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For 6,656 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: 2,521 out of 6656
  2. Mixed: 3,814 out of 6656
  3. Negative: 321 out of 6656
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  1. Kills on Wheels
    Writer-director Attila Till’s plucky comedy-drama isn’t quite the radical representation of disability it seems to think it is, but has its heart in the right place.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Gaga: Five Foot Two
    Five Foot Two never quite shakes the feel of a longform advert for Gaga’s new phase that’s preaching to the converted.
  3. Friend Request
    It’s slickly made but shoddily scripted, with sub-reality TV dialogue...and a range of unengaged, soapy performances. There is some fun to be had from the loud and nasty death scenes though, which allow us the pleasure of seeing self-absorbed Facebook addicts get gruesomely murdered.
  4. The LEGO Ninjago Movie
    There’s a lingering sense of familiarity that persists and what felt fresh in the first film, and tweaked in The Lego Batman Movie, is at risk of feeling tired here.
  5. Kingsman: The Golden Circle
    It’s a film so cartoonishly outsized that it almost renders the first film restrained by comparison
  6. Our Souls at Night
    Our Souls at Night is your classic Hollywood weepie, so immaculately played that it confounds crass preconceptions.
  7. The Leisure Seeker
    Watching it is akin to be being waylaid by an expert raconteur. There is the curious sense that it has told this tale before; that every joke has been honed and rehearsed; every anecdote lovingly polished in advance.
  8. Victoria and Abdul
    What a peculiarly dodgy, conservative film this is – a lazy salute to a good queen and her faithful Indian servant. It’s a film about the Raj era that looks as if it was made back then, too.
  9. The Upside
    This is not much more than a light crowdpleaser, but when you’ve got two powerhouse performers like this it is very difficult not to find oneself at least temporarily charmed.
  10. Stronger
    Stronger is a film filled with warmth and humanity, but one that doesn’t sugarcoat the reality that comes with it.
  11. Roman J. Israel, Esq.
    Even in the film’s less successful moments, I admired the loose shagginess of it all.
  12. Professor Marston & the Wonder Women
    As well as showcasing the blandest and most tasteful three-way sex scene in history, this movie spreads an odd pall of sentimentality and period-glow nostalgia over a fascinating real-life story.
  13. The Mountain Between Us
    As an unpretentious and unashamedly mainstream romantic adventure, it’s a solidly entertaining diversion, old-fashioned in its no-frills brand of storytelling and direction.
  14. Molly's Game
    Sorkin is spellbound by his subject, fascinated by the many details of her admittedly impressive life, but the magic he clearly feels fails to translate on screen.
  15. Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
    It’s surprising that a film about Deep Throat could be such an anticlimax.
  16. Darkest Hour
    Gary Oldman is terrific as Churchill, conveying the babyishness of his oddly unlined face in repose, the slyness and manipulative good humour, and a weird deadness when he is overtaken with depression.
  17. American Assassin
    The malfunctioning studio system has foisted many subprime ideas upon us recently, but this opportunistic, Trump-age hybrid of war-on-terror drama and YA fantasy numbers among the junkiest.
  18. First They Killed My Father
    The film’s real ferocity is saved for the ideologues of terror.
  19. The Disaster Artist
    The dazzle of the cast and the targeted in-jokes never take away from the film’s core messaging about the importance of believing in one’s own ability as an artist.
  20. Battle of the Sexes
    It’s a decent tennis movie, solidly told and choreographed, but it’s in the film’s depiction of a same-sex romance between King and her hairdresser, played beautifully by Andrea Riseborough, where things truly comes alive.
  21. EX LIBRIS: The New York Public Library
    Ex Libris rolls out like a collection of short films.... It’s like watching Wiseman skip along through the stacks of all accumulated human knowledge.
  22. 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.
  23. Lady Bird
    Lady Bird doesn’t exist as a twee indie movie construct, it feels thrillingly real and deeply personal, every single beat ringing true.
  24. Wind River
    Sheridan is emerging as a master of the Mexican standoff, the shootout, the stomach-turning crime scene, the procedural office politics, but he’s also adept at tuning into the vulnerability and strength of the women and men called in to uphold the law. Wind River is a smart and very satisfying movie.
  25. Goon: Last of the Enforcers
    Nobody lands the one knockout punchline to elevate matters above tolerable mediocrity.
  26. The Vault
    There’s a reasonable premise to this horror-thriller, but also something straight-to-rental about the look and feel of the whole thing.
  27. The Work
    The dry, strictly observational shooting style means the doc stays in the moment and rarely ventures out of the room where the programme unfolds, adding immediacy.
  28. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
    Those familiar with McDonagh’s work will be unsurprised to learn that Three Billboards is a bold and showboating affair, robustly drawn and richly written; a violent carnival of small-town American life. Yet it has a big, beating heart, even a rough-edged compassion for its brawling inhabitants.
  29. Human Flow
    This is an urgent, deep soak in the current refugee crisis.
  30. The Limehouse Golem
    It’s an entertainingly bizarre, lurid nightmare with a playfully literary flavour, very Ackroydian, but with hints of Angela Carter and a bit of William Blake.
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