The Guardian's Scores

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:
6556 movie reviews
  1. The Northman is a horribly violent, nihilistic and chaotic story about the endless cycle of violence, the choice between loving your friends and hating your enemies – which turns out to be no choice at all, and the thread of fate down which masculinity’s delicious toxin drips. It’s entirely outrageous, with some epic visions of the flaring cosmos. I couldn’t look away.
  2. This unquestionably ambitious film works best as a mood piece: it’s big, bold, cerebral and intensely unsubtle.
  3. It’s a quizzical time capsule of pre-internet fame from the perspective of a troubled but capable young man who knew his way around a camera.
  4. Without that initial fanbase buy-in, Julia feels like a redundant tribute, with something very indulgent about the “foodie” rhapsodising.
  5. Kiah Roache-Turner keeps the camera moving and the cuts regular, setting a cracking energy that’s particularly important for midnight movies like this, concerned more with relishing carnage than telling a story.
  6. Maybe a little unexpectedly, Amazon Studios have given us a very watchable and classily upscale espionage drama-thriller in the spirit of John le Carré.
  7. Smart, funny and endearingly sweary even when he loses the power to speak without computer assistance, Barkan is a charismatic character who’s easy to like, although one wonders how much the documentary crew resisted showing anything that might dent the halo the film sets round his head.
  8. In light of the strange, brutal ending that’s more foreshadowed than it seems, it’s hard to work out where Weisse wants to land on issues around the best way to coax talent, especially in fields such as music where you have to put in a relentless amount of hours to achieve the highest results.
  9. Wilson and Burke give formidably good performances: a woman who desperately wants to give and receive love, and a man who hasn’t the smallest idea what any of that means.
  10. Despite its flaws, See You Then is an interesting opportunity to see trans talents in front of and behind the camera.
  11. It’s good-natured entertainment, though there is still something weightless and formless about the narrative.
  12. Love for the moving image – and love for artistic creativity – marches hand in hand with the fight for political freedom.
  13. Running a little bit over an hour, it feels like an underdeveloped short that has overstayed its welcome.
  14. This is a film raised a fair few notches by the wonder of geekery, the absolute joy of seeing scientists living and breathing their work.
  15. It takes proper acting talent, boosted by strong direction from Wladyka, to pull the film along the way Reis does. She’s vulnerable, frightening and relentlessly physical.
  16. This could have been a good premise, but the basic idea of the pandemic and bubbling up itself now feels spurious and dated, and there just aren’t enough funny lines to carry this film through its punishing 126-minute running time.
  17. It really is an amazingly pointless and dumb film: the good/bad setup between Morbius and Milo is muddled and cancelled by the not-especially-compelling moral struggle within Morbius himself. Both Leto and Smith have to keep doing the evil demonic face-change growling thing, and it is intensely silly. Let’s hope the extended Spider-Man universe extends far enough to include something more interesting than this.
  18. This is Tarantino for ankle-biters with a bit of Ocean’s 11 thrown in: funny, energetic and just smart enough.
  19. Youth is a great theme of Linklater’s, but presented without any great directional moralising or emotional narrative. Being young just is. This is a film of enormous charm.
  20. It’s hard to deny Fuhrman’s pinch-faced vehemence and the film’s hallucinatory verve.
  21. It all sort of comes together in the end, but there’s no earthly reason that it should all have taken two hours. Maybe the spoiler is the unfeasible length of the running time.
  22. Intense performances by Doupe and Bracken give it a real emotional pulse.
  23. This is a decent, intelligent, well-acted film if a little uninspired until that third act, which packs an almighty punch.
  24. It’s best not to think too hard about it and just let the striking imagery and saturated colours wash over your retinas.
  25. As with most great football stories, there is a tale of redemption underlying all this; you can’t say it isn’t fully deserved.
  26. Right down to its blaspheming finale, The Exorcism of God burns with a subversive desire to rip back the veil on the church’s earthly corruption – but the iconoclasm is somewhat undermined by the daft horror mechanics Venezuelan director Alejandro Hildalgo props it up with.
  27. For all the spectacular action set pieces, there’s something silly and tedious that sets in well before the two-hour mark. It flatlines.

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