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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. Landline
    The movie itself is a retread of indie story beats we’ve all seen time and again. Slate’s tornado of a central character doesn’t quite overcome the rote aspects of this production.
  2. The Discovery
    The final act is a pineal flooding of baffling explanations and twists. What’s worse is that there is very little drama underpinning it; by this late stage the collected characters are still stuck dredging up their backstories, doing little to propel the narrative forward.
  3. An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
    An Inconvenient Sequel is more a portrait of Gore than a call to arms. It ends with a sort of forced positivity, much of which is recycled directly from the first movie: political change is hard, but we can do it, morality demands it.
  4. T2 Trainspotting
    Danny Boyle’s T2 Trainspotting is everything I could reasonably have hoped for - scary, funny, desperately sad, with many a bold visual flourish.
  5. xXx: Return of Xander Cage
    Vin, great ridiculous beefcake lunk that he is, does provide us with some fun.
  6. Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo
    The film has its own specific vibe, thanks in part to the writer-directors’ unique, immersive sense of the milieu and the leads’ tender chemistry.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Strike a Pose
    The film makes clear that being fearless and bold is a luxury megastars can enjoy, but the rest of us end up having to make compromises.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Starless Dreams
    [A] brilliant documentary.
  9. The Founder
    The Founder is an absorbing and unexpectedly subtle movie about the genesis of the McDonald’s burger empire.
  10. The Book of Love
    As well as its plot being eerily similar to that of Demolition, it’s just as misguided.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies
    The acting is wooden and the special effects aren’t all that special, but it’s a spirited effort and doesn’t drag during its 78 minutes. You’ll never approach après-ski in the same way again.
  12. Alone in Berlin
    Filmed with competence rather than actual verve, Alone in Berlin works – just about. There’s enough of a thriller about it to hold the interest, even if it’s a bit on the stodgy side.
  13. Speed Sisters
    It’s not exactly hard-hitting stuff, and isn’t meant to be, but it spins an entertaining yarn.
  14. The Son of Joseph
    The Portuguese Nun (2009) was a gem of gentle comedy, and his new drama, The Son of Joseph, has the same droll innocence and lovability. With its carefully controlled, decelerated dialogue, it is weirdly moving in just the same way.
  15. Reset
    Not so much a documentary, more a sleek two-hour commercial for itself, Reset is a glossily produced non-look behind the scenes at the Paris Opera Ballet.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Great Wall
    It won’t be remembered as Zhang’s best film, but the director’s artistic touch is on display in his long panoramic sweeps and artful use of colour. Simultaneously futuristic and historic, the visual spectacle carries the film.
  17. Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
    These were two women who reached a state of balance thanks to an almost aggressive honesty.
  18. Live by Night
    By the end of a long two hours, there’s not much life left.
  19. The Girl with All the Gifts
    There are substantial talents involved in this film, but it doesn’t come together.
  20. Gold
    There’s not much that glitters in Gold, a lackluster caper that proves that even the priciest ore can bore.
  21. Monster Trucks
    It has tentacles and hot wheels, yes, but not the legs or bright ideas to sustain itself.
  22. Dangal
    Very solid, very sound entertainment, with thumpingly good Pritam songs that make Eye of the Tiger seem like pipsqueakery.
  23. The Ardennes
    A disappointment.
  24. The Pass
    The film is a bit stagey sometimes, but ambitious and insightful. Tovey is excellent as he shows someone progressing from innocence to fear and then to loneliness.
  25. Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism
    In the hands of director Christopher N Rowley and an assortment of screenwriters (including Byng), the result is a rebarbative mess – mirthless and shoddy like a disposable Christmas stocking novelty.
  26. Assassin's Creed
    It’s rare to see a film quite so lacking in animus. It exists only to gouge money out of gamers. They might well want to stick to the game.
  27. Behemoth
    What this exceptionally lucid film-survey reveals is what has to go on at ground level, and beneath the surface, in order to power a powerhouse.
  28. Passengers
    Stalking tactics bolstering romantic comedies are by no means new, and over the decades, film-makers have proved adept at somehow planing down real-world nastiness, but here it’s gruesomely inescapable.
  29. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
    This is another really entertaining fantasy with fan-fiction energy and attack.
  30. Collateral Beauty
    This horrifyingly yucky, toxically cutesy ensemble dramedy creates a Chernobyl atmosphere of manipulative sentimentality, topped off with an ending which M Night Shyamalan might reject as too ridiculous.
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