Time Out London's Scores
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For 1,246 reviews, this publication has graded:
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48% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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48% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: | Unforgiven | |
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Lowest review score: | Only God Forgives |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 512 out of 1246
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Mixed: 673 out of 1246
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Negative: 61 out of 1246
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- Posted Nov 9, 2017
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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.- Time Out London
- Posted Nov 3, 2017
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Anna Smith
If it's all a little too crowded with characters, Branagh’s pacy direction keeps the story zip along to a conclusion that’s tense even if you remember whodunnit.- Time Out London
- Posted Nov 2, 2017
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It’s a family adventure that’s the right sort of heartwarming, delivering real human emotion through the medium of a small bear.- Time Out London
- Posted Oct 31, 2017
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In Between is a great film. The performances are fantastic – as the gorgeous, headstrong Laila, Mouna Hawa is mesmerising. It’s not always uplifting but it is compassionate and intelligent.- Time Out London
- Posted Oct 29, 2017
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Dave Calhoun
If anything, this doc reminds you that all relationships are strange, hopeful experiments in intimacy. And it’s that same hope the filmmakers lend to Dina and Scott’s story: you find yourself willing them along, wanting their marriage to work. You end up feeling honoured to have shared these special moments with them.- Time Out London
- Posted Oct 18, 2017
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Anna Smith
Tonally, it might feel a bit like a ’70s Disney movie, but visually, it’s absolutely up to the minute.- Time Out London
- Posted Oct 18, 2017
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The approach is pretty conventional, but the characters – from unassuming singer Ibrahim Ferrer to wonderfully glamorous Omara Portuondo – are so brilliant you’d struggle not to be swept up in it all.- Time Out London
- Posted Oct 18, 2017
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Phil de Semlyen
In short, the raw materials are there for a fun – if throwback – genre piece of the kind that kept ’90s cinema stocked with stiffs. Alas, the tension dissipates in a tangle of muddled subplots, sluggish pacing and some strange decisions from director Tomas Alfredson (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy). The result isn’t a Bone Collector, never mind a Se7en.- Time Out London
- Posted Oct 18, 2017
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Anna Smith
It’s slightly frustrating that Winslet’s character Alex is nearly always the one who needs looking after, but the chemistry between them is good, the suspense sufficient and the ending gives you a gentle tug on the heartstrings.- Time Out London
- Posted Oct 5, 2017
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Dave Calhoun
Much of the challenging discomfort of the play is replaced with the easier, quicker wins of revenge, sex and redemption. It remains a daring project – but you’re better off reading the play.- Time Out London
- Posted Oct 3, 2017
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- Posted Sep 20, 2017
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Dave Calhoun
Even Dench, while adeptly highlighting the vulnerabilities of age and the loneliness of power, can’t distract from the soft treatment, which leaves little room for the harsh realities of prejudice which must have made this a more painful and ugly chapter for many involved than this film ever dares suggest.- Time Out London
- Posted Sep 16, 2017
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Anna Smith
This gets an extra point for an exciting action finale, but loses several for a hero who may try your patience well before then.- Time Out London
- Posted Sep 15, 2017
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Dave Calhoun
This is Tavernier’s own film story so don’t expect a linear, full history of the cinema of the time. However, it’s anything but dry, as the film swoons with passion for Gallic films and filmmaking.- Time Out London
- Posted Sep 15, 2017
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Anna Smith
Director Jung Byung-gil (‘Confessions of Murder’) combines a familiar but fun story with slick combat action, whether it’s in dark streets, seedy clubs or underwater.- Time Out London
- Posted Sep 15, 2017
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Dave Calhoun
It’s full of sharp dialogue and entertaining characters and fuelled by a wryly enlightened view of our world and how it can be at once cruel and caring. For a story built on such dark foundations, it’s weirdly reassuring. It’s also enormous fun.- Time Out London
- Posted Sep 9, 2017
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This is a fun action adventure that resonates because it doesn’t glamorise everything. You feel a warmth after watching it, as there’s something in its depiction of imperfect, loving family relationships that stays with you.- Time Out London
- Posted Sep 7, 2017
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Trevor Johnston
Nighy gives another suave masterclass, and the whole thing positively burns with passionate advocacy for the artists, free-thinkers and social outsiders who’ve been the making of modern London.- Time Out London
- Posted Sep 7, 2017
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Anna Smith
Liman mines the story for familiar but fun comedy...though it never reaches the comedic heights of rise-and-fall classics such as Goodfellas or The Wolf of Wall Street.- Time Out London
- Posted Aug 23, 2017
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The Hitman’s Bodyguard is not exactly killing it, but coasts on the charisma of its central stars.- Time Out London
- Posted Aug 16, 2017
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Trevor Johnston
Some accuse the filmmaker of being just like the politicians who turn up, look around and do nothing. It adds a confrontational edge to the film’s already startling combination of immersive aesthetics and humane empathy.- Time Out London
- Posted Aug 9, 2017
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A pleasure and an education.- Time Out London
- Posted Jul 27, 2017
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In its atmospheric soundscape, cinematography, taut characterisation and storytelling, this is a very involving genre thriller.- Time Out London
- Posted Jul 25, 2017
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Anna Smith
The Wall isn’t a terrifically exciting thriller, but it’s thoughtful and fitfully suspenseful – a lean, character-driven and quietly rewarding film.- Time Out London
- Posted Jul 25, 2017
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Recalling the provocative docu-fictions of Abbas Kiarostami and Jia Zhangke, Our Beloved Month of August offers meta-textual manna for adventurous cinemagoers while remaining exhilaratingly true to its sunny, provincial roots.- Time Out London
- Posted Jul 18, 2017
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Tom Huddleston
Narrated entirely by its subject – no famous faces popping up to tell us what a ledge he is – the film is intimate and crisply told.- Time Out London
- Posted Jul 18, 2017
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Dave Calhoun
The action is the attraction. If that means some of the film feels a little distant and chilly, it’s in the admirable service of avoiding simplistic drama or easy sentiment.- Time Out London
- Posted Jul 17, 2017
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The film is let down by thin characterisation, struggling to generate much empathy with its square-jawed, tough-yet-troubled special-forces warrior heroes.- Time Out London
- Posted Jul 12, 2017
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Trevor Johnston
The painterly camerawork shows the sheer sophistication possible these days with digital technology. The only conventional note in a highly distinctive film touched with wry humour is the too-safe choice of a Mozart music cue.- Time Out London
- Posted Jul 12, 2017
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