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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. Palm Beach
    After a lax first half, Palm Beach slowly settles into a groove, growing in complexity and nuance. However, Ward’s laidback approach is not remotely cinematic (this feels more like a filmed play), and never is there a sense of urgency or stakes.
  2. Bharat
    Bharat’s Achilles heel is its desire to pack so much in, at headspinning pace, tossing causality to the wind. Zafar reduces history to one damn thing after another, resulting in a 150-minute fire sale of period costumes and abandoned story beats.
  3. Late Night
    At heart, Late Night is a romcom and like so many romcoms, the funny stuff recedes after the first act, as the plot and its relatability imperative gets into gear. Yet Kaling is very good at conveying the paradoxical misty-eyed idealism of those working for this long-running TV institution.
  4. Gloria Bell
    Whether or not you have seen the original film, there is a terrific performance here from Moore, and an equally good one from Turturro, who may be entering into his own golden years of bittersweet character work.
  5. Dark Phoenix
    The point of a phoenix, dark or otherwise, is that it rises from the flames. But these are the flames in which this franchise has finally gone down.
  6. Domino
    Even die-hard De Palma completists would be better served by forgetting this one exists – a tedious, ugly thriller devoid of anything to say that will serve as a regrettable footnote for a distinguished film-maker who is capable of so much more.
  7. Always Be My Maybe
    Like Set It Up before it, Always Be My Maybe hits all of the beats we have come to expect yet fails to do so well enough, as if the mere existence of a technically well-structured romantic comedy is better than nothing.
  8. In Safe Hands
    This intelligently performed film is still a welcome look at a vital and underappreciated duty of state.
  9. A Vigilante
    The more the movie explains, the less powerful it becomes – ending with a Shining-like finale in the snow that for me was a letdown.
  10. Ma
    Spencer works hard to keep us on her side and it’s her messy, melancholic character work that endures, a portrait of a woman broken and breaking those around her that’s really quite hard to shake. Ma is a few more drafts from perfection but the actor playing her is the real deal.
  11. Thunder Road
    Cummings presents us with a guy whose heart is in the right place – he just can’t control himself. But, like me, others may find their tolerance for a clueless white man’s anger issues has maxed out.
  12. Godzilla: King of the Monsters
    It’s a film with too much yet somehow so very little.
  13. Sibyl
    Fundamentally, Sybil is not funny because it is not convincing, and some of the acting is not of the highest order. Efira’s “drunk” turn is something she may wish to omit from her showreel.
  14. Oh Mercy!
    It is a drama that attempts to behave like a tough police procedural in a quasi-Melville vein, but also like a musing prose-poem about the vanity of human wishes.
  15. It Must Be Heaven
    There are times when the passive, elusive quality of It Must Be Heaven, as with other Suleiman films, eluded me and felt mannered and superficial, but they are stylishly made with a distinctive signature.
  16. Lux Æterna
    Insufficiently diverting ... Lux Æterna shows Noé reverting to the self-parodic silliness that Climax had taken him past.
  17. The Traitor
    The film has the authoritative air of official history: sometimes brash, sometimes stolid, sometimes with flashes of inspiration and sometimes with long stretches of courtroom dialogue.
  18. Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo
    Bizarre, colossally self-indulgent ... This one feels as if Kechiche has simply given us three-and-a-half hours of his unused beach and nightclub footage from the first film.
  19. John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection
    McEnroe makes a fascinating focal point.
  20. Matthias & Maxime
    There is such tenderness and gentleness in this film.
  21. Frankie
    The scenes have no fire or lightness and sometimes they are embarrassing. ... Sachs is such a talented film-maker, but this is a baffling misstep.
  22. Parasite
    A luxuriously watchable and satirical suspense drama.
  23. The Secret Life of Pets 2
    Here’s that Hollywood rarity – a sequel that’s better than the original. It’s wittier, less frenetic and introduces fresh characters and a nice scene of strategic furball vomming.
  24. Black Coal, Thin Ice
    It never quite catches fire, but it has a curious atmosphere of its own: menacing, pregnant with unease.
  25. Too Late to Die Young
    Castillo’s talent for spiritually attuned atmospherics could be her USP among Chile’s current crop of directors with idiosyncratic slants on their country’s recent past.
  26. The Perfection
    There’s a rare unpredictability that initially proves alluring, at least until that confusion starts to feel less intentional.
  27. Memoir of War
    Mélanie Thierry does her best in the lead as Duras, but her character is maddeningly flat and dull.
  28. Wounds
    Once the wounds have healed, Anvari may wish to make a film with the strength and distinctiveness of his debut.
  29. Brightburn
    It’s a film that’s good enough that you want it to be better, a rare genre example of less not proving to be more.
  30. XY Chelsea
    This is very much a sympathetic fly-on-the-wall with Team Chelsea, but, considering the high drama of Manning’s life, the resultant film is muted and disjointed, and given to impressionistic images – such as landscapes out of car windows – when really the time could have been spent telling us more.
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