The Telegraph's Scores
- Movies
- TV
For 2,484 reviews, this publication has graded:
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50% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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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: | Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere | |
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| Lowest review score: | Cats |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,188 out of 2484
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Mixed: 1,122 out of 2484
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Negative: 174 out of 2484
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Robbie Collin
The amatory mechanisms here are so basic they make 1970’s Love Story look like Wuthering Heights, but at least Love Story had the courage to wring every last drop of pathos from its tragic-romance premise.- The Telegraph
- Posted Oct 25, 2024
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Tim Robey
None of this quite counts as stop-the-presses stuff in the present day, but it’s enough to make this a sharp debut, with a shivery undertow.- The Telegraph
- Posted Oct 25, 2024
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This makes a better case that she was the first model everyone found relatable.- The Telegraph
- Posted Oct 25, 2024
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Robbie Collin
Fortunately, the writing’s sentimental and/or smirky longueurs are remedied by the animation itself, whose cosy charm has a distinctly British sensibility – from the architecture to the landscape and even the colour palettes, everything is satisfyingly just right.- The Telegraph
- Posted Oct 25, 2024
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Tim Robey
The film brings us down, as well as letting itself down somewhat – a late scuffle in a peat bog is poorly motivated, the ending too vague. But the jangling escalations of the first half still mark Andrews out as a name to watch.- The Telegraph
- Posted Oct 25, 2024
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Robbie Collin
Flow might be a digital confection, but it’s also open, alive, elemental. In every sense, it’s a breath of fresh air.- The Telegraph
- Posted Oct 25, 2024
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Somehow Road Diary feels like a preamble, a warm-up act before the actual event.- The Telegraph
- Posted Oct 24, 2024
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- Posted Oct 23, 2024
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Robbie Collin
Adams is already a six-time Oscar nominee: it’s very possible that for this, she could finally nab one outright. From out of its sitcom-neat package, Nightbitch unleashes something primeval and wild – thought it might seem cuddly, hot spit flecks its jaws.- The Telegraph
- Posted Oct 21, 2024
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Tim Robey
It’s a film that exploration boffins will cherish most, but there’s plenty of grizzled male hardship here to engage fans of The Terror or The North Water. Unlike in those, you’re assured of at least one happy ending, too.- The Telegraph
- Posted Oct 16, 2024
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Robbie Collin
It’s hard to recall a time when the state-of-the-art felt this much like art.- The Telegraph
- Posted Oct 16, 2024
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Tim Robey
A Real Pain is a very welcome throwback to a type of indie comedy-drama that had all but disappeared. It manages to be ruefully perceptive and laugh-out-loud funny, often at the same time: that’s not easy. It also presents characters with issues we grow to understand, and doesn’t set about artificially “fixing” them: how refreshing.- The Telegraph
- Posted Oct 16, 2024
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Tim Robey
Rightly treating the book as a new American classic, Ross doesn’t try to supplant it so much as do the best possible job of illustrating it: a deference to the source that makes his film a modest triumph.- The Telegraph
- Posted Oct 16, 2024
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Astutely judged for the most part, and reflective on what Reeve meant to people in all phases of his life, the British documentary Super/Man is an emotional rollercoaster with some undeniably walloping moments. The relationships that quite literally saved Reeve come to the fore.- The Telegraph
- Posted Oct 16, 2024
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Robbie Collin
Merlant’s film isn’t being unladylike: rather, it’s asserting that ladylike is what all of these things really are, and it’s high time cinema admitted it.- The Telegraph
- Posted Oct 16, 2024
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Tim Robey
Joy adopts the most basic possible template for its fluffy history lesson, but still has an impressive habit of joining all the wrong dots.- The Telegraph
- Posted Oct 16, 2024
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Tim Robey
Jackson inhabits the film beautifully, if more gently: in the role of peacemaker and sounding board, he’s the least pushy of all these performers, but finds the music in Wilson’s words and wastes none of it.- The Telegraph
- Posted Oct 11, 2024
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Re-entering Mike Leigh’s stomping ground in Hard Truths is both a solace and, in the best possible way, a slap in the face. It’s also an impressively funny ordeal, in that unmistakably morose way no one has ever mastered better than Leigh.- The Telegraph
- Posted Oct 11, 2024
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There is an odd sombreness at the heart of what is effectively a slick, flashy, highly entertaining and otherwise quite superficial career celebration, a quality of unease imparted by Elton himself.- The Telegraph
- Posted Oct 10, 2024
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Tim Robey
Conclave is briskly enjoyable, but once you’ve wafted the white smoke away, it leaves you with frustratingly little to chew on.- The Telegraph
- Posted Oct 10, 2024
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Ed Power
Halloween is fast approaching and Netflix has very generously stitched together a chilling Frankenstein’s monster of a rom-com sure to keep audiences awake all night in a cold sweat.- The Telegraph
- Posted Oct 10, 2024
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Robbie Collin
McQueen’s film is big-picture British cinema, of a scale and depth which hasn’t been seen since Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk. Both London and the countryside are shot with a classical elegance that calls to mind David Lean, while the sequences portraying the bombings themselves flare with panic and horror.- The Telegraph
- Posted Oct 9, 2024
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Robbie Collin
A Different Man mulls how cinema – and art more broadly – deals with disfigurement, but has even more fun holding its audience’s toes to the coals.- The Telegraph
- Posted Oct 4, 2024
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Robbie Collin
While there’s still (arguably) some fun to be had with this independent comedy’s double-entendre-friendly title, the laughs – such as they are – don’t extend a great deal further than that.- The Telegraph
- Posted Sep 27, 2024
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Robbie Collin
Kahn never allows his filmmaking to pull focus: at times, the camerawork could almost be documentary footage. But his craft is crisp, and the supporting cast so well picked that the arrival of each witness on screen comes with the satisfying thunk-y feel of an arrow hitting its target.- The Telegraph
- Posted Sep 19, 2024
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Robbie Collin
One of those films whose plot and texture are entirely inseparable.- The Telegraph
- Posted Sep 14, 2024
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Ed Power
Will & Harper has laudable aims but suffers from a baggy, shaggy structure.- The Telegraph
- Posted Sep 12, 2024
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Robbie Collin
Baby Invasion, which premiered at Venice tonight, may be the stupidest film I have ever seen. And I use the word “may” only because I’m not entirely sure this thing actually is a film in the first place.- The Telegraph
- Posted Sep 6, 2024
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Robbie Collin
As a repeat performance – even a cunningly subversive one – Folie à Deux can’t quite match its predecessor for dizzying impact. But it matches it for horrible tinderbox tension: it’s a film you feel might burst into flames at any given moment.- The Telegraph
- Posted Sep 4, 2024
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Robbie Collin
Queer doesn’t scrimp on provocation and pleasure, but it’s also a beautiful film about male loneliness, and the way a solitary life can so easily shade into a life sentence.- The Telegraph
- Posted Sep 3, 2024
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