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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. Primate
    Roberts, who also directed hit shark thriller 47 Metres Down and its superior follow-up, is mostly at his savviest and most ruthlessly efficient here, a confident leveling up for a genre film-maker finding his sweet spot. After a lacklustre year for horror, Primate makes for a wildly entertaining start to 2026.
  2. Obsession
    Obsession is satisfyingly slick proof that [Barker] knows just what to do when levelling up to a different platform, and while his debut might have been a film designed around a very modern form of horror, this time he’s looking back, his set-up using elements of a classic fable and the kind of grabby schlock you’d see in a video store back in the 1980s.
  3. Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost
    An intriguing, bittersweet family study.
  4. Homebound
    Bring tissues for a doozy of an ending that will have everyone bawling in the aisles.
  5. Darling
    John Schlesinger’s winsome adventure from 1965 still has verve and ambition, a romantic satire of swinging London.
  6. The Drama
    It offers us a provocation, a jeu d’ésprit of outrage, a psychological meltdown that is more astutely articulated than in many other more solemnly intended films. And it gives us what it promises in the title.
  7. The Plague
    This is a memorable education in the laws of the tween jungle.
  8. Crime 101
    Overall, it is a highly watchable spectacle, leaving a sizzling streak of rubber on the tarmac.
  9. Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
    This tender and sweet animation from film-makers Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han is an involving, poignant study of early childhood; how fragile it is, and how strong you feel yourself to be to have outlived or surpassed it.
  10. Paul McCartney: Man on the Run
    You may find yourself wondering why we are going over this ground again, but it’s an engaging film, and there is always something mesmeric in McCartney’s face: cherubic, and yet sharp and watchful.
  11. Kokuho
    The emphasis is more largely upon discipline and commitment in the service of art, a vocational self-immolation in which the transformation of pain into beauty is the whole point.
  12. The Tale of Silyan
    Kotevska depicts the growing bond between man and bird with warmth and humour, and while the musical score is a bit on the sappy side, there are enough drolly astringent touches to make this cockle-warming family viewing, if you have a family that likes stories of unhappy agrarian workers.
  13. Measures for a Funeral
    Fully committed to a radical irresolution, this simultaneously alienating and beautiful film bears repeat viewing.
  14. Dragonfly
    It’s a stark, fierce, wonderfully acted film.
  15. In the Grey
    Ritchie is more deeply invested in the thought-through craft of making a B-movie than many of his peers and there’s a smooth sensuousness to how he moves, each of them looking, feeling and sounding like films he genuinely cares about.
  16. Holding Liat
    Holding Liat is a valuable work, not least for showing us that Israel and Netanyahu are not synonymous.
  17. Flathead
    The film’s poetry resides in its thoughtful inactivity, its vernacular spirituality and its gentleness.
  18. Hard Boiled
    The stunts are wildly impressive, especially the motorbike riders who sail through the air in a ball of flame, and the gunplay is unique, although I have never found the term “balletic” quite right for something so brutal and quick. It is all so bizarre that you have to enjoy it.
  19. Josephine
    Tatum manages to ground the viewer in his abject bewilderment and pain. It’s a instantly memorable performance in a haunting movie, one that I have carried with me in the hours since I’ve seen it. Perhaps that is the best thing I can say about this remarkable feature – for its viewers, as it is for its meticulously rendered subject, the disquiet lingers.
  20. The Invite
    As the jokes start to sour and the night shifts to something more serious, Wilde and her dramatically experienced ensemble are able to handle a difficult tonal descent without slipping.
  21. Paper Tiger
    It’s a meaty drama with big scenes and big but carefully considered performances: a really substantial piece of work from Gray.
  22. The Extraordinary Miss Flower
    Flower herself remains elusive – which is the point, perhaps, since the perspective here is mostly lovers’ projections written on a delirious high, reconstructed from the letters.
  23. Dreamers
    Writer-director Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor’s script leans perhaps a little too hard on the show-don’t-tell theory of construction, but she and her team make evocative use of simple but effective flourishes.
  24. I Swear
    This is an absorbing, compassionate film.
  25. Fiume o morte!
    This intriguing documentary from Croatian film-maker Igor Bezinović is partly a comic opera and partly a chilling message from the past.
  26. Heel
    The movie’s ironies and cruelties clatter across the screen, but Komasa also allows the audience to consider who it is Chris really wants to train.
  27. Wasteman
    The performances of Jonsson and Blyth are fierce and overwhelmingly convincing.
  28. Her Private Hell
    Her Private Hell resists interpretation, like so many of Refn’s recent films, but executes a slow dervish swirl of hypnotic strangeness.
  29. The History of Concrete
    As a standalone film, The History of Concrete is consistently laugh-out-loud funny, compelling and surprising, if 20 minutes too long. And, of course, about much more than just concrete.
  30. Leviticus
    In many increasingly overcrowded fields – trauma horror, curse horror, gay horror, Sundance horror – Leviticus stands tall.
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