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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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  1. The Life of Chuck
    Try as writer-director Mike Flanagan might, there’s something coldly unmoving about it all, a disjointed and dry-eyed tearjerker that never rises above Instagram caption philosophy.
  2. Jealousy
    It's certainly atmospheric and cool in a new-New Wave way, but really, what's the point?
  3. The Paper Tigers
    Tran adroitly layers the fight sequences, filmed with fluidity and at least substantially performed by the main actors themselves, between frothy layers of blokey banter.
  4. Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
    There are plenty of great moments, but they jump out amid a jumble of strangely flat scenes. This doesn’t feel like the work of a great master; it’s a discordant brew that just doesn’t blend right.
  5. All You Need Is Death
    It is a good idea and there are good moments in the film, especially at the very beginning when Anna and Aleks have a bizarre encounter with the old woman herself, Rita Concannon, strikingly played by Olwen Fouéré. But then things begin to slide. There are however some resonant ideas here.
  6. Damsels in Distress
    If it's possible for a picture to be at once ideal and imperfect, then Damsels fits the bill.
  7. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
    It is a wildly silly, wildly entertaining adventure which periodically gives us a greatest-hits flashback montage of the other seven films in the M:I canon - but we still get a brand new, box-fresh Tom-sprinting-along-the-street scene, without which it wouldn’t be M:I.
  8. Calm with Horses (The Shadow of Violence)
    It’s powerfully and pugnaciously acted, and horses are brought in – as animals often are in social-realist movies – as symbols of redemptive nobility. But I felt that in narrative terms it turned into a cul-de-sac of macho violence.
  9. The Gospel According to André
    Talley strikes you as a man of sincerity and depth behind all the air-kissing and lamé.
  10. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
    As with the last film, there are bold extravagant gestures of spectacle, while Wright, Coel, Bassett, Gurira and Thorne all supply fierce performances; each of them ups the onscreen voltage simply by appearing.
  11. Chevalier
    While Harrison’s performance may never fully reveal the nature of the man beneath these sumptuous layers of organza, silk and self-confidence, it’s enchanté Chevalier, all the same.
  12. Medusa
    This really is a very strange film, and perhaps doesn’t quite cohere the way a more rigorously refined and redrafted screenplay might, but each of its exotic elements suggests a mounting delirium – exactly the kind of unacknowledged, displaced group frustration that grows and metastasises in a police state.
  13. McEnroe
    The rock’n’roll bad boy of tennis is watchably if uncritically celebrated in this documentary portrait by Barney Douglas; it is a film that leaves unsolved the riddle, if it is a riddle, of John McEnroe’s confrontational on-court personality.
  14. The Wrecking Crew
    The whole package is an easily digested guilty pleasure.
  15. Storm Boy
    In the new film, by literally creating a bust of the bird – as if a clump of stone or plaster could compare with the natural majesty of wings and feathers – the meaning has been accidentally inverted: a story about how something can never die becomes about how it will never live again.
  16. Sometimes Always Never
    This film is a distinct, articulate pleasure.
  17. The Last Tree
    It’s a charismatic performance from Adewunmi, and Amoo’s camera often comes in close to his face and his gaze, suggesting that Femi is on the verge of some kind of epiphany or vision – and it’s nothing to do with the drugs.
  18. The Girl with All the Gifts
    There are substantial talents involved in this film, but it doesn’t come together.
  19. Meanwhile on Earth
    It uses its supernatural premise to explore some very human behaviour.
  20. No Man of God
    Both actors contribute knife-sharp timing and the kind of intensity needed to make this essentially two-man setup work.
  21. Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything
    It’s a vehement movie, with a driving narrative force and a robust sense of time and place.
  22. Another Body
    This is a powerful and important documentary, though I have one tiny qualification.
  23. Silver Haze
    Silver Haze is a sombre, thoughtful film about depression and what is (and isn’t) likely to promote emotional healing, performed with openness and honesty.
  24. Deep Cover
    There are some laughs and it’s always likable.
  25. Sunlight
    Conti manages the feat of being funny, emotionally astute and kinda sexy throughout.
  26. Nancy
    An interesting and worthwhile drama.
  27. Fight Club
    It really is very very long; watching it like going to an all-night movie show where the only film is Fight Club. Yet it’s tremendously directed and performed with brio.
  28. Love Life
    Love Life is an inexpressibly tragic and painful human drama about complicated lives, a movie that interleaves the utter desolation with a dry understated comedy and a sense of emotional tangle and chaos, a film that moreover blindsides its leading female character – and us, the audience – with an entirely unexpected coda section.
  29. Smile 2
    As stylishly made as these films might be, there’s still not enough of a distinctive identity away from its inspirations and not enough away from the (very loud) sound and fury to give us hope that this is a story worth retelling time and time again.
  30. Lost Girls
    Lost Girls is sorely lacking and, ironically, one wonders what a Garbus docuseries could have found instead.
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