The Guardian's Scores

Select another publication »
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
6554 movie reviews
view
per page
  1. The Midwife
    It is a very good idea for a two-hander, and Frot and Deneuve give it their considerable all.
  2. Kuso
    If the film wasn’t so cheekily self-aware it might be literally unbearable, but every so often it references its own grotesquerie.
  3. The Fencer
    The set-up is a bit schmaltzy and the only guesswork is how bitter the bittersweet ending will be, but Haro coaxes strong performances from the cast.
  4. Our Beloved Month of August
    Our ­Beloved Month Of August is a real one-off: ­eccentric and singular and ­cerebral: an arthouse event, yes, but also witty and emotionally engaged. I found myself thinking about it for days afterwards – and smiling a very great deal. Try it.
  5. Dunkirk
    This is a powerful, superbly crafted film with a story to tell, avoiding war porn in favour of something desolate and apocalyptic, a beachscape of shame, littered with soldiers zombified with defeat, a grimly male world with hardly any women on screen. It is Nolan’s best film so far.
  6. The Death of Louis XIV
    This quietly amazing film is conceived in terms of pure minimalist intimacy.
  7. To the Bone
    It’s a dismal TV movie of the week: trite, shallow, cautiously middlebrow and blandly complicit in the cult of female prettiness that it is supposedly criticising.
  8. Wish Upon
    This is carelessly made trash but worse, it’s carelessly made trash that thinks it will spawn not just a franchise but a cinematic universe.
  9. The Sea
    Hinds is a strong, wounded presence, but the laboured structure cuts insistently around him to get at a psychology mostly scrambled in translation. This Sea's just too choppy.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Chaplin
    Robert Downey Jr sparkles as the British comedy giant but Richard Attenborough's film feels somewhat dutiful around him.
  11. The House
    The exuberant comic talents of Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler are largely wasted in this uninspired addition to the frat movie canon, which resembles reheated leftovers of the Hangover, albeit with a curious detour into some heavy bloodletting.
  12. Endless Poetry
    It’s a real flight of fancy.
  13. Spider-Man: Homecoming
    Spider-Man: Homecoming is so joyously entertaining that it’s enough to temporarily cure any superhero fatigue. There’s wit, smarts and a nifty, inventive plot that serves as a reminder of what buoyant fun such films can bring.
  14. Survivor
    It’s a lumberingly dated kind of spy thriller, convoluted without ever being intriguing – and an insufficient number of bangs for your buck.
  15. Dirty Grandpa
    Some laughs – and some unintentional eeeuuuwwws.
  16. Baby Driver
    [An] outrageously enjoyable petrolhead heist caper.
  17. Stockholm, My Love
    It is a study of grief suppressed and a personality becalmed.
  18. Despicable Me 3
    Despicable Me 3 will certainly keep the younger elements of its audience happy, with its dose of aspartame-rush hyperactivity. But for everyone else it may prove decent rather than captivating.
  19. War for the Planet of the Apes
    It’s an engrossing, forthright adventure.
  20. Person to Person
    There’s little in the way of dramatic conflict or base wit to keep us hanging around to see what happens within each.
  21. In Pursuit of Silence
    The film occasionally hits a rather loud note of passive-aggressive piety, but it is very persuasive.
  22. Transformers: The Last Knight
    The final explosive showdown seems to be competing with Marvel movies for spectacle. But Marvel brings wit and fun. As far as those factors go, the Transformers franchise is in very short supply.
  23. Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press
    This documentary is an invigorating, disturbing portrait of the arrogance and sinister self-importance of rich people, bullying politicians and their battalions of lawyers.
  24. The Book of Henry
    In its pure misjudged ickiness, bad-acting ropiness, and its quirksy, smirksy passive-aggressive tweeness, this insidiously terrible film could hardly get any more skin-crawling.
  25. Rough Night
    A fun night will be had, but you’ll have trouble remembering it in the morning.
  26. Viceroy's House
    Viceroy’s House is no very profound work, but it is a nimble and watchable period drama.
  27. The Hippopotamus
    We’re mostly watching Allam scowling at the eccentrics passing through his eyeline – but it’s still a pleasure, and often a joy, to watch the star measuring out and savouring Fry’s rich wordplay like fingers of scotch.
  28. Harmonium
    Although the story unfolds at a steady pace over two hours, the filmmaking is sufficiently elegant and metronomically efficient as to make every minute gripping, especially after the tragic twist halfway through the story.
  29. The Journey
    It’s a strained, dramatically inert and often frankly silly odd-couple bromance fantasy about the Northern Ireland peace process negotiations.
  30. Strange Weather
    Katherine Diekmann’s Strange Weather is a fairly simple melodrama, and one that could use a few reminders that it is better to show not tell. But as a showcase it’s a role that would fuel actors’ dreams.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »