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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. Jem and the Holograms
    This movie sure means well, and it’s just entertaining enough to (slightly) slip off the shackles of the great cultural conformity factory it ultimately represents.
  2. SPECTRE
    It’s deeply silly but uproariously entertaining. At the end, I almost felt guilty for enjoying it all quite so much - almost.
  3. Mediterranea
    If a movie as rich and understanding as Mediterranea suddenly appeared every time we read about a difficult issue in the paper, maybe all of the world’s problems could be solved.
  4. Rock the Kasbah
    There’s a special variety of infuriating that comes from a bad movie by talented people.
  5. Difret
    It’s tempting to give this more of a pass because the subject is so noble and so few African-made films make it over here, but it has to be admitted that the some of the acting is a bit ropey and the script is a little too on-the-nose at times.
  6. Kill Your Friends
    The difficulty with black comedy is avoiding overkill and Kill Your Friends is a dictionary definition of the word.
  7. Field Niggas
    This movie is foremost an ethnographic exercise, and whether it is a rallying cry or poverty porn is for the viewer to decide.
  8. Cut Snake
    Performances are uniformly impressive, with Stapleton guaranteed a place in the pantheon of creepily charismatic Australian screen criminals.
  9. Crimson Peak
    Guillermo del Toro’s gothic fantasy-romance Crimson Peak is outrageously sumptuous, gruesomely violent and designed to within an inch of its life.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Russian Woodpecker
    Gracia succeeds brilliantly in delivering a chilling warning about where Putin and his spooks might go next, by giving Fedor full licence to act the biblical prophet.
  11. Miles Ahead
    Cheadle’s got the cred, and the period evocation is tremendous. It’s just that I’m not sure he has all that much to say
  12. Ixcanul
    What’s most striking about Ixcanul is the elegant way in which it is shot. Scenes are given space, and the audience is allowed ample time to soak up the atmosphere.
  13. Junun
    It’s a good, solid little picture, but it’s not that great, and certainly not noticeably more accomplished or compelling than many of the other music-themed docs that come out each week with less fanfare.
  14. Singh Is Bliing
    Director Prabhudheva’s idea of comedy is broad and very much soundtrack-led.
  15. The Treasure
    Laughs emerge from the recognisable micro-horrors found in modern living, which, if the world was run in the way we all agree it should be run, wouldn’t exist.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    (T)error
    This information needs to be shown to the public, and some will be drawn to it regardless of its form. But as a well-crafted film, it has a long way to go.
  17. Knock Knock
    Little here is going to challenge the opinion of Roth as a bratty provocateur, but it’s still fun to experience a latter-day thriller pushing so many buttons in broadly the right order: if Knock Knock’s no more than a sick joke, it’s been very shrewdly constructed.
  18. Goosebumps
    There’s a streak of old-fashioned B-movie spooky playfulness here, and when actual, motivated characters are on screen it’s delightful.
  19. Bridge of Spies
    Bridge of Spies has a brassy and justified confidence in its own narrative flair.
  20. Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F'
    One innovation: the application of thrash metal to fight scenes, which at least hushes the shriller voice artists.
  21. The Measure of a Man
    The Measure of a Man’s decision to keep its conflicts so microscopic in the service of realism is a real problem. Put bluntly, Brize’s touch is so light that it’s immeasurable.
  22. Sherpa
    Peedom and her team responded to disaster with a steady hand, in more than one sense, and fulfilled a rare opportunity to make a responsive documentary that is large, beautiful, captivating and exhibits deep respect for the people and environments it photographs.
  23. Hitchcock/Truffaut
    A fascinating film.
  24. Narcopolis
    Despite the surface sheen, and some enterprising plot twists, it doesn’t entirely convince.
  25. Going Away
    Director Nicole Garcia strains to give this pablum social grounding, but hair and make-up overtake her.
  26. De Palma
    So many documentaries about artists just want you to accept that their subject is an innovator. De Palma breaks it down and shows you why he is.
  27. Deathgasm
    A dopey splatterfest that features one-dimensional characters and a draggy first act that’s eventually won over by creatively immature gross-outs and absurd violence.
  28. Nostalgia for the Light
    It is deeply intelligent, intensely and painfully political, and yet attempts, and succeeds, somehow to transcend politics and perhaps even history itself.
  29. Northern Soul
    Every other scene showcases a northern treasure (Coogan, Thomson, Tomlinson, Stansfield) and looks, feels and – crucially – sounds true to its sweaty-hazy, slightly cramped corner of history.
  30. Labyrinth of Lies
    While the topic of mass delusion is fascinating, this film is too unfocused to turn it into compelling drama.
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