Time Out's Scores
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For 6,389 reviews, this publication has graded:
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41% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.5 points lower than other critics.
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Average Movie review score: 61
| Highest review score: | Pain and Glory | |
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| Lowest review score: | Surf Nazis Must Die |
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Positive: 2,483 out of 6389
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Mixed: 3,431 out of 6389
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Negative: 475 out of 6389
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Phil de Semlyen
The Romanian filmmaker has tackled similar themes before, most recently in 2022’s Transylvanian xenophobia drama R.M.N., but it’s extra punchy to see him casting a steely glance at a society other than his own. His latest is another chilly but gripping effort, that surges from cosy to traumatic in a heartbeat.- Time Out
- Posted May 20, 2026
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Joshua Rothkopf
This recut version appends a new interview with Polanski and Stewart, returning to the same hotel room to wax nostalgic. Essentially, they liked going fast and big; this film feels slow and minor.- Time Out
- Posted Nov 19, 2013
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David Ehrlich
Whatever the film’s virtues, subtlety was never going to be one of them.- Time Out
- Posted Feb 23, 2015
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Phil de Semlyen
If the final act is a bit dull and the anarchic Reynolds factor ends up muzzled, director Rob Letterman makes sure not to lose that self-aware edge altogether, while providing enough Pokémon Easter eggs to satisfy the most demanding fan. He’s also helped invent a whole new movie genre: cuddly noir.- Time Out
- Posted May 8, 2019
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An agonisingly respectable, sincere film of Robert Bolt's literate play, with Scofield as Sir Thomas More, endorsing the divine right of the Pope over and above his King.- Time Out
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Joshua Rothkopf
As with so many modern fantasy films, the sequences here seem designed to go viral on YouTube in a flash of coolness, not necessarily linger in the mind or heart.- Time Out
- Posted Jun 7, 2011
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Trevor Johnston
Fans should enjoy it; parents won't suffer too much.- Time Out
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Joshua Rothkopf
The film is weak on its essential indictment, vaguely suggesting a mood of battlefield boredom without quite pinpointing the pathology that would lead military men to squeeze the trigger pell-mell.- Time Out
- Posted Jul 22, 2014
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For all Kurosawa's splendidly colourful recreation of 16th century Japan, and though Nakadai's performance is impressive enough, it's all ultimately rather empty and tedious; it could easily have been cut by almost an hour, while the grating Morricone-like score only serves to underline the fact that the director fails to achieve the emotional force of his finest work.- Time Out
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A film that can narrow choices down to making a million as a car salesman, or drifting with alternate complacency and anxiety into middle-age as a superannuated beach bum, has something going for it in the way of cumulative obsessiveness.- Time Out
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Gail Morgan Hickman's complicated script manages a couple of nice twists, but it's too formulary to pursue the ambiguities it reveals. Most enjoyable is the clear thread of self-parody, which keeps the laughs and bullets coming thick and fast.- Time Out
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Dan Jolin
Any longer-in-the-tooth fans of gritty sci-fi action will find this maze a little too easy to escape.- Time Out
- Posted Jan 18, 2018
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Probably the best of the formula motor racing films, though that isn't saying much. Too long, and the bits in-between are the usual soapy off-track drama.- Time Out
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Despite some ingenious effects, a generally trivial exercise that never matches the punch of the original.- Time Out
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Joshua Rothkopf
It’s hard to give sibling co-directors Joe and Anthony Russo (makers of the thornier Captain America films) any credit—or blame, really—for steering a product that’s been so corporately fine-tuned. They toggle dutifully between million-dollar quips and Wrestlemania smackdowns, and when they find room for a vista of galactic stillness, it’s not out of any inspired vision so much as the need for air.- Time Out
- Posted Apr 24, 2018
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Keith Uhlich
All the retroactively enlightened symbolism gets monotonous, and reaches an absurd apex with the introduction of a party-line newspaperman played by that scowling emblem of Teutonic depravity, Ulrich Tukur.- Time Out
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David Fear
You’ll leave knowing slightly more about the who, what and why of WikiLeaks; you’ll also wish the whole shebang didn’t fell like such a tone-deaf data dump overall.- Time Out
- Posted May 21, 2013
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Keith Uhlich
This is still a fascinating history, especially when Limelight touches on the club scene's dark side: A lengthy dissection of the Angel Melendez murder, complete with an appearance by weathered-looking killer Michael Alig, chillingly shows how the out-all-night lifestyle can take its toll.- Time Out
- Posted Sep 20, 2011
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One of the most lightweight (and not even particularly deceptively so) of Hitchcock's comedy-thrillers.- Time Out
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Phil de Semlyen
It falls short of enchanting but it's never less than fun and likable. Watch it through the eyes of your inner teenager and you’ll have a blast.- Time Out
- Posted Jan 25, 2019
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Although this slick Seagal action pic won't convert die-hard detractors, aficionados will note that he's both gained weight and lightened up.- Time Out
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Phil de Semlyen
Even by the writer-director’s standards of naturalistic, middle-class restraint, it’s a ruminative experience that borders on slow-going. But The Eternal Daughter is also an ode to mothers and daughters that will leave a few teary messes in the stalls, and it’s beautifully acted by Tilda Swinton in not one, but two roles.- Time Out
- Posted Sep 7, 2022
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Phil de Semlyen
South African director Oliver Hermanus finds plenty of deep feeling and sincerity here but his beautiful-looking, measured period piece gets stifled by its own languors – especially in a first half that needs a slug or two of moonshine to inject some life into it.- Time Out
- Posted May 23, 2025
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Grant's habitual skill at playing the faint-hearted prig is such that one can almost overlook the moments of mawkish sentiment and gentle complacency about the country club milieu.- Time Out
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Joshua Rothkopf
A marvelous thought, credited to Orson Welles: You can handle shit with velvet gloves, but the gloves only get shittier; the shit doesn't get glovier. As wondrous as the regal Helen Mirren can be, it's a sad day when her queenly demeanor gets dunked in doo-doo.- Time Out
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Jones writes herself a couple of powerful scenes and plays them well, but she and director Lee Toland Krieger don't find many memorable uses for Samberg as her blandly schlubby hubby.- Time Out
- Posted Jul 31, 2012
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Wuthering Heights was never written as a traditional romance, rather a tale of obsession, revenge, bitterness and betrayal. Still, it helps if you're made to care about its doomed lovers.- Time Out
- Posted Feb 9, 2026
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Joshua Rothkopf
The film's sociopolitical critique is as dull as a sledgehammer - and maybe on the money - but the truth is far more entertaining.- Time Out
- Posted Sep 27, 2011
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Keith Uhlich
It's almost worth wading through the wearisome setup to get to the fun stuff. But there is a reason fast-forward buttons were invented.- Time Out
- Posted Nov 27, 2012
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