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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. Step Sisters
    For all its topicality, Step Sisters is a bit underwhelming, although it makes for entertaining lite fare in the vein of Pitch Perfect or Bring It On, and the choreography is first-rate.
  2. The Banishment
    There is an outstanding film somewhere inside this sprawling mass of ideas, which might have been shaped more exactingly in the edit.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Proud Mary
    The makers of Proud Mary don’t know what to do with their terrific ensemble cast. Henson may be due for a Taken-style career boost (and Proud Mary may very well be it). But she deserves so much better than this.
  4. The Commuter
    Perhaps you can’t ask too much from a modest, mid-range crowd-pleaser like this, but the experience ends up something like a commuter service itself: you know where it’s going and it gets you there perfectly well, but in a few years’ time you’d be hard pressed to distinguish it from dozens of similar journeys.
  5. Walk with Me
    The film has some startling moments.
  6. Brad's Status
    Brad’s Status is a frustrating concoction. There’s a script full of insight but also inanity and while the performances might jump out, the direction falls flat. Stiller is back on the right route but, like Brad, he could afford to take a more daring detour every now and then.
  7. Bright
    For all its flaws, Bright is still a headlong leap into a bracingly different new world. Cinema could do with more of that.
  8. The Greatest Showman
    It’s not a film to break moulds or test boundaries. Yet Jackman’s real charm will carry you along.
  9. All the Money in the World
    All The Money In The World is not perfect; there is a touch of naïveté and stereotyping in its depiction of the malign Italians with their one, redemptive nice-guy gangster. But with the help of Plummer’s tremendous villain-autocrat performance, Ridley Scott gives us a very entertaining parable about money and what it can’t buy.
  10. Pitch Perfect 3
    So many movies end with trite sentiments about “family” and “sisterhood” but it doesn’t feel forced here. It looks like these performers are genuinely enjoying themselves, and it’s infectious.
  11. Antiporno
    Antiporno has a kind of energy, but is also shallow and frantic.
  12. Ethel & Ernest
    It’s an engaging film, but it leaves you with a feeling that there might be a deeper, darker, more specific story yet to be told.
  13. Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi
    The Last Jedi gives you an explosive sugar rush of spectacle. It’s a film that buzzes with belief in itself and its own mythic universe – a euphoric certainty that I think no other movie franchise has. And there is no provisional hesitation or energy dip of the sort that might have been expected between episodes seven and nine.
  14. Miss Kiet's Children
    Miss Kiet’s Children is a lovely film.
  15. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
    It’s a likeable film which borrows liberally from everything and everyone, and if it’s put together by numbers, well, then it is done capably enough.
  16. Quest
    Sadly, the problems affecting the Raineys, the African American family whose north Philadelphia home accommodates this heartening documentary, are all too familiar: poverty, drugs, gun violence.
  17. Kaleidoscope
    At its best, Kaleidoscope is like an unsettling dream featuring an Escher staircase that plunges infinitely and vertiginously downwards.
  18. Phantom Thread
    There is such pure delicious pleasure in this film, in its strangeness, its vehemence, its flourishes of absurdity, carried off with superb elegance.
  19. The Post
    Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep give excellent performances, though not exactly a stretch in either case, and both with a tiny, tasty touch of cheese. Their characterisations are luxuriously upholstered, effortlessly fluent, busting with relatability.
  20. Coco
    Coco is a rousing, affecting, fun and much-needed return to form after underwhelming Finding Nemo and Cars sequels and will help to ensure that Pixar’s legacy remains intact.
  21. Nails
    With its creepy music and only-just-adequate performances, this will serve nicely at future slumber parties for thrill-seeking tweens.
  22. Mudbound
    Mudbound is absorbing: the language, performance and direction all have real sinew.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Porto
    Whatever the reason, Porto – much of the action unfolds in the Portuguese holiday spot – struggles to convey its passions, despite considerable effort from its two leads, an intuitive soundtrack and handsome photography.
  24. Justice League
    There is something ponderous and cumbersome about Justice League.
  25. Wonder
    It is a film with all the depth of a fridge magnet.
  26. I Remember You
    It’s entertaining enough, but certainly didn’t have me reaching for a jumper.
  27. Destination Unknown
    Claire Ferguson’s documentary is a powerful, valuable addition to the Holocaust testimony genre.
  28. Bitch
    It’s an interesting concept, but the characters are thin and nothing here feels insightful.
  29. No Stone Unturned
    For all his commitment and drive, Gibney shows us the trees but not the wood, and never quite nails the cover-up itself.
  30. Murder on the Orient Express
    This film never gets up a head of steam.
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