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For 1,246 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 48% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Dark Days
Lowest review score: 20 The Secret Scripture
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 512 out of 1246
  2. Mixed: 673 out of 1246
  3. Negative: 61 out of 1246
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    • 15 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Jaws: The Revenge
    While it's mostly just a matter of waiting till feeding time, there is a hint that somebody was trying to foist some Symbolism onto the shark: as mother and son suffer an attack of the Oedipals, the creature keeps popping up grinning. Sadly, this attempt at a bit of Art (which could have had hilarious consequences) is ditched, and the film concludes with a few people getting chewed before a messy happy ending amid chunks of exploding shark.
  2. Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
    Given that it comes courtesy of Adam Sandler’s production company Happy Madison... it’s no surprise that Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 is a lazy, witless, laugh-free experience. But even by their standards, this is a slog to sit through, so glacially paced that at times it achieves an almost zen-like level of anti-comedy.
    • 8 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Mangler
    One would expect a horror movie about a possessed laundry-press to put the audience through the wringer. Instead, this tedious Stephen King adaptation takes the two-dimensional characters of the source story and squashes them even flatter.
  4. Jadoo
    No shortage of appetising ingredients here, yet the execution sadly fails to make the most of them.
  5. Vendetta
    A virtual remake, down to the final shot, of Michael Winner’s 1974 exploitation hit ‘Death Wish’ – and lacking even that film’s adolescent grasp of street justice.
  6. Buttercup Bill
    This debut feature blows its chances by keeping us waiting way too long for revelations.
  7. North v South
    There’s nothing here we’ve not seen before, and it all feels a little cheap. But if ‘oi, slag!’ mobster movies are your bag, you could do worse.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    I Believe in Miracles
    The story feels only half told. The team’s defeats are glossed over, it’s all peak and no trough.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    SuperBob
    SuperBob is part-comic book spoof, part-superhero movie in its own right, and it comes with plenty of laughs. But while it succeeds in sending up superhero tropes, it fails to avoid romcom clichés, and the love interest storyline is disappointingly predictable.
  10. The Fear of 13
    David Sington (In the Shadow of the Moon) shows extreme confidence in his subject by revealing the deeper truth in fragments, essentially allowing Nick to deliver a monologue or one man show, drawing us deeper and deeper into his story.
  11. Warriors
    The film works best when it explores the impact of FGM.... But the film is also trying to be a rousing, celebratory sports story, as the Warriors jet off to London to take part in a cricket tournament. And this is less successful.
  12. Capture the Flag
    It’ll most likely keep the smaller kids diverted while parents capture a few zzzs.
  13. Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air
    A fascinating true tale of animal welfare becomes an annoyingly pretentious doc.
  14. The Killing$ of Tony Blair
    Just the name ‘George Galloway’ – this doc’s presenter and co-writer – will have some vowing to go nowhere near this lively character assassination of Tony Blair. But anyone expecting wall-to-wall ranting and raving might be surprised by it’s relative sobriety.
  15. ID2: Shadwell Army
    The plotting may be a little ropey, especially towards the end. But ‘ID2’ has smart things to say about identity and social class, and strides confidently through the minefield of British racial politics.
  16. The Young Offenders
    Packed with warmth and wit, this is a lovely lo-fi charmer.
  17. Irreplaceable
    Irreplaceable builds in intensity as we realise the profound humanity and community spirit embodied by everyday heroes like this. Beautifully done by a writer-director who clearly knows his stuff.
  18. The Olive Tree
    Commentary on a changing Europe – and especially a socially and economically forlorn Spain – underpins ‘The Olive Tree’, but the human relationships are most poignant here.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Who's Gonna Love Me Now?
    It’s a frank and moving exploration of family, faith and the conflict between cultures and generations.
  20. Destiny (Der müde Tod)
    Lang’s direction is never heavy-handed. Instead, he glories in the magic-weaving possibilities of cinema, from gorgeous visual effects – there’s a lovely flying carpet sequence – to expressionist sets, dreamy dissolves and postmodern looks-to-camera. This one will haunt your dreams.
  21. Genocidal Organ
    The film is let down by thin characterisation, struggling to generate much empathy with its square-jawed, tough-yet-troubled special-forces warrior heroes.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Solino
    Momentum builds, and come the '70s, with budding film-maker Gigi and and his jealous brother Giancarlo now free-living students, their accumulation of petty slights and betrayals becomes genuinely compelling.
  23. Earth: One Amazing Day
    Tonally, it might feel a bit like a ’70s Disney movie, but visually, it’s absolutely up to the minute.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Conor McGregor: Notorious
    As a bombastic insight into twenty-first-century sport, where even the weigh-in attracts a whooping sell-out crowd, the film has value. However, ultimately, it’s just another cog in the McGregor hype machine, settling for the chest-beating tone of a pre-fight press conference.
  25. The Stolen
    The Stolen doesn’t dig too deep into its characters, so it’s not the emotionally devastating watch it could have been. But it has something to say about a penniless woman’s plight in the era, and it’s engaging and refreshing on several counts.
  26. Ferrari: Race to Immortality
    Director Daryl Goodrich has access to all the right people, and his footage is nicely chosen, but ‘Ferrari’ is unlikely to convert non-petrolheads.
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