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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. A Forgotten Man
    A handsome period piece, shot in striking black and white, A Forgotten Man tackles an intriguing theme, but it’s a little too airless and inert in approach to bring this murky corner of European history to life.
  2. The King's Man
    The film can’t resist revelling in a conservative conclusion outside Buckingham Palace, with a victory banner fluttering against a smattering of St George’s flags.
  3. Timestalker
    It’s a fun premise, but Lowe’s follow-up to her deliciously nasty 2016 debut, Prevenge, is disappointingly underpowered and slapdash.
  4. Father Stu
    Playing out to the histrionic squalling of a country-infused score, this is film-making that aims to smite its audience into submission.
  5. The Almond and the Seahorse
    A film so grating that you long for the sweet release of amnesia.
  6. The Bookshop
    For all the real-estate machinations and nefarious scheming, there are too many inert scenes that drain the energy from this already plodding story.
  7. Scream VI
    The only notable development is just how rapidly a satirical skewering of genre formulas can become thuddingly formulaic.
  8. Jackpot!
    Enthusiastic mugging and gurning from the cast can’t hide a feeble, flailing screenplay that clings to its single idea like a lifebelt.
  9. Halloween Ends
    The scares are sad, puny little things. Even Jamie Lee Curtis seems to have lost the will to fight. It’s time that Myers and his mouldy old mask were laid to rest. Let’s hope nobody decides to disinter him yet again.
  10. Don't Look Up
    The smug asides plastered on screen, and the hyperactive inserts of nature documentary footage do nothing to raise the film’s real-life stakes.
  11. Iceman
    The tone flits between revenge thriller and against-the-elements survival movie, but commits to neither.
  12. Bombshell
    The film can’t square the fact that its protagonists are the victims of sexism and yet perpetuate it by sheer virtue of working for a rightwing news channel.
  13. Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
    The relatively scant highlights include the film’s sunset pastels, shoals of fish in penguin waiter uniforms, a homage to Atlantis (the Las Vegas one) and a plot point involving the power of the Macarena.
  14. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond
    It’s visually striking, and at times somewhat overwhelming. Expect numerous sword-based battles, ogres, dragons, ancient curses, distractingly voluptuous supporting characters and, of course, slime.
  15. The Tender Bar
    It’s fair to say that this amiable but almost farcically uneventful adaptation of the 2005 memoir by JR Moehringer is also postcard-thin in its plotting and insight.
  16. Swan Song
    Todd Stephens’s film is an amiable little story, and Kier is clearly enjoying himself immensely, but this is as wafting and insubstantial as Patrick’s chiffon scarf.
  17. In from the Side
    This one almost makes it, but a boggy script slows it down.
  18. Wolfs
    A film that erases itself so thoroughly from your memory, it’s almost as if Pitt and Clooney had performed one of their bespoke clean-up services on your brain.
  19. Drive-Away Dolls
    The film has a boisterous energy, but it’s puerile, phoney and frequently rather cringe.
  20. The American Society of Magical Negroes
    Kobi Libii’s film is far too diffident and polite in its approach to leave much of a mark in the conversation about race and representation in US culture.
  21. Sumotherhood
    It’s a wildly uneven mess.
  22. PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie
    It’s a chipper, self-consciously adorable romp that will no doubt delight existing fans of the television series. It is, however, laser-targeted at the youngest audience members.
  23. Megalopolis
    For all its big-hitting visual ambition, philosophical window dressing and pick-and-mix literary references, this is a work of screaming emptiness.
  24. Prisoners of the Ghostland
    It’s almost worth watching just for the way that Cage delivers the word “testicle”: it sounds as though all the syllables got caught in a combine harvester and then had to be reassembled, with the accents and emphases in the wrong places. It is, like much of the film, utterly barmy.
  25. The Miracle Club
    It’s trite and predictable stuff: the laughs are forced; the pathos is over-stewed.
  26. Gunpowder Milkshake
    Tiresome stuff.
  27. Venom: Let There Be Carnage
    In an improvement on the film’s predecessor, director Andy Serkis dispenses with detailed explanations and instead amps up the humour, leaning into the goofy, flirtatious dynamic between Venom and Brock.
  28. Edie
    With its drab, overpowering score, this tedious drama is nearly as gruelling as the trek up Scotland’s Suilven.
  29. Mid90s
    The attempts at authentic stoner dialogue soon become tedious, with too little plot or character development grounding the inanity (Hill’s self-written script also features an eyebrow-raising overuse of the N-word).
  30. The Nun II
    Aside from one marvellous set piece at a magazine stand, The Nun II’s mid-century design is tasteful to the point of tedium, and a disgrace to the good name of 70s-era nunsploitation. That really is the gravest sin.
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