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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. The Divergent Series: Allegiant
    Big but boring, expansive but cheap-looking, Allegiant spins in place, waiting for next year’s Ascendent to come along and offer resolution. In all candour: you can do without it.
  2. Keanu
    If there was a strong enough story to latch the jokes on to, Keanu might have worked. As it stands, it reeks of a grossly underdeveloped sketch extended to feature length.
  3. Everybody Wants Some!!
    If the lads were insufferable misogynistic pricks, Everybody Wants Some!! would make for horrible viewing. Thankfully they’re all intensely lovable.
  4. The Young Messiah
    Now I understand why Jesus’s childhood remains such a mystery: the story is unbelievably boring.
  5. A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
    What makes this such a striking film is how the larger scope works perfectly in tandem with the very specific time and setting.
  6. Creative Control
    When something is this engaging (and funny, did I mention funny?) it ceases to merely be about ideas and becomes, even in this borderline sci-fi context, a thoughtful movie about people.
  7. 10 Cloverfield Lane
    All three actors are tremendous, and director Dan Trachtenberg, making his feature debut, must be commended for keeping things tightly focused.
  8. A Haunting in Cawdor
    Here is a scary movie that is so hammy and so clunkingly written it will reduce your brain to the consistency of muesli mixed with diesel.
  9. The Meddler
    The ultimate reason why so much of this works is down to Sarandon herself. She sells the comic side as well as hitting all of the emotional beats.
  10. The Wave
    Even though The Wave is fiction, there comes a point where it ceases to be nail-biting fun and just an exercise in voyeuristic cruelty.
  11. The Other Side of the Door
    There are no prizes for guessing what happens, but it’s a smart scary movie that relies on atmosphere and characterisation – not just jump-scares – for its effect.
  12. Zootopia
    It’s somewhat heavy material for a film aimed at children, but perhaps very necessary in an age where a beer-stained uncle might have ruined Thanksgiving wearing a Make America Great Again baseball cap.
  13. They Will Have to Kill Us First
    Although many of the stories told here are deeply harrowing and the film sometimes seems to be trying to bite off too much, at least there’s a happy ending of sorts.
  14. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
    Ficara and Requa have an irreverent streak, one that even might strike some as a little flippant against the gravity of the war.
  15. Songs My Brothers Taught Me
    The restrained performances and luscious location photography are enough to make this a film worth exploring, though it might not be a bad idea to down a few caffeine-rich drinks before settling in to watch.
  16. London Has Fallen
    There is some surreal fun at the beginning as everything collapses.... But then it’s the same thing over again.
  17. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny isn’t so much a continuation as a Xerox copy with cheap toner.
  18. Sweet Bean
    The film has an impeccable technical finish, but it is insipid, contrived, solemn, and ever so slightly preposterous.
  19. A Quiet Passion
    It is Davies’ ability to invest even the most apparently-humdrum moments with some form of intense radiance that sustains his film.
  20. Barney Thomson
    Emma Thompson gives us a scene-stealing performance which is enjoyably macabre.
  21. Mavis!
    Richness, warmth and tenderness pulse from this lovely documentary.
  22. The Brothers Grimsby
    Grimsby has the occasional laugh and a succession of finely wrought grossout spectaculars which are reasonably entertaining.... But with its cod-Bond and mock-action material it carries a weird overall feel, like kids’ TV but produced on a lavish scale with added filth.
  23. Backtrack
    It’s a bit derivative, with borrowings from a handful of other films, but there are some nasty moments.
  24. Triple 9
    The story is clotted and overloaded, lacking the necessary clean tautness and suspense. And Kate Winslet's turn as a hatchet-faced Russian mob matriarch is a bit on the ridiculous side.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Mermaid
    This live-action cartoon finds Stephen Chow (Shaolin Soccer) elevating a Disneyish set-up – ruthless developer is mollified by the mermaid inhabiting the lagoon he’s plundering – with more of his usual good-to-inspired sight gags.
  26. Embrace of the Serpent
    Ciro Guerra’s gorgeous picture just has that ripped-from-your-dreams sensibility, where surprising turns float alongside a story you feel like you’ve known your whole life. Embrace of the Serpent is the type of film we’re always searching for, yet seems so obvious once we’ve found it.
  27. Nuts!
    Mixing droll animation, stock footage and a restrained number of talking head interviews, the director Penny Lane’s biography has all the whimsy of a tall tale, until a late change in tone surprises with genuine emotion. Nuts! is really a kick.
  28. White Girl
    Buttons will definitely be pushed by White Girl, but after the moral panic hopefully people will still be talking about the film itself.
  29. Funny or Die Presents: Donald Trump's the Art of the Deal: The Movie
    All good stuff from Depp, although by sending up Trump’s 1980s period, it feels a little off the money, and this is a figure who has already somehow absorbed derision into his skin and made himself immune to it.
  30. Things to Come
    Things to Come is a smart, earnest undertaking: an exploration of the insecurity that can hit any of us, at any age, when we start to question the life we’ve built.
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