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For 6,610 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: 2,503 out of 6610
  2. Mixed: 3,787 out of 6610
  3. Negative: 320 out of 6610
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Dear Diary
    Often, the film-maker seems to be on a journey without a destination, perhaps without a script. Occasionally, brilliantly, he goes entirely off the rails.
  2. Ne Zha 2
    Forget the adulterated, Communist party-sponsored attempts at blockbusters of the past, self-taught animator Jiaozi’s film is an utterly self-assured pageant of Chinese mythology that, with head-spinning visuals, is a fine technical advertisement for what the country is capable of, in this case on a comparatively small $80m budget.
  3. The Double
    The Double isn't an original idea. It wasn't even in Dostoyevsky's time. But it's a great story. And Ayoade has produced a brilliant copy.
  4. Saipan
    An amusing vignette.
  5. Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter
    There can hardly be a bigger waste of time than this piece of twee nonsense.
  6. Rafiki
    What Kahiu’s film lacks in originality, it makes up for in its depiction of the giddy flush of first love. Mugatsia and Munyiva have an easy, unfussy chemistry that overcomes some creakier moments of dialogue.
  7. Bad Apples
    Etzler manages some nasty comedy, sourced from the bracing jolt of watching teacher and student cruelly manipulate one another. And he shows a sturdy technical command throughout.
  8. Just Mercy
    Cretton ... can’t quite rise to the material or his performers, choosing anonymity over ferocity, making the dullest, safest decision at every turn. It’s not enough to topple the fascinating true story at his film’s centre but it does have a frustrating, flattening effect.
  9. The Place Beyond the Pines
    The Place Beyond the Pines is ambitious and epic, perhaps to a fault.
  10. Notting Hill
    For all its cheesiness, Notting Hill delivers a very great deal of pleasure.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lust for Life
    A watchable biopic, backed up with excellent historical research.
  12. The Five Devils
    Somehow it doesn’t all come together, delivering neither the stab of actual fear nor the satisfaction of real, plausible psychological insight.
  13. Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror
    Through it all we see Richard O’Brien himself, sometimes jamming on a guitar and dropping crisp bon mots, right up to the end when he gets just a little bit weepy thinking about it all. Adorable.
  14. Fear Street Part Three: 1666
    Janiak has found a way to add new life to old material, gifting us with the rare horror franchise that makes us want more rather than less, the prospect of an expanded universe seeming less like a curse and more of a blessing.
  15. Beatriz at Dinner
    This isn’t the film we need right now, that’s a meaningless statement, but it’s a film that we deserve to watch, discuss and be grateful for.
  16. The Shining
    The unhurried pace, extended dialogue scenes and those sudden, sinister inter-titles ("One Month Later", "4pm") contribute to the insidious unease. Nicholson's performance as the abusive father who is tipped over the edge is a thrillingly scabrous, black-comic turn, and the final shot of his face in daylight is a masterstroke...Deeply scary and strange.
  17. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
    It’s still entertaining and charming in its innocent idealism.
  18. Superman
    From the very beginning, this new Superman is encumbered by a pointless and cluttered new backstory which has to be explained in many wearisome intertitles flashed up on screen before anything happens at all. Only the repeated and laborious quotation of the great John Williams theme from the 1978 original reminds you of happier times.
  19. Seeing Allred
    This woman, for all her flaws, is clearly a warrior first and foremost.
  20. Ghost Stories
    Ghost Stories is a barnstormer of an entertainment, a fairground ride with dodgy brakes.
  21. One Life
    Quite a spectacle, and a nice family outing.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    People Places Things
    Clement’s unique comic timing and his character’s wonderful artwork add to this film, whose aim is to communicate how relationships work, rather than to create fake movie magic.
  23. Voyage of Time: Life's Journey
    Voyage of Time, in the end, is a perhaps an aesthetic experience rather than an particularly informative one, prizing images over data; but what images they are.
  24. Never Look Away
    Never Look Away is not without ambition and reach, and there is a real storytelling impulse. But the central performance of Schilling looks shruggingly uncertain, as if he is bemused by what is going on.
  25. Neighbors
    In its current state, Neighbors is filthy, nasty and a bit too sloppy. But it’ll scrub up lovely.
  26. Noah
    Impressive as much of his film is, however, Aronofsky never quite solves the main challenge of the semi-literal biblical adaptation: what is so economical, and beautifully expressed, on the page can become a heavy, lumbering beast when translated into conventional narrative.
  27. Crimes of the Future
    It’s an extraordinary planet that Cronenberg lands us down on, and insists we remove our helmets before we’re quite sure we can breathe the air.
  28. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
    There are some entertaining meta-touches here, but the entire Gutierrez plot is strained and borderline dull. Pascal isn’t a natural comic and the movie winds up fudging his crucial bad-guy status.
  29. The Nightmare
    More frightening (yet strangely entertaining) than most of today’s narrative horror films.
  30. 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.
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