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For 1,771 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 6.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 71
Highest review score: 100 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Lowest review score: 20 Victoria and Abdul
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,013 out of 1771
  2. Mixed: 727 out of 1771
  3. Negative: 31 out of 1771
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  1. The Last Five Years
    Pacing issues and clichéd dialogue between Jamie and Cathy, however, can make proceedings tedious at points. Fortunately, the spectacular acting from both Kendrick and Jordan more than make up for it. Their on screen chemistry is tepid and duets feel forced, but when each is on their own and belting out their various parts, there's a definite pull to each.
  2. Seventh Son
    Seventh Son is indescribably disappointing because it could have been a refreshing treat for genre fans. After spending years in development, the final product is laughably abysmal, and perhaps worst of all, utterly forgettable upon viewing.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blackhat
    Blackhat is about the contraflow; it's a disruption in the new technocracy and a fly in the ointment of big budget Hollywood cinema.
  4. Cake
    Barnz's Cake could have been an intriguing look into the world of chronic pain and depression, but trying to be a jack-of-all-trades ruined the film and left it a master of none.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter
    Treading the fine line between truth and fiction, Kumiko is more than just a homage to the Cohen brothers.
  6. Maidan
    Maidan is a stunning piece of political cinema and a documentary of quietly moving power and beauty.
  7. Predestination
    Predestination bends genre like it bends time. Simply put, it's a character study filtered through a science fiction lens.
  8. Project Almanac
    With references to other sci-fi films, however, it's obvious Project Almanac is aware of its genre clichés, strengths, and faults, and that makes for a genuinely fun time for film buffs.
  9. Cinderella
    Despite Blanchett's resplendent performance and the comforting assurances that are inherent with any excursion into the reliably innocuous Disney universe it's tough to overlook the fact that there's something depressingly antiquated about Branagh's dazzling fairytale and its regressive sexual politics.
  10. Every Thing Will Be Fine
    Loaded with unremarkable statements on moral resolve and brimming with arrogance, this desultory study of grief and the need for an artist to suffer in order to create great art is as hollow and throwaway as the redundant platitude it derives its name from.
  11. Fifty Shades of Grey
    While the first half has a brisk, upfront approach, the final hour is gobsmackingly dull - with emphasis on the smacking.
  12. 45 Years
    Haigh's latest is an impressive study of a couple haunted by their past. and a potent reminder both of the fragility of love and the need to keep communication open at all times.
  13. Queen of Earth
    The performances of both Moss and Waterston are tremendous, filling the empty spaces of the frame with a suffocating mist of pain and suffering.
  14. Jafar Panahi's Taxi
    At 82 minutes, this is a brisk but hugely powerful work that is cinema of the oppressed par excellence.
  15. Knight of Cups
    Each scene is presented like a taro card for the viewer to assign his or her own meaning. Occasionally this can lead to a profound and deeply personal connection to the film whilst at others it can feel like Malick is overreaching; with large swaths of the narrative washing over you like an agreeable summer's breeze.
  16. Trash
    The sheer joy and energy of the boys propels Trash and keeps us rooting for good over evil despite the contrived ending.
  17. Tales of the Grim Sleeper
    The dark recesses of a diseased mind may make the headline, but it is the indictment of far more widespread infection that rings out and is striking in its prescience.
  18. Son of a Gun
    There are some dumb thrills to be had but there is also the sense here of an ambition not quite realised.
  19. Big Hero 6
    It is, after all, the Baymax show - and he is cute, cuddly, comedy gold. Fortunately, although Big Hero 6 has various flaws, he's generally on hand to patch them.
  20. Ned Rifle
    Rife with the director's trademark stylistic preferences, this is a blast of an idiosyncratic comedy full of brilliant deadpan performances that offer a wickedly funny and poignant conclusion to the fable.
  21. Testament of Youth
    Kent, who gathers a cast of extremely bright young things, creates a drama that glides with sorrowful grace, pitching at a respectful and tear-inducing tone.
  22. Camp 14: Total Control Zone
    It makes for truly sobering viewing that cuts to the quick, exposing the atrocities the country's government so willingly commits.
  23. Blind
    While the film's mischievous narrative manipulation will inevitably irk some viewers, this beautifully rendered opportunity to view the world through the eyes of those who can no longer see is a smart and moving portrayal of living with an ocular condition.
  24. A Most Violent Year
    Although A Most Violent Year may hit fever pitch when Abel engages in a nerve-wracking chase of a stolen tanker, it's in the murky uncertainties and frosty climate that it endures and excels.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ex Machina
    Ex Machina exposes the insecurity of the male ego by showing his lust for creation as simply another strand in the patriarchal power game. The film's trajectory forms a thrilling, exciting corrective.
  26. American Sniper
    Despite a delicate handling of Kyle's internal struggles on home soil, deeper complexity appears to lie just out of frame throughout.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Circle
    The Circle is an undiscovered gem that constantly delights with its unshowy transference of an inherited blood debt that we finally are 'beginning' to honour.
  28. Manakamana
    It’s meditative, beautiful, utterly fascinating, and one of the year’s finest documentary achievements.
  29. Exodus: Gods and Kings
    Whilst the tone is off, and the talented cast wasted, Exodus is, at times highly entertaining, albeit unintentionally.
  30. Enemy
    Choosing to focus more time on the uncoordinated instinctual trends of the subconscious rather than the moralising role of the cognisant, Enemy lacks the humanity to relate to on an emotional level, ultimately tempering the brooding anxiety and distilling our intrigue into mild curiosity towards the oblique narrative rather than fostering the original menace into something more substantial.
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