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For 6,573 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 2.3 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: 2,491 out of 6573
  2. Mixed: 3,763 out of 6573
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6573
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  1. Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
    It’s a film that may be a bit sugary for some tastes, but it’s made with real care and craft.
  2. Freaky
    It’s just a rare joy to see a film-maker scrambling together overused tropes and making something so vibrant and vital as a result, an exciting and unexpected studio movie with a brain, some guts and a heart.
  3. Monsoon
    It is about a homecoming that isn’t quite a homecoming, a reckoning with something not exactly there, an attempted reconciliation with people and places that can’t really be negotiated with.
  4. Dirty God
    It’s intense but not unwatchably painful, and so much more than an issue film or portrait of a victim. I really hope Knight finds a place in the film industry; with her terrific performance here she’s earned it.
  5. Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
    Having watched this documentary, I now think the project could also be seen as a gigantic adventure in conceptual art, and this is not to denigrate it in any way.
  6. Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula
    A film about a virus-ravaged country under lockdown should be able to hit cogent parallels at will at the moment – but a numbing repetition is sadly the main payout.
  7. Rogue
    Rogue isn’t offering nature-documentary realism, but director MJ Bassett is a former wildlife presenter whose interest in the South African grassland goes beyond mere backdrop.
  8. Being a Human Person
    A valuable introduction to the movies and to the man.
  9. Hillbilly Elegy
    This is a well-meant story of someone pulling himself up by his bootstraps, with some help from his grandma. But it feels contrived and self-conscious.
  10. Mank
    What an addictive romantic drama it is, mixing sentimentality with pure rapture.
  11. About Endlessness
    Andersson’s films are endlessly rewatchable. To view them is to abolish gravity.
  12. Lucky Grandma
    The result is a film that’s people-pleasing in inverse proportion to its grouchy heroine.
  13. Let Him Go
    With its handsome, and expensive, period recreation, a wide rural American canvas and an audience-provoking last act, it’s a shame that more of us won’t get to enjoy Let Him Go on the big screen, where it truly belongs. But for those who will, they’re in for a wild ride.
  14. Wolfwalkers
    This is a charming and thoroughly likable film.
  15. Shirley
    This film finally flinches from its own menacing implications and dark suspenseful power with a rather feeble ending of empowerment and solidarity. A very 21st-century loss of nerve.
  16. The Burnt Orange Heresy
    A sprightly and mischievous cameo from Mick Jagger is one reason to enjoy this movie.
  17. Spell
    There’s a cinematic slickness to the film (it was intended to be released theatrically until the pandemic) that separates it from its more noticeably shoddier fright night competitors but it’s mostly a familiar, if not entirely fruitless, trudge down a well-trodden path, one that takes us into, at times, questionable territory.
  18. A Call to Spy
    Thomas and Pilcher are determined to avoid making a flashy war epic, and stress the sacrifices of everyone involved; the downside of this is that A Call to Spy has a stolid pacing that makes you feel every minute of its two-hours-plus running time. But it’s still an interesting story that’s yet to fully come into the light.
  19. The Secret Garden
    This garden is pretty but lifeless.
  20. Summer of 85
    Unlike the woozy love at its centre, Summer of 85 doesn’t haunt in the way that it should. It fades when it should burn.
  21. Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful
    A fascinating film.
  22. Honest Thief
    This film’s real propulsive, emotional motor is nothing to do with a woman, but rather the age-old entanglement of lawman and outlaw.
  23. Rams
    Rams is a lovely, even-tempered drama about men and rural life, gentle but firm of spirit, with a down-to-earth pith and a way of entertainingly and unpretentiously exploring potentially difficult subjects such as masculinity.
  24. The Craft: Legacy
    There’s ultimately too much in the film’s rushed 94-minute runtime for anything to really breathe.
  25. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
    The routine is more familiar and the semi-staged stunts – which faintly undermine the credibility of all but the most spectacular moments – are more conspicuous. But there are still some real laughs and pointed political moments on the subject of antisemitism and online Holocaust denial (though I was disappointed to see the film go along with a dodgy “Karen” gag).
  26. The Climb
    Tragedy and slapstick run through the film and it is very funny.
  27. The Witches
    The spell does not get cast.
  28. Blood and Money
    Cinematographer turned director John Barr serves up a generic thriller: the title lets you know that what you’ve got on the label is what you’ve got in the can.
  29. Time
    The point of the film is Sibil’s decades-long ordeal and she emerges with heroic and compelling dignity.
  30. I'm Your Woman
    Even when it’s coasting, the cast still works hard to sell what they’re given and it remains visually handsome until the very end, an immersive and slickly captured last-act car chase proving a standout.
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