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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. Tetris
    Tetris finds its fun in the details of contracts and the specifics of deal-making, realising that even when it’s not on a screen in your hands, it’s all one big game.
  2. Boston Strangler
    A director like Jonathan Demme or David Fincher would have gone for the jugular on this kind of material, but writer-director Matt Ruskin seems a little squeamish and keeps everything on the right side of contemporary taste. The chill of fear is missing.
  3. Shazam! Fury of the Gods
    This new Shazam film is cordial, with a puppyish good nature and an awareness of its own silliness.
  4. Marlowe
    There’s a little bit of fun and interest along the way and Lange has some fun with her eccentric persona, but this feels under-energised.
  5. John Wick: Chapter 4
    Those who appreciated the original for its brutal, sinewy agility have another thing coming: a lumbering, stultifying gargantua of a film willing to kill everything except its darlings.
  6. 65
    It’s not quite the toxic disaster it’s being treated as but 65 is nowhere near the giddy lark it should have been, crash-landing somewhere in the middle instead.
  7. Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
    There is something winning in this calm, walking-pace drama – and the landscape is amazing.
  8. Meet Me in the Bathroom
    The standout star is the passionate and fierce Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, a Korean-American musician for whom music was an escape from racism and sexism.
  9. Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey
    The awful truth is that this is a generic derivative horror script.
  10. Scream VI
    It’s the goriest movie of the series so far but without veering into grimness, again that tonal balance perfectly modulated. The last act reveal is as goofy as one would expect but satisfyingly so for reasons impossible to explain without entering spoiler territory.
  11. Melancholia
    The film is entirely ridiculous, often quite boring, with a script showing worrying signs of being cobbled together. But even as a longtime Von Trier doubter, I now have to admit it grows on you; there's a mawkish fascination and some flashes of real visual brilliance.
  12. Another Year
    The power of this film creeps up on you by stealth; its dramatic idiom is admittedly mannered in the Leigh style but shy of caricature, and designed consistently to abrade the audience's consciousness without irritating – fingertips down the blackboard, not fingernails.
  13. Champions
    This big-hearted underdog sports comedy runs on rails, with no great surprises, but it’s likable.
  14. Ithaka
    Ithaka shows us how time and experience have lent perspective to it all, affectingly focusing on Assange’s elderly father John Shipton, and Assange’s fiancee Stella Moris (now his wife), who have doggedly fought for Assange’s rights as an investigative journalist and publisher.
  15. Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
    It’s slick in one moment and a little too scrappy the next but Ritchie’s puppyish insistence that you have as much as fun as his stars is hard to resist. The film’s bizarrely reticent rollout might have already killed any chance of further operations but there have been far, far worse franchise-starters in recent years.
  16. On the Adamant
    There is a gentle and very happy sense of freedom and possibility aboard the Adamant, and there is enormous warmth, sympathy and human curiosity in this film.
  17. Hello Dankness
    There’s a sense everything is up for grabs and the end is nigh: of consensus reality; of cinema and copyright legislation as we know it. Pop culture’s infinite cycle always spits out and reassembles content; here the process is explicit, amplified, and turbocharged.
  18. Ambush
    It’s both by the book and dispiritingly vague.
  19. Tótem
    This is clearly a very personal project for Avilés, and the heartbreak feels very real.
  20. Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything
    It’s a vehement movie, with a driving narrative force and a robust sense of time and place.
  21. Music
    It is a film that does not proceed in the narrative style and the title seems to suggest that we should think of it as a different art form entirely: a constellation of themes, ideas, tropes, moods in which the personae relate to each other as concepts rather than characters.
  22. Limbo
    It is a tough, muscular film with the grit of crime, but a heartbeat of compassion.
  23. Afire
    In the end I felt that the film fully achieves neither the ostensible comedy of the opening, nor the supposed sadness of its denouement.
  24. We Have a Ghost
    It’s not that its heart isn’t in the right place, it’s just that its heart has been transplanted from somewhere else.
  25. Selfiee
    Another broad, sitcom-bright crowdpleaser, prone to abusing the wacky sound effect button, this latest Mehta comedy has nevertheless been packaged with a professionalism that’s hard to deny.
  26. Reality
    This, the film says, is what it really feels like to be on the receiving end of the law in a case like this: a calm, professional, technocratic but relentless display of overwhelming power.
  27. Luther: The Fallen Sun
    It’s all socked over with great and gruesome conviction, but there isn’t the same character-related interest as the TV series could generate.
  28. Suzume
    It is an absorbing, intriguing, bewildering work: often spectacular and beautiful, like a sci-fi supernatural disaster movie or an essay on nature and politics, but shot through with distinctive elements of fey and whimsical comedy.
  29. Kiss the Future
    This movie is a time-capsule of Europe’s recent tragic past.
  30. Creed III
    The Rocky spin-off series continues to dazzle with another knockout drama with the magnetic Jonathan Majors.
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