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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. Polina
    Despite the panache with which the dance sequences are presented, it is frustratingly inert dramatically.
  2. Welcome To Marwen
    The remarkable career of artist and photographer Mark Hogancamp has been turned into an elaborate and misjudged movie of baffling pass-agg ickiness and pointlessness.
  3. They Shall Not Grow Old
    Peter Jackson has created a visually staggering thought experiment; an immersive deep-dive into what it was like for ordinary British soldiers on the western front.
  4. Vice
    Bale brilliantly captures the former vice-president’s bland magnificence.
  5. Mary Poppins Returns
    I admire it for its craftsmanship and technique, like a machine for creating nostalgia.
  6. Aquaman
    Wilson is just, frankly, dull. He is not allowed to develop an interesting character and he suffers from the obvious comparison with Loki, Thor’s adopted brother played with relish by Tom Hiddleston as a velvety-voiced villain. But then Momoa’s good-ol’-boy characterisation of Aquaman itself only goes so far. This is a film that never quite comes up for air.
  7. Tides
    It’s a gentle, charming study of loneliness.
  8. Bumblebee
    While Knight and team duck origin-story slavishness that has dogged so much recent franchise work, they succeed in reviving the playful Saturday-morning-serial spirit of the original 80s Transformers.
  9. Dumplin'
    Too often the film loudly announces its noble intentions with slogans instead of dialogue.
  10. Swimming with Men
    This film floats, but, like a synchro-swimmer doing the “egg beater” leg movement, it needs a fair bit of strenuous activity to keep it upright.
  11. Mortal Engines
    There are some lively things about Mortal Engines, and the performances are game enough. Yet in all its effortful steampunkiness, Mortal Engines isn’t a film which is particularly exciting or funny, and the idea of the “traction city” is a stylistic and visual design tic that you just have to take or leave.
  12. The Mercy
    A more unforgiving approach might have been more interesting.
  13. Dead in a Week: Or Your Money Back
    Dead in a Week is striving for a weirdly sentimental kind of black-comic farce, and it doesn’t work.
  14. Hell Fest
    Plotkin’s relentless button-pushing, coupled to the script’s cringe-inducing yooftalk, instead mark Hell Fest as unmistakably the work of middle-aged execs trying to jab suggestible teenagers back into cinemas.
  15. The Price of Everything
    There’s something so fluid, almost nebulous, about its construction that a chasm starts to open up where you would expect to find some kind of unifying thesis.
  16. Postcards from London
    It really is very strange, with every idea, every scene, every moment lavishly garnished with floridly serious, mannered language. A little of it goes a long way.
  17. The Judge
    The Judge is a thoughtful, sympathetic study.
  18. Pokémon the Movie: The Power of Us
    Even narratively, the new film is a dud.
  19. Three Identical Strangers
    Wardle tells a compelling story of the three happy boys who became three unhappy men, their faces shining with a kind of ecstasy in their youth, then muted with sadness and bewilderment in middle age.
  20. Dead Souls
    Wang’s film is a vital excavation of history in danger of being eroded away.
  21. Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
    No songs at all now, and not much fun.
  22. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
    It’s the kind of seemingly effortless success that makes producing a good superhero movie look easy: find a likable hero and a colorful villain, hire someone who knows how to write a punch line, and for Stan Lee’s sake, keep it fun.
  23. Ralph Breaks the Internet
    The incessant and eerily unsatirical product placement is enough to give you a migraine: especially the complacent Disney cross-promotion.
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    The Christmas Chronicles
    Between the atrocious green-screen work, the blatant stock footage helicopter shots of city skylines and painfully obvious Toronto-for-America locations, you would be forgiven for thinking this movie was made in 1992.
  25. Robin Hood
    This bloated, featureless, CGI-heavy movie is not so much stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, as stealing from Guy Ritchie, Batman, Two-Face and a few others – and not giving back all that much to the audience.
  26. Creed II
    There’s a delicate intimacy between the characters that feels raw and authentic and like Coogler, Caple Jr’s indie beginnings seem to steer him toward filling a big film with small moments.
  27. Under The Wire
    This is a heart-stoppingly suspenseful story. Conroy is a superb commentator on war and all its cruelties and absurdities.
  28. Anchor and Hope
    It’s a thoughtful, honest and touching work, especially for women who love women, and also love canals.
  29. Mario
    At two hours, the film feels a little long, but this is a heartfelt and human drama with the texture of truth and characters to care about.
  30. Thugs of Hindostan
    It has that rare and unmistakable look of an event movie that was huge fun to assemble. Whether you’re watching in Hindi, Tamil or Telugu – or reliant on English subtitles – much of that enjoyment does translate.
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