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For 6,581 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: 2,495 out of 6581
  2. Mixed: 3,767 out of 6581
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6581
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  1. Save Yourselves!
    For the most part it manages an adept balance between satire, sincerity and sheer silliness that’s ultimately winning.
  2. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
    This is Boseman’s final performance on screen, and what a glorious performance to go out on. It is a head-butting confrontation of the galácticos: Davis and Boseman are each the immovable object and irresistible force.
  3. Collective
    The cynicism and indifference to suffering is truly horrible, and a kind of insidious evil rises from the screen like carbon monoxide, and also a terrible sadness.
  4. Happiest Season
    Happiest Season exists within well-worn framework but still feels fresh, a sprightly and substantial comedy that will be an immediate addition to the Christmas movie rotation for many, including myself.
  5. Cemetery
    You could just as easily picture this film playing on the white walls of a gallery as a cinema – if either were open.
  6. Hearts and Bones
    It is a human-oriented drama that builds a thoughtful and contemplative space, empathising with characters grappling with difficult circumstances outside the common experience. It is also the kind of drama you sometimes want to grab and shake to life.
  7. Finding Steve McQueen
    It’s a forgettable film, with a fair few gags that strike a depressingly sexist note.
  8. Dating Amber
    It’s all a bit earnest and derivative and sometimes a bit lachrymose, despite some perfectly decent performances.
  9. Billie
    James Erskine’s film showcases the unforgettable Holiday voice: her elegantly casual, almost negligent readings of melodies, with a sensual moan or purr that was on the verge of a sob.
  10. The Life Ahead
    Loren still has an imperious address to the camera. I spent much of this film wishing she were allowed to let rip with something more spirited, but it’s a heartfelt performance. Loren has an undiminished screen presence and it’s great to see her with a substantial role.
  11. Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
    Herzog and Oppenheimer are back (and Oppenheimer gets a co-directing credit) with another nimbly curious and fascinating film on a similar topic: meteorites. This is a rare example of modern documentary film-making that uses voiceover – that inimitable Herzog growl.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. Being a Human Person
    A valuable introduction to the movies and to the man.
  20. 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.
  21. Mank
    What an addictive romantic drama it is, mixing sentimentality with pure rapture.
  22. About Endlessness
    Andersson’s films are endlessly rewatchable. To view them is to abolish gravity.
  23. Lucky Grandma
    The result is a film that’s people-pleasing in inverse proportion to its grouchy heroine.
  24. 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.
  25. Wolfwalkers
    This is a charming and thoroughly likable film.
  26. 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.
  27. The Burnt Orange Heresy
    A sprightly and mischievous cameo from Mick Jagger is one reason to enjoy this movie.
  28. 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.
  29. 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.
  30. The Secret Garden
    This garden is pretty but lifeless.
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