of the hemmed-in army drama formula and finds ways to make his film sit and thrive in the Venn diagram between military machismo and homoeroticism.
  10. Zootopia 2
    There are a few laughs in Z2: of course there are. But they are algorithmically generated and corporately approved. It’s the kind of movie you put on an iPad to keep the children quiet on a long plane or train journey; nothing wrong with that of course, but the heart and soul are lacking.
  11. One Of Them Days
    Alyssa’s self-absorption may be harder to swallow, but Palmer and SZA enjoyably ham up what could otherwise be try-hard, too gimmicky fare.
  12. Fire Will Come
    I find myself admiring his visual and compositional sense, while being a bit exasperated by the provisional and coyly non-committal nature of his storytelling.
  13. A Royal Affair
    The chemistry between Mikkelsen and Vikander barely simmers, when it should boil. Nevertheless, it's a fascinating affair of state.
  14. Dark Waters
    Dark Waters is a movie that works marvellously well within its own generic terms, and perhaps after the fey disappointment of Todd Haynes’s previous, rather insufferable fantasy Wonderstruck, this tough, clear movie was what Haynes needed to clear his creative palate.
  15. Hello, Bookstore
    It’s the only documentary I’ve ever watched with a reading list in the credits – what a treat this film is.
  16. The Original Kings of Comedy
    There are some good gags and routines here, but loads of them, particularly the one about what it was like being eight and getting hit by your mother, have been done with far more invention and wit by Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.
  17. Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang
    Macdonald grants us insight into the process and, as expected, it’s hardly as haphazard as sceptics might think.
  18. Pirates
    The film pinballs cheerfully about the place, from crisis to crisis, from losing the tickets to getting back the tickets, with no great narrative purpose other than fun.
  19. The Dig
    The Dig is actually not a very earthy film, though there is intelligence and sensitivity and a good deal of English restraint and English charm, thoroughly embodied by the fine leading performers Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes.
  20. Athena
    It’s spectacular and immersive, with a sensational opening. But it gets bogged down in its own one-note, one-tempo uproar and open-ended parkour camerawork – impressive though that is – and suffers from a number of sneaky false-flag get-out clauses that feel like a cop-out.
  21. Clueless
    Never was a title more misleading. This is sophisticated pleasure.
  22. The Blue Room
    Amalric's handling is cool, studied and perhaps a little self-conscious. But he does a good job of showing how adultery is a noose that tightens at the throat even before an actual crime is committed - at which point the film grows altogether less interesting.
  23. Leonor Will Never Die
    Somehow it works on every level: as a moving melodrama about maternal sacrifice and grief, as a domestic comedy, and even as a glorious musical.
  24. CODA
    Coda is a mostly likable concoction, but one that’s just too formulaic and ultimately rather calculated to secure the emotional response it so desperately wants by the big finale.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Fire Island
    The film’s moments of truth or constantly countered by moments of compromise: for every wicked detail targeted directly at the queer target market, there’s a lumpen passage of explanation for the straights and squares.
  26. Bros
    It’s big and clever in a way that so few films of this scale are these days, a pleasure to be shepherded through the easy motions of a romantic comedy by people who know what they’re doing for once, and manages to walk a difficult tightrope without falling, despite the heft of baggage.
  27. Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical
    Matilda is a tangy bit of entertainment, served up with gusto.
  28. Timestalker
    The throwaway gags and throwaway ideas reminded me pleasantly of the Peter Cook/Dudley Moore comedy Bedazzled from 1967. Lowe’s comedy has bite.
  29. Ammonite
    It is a love story that is also a fascinating artefact: quixotic, romantic, erotic.
  30. Skate Kitchen
    Moselle is at her most astute when concentrating on the fragile social dynamics that govern the tribes adolescents divide themselves into for survival’s sake.
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