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For 2,484 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 Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere
Lowest review score: 0 Cats
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,188 out of 2484
  2. Mixed: 1,122 out of 2484
  3. Negative: 174 out of 2484
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  1. 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.
  2. Toy Story 4
    Toy Story 4 reaffirms that Pixar, at their best, are like no other animation studio around.
  3. Men in Black: International
    It goes all-in on the foolproof chemistry, at the expense of everything else. We know from Thor: Ragnarok and the subsequent Avengers pow-wows how well Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson can spar, but their partnership only takes a film so far when the script’s in freefall and nothing else seems to have a stake.
  4. The Raft
    It’s all splendid fruit for a documentary, especially given two things: the remarkable filmed record of the expedition at the time, and the fact that seven of its members are still alive.
  5. Dark Phoenix
    Superheroes do progressive politics these days as a matter of course, and here it just feels like shtick – a box to be dutifully checked, rather than a theme to be meaningfully explored.
  6. The Lighthouse
    Everything about The Lighthouse lands with a crash. It’s cinema to make your head and soul ring.
  7. Ma
    A midnight-movie, exploitation-savvy version of this film, with Spencer chewing up the scenery like nobody’s business, might feasibly have been a camp classic. But this is Tate Taylor’s version: too nervous to thrill, too daft to upset anyone, and constantly policing how much fun it lets Spencer have.
  8. Godzilla: King of the Monsters
    Incoming director Michael Dougherty (Krampus) is the one in this unenviable hot-seat, but he can’t competently handle a budget this huge when it’s being poured over an assignment this vague.
  9. Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo
    In short, it’s a bum trip and then some. Kechiche has always been an admirer of the female posterior, but here he shifts styles into what could be called gluteus maximalism, filling the screen with frantically gyrating hindquarters for literal hours on end.
  10. Zombi Child
    Zombi Child is the kind of lithe and lucid dream that gets its tendrils round your brain stem, so that when all hell finally breaks loose, you can’t jolt yourself awake from its grip.
  11. John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection
    With its thickly-accented voiceovers, re-recorded into English by Mathieu Amalric, the film is a pleasingly eccentric watch, and one full of rare insights.
  12. Wounds
    It's decent but not deep fare, connecting most with the theme of alcoholism as a different kind of tempting but terrible abyss.
  13. Matthias & Maxime
    A slight but necessary palate-cleanser, as crisp and tangy-sweet as raspberry sorbet, and Dolan’s most conventional and accessible work to date.
  14. Booksmart
    Luckily, Wilde has brought together a pair of stars whose joy in each other’s company is impossible not to relish, and their chemistry just goofing around reaches Tina-Fey-and-Amy-Poehler levels of inspired fizz.
  15. Parasite
    A raucous and blood-splattered social satire.
    • 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.
  17. Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood
    There’s a gleeful toxicity here that will launch a thousand think-pieces – Pitt’s character is capital-P problematic, absolutely by design – but the transgressive thrill is undeniable, and the artistry mesmerisingly assured.
  18. The Whistlers
    It’s the kind of filmmaking with rich confidence in its own professionalism, like a hired assassin purring with his own satisfaction after a devious, trace-free job.
  19. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
    Sciamma’s splendid, multi-layered conceit manages to carry equal weight as a love story and a manifesto of sorts for feminine art.
  20. Young Ahmed
    Fanaticism – even in one so young and theoretically still savable – is a uniquely bad match for the brothers’ methods.
  21. A Hidden Life
    A sombre spiritual war epic which surges up to claim its place among the director’s most deeply felt, sturdily hewn achievements.
  22. Pain and Glory
    The film often rings hollow.
  23. Little Joe
    The film itself never exudes much heat: it’s a chilly, impeccable diagram.
  24. Bacurau
    The combination of satire and savagery is pretty fierce and intriguingly unique.
  25. Slaughterhouse Rulez
    The school isn’t specific enough and the horror isn’t weird enough: on both fronts, it’s so broad it could practically be a Norfolk waterway.
  26. Atlantics
    It has a slippery elegance, an ambitious way of nudging its nose into magic realism, and some unforgettable images.
  27. Rocketman
    Not only does Egerton have Elton’s look and mannerisms down to an uncanny degree, he also musters up enough of his subject’s signature showmanship to give a performance that’s joyously at peace with its own preposterousness.
  28. The Dead Don't Die
    This is a winningly eccentric film, as attuned in its own way to the rhythms of ordinary life as Jarmusch and Driver’s (even better) 2016 feature Paterson. But there is a pessimism gnawing away in its gut that can’t be laughed off.
  29. The Souvenir
    In tackling a story that is presumably, and perhaps painfully, close to home, [Hogg] has made her farthest-reaching film yet.
  30. John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
    Stuntman-turned-director Chad Stahelski honours the choreography first and foremost – there’s none of the choppy editing that can often cover for this-will-do blockbuster combat, but bravura long takes which push the stuntmen and Reeves (with a lot of digital assistance) to the limits of their presumed endurance.
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