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For 6,656 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: 2,521 out of 6656
  2. Mixed: 3,814 out of 6656
  3. Negative: 321 out of 6656
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  1. Promising Young Woman
    Writer-director Emerald Fennell (a showrunner for TV’s Killing Eve) lands a stiletto jab with her feature debut, and Carey Mulligan is demurely brilliant as the appropriately named Cassandra.
  2. The Reckoning
    The film left me shaking with anger more than fear.
  3. The Last Right
    Crehan knits it together like a well-worn onesie: you know exactly what shape it’s going to be once you’re wrapped up in it, but that doesn’t mean it lacks for comfort and warmth.
  4. Thunder Force
    This is by-the-numbers stuff, not quite funny enough for comedy or having enough of the crazed seriousness that marks out a successful superhero franchise.
  5. The Columnist
    Ivo van Aart’s movie gives full rein to that desire and is snappily directed – but in the end there is something self-satisfied and sententious about his feminist revenge flick.
  6. Night in Paradise
    Leisurely pacing rather draws it all out a bit, but there’s real inventiveness to the way Park wrong-foots the viewer and handles the operatic displays of gunfire and death – and the leads are rather charming.
  7. Palm Springs
    It delivers some much-needed laughs.
  8. Sound of Metal
    Ahmed’s performance clarifies the drama and delivers the meaning of Ruben’s final epiphany. He gives the film energy and point.
  9. Say Your Prayers
    It’s a solid evening’s entertainment, assembled with an assurance rare at this budgetary level.
  10. Voyagers
    It’s all just too sanitised and safe, a journey that stumbles as it takes us from the unknown to the familiar, a film that plods when it should stride. How did a bracing idea about rebellion, sexual awakening and lawlessness turn out so boring?
  11. Songs My Brothers Taught Me
    It’s a deeply intelligent and sympathetic rendering of real-life situations, using nonprofessionals playing approximations of themselves.
  12. Antebellum
    Antebellum offers neither a coherent social commentary nor – thanks to its pat, ahistorical ending – a revenge thriller’s catharsis. What else, besides entertainment, could its purpose be?
  13. Minari
    This is a wonderfully absorbing and moving family drama with a buttery, sunlit streak of sentimentality.
  14. The Unholy
    If the devil did exist then surely he’d have the power to destroy films as dull as this.
  15. Godzilla vs. Kong
    The much-hyped battles deliver the giddy thrills we demand but in the moments when the pair aren’t at war there’s also a staggeringly well-built and extensive universe to explore and one that’s barely been teased in the trailers we’ve seen.
  16. Tom & Jerry
    Very young kids might find some enjoyment in the brightly hued, fast-paced mania of it all, but those with any real affection for the pair of violently opposed animals will leave unimpressed.
  17. Francesco
    This is another well-intentioned but syrupy and pointless hagiography.
  18. A Week Away
    The low stakes of the camp drama and the soundtrack’s indistinguishably familiar pop (adaptations of contemporary Christian hits, plus four original songs) aim for easy, catchy, comfortable fun – a breezy intention which casts some of the script’s insensitive moments in even harsher light.
  19. Retaliation
    There’s a kind of blunt brute force to [Bloom's] performance – and he looks almost unrecognisable, as if he’s using certain muscles in his face for the first time.
  20. Six Minutes to Midnight
    A lively idea for a drama, but the sheer oddity of the real-life premise slows it down.
  21. Violation
    Building to a remorseless climax, Sims-Fewer and co-writer/director Dusty Mancinelli brilliantly, and times almost unwatchably, overhaul the rape-revenge movie as something far more realistic, traumatised and noxious.
  22. Nobody
    It’s all very been here, seen that yet there’s something infinitely pleasing about a film doing very little but doing it very well, knowing just how high to aim without aiming any higher, aware of exactly what it can and can’t do. In a tight 91 minutes, without any bloat, Nobody gives us exactly what we want.
  23. Honeydew
    With a running time of 107 minutes, the film goes on just a little longer than it really needs to before it gets predictably violent, grotesque and reasonably scary at last. But Milburn and Kennedy certainly know how to build a unique atmosphere.
  24. Stray
    At last, just what world cinema really needs right now: an exquisitely made film about street dogs in Istanbul, satiating that universal desire to see distant lands, coo over beautiful, noble animals, and satisfy the audience’s need to feel guilty about the misfortune of poorer, unluckier people.
  25. Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
    [A] riveting and valuable documentary.
  26. The Tunnel
    All the traditional ingredients are there, and I do have to say that the film does a good initial job of being claustrophobic and spectacular at the same time.
  27. Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time
    It is at once a relief and an obscure disappointment that the mystery is not left enigmatically unsolved.
  28. Slaxx
    An entertaining skewering of the hidden global politics in retail trendiness.
  29. Rose Plays Julie
    It is a really powerful film and Brady’s final dialogue scene exerts a lethal grip.
  30. Silk Road
    An unthrilling, bland drama.
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