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For 6,556 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 6556
  2. Mixed: 3,756 out of 6556
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6556
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  1. Viet and Nam
    Viet and Nam is a film that first feels opaque and elusive, and yet it becomes drenched with emotion.
  2. The Kingdom
    There are fierce and overwhelmingly authentic performances here from first-timers in Julien Colonna’s terrific mob drama.
  3. Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
    This is an engaging and thoroughly worthwhile movie.
  4. The Pickup
    It takes work to make Murphy entirely unfunny, and this film manages the job one-handed.
  5. Freakier Friday
    It’s Curtis who embodies the story’s wacky spirit.
  6. 40 Acres
    Deadwyler’s performance is the driving force here. Without her, the audience’s attention might drift to the predictability of a plotline that hinges on Manny’s adolescent rebellion against his mum.
  7. Savages
    A likable, admirably intentioned if slightly more predictable entertainment, in which the good guys and the bad guys are more obvious.
  8. My Oxford Year
    It’s all boringly plain sailing until it suddenly isn’t and the film takes a turn from romcom into something more dramatic.
  9. 2000 Meters to Andriivka
    Chernov is armed only with a camera, to the astonishment of many soldiers he encounters, and the film was constructed by editing his footage together with that of solders’ helmet cameras and drone material. Chernov shows us how drones are now utterly ubiquitous in war, delivering both the pictures and the assaults.
  10. Bring Her Back
    Bring Her Back is lighter on thrills and spills for the midnight movie and heavy with thick, abject horror and despair, featuring an intensely disturbing performance from Sally Hawkins.
  11. The Naked Gun
    There is no reason for this new Naked Gun to exist other than the reason for the old ones: it’s a laugh, disposable, forgettable, enjoyable.
  12. Architecton
    I found something a little unfocused and even slightly indulgent or redundant in the way the images are put together (accompanied by a clamorous musical score by Evgueni Galperine) without making it clear to the viewer what we are looking at and where. Yet the film is so striking, especially on the big screen, almost itself a kind of land art.
  13. Gazer
    Gazer’s atmosphere of looming disaster and dreamlike oppression crowds in on you as the movie progresses; an intriguing, genuinely scary picture.
  14. Happy Gilmore 2
    For those who aren’t into golf or weren’t around for SNL at the turn of the century, Happy Gilmore 2 could well sail overhead like a drive from the man himself. But for the generations who still quote summer comedies from eons ago (ahem), Sandler’s second round offers a refreshing trip down memory lane.
  15. The Bad Guys 2
    There’s more wit and energy this time around, and a genuinely sweet message about friendship. Even the fart joke (every kids’ movie must have at least one) was a cut above and had the adults giggling.
  16. The Fantastic Four: First Steps
    Overall a very silly movie – though it’s keeping the superhero genre aloft.
  17. The Unholy Trinity
    If following The Unholy Trinity’s various tracks is sometimes frustrating, it’s still rare enough: a red-blooded and essentially satisfying western.
  18. Saint Clare
    It plays as pseudo-feminist horror for viewers who don’t really like women, or, for that matter, men. Or people of any gender. It’s all curdled but not in an especially interesting way, although there is no denying that Thorne has a basic charisma that holds the screen, and Ryan Phillippe is well cast as a grouchy cop whose agenda doesn’t mesh with Clare’s.
  19. Four Letters of Love
    This top-notch cast gives it their considerable all, but to my taste the syrup content was in the end too high.
  20. I Know What You Did Last Summer
    At a time of nostalgia overload (Clueless, Legally Blonde and Urban Legend are next), Robinson finds a way to make her attempt not exactly necessary but unpretentiously pleasurable enough for that not to really matter. There might not be a next summer but this makes for an entertaining last hurrah.
  21. Smurfs
    This very uninteresting and uninspired story plods along for an hour and a half, though there are some almost-interesting surreal scenes when our heroes find themselves in weird alt-universe dimensions.
  22. Friendship
    Even as a fan, I am honestly shocked that what basically amounts to a 97-minute ITYSL sketch stays actually funny throughout, though a good 15 or so minutes of that threaten overexposure to the brand.
  23. The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire
    A calm and interesting introduction to an important dissident author.
  24. Dora and the Search for Sol Dorado
    The movie is not lacking in adventure, perhaps what’s missing is a sense of fun.
  25. Modi - Three Days on the Wing of Madness
    This lavishly produced and costumed European co-production is handsomely cast – but the range of talent here feels wasted on what is a fundamentally dated and stereotypical drama, whose Bohemian passion is diluted.
  26. The Other Way Around
    Afterwards, everyone smiles reassuringly – then one man pipes up: “Don’t take this the wrong way, but …” and a begins a pretentious intellectual takedown. Like the film it’s a funny-smart moment, witty and grownup.
  27. Pavements
    Intriguingly, but finally a bit frustratingly, Perry is running four ideas at once, a kind of cine-quadriptych with the plurality signalled by the title.
  28. Apocalypse in the Tropics
    Democracy has never looked so vulnerable.
  29. Superman
    From the very beginning, this new Superman is encumbered by a pointless and cluttered new backstory which has to be explained in many wearisome intertitles flashed up on screen before anything happens at all. Only the repeated and laborious quotation of the great John Williams theme from the 1978 original reminds you of happier times.
  30. Frankie Freako
    At least Sweeney has good enough comic timing to make the thinly written dialogue sound vaguely amusing; he’s also adept at making his many reaction shots exaggerated just enough to tickle without descending into outright mugging.
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