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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. Rodney King
    The performance is austere and challenging, it takes us through the grim events, their aftermath and the long endgame of King’s life, but without the emollient or lenient notes that a Hollywood treatment might attempt. It is a requiem of a sort, and a sombre indication of all that has not yet healed, or been fixed.
  2. The Circle
    The Circle is all foreplay, playfully prodding without providing a satisfying payoff.
  3. Urban Hymn
    A mixed bag, but one that comes good in its closing stretch, working its way towards a place of quiet power.
  4. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
    It’s fun, though GOTG2 doesn’t have the same sense of weird urgency and point that the first film had. They’re still guarding, although the galaxy never seems in much danger.
  5. The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography
    It’s an endlessly charming film focused on a woman whose view of life is one to be envied.
  6. The Survivalist
    The physical suspense is all but unbearable: a sexualised hunger, fear and need. Fingleton writes and directs with gusto and flair.
  7. Wakefield
    Cranston acts the hell out of the role, like he’s performing Macbeth in a room. Unfortunately his commitment isn’t enough to sell Wakefield as anything more than a hollow character study, with an unappealing tool at its core.
  8. The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki
    It is a film of immense humanity and charm: the very best kind of date movie.
  9. LA 92
    LA 92’s reliance on news and eyewitness footage leaves it vulnerable to the same limitations as that footage – namely the prioritising of sensationalism over insight.
  10. The Student
    If The Student lacks the searing moral exactness of the Russian literature on which it draws, it’s an often hypnotic warning against dogma’s eternal allure.
  11. Fast Five
    For all its absurdity and the family friendly bloodlessness (despite the copious violence), it spins along very smoothly and efficiently.
  12. Sandy Wexler
    There is something so authentic in this film that once you get past the annoying voice and some of the dreadfully unfunny side characters, it is disarmingly sweet and even occasionally clever.
  13. Tommy's Honour
    In the end, it’s Lowden’s fresh-faced enthusiasm and Mullan’s gravitas – operating at about a quarter of the level we know he’s capable of – keeping things afloat.
  14. The Fate of the Furious
    This is a big dumb action movie in its purest, most honourable sense: fast, furious and frequently fun.
  15. City of Tiny Lights
    Too often City of Tiny Lights is let down by an overeagerness to play up its source material, and hampered by unnecessarily showy direction and inadvisable attempts at gumshoe dialogue.
  16. Another Mother's Son
    A decent, heartfelt, robustly presented drama.
  17. Who's Gonna Love Me Now?
    [An] affecting and sincere documentary.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Last Men in Aleppo
    Last Men in Aleppo is one of the most difficult documentaries you’ll see this year.
  19. The Ticket
    Admirably cynical until it loses its way in the final stretch, The Ticket nevertheless maintains a provocative allure, bolstered by a fiercely committed performance from Dan Stevens.
  20. All These Sleepless Nights
    It’d be easy to dismiss as jaded hipsterism but the film isn’t scared to laugh at itself and the unsustainable lifestyle its protagonists are clinging to.
  21. Aftermath
    This is a two-dimensional piece of work.
  22. Smurfs: The Lost Village
    Fans of smurfiness may well like it, and Gargamel gets some nice lines, but I have to say that both script and animation are entirely predictable, as if generated by some computer software.
  23. A Silent Voice
    It’s a beguiling film: subtle, sensuous and delicate.
  24. The Blackcoat's Daughter
    The frozen landscapes are undeniably gorgeous and the empty school halls are chilling. There are crafty moments here and there, glimpses of the midnight movie that could have been. February’s big villain is precisely what the film is lacking: a devilish spirit.
  25. Salt and Fire
    For all his faults as a narrative film-maker, Herzog can at least be counted on to keep his non-documentary excursions unpredictable.
  26. Truman
    Camara and Darin contribute outstanding work here, a beautifully meshed pair of performances that reveals nearly everything you need to know about the characters and their inner lives through exchanged looks, shrugs and the odd arched eyebrow.
  27. Ghost in the Shell
    It’s a spectacular movie, watchable in its way, but one which – quite apart from the “whitewashing” debate – sacrifices that aspect from the original which over 20 years has won it its hardcore of fans: the opaque cult mystery, which this film is determined to solve and to develop into a resolution, closed yet franchisable.
  28. Despite the Falling Snow
    It features laborious acting and directing, and a screenplay whose revelations are uninteresting, even were they not guessable long in advance.
  29. All This Panic
    Gage’s remarkably intimate portrait of female youth on the verge leaves you with a largely hopeful feeling that this particular group of women will make good on that advice.
  30. I, Olga Hepnarová
    Even if you go into this film knowing absolutely nothing about the true story on which it’s based...you’ll sense something dreadful is going to happen because so much of it is crushingly dull.
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