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For 6,628 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: 2,512 out of 6628
  2. Mixed: 3,796 out of 6628
  3. Negative: 320 out of 6628
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  1. Sunlight
    Conti manages the feat of being funny, emotionally astute and kinda sexy throughout.
  2. Nancy
    An interesting and worthwhile drama.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Lost Girls
    Lost Girls is sorely lacking and, ironically, one wonders what a Garbus docuseries could have found instead.
  7. Oxygen
    In some ways, this works better without the metaphorical reading – as just a far-fetched, but quite ingenious entertainment, with some bold climactic touches.
  8. The Alpinist
    The film-makers’ enthusiasm for his clarity of purpose is all well and good, but it does leave the film prone to hyperbole, and perhaps a more measured, sideways look at the weird dropout culture around climbing would have been more interesting.
  9. Barbershop: The Next Cut
    Barbershop: The Next Cut is hardly subtle, but it is more nuanced than you might expect.
  10. Save Yourselves!
    For the most part it manages an adept balance between satire, sincerity and sheer silliness that’s ultimately winning.
  11. The Contestant
    It is genuinely mind-boggling, and yet this unsatisfying, naive and fundamentally uncritical documentary, despite careful modern-day interviews with the participants, doesn’t get to grips either with the story’s implications or with the story itself.
  12. White Elephant
    For all the competence and strength of Trapero's direction, the film is not as powerful as it might have been.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Workers Cup
    Though there are moments of real joy and liberation during the games, everything outside of the matches is cloaked in a mood of lost dreams and stunted futures.
  14. Sweetheart
    A good-natured love story, doomed to flower and fade in the space of a single holiday, leaving behind the traditional coming-of-age realisation that friends and family are what’s important right now.
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