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For 6,571 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: 2,490 out of 6571
  2. Mixed: 3,762 out of 6571
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6571
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  1. Benedetta
    Verhoeven just presents us with the raunchiness, using the religiosity as set dressing.
  2. The Souvenir: Part II
    This rich and mysterious film is a real achievement.
  3. Stillwater
    This is one to forget: a muddled, tonally misjudged, badly acted, uncertainly directed and frankly dubious drama, something that falls into the so-bad-it’s-bad bracket.
  4. Tove
    Where biopics often end up with a cardboard-tasting blandness, the focus on Jansson’s interior world gives this film moments that really come to life.
  5. Martin Eden
    Martin Eden is a sad story of a sad man who lacks the capacity for happiness and who is astonished to find that artistic success is as compromised as any other kind. But there is a kind of thrill in tracing his progress from rags to riches to annihilation.
  6. Long Weekend
    Chao is the standout here. She deserves more – a leading role of her own, at the very least, and a character with an inner life and interests of her own.
  7. The Surrogate
    No one is a bad guy here, while all of them are also flawed, and the movie keeps the viewer wondering right up to the end what Jess will finally decide.
  8. Jumbo
    The kooky premise of Jumbo – a young woman falling madly in love with a fairground ride – might invite bafflement but Zoé Wittock’s idiosyncratic comedy-drama is an entertaining blend of sensory overload and sincere empathy.
  9. Fear Street Part Two: 1978
    Netflix’s flashy RL Stine trilogy continues with a darker Friday the 13th-aping horror that brings more shocking gore and excellent performances.
  10. Annette
    Annette is a forthright and declamatory and crazy spectacle, teetering over the cliff edge of its own nervous breakdown, demanding that we feel its pain, feel its pleasure and take it seriously.
  11. No Sudden Move
    The overstuffed, better-keep-up narrative suits the film’s purposes, occupying audience attentions to leave them unprepared for the nimble writing’s assorted baits and switches.
  12. Kindred
    Lawrance does a convincing job nonetheless, portraying Charlotte as a reasonable woman in unreasonable circumstances – but it’s Shaw who steals the show, conveying her character as both a heartless monster and a woman haunted by her own past, with that kind of breathy, distracted haughtiness she does so well.
  13. White on White
    Director Théo Court does a fine job of capturing the barren beauty of this landscape and using it to suggest the broader moral vacuum.
  14. The Tomorrow War
    It all feels like a heavy meal, and the action scenes and the creature effects are very derivative.
  15. Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story
    In the end, Collins emerges as an opaque figure, as resistant to interpretation as her famously 2D fictional heroine Lucky Santangelo.
  16. The Forever Purge
    It’s hard to know how seriously we’re supposed to take any of this when it’s so unclear what the makers’ intention is and so the film’s deeper cuts fail to truly wound because so much of it is mired in silliness.
  17. America: The Motion Picture
    Under Callaham’s inelegant pen, the characters all speak in this overexcited 13-year-old’s vernacular, prone to F-bombs and dick-talk.
  18. Fear Street Part One: 1994
    There’s real, seat-edge fun to be had here, the sort of fun that’s too often missing from modern horror.
  19. Vicious Fun
    Once the bloodletting starts, Calahan interleaves it with witty asides and the pacing picks up a lot, all combining to make this impish if flyweight entertainment.
  20. Black Widow
    For fans of Black Widow and everyone else, this episode is great fun and Harbour could well ascend to spinoff greatness of his own.
  21. The Ice Road
    While The Ice Road might not be quite as cut-and-paste as some of the others (there’s less revenge-taking, skill-listing and name-taking than usual), it’s still familiar enough for it to feel like we’ve seen him do this exact thing before.
  22. False Positive
    As the film crashes to a conclusion, early promise fading away, the film has the feeling of a valiant, but misguided, post-Get Out attempt to infuse social commentary within the framework of well-worn genre territory, aiming high but landing low.
  23. F9: The Fast Saga
    This deafening fantasia of internal and external combustion delivers outrageous action spectacle magnificently divorced from the rules of narrative or gravity. . . . I think we can include Isaac Newton among the people who are getting their asses kicked here.
  24. Good on Paper
    It all goes off the rails in the worst way in the chaotic final act, as Schlesinger invents a farcical, and increasingly ludicrous, way to wrap things up, the truth of what happened proving far too pedestrian for the framework she’s created.
  25. Sweat
    This film isn’t really sure where it’s taking us and how, or if, it wants to surprise us, and the key scene with Klaudiusz doesn’t work.
  26. Acasă, My Home
    Ciorniciuc and his co-writer Lina Vdovîi, in allowing events to unfold slowly in front of the camera, have created a beautifully measured portrait of an amazingly resonant topic.
  27. Fatima
    Given the inherent lack of drama in the kind of unbreakable faith on display here, anyone wishing to tell the story needs to work much harder than this laboured treatment to wring any nuance, conflict or indeed true sublimity from it.
  28. Circumstantial Pleasures
    It is opaque, sometimes eccentrically comic, but intriguing.
  29. Triumph
    This underdog, coming-of-age sports movie has a big heart but lacks the competency to execute its aspirational premise.
  30. Unearth
    Like the drilling operation, this was a script in sore need of a clean-up operation.
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