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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. Indignation
    Unfortunately, on the whole, Schamus’ debut feels too self-serious to fully engage.
  2. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
    As the proceedings grow increasingly more far-fetched, the story starts to feel thinner, any semblance of reality increasingly abandoned. What keeps Hunt for the Wilderpeople afloat are the full-blooded characters that populate it.
  3. Goat
    The film is a pointed, astute and unflinching look at unbridled machismo and its consequences.
  4. Dad's Army
    It’s hard to escape the sinking feeling that this is a waste of talent – and that this is a good-natured, well-meaning but pointless kind of Brit-comedy ancestor worship, paying elaborate homage to a TV show that got it right the first time.
  5. Dark Night
    The noble intention to make us dwell on our culture, and perhaps shame its more voyeuristic members, quickly devolves into a cavalcade of tedium.
  6. Complete Unknown
    Unfortunately, with the big reveal having arrived in the first act, the film isn’t much more than an elongated debate that leaves you thinking: so what?
  7. Christine
    In Hall, [Campos] has the perfect actor to convey Chubbuck’s internal struggle in a manner that’s devastating.
  8. Certain Women
    Like Reichardt’s directorial hand, the performances are understated across the board, but deeply felt.
  9. The Birth of a Nation
    Mostly, the film is heavy-handed, with subtlety nowhere to be found.
  10. Manchester by the Sea
    Manchester-by-the-Sea is a study of family dysfunction and the worse loss imaginable, but one held back by the fact it’s all filtered through Affleck’s withdrawn lead.
  11. Belgica
    Anyone who has pushed things a bit too far, and woken up with one too many “wtf” mornings, will appreciate how close Belgica has got to replicating hedonism going off the rails.
  12. The 5th Wave
    It’s written to a machine-tooled formula, with two more episodes naturally planned to gouge cash out of the fanbase, and whatever interest this film has dies about five minutes before the closing credits.
  13. Forsaken
    Jon Cassar’s film rejects the recent revisionism that’s flooded the genre. His take – a straight rip-off of the classics – is weirdly refreshing as a result.
  14. Aferim!
    It’s worth mentioning again that, somehow, this movie, with all its full-frontal historical horror, is still loaded with laughs.
  15. Antarctica: Ice and Sky
    There is something interestingly non-argumentative and personal about this documentary. It is gentle and reflective, a paean to his own youth and idealism that have been preserved in the ice.
  16. Ip Man 3
    Unassuming, likable entertainment.
  17. 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
    Abhorrent politics aside, it’s also a terrible movie. The dialogue is atrocious, the performances rote. One could make the case that its incoherence is a grand meta-narrative statement about the fluidity of combat, but I don’t think that’s the case.
  18. Ride Along 2
    This laid-back amusement should not be misinterpreted as competent storytelling. Though some of the jokes land, that’s entirely due to the performances; there’s not one example of clever writing in the entire picture.
  19. Solace
    This could be one of those rare and terrifying serial killer cases where the psychotic culprit apparently intends to bore and embarrass everyone to death with bad acting.
  20. The Forest
    The movie gets completely lost, unsure if it wants to be a serious exploration of repressed memories or a work of giddy, spooky trash.
  21. A Simple Life
    A Simple Life is a tear-jerker, but thoughtful and intelligent, with an anti-sentimental dimension.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Daddy's Home
    It’s by-numbers filmmaking that rarely adds up to anything worth the price of admission.
  23. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip
    The Road Chip isn't exactly what I'd call a good film and has almost nothing going on in the visual department, but for those saddled with kids for an afternoon, you could do a lot worse.
  24. Dreams Rewired
    First with the telephone, then early cinema, the magic of wireless radio and, finally, television, Dreams Rewired bombards the senses with a thorough and clever montage of found footage from the 1890s to the pre-war era.
  25. Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
    The Force Awakens is ridiculous and melodramatic and sentimental of course, but exciting and brimming with energy and its own kind of generosity. What a Christmas present.
  26. The Hateful Eight
    Tarantino has created another breathtakingly stylish and clever film, a Jacobean western, intimate yet somehow weirdly colossal, once again releasing his own kind of unwholesome crazy-funny-violent nitrous oxide into the cinema auditorium for us all to inhale.
  27. Hard to Be a God
    Hard to Be a God creates its own uncanny world: it is beautiful, brilliant and bizarre.
  28. Sisters
    It’s silly and poignant and funny.
  29. We Are Many
    A very valuable film.
  30. The Club
    The Club sees the film-maker at his most masterful, steering the picture through complex tonal shifts without letting it capsize into hysteria, even when the characters do.
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