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For 6,556 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 6556
  2. Mixed: 3,756 out of 6556
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6556
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  1. Rust
    Halyna Hutchins is the movie’s saving grace. Without her work, it wouldn’t be worth a look at all.
  2. Thunderbolts*
    Thunderbolts can be messy, sure. Pugh is the kind of star who can thrive in such mess.
  3. Havoc
    Evans certainly brings the craziness and the violence but, for me, without the stylish martial arts of his Raid films and without any plausible sense that anything is believably at stake.
  4. Until Dawn
    It’s held together by Sandberg, a director who has mastered the art of totally competent studio horror with slick, equally forgettable films like Lights Out and Annabelle: Creation and he again shows himself to be a crisply efficient commercial film-maker again let down by a far less effective script. For a film all about repetition, one viewing will suffice.
  5. Cloud
    The final half-hour seems to be a neo-western style melee which seems to go on for ever. Odd … and unrewarding.
  6. Night Call
    It feels confident, inventive and as grippy as duct tape throughout.
  7. The Ugly Stepsister
    Blichfeldt has made an elegant debut.
  8. Last Swim
    Last Swim looks slightly callow sometimes, but forthright and likable and Hekmat’s performance has delicacy and intelligence.
  9. The Thicket
    It is an odd, mostly compelling yarn, and acted with gusto and shot with real physical commitment to the wide open spaces and raw chill of the elements.
  10. Neil Young: Coastal
    It’s always good to witness Young’s authentic acoustic presence.
  11. The Penguin Lessons
    Weirdly, I felt that this odd film might have worked better if it was just about the lonely man and the penguin without the Argentinian tyranny – or just about the lonely man and the Argentinian tyranny without the penguin. The real non-CGI bird itself is very sweet.
  12. The Legend of Ochi
    The soul of the movie isn’t particularly in the human/creature relationship at its center, but in the stunning craftsmanship that surrounds (and in the creature’s case, creates) them.
  13. The Wedding Banquet
    Tran and Gladstone keep the movie watchable, mixing prickliness and warmth in a situation that’s more common than movies often acknowledge: a partnership where one person is far more invested in parenthood than another.
  14. Abortion Dream Team
    Shot in tight closeup, Domagalska’s documentary brilliantly conveys the unseen psychological toll of this social work. At the same time, the film overflows with the joy of activism.
  15. Dreamin' Wild
    However earnest and heartfelt, the film doesn’t tell us nearly enough, or really anything, about Joe.
  16. Mr. Burton
    Jones certainly shows Mr Burton’s sad and dignified loneliness.
  17. Holy Cow
    Holy Cow is sentimental in the best of ways, with its warmth and hope in human nature.
  18. One to One: John & Yoko
    If only more nostalgic music documentaries could muster such a fun, fierce and full-blooded take on old, familiar material. One to One, against the odds, makes Lennon feel somehow vital again.
  19. G20
    The action is serviceable enough, enjoyment based less on deftly staged choreography and more on the catharsis offered to Davis, as president and actor (she has spoken in recent press about the pleasure and freedom the role has provided).
  20. The Return
    Interestingly, it has the crowd-pleasing energy of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator films. There is real sinew here.
  21. Sinners
    For many, the movie could as well do without the supernatural element, and I admit I’m one of them; I’d prefer to see a real story with real jeopardy work itself out. But there is energy and comic-book brashness
  22. The Amateur
    As for Malek’s performance, his line readings and screen presence are very distinctive, but I have to say the moments when he has to present anguished emotion to the camera do not quite work, and feel eccentric.
  23. A Minecraft Movie
    Full-throttle star turns from Jack Black and Jennifer Coolidge raise laughs but don’t help the perfunctory plotting in this screen take on the game franchise.
  24. Sebastian
    Mäkelä is too in bed with his protagonist’s objectives to develop the kind of perspective that might yield richer insights into the life/art trade-off.
  25. The Hermit of Treig
    The film is elevated by the tender rapport between MacKenzie and Smith; when a film-maker is clearly captivated by their subject, the film can compel viewers to fall in love as well.
  26. The Life List
    The word “messy” is bandied around by its characters but The Life List is far too clean.
  27. Warfare
    The movie is its own show of force in some ways, surely accurate in showing what the soldiers did, moment by moment, though blandly unaware of a point or a meaning beyond the horror.
  28. The Woman in the Yard
    Deadwyler remains credibly frazzled, pushed towards monstrousness in ways that will be familiar to anyone who homeschooled during Covid, and the bundled figure closing in on her is genuine nightmare fuel. Yet the rest of this hotchpotch never matches it, and flails in trying to explain it away.
  29. A Working Man
    Some of the movie’s cartoon mayhem is fun enough. The rest feels like, well, work.
  30. When Fall Is Coming
    It’s an interesting, strange film, with a key moment withheld from the audience – and yet its omission, and the resulting ambiguity and mystery, is something we are almost supposed to forget about.
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