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For 1,641 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Enys Men
Lowest review score: 20 Book Club: The Next Chapter
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 894 out of 1641
  2. Mixed: 714 out of 1641
  3. Negative: 33 out of 1641
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  1. Wham!
    The beauty of Wham!, a key part of the appeal of the band, came from the perception that they were a self-contained unit, a guaranteed good time seemingly impervious to negativity. And for a while, that was true.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Inside Out 2
    Is Inside Out 2 as memorable as the original? To borrow a word popular with Ennui, “Non!” Is it a must-see? Oui oui.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Robin and Marian
    Charming, elegiac tragicomedy, scripted by playwright James Goldman, about being middle-aged in the Middle Ages. [03 Jan 2010, p.22]
    • The Observer (UK)
  4. Creed III
    Jordan is doing double duty here, directing as well as starring in this solidly by-numbers chapter in the ongoing Creed saga. He does a workmanlike job – the fight sequences are thrillingly visceral, but his weakness for cheesy montages and the film’s formulaic screenplay ensure that the picture was never going to take the franchise anywhere new.
  5. Wicked
    With its all too timely themes of bullying, corrupt leaders and the demonisation of difference, this is a movie that promises a froth of pink and green escapism but delivers considerably more in the way of depth and darkness.
  6. Memory Box
    Hadjithomas and Joreige thoughtfully explore trauma while remaining joyful, animating Maia’s photos, which fizz, crackle and dance to life on screen.
  7. The World to Come
    This is a singularly subdued kind of storytelling. Passions run deep, but there’s a reticence in the film-making that makes them feel like a whispered secret in a church pew rather than a grand, soul-baring declaration.
  8. Futura
    Some talk eloquently, some glare at the camera with cagey mistrust. But the point of this worthwhile and frequently fascinating project is that all have the opportunity to be heard.
  9. Air
    For all its affable charm, there’s something slippery and disingenuous about this film.
  10. John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
    The latest instalment of John Wick makes an art of pain in a way that is curiously life-affirming.
  11. Sorry Angel
    The camerawork is unnecessarily showy, full of swirls and flourishes, which further distracts from the central story.
  12. Free Chol Soo Lee
    [An] impressive and wrenchingly sad documentary.
  13. Supernova
    While the result may occasionally get bogged down by dramatic contrivance, it’s generally buoyed up by a pair of likably bickering performances from the two leads.
  14. Lucy and Desi
    Poehler, herself a gifted comedian, doesn’t include her own voice in the film, though we still get a sense of her feminist perspective.
  15. Emergency
    Carey Williams’s smart satire of the daily realities of racial profiling is a switchback ride that lurches between comedy and nerve-shredding tension, but loses focus in an extraneous coda.
  16. Funny Pages
    Funny Pages spins a hilarious tale from the fringes of the underground comics scene, powered by a wonderfully sour performance by Daniel Zolghadri as Robert, a teenage cartoonist who strikes out on his own.
  17. Anaïs in Love
    Demoustier so supercharges her performance with charisma, she almost seems to sparkle.
  18. More Than Ever
    This French and English-language drama is a film about taking ownership over the end of life; about dying personally and, if necessary, selfishly.
  19. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
    This Shrek spin-off is a breezily entertaining DreamWorks animation that harnesses the familiar appeal of the self-aggrandising feline (Antonio Banderas), while also adopting a distinctive and original graphic visual style.
  20. The Bibi Files
    Essential viewing.
  21. Honey Boy
    This open-sore autobiography feels like the missing piece in the puzzle of this frequently brilliant, invariably self-jeopardising actor.
  22. Boiling Point
    The result is a spicy nerve-jangler served with a chargrilled side order of jet-black gallows humour – a divine comedy barrelling towards inevitable tragedy, played out in hell’s kitchen where someone is bound to get burned.
  23. My Name Is Pauli Murray
    This thorough and informative documentary, from the team behind RBG, shines a light on a brilliant and uncompromising firebrand who paved the way for generations to come.
  24. Ferrari
    A terrific Penélope Cruz makes up for the lack of colour with her enjoyably strident turn as Ferrari’s permanently furious wife, Laura.
  25. News of the World
    I found this a rewarding and entertaining drama, heavy with the weight of the past, yet buoyed up by the possibilities of the future.
  26. Girl
    While the film may be flawed by some dramatic missteps, it remains buoyed by the surefootedness of Polster’s performance, which is engaging, believable, and wholly sympathetic.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Slam
    It's flat, unrevealing, but powerfully sincere. [11 Apr 1999, p.6]
    • The Observer (UK)
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Both Sides of the Blade
    Denis’s usual panache with mood and imagery doesn’t mitigate that awkwardness, nor does it alter the feeling that, although both leads individually portray impassioned suffering brilliantly, there’s little chemistry between them.
  29. Hive
    Basholli understands that healing is possible, even if closure isn’t.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Incredible Shrinking Man
    Low-budget, sci-fi classic, one of the key Hollywood nuclear-angst pictures. [23 Jul 2000, p.10]
    • The Observer (UK)
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