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For 6,554 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: 2,481 out of 6554
  2. Mixed: 3,754 out of 6554
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6554
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  1. Chemical Hearts
    This elaborately contrived story feels as if it has been cobbled together from a dozen others, and it never escapes cliche.
  2. Random Acts of Violence
    The movie falls apart with some moral handwringing that will likely infuriate genre fans, and for everyone else, feel like a tired airing of the debate around violence in movies – all the more objectionable in a film with its fair share of mutilated female victims.
  3. The One and Only Ivan
    Rather than a heartwarming family favourite-in-the-making, The One and Only Ivan is just a vaguely watchable cookie-cutter caper thrown together by people who should know how to make something far sweeter and substantial, a fleeting attraction for undiscerning young kids and a whelming waste for anyone older.
  4. The Vigil
    It still just about puts the id in Hasidic, thanks to spiritually atmospheric cinematography and a twitchy, expressive performance from Davis, who resembles Riz Ahmed, and wards off evil with that most Jewish of charms: heroic self-deprecation.
  5. Pinocchio
    Pinocchio is a thoroughly bizarre story; Garrone makes of it a weirdly satisfying spectacle.
  6. The Tree House
    Here is a strange, opaque but interesting piece from Vietnamese film-maker Minh Quý Truong: an ethno-fictional essay movie.
  7. Spree
    Spree is meant to comment on the shallowness of social media culture; the trouble is, it’s a film with the depth of a puddle.
  8. Project Power
    A punchy, likable trio of performances are the point of this superhero action-thriller with energy to burn.
  9. Babyteeth
    This debut feature from Australian film-maker Shannon Murphy, adapted by Rita Kalnejais from her stage play, is well acted, heartfelt, beautifully filmed.
  10. Again Once Again
    Some might find her style, leaving no thought unexamined, a bit rambling, but Paula is doing something interesting here.
  11. Martin Margiela: In His Own Words
    Reiner Holzemer has made a film that is intensely supportive and uncritical – as fashion documentaries tend to be – and to those of us who are outside the fashion world, it can be a bit opaque. Yet it is refreshing to hear creativity discussed with such seriousness and commitment.
  12. Giraffe
    It’s a movie whose subtle thoughts are in danger of being upstaged by a potent and erotic love story that surfaces and then disappears, leaving you uncertain whether finally to be more interested in that romance or the ruminations it has interrupted – or enlivened.
  13. Perfect 10
    What an emotional, satisfying film this is – and a whopping oversized calling card for everyone involved.
  14. Work It
    Work It is a fun, mostly entertaining and easily digestible concoction that does everything you expect but well enough for its lack of ingenuity not to matter.
  15. An American Pickle
    An American Pickle is a tasty, insubstantial snack of a comedy.
  16. Endings, Beginnings
    Well, it’s a good performance from Woodley.
  17. Black Water: Abyss
    This is paddling-pool-level entertainment.
    • The Guardian
      • Posted Aug 6, 2020
  18. Echo
    The cumulative effect is like strolling through a Reykjavik gallery where each painting moves within its well-chosen frame.
  19. Howard
    There’s something exciting about a film that immerses you in the life of a creative artist, and so it proves with this documentary about Howard Ashman.
  20. Boys State
    It’s not clear if it’s funny or tragic, if it’s reality TV or reality itself. But Boys State is as exciting and moving as Steve James’s high school basketball epic Hoop Dreams was a generation ago, with its emotional rawness, its guileless patriotism and capacity for hurt and wonder.
  21. Host
    Host is a lean, nasty little exercise that might not linger for very long but it shows what can be done during this difficult time. Once regular shooting resumes, we should look forward to whatever Savage comes up with next.
  22. 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.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Black Is King
    It is compelling in every sense and takes you on a moving journey: not only through the story of The Lion King, but through a small portion of the beautiful cultures and traditions that exist within black communities globally.
  24. The Big Ugly
    It plays like several plots, genres and mood boards all mashed together, which makes the end result interesting but not entirely successful.
  25. The Secret: Dare to Dream
    It’s mostly kind of tolerable in a low stakes, rosé-wine-swigging way, inoffensively middling rather than rotten, an easy, undemanding afternoon watch with nothing of note other than a few laughably dumb moments..
  26. Saint Frances
    This is a film with a hopeful message about people, and their ability and willingness to learn – and to get along.
  27. Last and First Men
    Last and First Men is an interesting if minor work, perhaps comparable to Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s Homo Sapiens or Michael Madsen’s Into Eternity.
  28. Make Up
    It’s a clever and expertly made movie; Oakley luxuriates in its winter chill.
  29. Summerland
    Strong on lush cinematography, period knitwear and sincerity, but less effective in terms of historical plausibility, the mostly second world war-set drama Summerland is a mixed bag – a blend of fizzy sherbet lemons and humbug.
  30. Ghosts of War
    This effort is similarly infuriating and entertaining by turns, and features pretty good performances from a handful of up-and-coming young male actors, including Brenton Thwaites and Kyle Gallner, along with lovable old ham Billy Zane putting in a last-act cameo.
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