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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. The Brink
    What emerges from Klayman’s film is how very important Brexit Britain is as a self-vivisecting research animal in Bannon’s experimental thinking.
  2. The Lion King
    Basically, this new Lion King sticks very closely to the original version, and in that sense it’s of course watchable and enjoyable. But I missed the simplicity and vividness of the original hand-drawn images.
  3. Asbury Park: Riot, Redemption, Rock & Roll
    A starstruck Jones hardly pushes his interviewees on it, but somewhere in his naggingly monotonous morass of talking heads is the tale of how the Boss gained a social conscience.
  4. Midsommar
    It’s a thoroughly enjoyable film, a crescendo of paranoid trippiness building to an uproarious grossout in its final moments.
  5. Photograph
    It is weirdly opaque and internalised, and doesn’t ever really come to life.
  6. In Fabric
    In Fabric is indulgent, certainly, and I regretted the fact that the excellent Jean-Baptiste is not as centrally important to the film as I had assumed she would be. When she is gone, the voltage drops a bit. But it is just so singular, utterly unlike anything else around.
  7. Support the Girls
    Support the Girls is a shrewdly observed, day-in-the-life-style portrait of a woman under pressure. It’s way too early to be thinking about awards season, but Regina Hall could be in line for some silverware.
  8. Apollo 11
    Somehow, it doesn’t look like something that happened 50 years ago – but rather an extraordinarily detailed futurist fantasy of what might happen in the years to come, if we could only evolve to some higher degree of verve and hope.
  9. Spider-Man: Far from Home
    Holland is very good but he needs someone to play against, someone with Downey’s heft. That someone could well be Zendaya, as MJ, the great love of Peter Parker’s life. We shall have to see how the Marvel franchise plays this romance in forthcoming episodes.
  10. Anima
    The best of this is Yorke’s music, which is fierce and propulsive. But, as visual spectacle, there is a strong so-what? factor.
  11. Anna
    Anna is not quite pedestrian but it never really feels like the work of someone with anything to say or prove. It’s competent and even complacent at times, a million miles from what one would expect from the director of The Fifth Element.
  12. Annabelle Comes Home
    Annabelle Comes Home is hopelessly light on scares.
  13. Ploey
    Our kids deserve storytelling that has more wit, and animation with better design, but I suppose this will do at a pinch.
  14. The Edge of Democracy
    Throughout, Costa’s voiceover adds shape but doesn’t intrude excessively and lets the powerful compilation of original and archive footage, material shot on the ground in the middle of riots and by drones soaring hundreds of feet above Brasilia, tell the story.
  15. Holy Lands
    A good performance from Tom Hollander can’t save this stodgy, ungainly and strangely reactionary family drama from the French writer-director Amanda Sthers.
  16. Swinging Safari
    Is this outrageous comedy sexy or revolting? Elliott proves – though this feels like the least of his achievements – that a film can be both.
  17. Child's Play
    Child’s Play bubbles with entertaining bad taste.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Quiet One
    It would have been nice if he [the director] got meatier, or rarer, material from Wyman regarding what the film’s potential audience cares about most – the story of the Stones.
  19. In the Aisles
    In the Aisles is a poignant and richly sympathetic film.
  20. The Hummingbird Project
    It’s the kind of verbose corporate parable David Mamet would sit down to write after a heavy night on the sauce.
  21. Shaft
    Even outside of the script’s aggressively repetitive bigotry, the shambolic Scooby Doo plot struggles to grab even the slightest amount of attention.
  22. We the Animals
    It is a thing of beauty: too beautiful perhaps, running a real danger of prettifying poverty.
  23. Murder Mystery
    A surprisingly nimble summer comedy that finds both Aniston and Sandler at their most charming.
  24. 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.
  25. Men in Black: International
    It’s time to wave the neuralyzer in the face of every executive involved and murmur softly: forget about this franchise.
  26. Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
    This is an immersive experience, like being plunged back into the 70s. There is passion there. No matter how chaotic or bleary things get, no one is in any doubt that the music counts.
  27. I Am Mother
    The way it subverts (to say the least) traditional concepts around a parent/child relationship gives it uniqueness and value.
  28. Halston
    The archive clips suggest Halston is a role Richard E Grant was born to play: the designer had a long-limbed loucheness, grandiose affectations and put-on accent, along with a fierce perfectionism.
  29. The Raft
    It is an interesting story, and yet the film doesn’t quite summon up the atmosphere of the raft. It doesn’t fully plunge you into that strange milieu, nor does it quite analyse exactly what was going on.
  30. The Etruscan Smile
    Its arcs and beats are as careworn as your grandfather’s armchair.
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