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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 Legend of Cocaine Island
    Sometimes, a good legend is all the embellishment you need.
  2. Unplanned
    This movie is ridiculous.
  3. Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story
    It’s appropriate that this absorbing, tender documentary has been driven by a surge of fan loyalty and love.
  4. Lost & Found
    It’s written and directed by Liam O Mochain with the kind of inoffensive hot-water-bottle-laughs you wouldn’t think possible after Father Ted. Well, I say inoffensive, but one of the vignettes – about an uptight bridezilla whose sole character trait is her desperation to get married – is depressingly unfeminist.
  5. Storm Boy
    In the new film, by literally creating a bust of the bird – as if a clump of stone or plaster could compare with the natural majesty of wings and feathers – the meaning has been accidentally inverted: a story about how something can never die becomes about how it will never live again.
  6. Dumbo
    This has been painfully de-tusked.
  7. Shazam!
    It’s a film in need of a tighter edit with a script in need of a sharper polish, an imperfect franchise-launcher that nonetheless represents significant progress for DC.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Dirt
    What makes the film most successful are the four performers. The standout is Baker (better known as rapper Machine Gun Kelly) who plays Tommy Lee with both a sweet naivety and an insidious mischievousness that make some of the darker moments sneak up on you without feeling unearned.
  9. Cradle of Champions
    It’s a sentimental film about New York and the way it sees itself: tough, big-hearted, assimilated and patriotic.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Red Joan
    The film itself fails to overwhelm – mostly proceeding along dully familiar lines and anything but radical.
  11. Minding the Gap
    This is a fluent, watchable piece of work, though not quite as lucid as it might have been. A poignant tribute, at any rate, to the lost innocence of skateboarding.
  12. Booksmart
    Her film reaches the audience-friendly highs of a studio comedy while retaining an indie sensibility, both in its visuals and its tone, and coupled with the script’s rooted awareness of the moment we’re now in, it feels fresh, a film that will be rewatched and quoted, held on a pedestal by those who understand its necessity.
  13. The White Crow
    Hare cleverly suggests Nureyev’s mixture of courage, hauteur, emotional damage and cool self-appraisal; the Soviet authorities cannot threaten him through his family because he long ago left them behind. An athletic, confident, undemanding film.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
    The fascinating story of Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos scandal is frustratingly underexplored in Alex Gibney’s disappointing new film.
  15. Unicorn Store
    As a film-maker, Larson shows promise, and as a comic actor she shows genuine talent. With a less affected, more genuine script, Larson could star in and direct a great comedy. Unicorn Store is not it.
  16. Captive State
    Captive State is imperfectly constructed, at times frustratingly so, but it’s trying, doggedly, to do something different and given the bland efficiency of so many wide-releasing sci-fi movies, that’s hard to fault.
  17. Fisherman's Friends
    Their singing is robustly and winningly performed, and the whole thing is heartfelt. Nice also to see Maggie Steed as the local pub’s landlady. It’s pretty goofy but fun.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Good Boys
    There’s just one problem. It’s mostly the same jokes over and over: cute kids cursing and not understanding sex stuff.
  19. Girl
    The sheer sustained intensity of the drama and performances carry it through.
  20. The Highwaymen
    Hamer and Gault won the day in a hail of submachine fire, but even their hagiography can’t hide that they’re history’s losers.
  21. The Day Shall Come
    Morris handles a delicate balancing act with an expected ease, the work of a satirist with so much to say yet with an awareness that saying less leads to so much more.
  22. Us
    The fiercely charismatic, mesmeric gaze of Lupita Nyong’o holds the movie together, and I have to say that without her presence, the movie’s final spasm of anarchic weirdness might have lost its grip. She radiates a force-field of pure defiance.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Beach Bum
    Joyous, outrageous and slyly mournful.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Long Shot
    With a giddy irreverence and a cavalcade of stupendous comedic performers, Long Shot is outrageously funny.
  25. The Kindergarten Teacher
    Gyllenhaal is terrific as a teacher and wannabe poet who exploits a child prodigy in this gripping psychological drama.
  26. Maiden
    At all events, it pays due homage to Edwards as a courageous pioneer.
  27. Triple Frontier
    It’s an enjoyable enough way to spend two hours but without any commentary or real depth, it’s in need of a bit more suspense or conflict to really oil the wheels, the film too often ambling along when it should be racing.
  28. Captain Marvel
    I wanted a clearer, more central story for Captain Marvel’s emergence on to the stage, and in subsequent films – if she isn’t simply to get lost in the ensemble mix – there should more of Larson’s own wit and style and, indeed, plausible mastery of martial arts. In any case, Captain Marvel is an entertaining new part of the saga.
  29. Sauvage / Wild
    What is interesting about Sauvage is that it shows how savagely boring Leo’s life is, quite a lot of the time.
  30. Hannah
    It is a haunting portrait of emotional undeadness.
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