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For 261 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 58% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Pride & Prejudice
Lowest review score: 0 The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 124 out of 261
  2. Mixed: 116 out of 261
  3. Negative: 21 out of 261
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  1. Paddington In Peru
    Well, the bad news is that Paddington in Peru isn’t as good as Paddington 2. The good news is that Wilson has made an entertaining and endearing yarn that is worth 106 minutes of your time.
  2. The Housemaid
    Sweeney proves here, after Christy, Echo Valley and Reality, that she’s a performer of versatility and, crucially, staying power.
  3. Caught Stealing
    It’s unashamedly derivative but also entertaining. Butler and Kravitz are charming together and dripping with chemistry.
  4. Magazine Dreams
    Majors plays the central character, Killian Maddox, with subtlety and sensitivity.
  5. Transformers One
    It’s loud, multicoloured and garish, like sticking your head inside a giant tin of Quality Street while someone whacks the outside repeatedly with a polo mallet. Only this time, for once, it’s slightly more pleasurable than that sounds.
  6. Eddington
    It’s an ambitious contemporary western shot last year yet set in the summer of 2020, and ostensibly aims, in almost every scene, to analyse and ridicule the political obsessions and digital neuroses that dominated that moment. And, well, it’s quite the mess.
  7. Wild Diamond
    The film hovers uneasily in a narrative grey zone, post-audition yet pre-show, and repeatedly castigates social media and reality TV for turning a generation of human beings into vacuous, camera-ready twits.
  8. The Smashing Machine
    The true naked aggression of Raging Bull seems beyond the reach of Johnson, or of this rather sweet-natured film. Instead it’s Gently Engaging Bull.
  9. The Fantastic Four: First Steps
    It’s when they return to Earth-828 that the film reverts to type: enervating action, platitudinous script, predictable ending.
  10. Last Breath
    Cole and Liu are grippingly believable, despite doing much of their acting through helmet visors, while Harrelson provides much-needed levity. The subaquatic cinematography conveys the vastness and terror of the open ocean.
  11. Rental Family
    Yes, it’s just awful. Fake, puke-inducing emotional dishonesty of the most absurd kind. Nothing here makes sense.
  12. Unstoppable
    It leans away from formula and into the hard-knock-life of its protagonist.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Becoming Led Zeppelin
    If you want to soak in what amounts to a concert film with an origin story, Becoming Led Zeppelin is sonically impressive and visually arresting.
  14. Gladiator II
    The film is peppered with alarmingly dull and horribly written sequences featuring water-treading conversations about democracy, power and the dream of Rome. In short, no, we are not entertained.
  15. Woman and Child
    Roustayi handles the change of gear impeccably, though, balancing extreme events with layered characterisation.
  16. The Apprentice
    This is the Donald Trump movie that you never knew you needed: full of compassionate feeling yet ruthless in analysis.
  17. The History of Sound
    The last act has a disappointing inevitability, with little of the transcendent emotion of the first hour.
  18. Words of War
    It works. Peake is that good. Isaacs is also that good. And the subject is compelling and timely.
  19. The Last of the Sea Women
    There are no solutions offered here, alas, other than a call for awareness, and the film instead remains a beautifully photographed and elegiac depiction of a lifestyle that’s slowly fading even as the women within it burn bright.
  20. On Swift Horses
    It’s not going to rock everyone’s world and neither is it a patch on Carol. But it’s competent, sometimes clever, film-making with ideas and lots of heart.
  21. Heel
    Boon’s already considerable charisma is somehow magnified by Tommy’s incarceration and Graham and Riseborough prove yet again that they can find humanity in even the most disturbing characters. Please let this not be their last joint project.
  22. H Is for Hawk
    Ultimately this protagonist looks to nature and to Mabel in an admirable attempt to reconcile the ubiquity of death, the brevity of life and the urgent, though possibly pointless, search for meaning.
  23. Maria
    This is a film fed by, and consistently cutting to, the operas that defined its subject. Yet there is not a single moment that is emotionally operatic. It is wilfully, wearily flat.
  24. The Rip
    The film is a hoot, possibly the most gloriously macho cop movie since the writer-director Joe Carnahan’s previous cop movie Copshop (2021), or his breakout cop movie Narc (2002), or the cop movie he wrote for Edward Norton, Pride and Glory (2008).
  25. The Devil Wears Prada 2
    The sequel is a fully throated swansong now that the dragon is an endangered species facing the consignment store.
  26. The Summer Book
    The earnestness slowly becomes suffocating, and Grandmother’s endless lessons grating. Yes, nature is the ultimate healer. And?
  27. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
    Keaton commits fully to the puerility demanded by the title role. And yet the mania feels consistently forced. The fun is diluted.
  28. Darling
    Up there with Blow-Up and Alfie as the definitive Swinging London movie, this Julie Christie breakout has somehow acquired more gravitas over time than those two.
  29. How to Train Your Dragon
    It’s loud and diverting and very young children are sure to be entertained. But it’s also utterly dead, right down to its hollow, greedy, cash-grabbing core.
  30. Good Fortune
    In the end Good Fortune is perhaps too ambitious, and indulges in too much sermonising, especially when Gabriel also joins the human workforce and, like Jeff, experiences financial hardship. Reeves is good value as the clueless angel but an unfortunate sense of repetition sets in.
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