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For 2,495 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 50% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 48% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.8 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Cantona
Lowest review score: 0 Cats
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,196 out of 2495
  2. Mixed: 1,124 out of 2495
  3. Negative: 175 out of 2495
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  1. The Rip
    Part Heat, part Miami Vice, this sinewy thriller keeps motives hidden as a police unit weighs duty against dirty money.
  2. Bombshell
    Bombshell is a bright, watchable film on a subject that ought to make us squirm.
  3. Effie Gray
    There are clever and sensitive touches right through, and a moving ending. But Fanning seems wholly uncomfortable, and not always intentionally.
  4. Child's Play
    For those of us old enough to have been terrorised the first time round, it delivers a nasty-but-nice-enough childhood flashback.
  5. Blinded by the Light
    It takes a love of Springsteen’s widescreen balladry, perhaps – all hail the mighty Thunder Road – to get on the film’s wavelength, but it’s an invitation right there for the taking.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Mummy
    It’s all patently ridiculous - and surprisingly watchable.
  7. Moomins on the Riviera
    Gradually, the simplicity yields an idiosyncratic charm.
  8. Girls Trip
    While the camaraderie of the Flossy Posse might be raucously imperfect, at least it’s real.
  9. Emma.
    This Emma is pleasant enough in passing, and nothing if not scenically lush. I just couldn’t get on with its Emma at all.
  10. The Princess
    The Princess tells us nothing we don’t already know, but there’s bracing value in seeing it crisply spelled out.
  11. Bohemian Rhapsody
    The final hurrah for Mercury’s genius, this huge, hubristic spectacle lets you grant his troubled film a pass: at least it keeps on fighting to the end.
  12. Back in Action
    It is vivaciously, even triumphantly, OK. If there was an Oscar for Most Adequate Picture, we’d be gearing up for a sweep.
  13. The Vanishing
    The Vanishing makes an unmistakable effort, but also feels like one, and fades almost fittingly from the imagination within hours of seeing it.
  14. The Trip to Italy
    Their improvisation has been honed to the point where the jokes land solidly without losing naturalism.
  15. We're All Going to the World's Fair
    The film’s narrative obliqueness heightens its gallery-piece surrealism. What payoffs we get are affecting, though.
  16. Anton Corbijn Inside Out
    Klaartje Quirijn’s engaging film portrait of Dutch rock-photographer-turned-filmmaker Anton Corbijn goes a long way towards explaining the emptiness and isolation that characterise his work
  17. Carry-On
    The set-up is grabby and effectively alarming, even if it lends itself to more nail-biting stress than actual suspense.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Under Capricorn
    Despite its great cast, this is certainly not one of Hitchcock's triumphs. [28 Sep 2013, p.40]
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  19. About Time
    About Time is itself a film less directed than quilted: it’s a feathery old patchwork under which you might snuggle at the end of a tiring week.
  20. Human Highway
    If it sounds insane on paper, the film is even more bizarre up on the screen. Demonstrating considerable skill as a director, Young gives the action an eerie, artificial sheen.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Aladdin
    Ultimately, this is a rollicking adventure that will enchant young audiences. It’s just a shame that its odd creative missteps tend to linger in the memory once the magic has faded.
  22. Where to Invade Next
    It’s jocular, never feels like a screed, and it’s refreshingly outward-looking.
  23. The Ritual
    It’s the character dynamics here, more than the dark and stormy set-pieces, that get things off the ground.
  24. Boychoir
    Hoffman's performance has a sadness, an unexplained loneliness, which gives this slightly diffident piece a centre of sorts, and there's a pleasing air of melancholy all round.
  25. Oasis: Supersonic
    There’s only so much lovable bad behaviour you really want to indulge them in now.
  26. Last Summer
    While the film never shocks it almost always compels, and Breillat crafts some images that keep tingling in the mind long after they’ve faded from sight.
  27. My Cousin Rachel
    The story’s insistent ambiguities ought to make it seductively complex, but it never quite shakes off a stuck-in-the-mud vibe.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Ones Below
    The Ones Below is a creepy genre exercise by a craftsman finding his groove.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Battle of Britain
    It's pretty standard fare, but it's always uplifting to watch Spitfires stick it to the Stukas. [25 May 2019, p.32]
    • The Telegraph
  30. Blood Father
    In the grizzled spectacle Gibson willingly makes of himself, it has a B-movie equivalent of that A-plus Mickey Rourke comeback, delivered with just enough clout to count as a step in the right direction.
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