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For 6,608 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: 2,502 out of 6608
  2. Mixed: 3,786 out of 6608
  3. Negative: 320 out of 6608
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  1. Bad Boys for Life
    While Bad Boys for Life has a completely asinine story, generic action, predictable plot beats, moronic dialogue and truly reprehensible politics, I still had a good time.
  2. Barbie
    It’s entertaining and amiable, but with a softcore pulling of punches: lightly ironised, celebratory nostalgia for a toy that still exists right now.
  3. Bad Boys: Ride or Die
    The Bad Boys are still providing innocent amusement.
  4. Palio
    It is a handsome-looking film, though it has a promo look to it occasionally, like a lavish tourist ad. I loved the horse’s-eye view Spender gave us at one stage, careering around the track.
  5. Miss You Already
    Collette is a potent, unsentimental presence and Hardwicke and Banks know how to connect with the audience.
  6. Theeb
    Eid proves a dolefully expressive lead, and Wolfgang Thaler’s ever eloquent camerawork is as fascinated by the discovery of bullet shells in the sand – a clue, and a warning – as it is by the punishingly craggy landscape.
  7. Wolf Totem
    Annaud’s film can’t help itself galloping off in allegorical bursts barely under his control, and intriguingly off-course from the kind of bold messages of national conciliation officially sanctioned Chinese films tend to convey.
  8. Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
    There is no juicy high-concept baddie this time around, but there is a lot of enjoyable hokum and cheerful ridiculousness.
  9. Tokyo Tribe
    Amusingly tacky and offensive though it is, proceedings grow a bit monotonous, because all the tunes have pretty much the same beat and everything is pitched at the same hysterical, OTT level.
  10. Where to Invade Next
    Where to Invade Next is a romantic film, equally affecting and annoying in its simplicity.
  11. Florence Foster Jenkins
    A gentle and charming entertainment.
  12. Born to be Blue
    Born to be Blue is a curious mixture of fact and fiction, cliche and originality, style and emotion – it never truly soars but by throwing the ingredients of Baker’s life together and producing something different, it’s never less than intriguing.
  13. The Man Who Saved the World
    Sergey Shnyryov is superb as Petrov’s fictional counterpart, and the present and the past are smoothly sutured together by deft editing and an insistently mournful string score, although it’s sometimes a bit repetitive.
  14. In Jackson Heights
    It’s an engaging portrait - film-making which works from the ground up.
  15. Sunset Song
    It’s all fairly indulgent. But Sunset Song also has a viciousness that stops it falling too deep into a slumber
  16. Rabin, the Last Day
    Gitai has chosen stylistic cinema over propaganda, and he is a director who regularly gets bogged down a bit in form.
  17. The Big Short
    McKay’s attempt to cover so much ground is admirable; and the outrage that courses throughout is deeply felt. But his busy execution...feels labored.
  18. Mission to Lars
    The peripheral interviews with the extended Spicer family are as compelling as the central quest; this is a film with rare honesty and nuance in a field that frequently feels queasy.
  19. Junun
    It’s a good, solid little picture, but it’s not that great, and certainly not noticeably more accomplished or compelling than many of the other music-themed docs that come out each week with less fanfare.
  20. Deathgasm
    A dopey splatterfest that features one-dimensional characters and a draggy first act that’s eventually won over by creatively immature gross-outs and absurd violence.
  21. This Changes Everything
    A macro argument is being filtered through people’s local concerns, but without getting to know the subjects, you can understand their suffering, but can’t feel it.
  22. Northern Soul
    Every other scene showcases a northern treasure (Coogan, Thomson, Tomlinson, Stansfield) and looks, feels and – crucially – sounds true to its sweaty-hazy, slightly cramped corner of history.
  23. Toy Story 4
    It may only be a repeat of earlier ideas and plotlines, but compare it to the fourth films in other franchises and Pixar’s latest is an amusing and charming gem.
  24. Miles Ahead
    Cheadle’s got the cred, and the period evocation is tremendous. It’s just that I’m not sure he has all that much to say
  25. Bridget Jones's Baby
    What sealed the deal for me – by a whisker – was the gigantic physical comedy that Dempsey, Zellweger and Firth uncorked as they try to get through the hospital revolving door as Bridget is about to give birth, the traditional romcom rush to the airport having been re-invented for this maternal drama.
  26. Cut Snake
    Performances are uniformly impressive, with Stapleton guaranteed a place in the pantheon of creepily charismatic Australian screen criminals.
  27. Kingsman: The Golden Circle
    It’s a film so cartoonishly outsized that it almost renders the first film restrained by comparison
  28. Return to Ithaca
    It is a bit stagey, but heartfelt and well acted.
  29. The Dark Horse
    The script could have done without the odd bout of heavy-handed chess symbolism (“a king for a king”) but it’s a solidly entertaining drama with an intriguingly unconventional lead.
  30. Ip Man 3
    Unassuming, likable entertainment.
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