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For 6,608 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: 2,502 out of 6608
  2. Mixed: 3,786 out of 6608
  3. Negative: 320 out of 6608
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  1. Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical
    Matilda is a tangy bit of entertainment, served up with gusto.
  2. 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.
  3. Ammonite
    It is a love story that is also a fascinating artefact: quixotic, romantic, erotic.
  4. 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.
  5. It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley
    [Berg] uses Jeff’s answering machine messages and archive 90s material, including the unmistakable, moody black-and-white MTV footage, to tell a very sad story with sympathy and urgency.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Devil's Candy
    It’s the deeply felt affection for metal that really makes The Devil’s Candy sing.
  7. Fremont
    This is the kind of movie whose amiable directionlessness and romantic gentleness generate a lot of warmth; it’s the kind of independent film which we haven’t seen a lot of lately, endowed with intimacy and a kind of dreamy charm.
  8. Zodiac Killer Project
    It is a deconstruction of genre and a meta story of failure from which the director salvages a teaspoonful of success.
  9. Magic Mike
    Oddly, Magic Mike somehow looks like a much darker and more challenging movie than is actually the case.
  10. Straight Outta Compton
    The first half of Straight Outta Compton, F Gary Gray’s two-and-a-half hour opus about the birth of west coast gangsta rap, is bursting with energy, exuberance and inspiration. The second half is immobilised by bloat and sanctification.
  11. Tale of Tales
    It is a masterpiece of black-comic bad taste and a positive carnival of transgression. The secret is the deadpan seriousness with which everything is treated.
  12. Juror #2
    Suspense is kept on a low flame but the film offers cosy pleasures, not least in the jury-room wrangles.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Captain Fantastic
    Not only is it wonderful – it is heartfelt, comedic, gorgeous and just the right amount of sad.
  14. Shithouse
    Life can be desperately embarrassing in your first year at university when you are trying out new identities and personalities. This film replicates that agonising discomfort.
  15. Scarecrow
    This is a jewel of American cinema.
  16. Wildfire
    It’s a potent drama – and a melancholy reminder of the talent that Irish cinema and TV lost in McGuigan
  17. A Bunch of Amateurs
    A Bunch of Amateurs is a thoughtful film about film-making and has some unexpectedly deep things to say too about camaraderie, community and male friendship – though there are a couple of women in the club’s ageing membership.
  18. DJ Ahmet
    The script steadily goes about its mission of freeing its characters from all forms of oppression – but it’s generous and unpatronising too.
  19. All the Money in the World
    All The Money In The World is not perfect; there is a touch of naïveté and stereotyping in its depiction of the malign Italians with their one, redemptive nice-guy gangster. But with the help of Plummer’s tremendous villain-autocrat performance, Ridley Scott gives us a very entertaining parable about money and what it can’t buy.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Nanny
    Nanny, as a whole, packs a rather toothless punch. It feels loosely assembled – chock-full of original ideas, intriguing imagery and plot devices, many of which either oddly wind up as loose ends or get resolved in a hurry.
    • The Guardian
      • Posted Jan 28, 2022
  21. The Island President
    Could Nasheed be the political Prospero to save the island – and the planet? Well, now he is out of power, and the Copenhagen summit was a disappointment. Perhaps his advocacy will help to bring the climate change issue back into political fashion.
  22. The Cabin in the Woods
    However smart and sophisticated this film is, it may disappoint those who, in their hearts, would still like to be genuinely scared.
  23. Friendship
    It’s possible to read Friendship as a plausible, if far-detached character study, a cringe-comedy Single White Male heading for disaster. Then it swerves away, following its nose towards something weirder.
  24. Headhunters
    The film doesn't merit chinstroking: it's stuffed with Troma-style riffs around schlock, gore and human effluvia, bookended by Shallow Grave-like sections full of cynical machinations. The parts barely relate, never mind work together.
  25. Union County
    If Union County serves as proof that Poulter deserves more substantive work and shines a light on people in a remarkable system, then it’s more than worth the choice to go docudrama over drama. But I still craved more of the real people.
  26. Brittany Runs A Marathon
    It’s a film with charm and sweetness but a twinge of anxiety, a little gravitational pull to darker places.
  27. Sea of Shadows
    It is heartfelt, but its periodic attempts at thriller-style bouts of excitement are redundant, and I wondered sometimes if the film-makers were sure what exactly their story was.
  28. Alléluia
    Fabrice du Welz's serial-murder jolly doesn't quite dramatically press its central relationship enough to prevent the film from devolving at the last into a default bloodbath. But it's disturbingly credible for a long time.
  29. Promising Young Woman
    Writer-director Emerald Fennell (a showrunner for TV’s Killing Eve) lands a stiletto jab with her feature debut, and Carey Mulligan is demurely brilliant as the appropriately named Cassandra.
  30. The Wedding Plan
    The real-time agony of the wedding day itself has an edge-of-the-seat factor, and Kooler gives a sensitive, emotionally generous performance.
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