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For 6,581 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: 2,495 out of 6581
  2. Mixed: 3,767 out of 6581
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6581
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  1. 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.
  2. Clifford the Big Red Dog
    It’s watchable and even occasionally amusing.
  3. Don't Look Up
    This film could have done something more convincing with that mode of reverse-vertigo hinted at in its title: that fear and willed blindness about what looms over us. But if the movie helps to do something about climate change, such critical objections are unimportant.
  4. Being the Ricardos
    An oddity, in which all the characters seem to be avatars for the loquacious Sorkin himself.
  5. Rebel Dykes
    A judicious mix of new-minted interviews, home video footage and charming animation by Shanahan makes for a delightful, well-tempered package.
  6. 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.
  7. Lapwing
    This is confident, distinctive work.
  8. Betrayed
    It’s a film of desperately upsetting details.
  9. Even Mice Belong in Heaven
    It’s a shame that after that killer start, this wimps out of saying anything interesting about death or the adventure on the other side.
  10. Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
    The competence of the action sequences compensates somewhat for the underlying lack of wit or humour throughout, unless you count the smile-inducing call backs to ancient 90s technology.
  11. Single All the Way
    It’s pure mass market Christmas cookie cutter stuff that’s only made vaguely interesting in very short bursts because of its queerness.
  12. Boxing Day
    Ameen has perfectly plausibly brought off a high-gloss mainstream picture with a big heart and a very nice supporting cast, including Stephen Dillane as Shirley’s new boyfriend. For Ameen, it’s another step on the way to Hollywood stardom.
  13. West Side Story
    West Side Story is contrived, certainly, a hothouse flower of musical theatre, and Spielberg quite rightly doesn’t try hiding any of those stage origins. His mastery of technique is thrilling; I gave my heart to this poignant American fairytale of doomed love.
  14. Back to the Outback
    The aesthetic of the animation is, like the script, rather nondescript, with boilerplate-looking gloss and shine – like any number of less memorable DreamWorks or Pixar productions
  15. Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
    [A] televisual but still touching documentary tribute.
  16. Blue Bayou
    Subtlety and nuance are not exactly this film’s strong points.
  17. Silent Night
    Silent Night is not exactly a satire of well-off and well-connected people as such – everyone is supposed to be basically pretty adorable. But there is something undoubtedly startling and bizarre about seeing the end of the world generically grafted on to this jolly Britcom mode.
  18. The Hand of God
    It would be really obtuse not to marvel at the exuberance, energy and vivid moment-by-moment immediacy of this movie: Sorrentino is a film-maker who is always on the move, on the attack.
  19. Burning
    This is a tremendously well-made film with a burning vitality: without question one of the most important Australian documentaries of the 21st century so far.
  20. 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas
    It is an extraordinary portrait of a man who is convinced he cannot be wrong, who will always position himself – at least in his own mind – as the persecuted victim struggling to do right.
  21. JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass
    Did the whole nation and its governing class go into denial after the Kennedy assassination as a way of managing their shock and grief? Perhaps. But this documentary, for all its factual material, is frustrating.
  22. The Unforgivable
    The plot’s twists and turns, which were manageable in a three-part TV drama, look contrived and unlikely in a feature film and Bullock has little to do but look self-consciously solemn and martyred for the entirety of it.
  23. The First Wave
    This remarkable film feels like it could become a time capsule, showing future generations what it felt like in 2020 for those on the frontline.
  24. A Boy Called Christmas
    It feels kid-gloves at times: big-hearted and entertaining, but possibly lacking a little fun or oomph. A lovely warming film, though.
  25. House of Gucci
    In the end, this is Lady Gaga’s film: her watchability suffuses the picture, an arrabbiata sauce of wit, scorn and style.
  26. We Need to Do Something
    It’s moderately diverting Halloween filler – earning points for reviving Taco’s electropop cover of Puttin’ on the Ritz – but still way too static to become actually entertaining.
  27. Playlist
    It feels worthwhile – funny and true about growing up and getting a life.
  28. The Colour Room
    The film catches the excitement of this moment for Clarice, and Dynevor’s performance is wonderful.
  29. Quant
    It’s an entertaining, uncontroversial film directed by the actor Sadie Frost, who pulls in her celeb mates to do talking-head duties: Vogue editor Edward Enninful, Kinks guitarist Dave Davies, and even interview-shy Kate Moss gives a quote or two.
  30. Bruised
    Berry brings commitment and focus to the drama. She wins on points.
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