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For 6,594 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: 2,497 out of 6594
  2. Mixed: 3,778 out of 6594
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6594
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  1. Steve
    A drama suffused with gonzo energy and the death-metal chaos of emotional pain, cut with slashes of bizarre black humour.
  2. Father Mother Sister Brother
    Basically, there is a contentment and calm here, an acceptance and a Zen simplicity that is a cleansing of the moviegoing palate, or perhaps the fiction-consuming palate in general. It is a film to savour.
  3. Is This Thing On?
    Like a great routine, beneath the jokes lurks something tender, grounded and real.
  4. Is God Is
    Is God Is may borrow from an old narrative formula, but it reframes it into something sharper and more searching. It shows that stories rooted in Black trauma don’t have to be pulled down by it. Vibrancy and texture are what give a killing spree its stakes, after all, and this one ends with an understated affirmation of the human spirit. How’s that for a twist.
  5. Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk
    It’s the audacious austerity of Farsi’s film-making that really makes the material sing.
  6. Sisu: Road to Revenge
    The good news is that it remains terrific: punchy, old-school stunt work, crisply uncluttered cutting, and varied, inventive baddie-splattering from the moment Aatami deploys one of those beams to take down a jet fighter.
  7. Rose of Nevada
    It’s another really bold and distinct statement from Jenkin.
  8. Late Fame
    It’s a lovely slice of life, a heartfelt New York story – and judging from the brief burst of writing that we are permitted to hear, the postman can rest easy whether he is on stage or at work.
  9. Dead Man's Wire
    The personae and performances of Pacino, Domingo and Myha’la complicate the psychopathic nastiness of the affair, and create something surreal and bizarre and often hilarious: a display of, not heartlessness, exactly, but a shrewd professional sense that pity and fear were emotions that could only benefit the kidnapper.
  10. The Voice of Hind Rajab
    There is a reckless, ruthless kind of provocative brilliance in what Ben Hania is doing.
  11. Cover-Up
    Hersh emerges as a tough, combative, peppery personality from this movie.
  12. The Choral
    The humour is delivered with the same conviction and discreetly weighted force as the sadness, and the same goes for this film’s determinedly unbowdlerised view of sex.
  13. Saipan
    At a game-length 91 minutes, Saipan smartly comes and goes with speed (for all of its anger, it’s also a breezy, funny time) but it’s the rare football movie that’s worth a replay.
  14. Poetic License
    Poetic License is far from mere pastiche. It has a distinct, youthful sensibility and sources its comedy more from recognisably human behaviour than from profane, one-liner riffing.
  15. Hamlet
    There’s a rigorous chill to this Hamlet.
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