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For 6,822 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 20 Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,008 out of 6822
  2. Mixed: 3,656 out of 6822
  3. Negative: 158 out of 6822
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  1. The Fox and the Hound
    While the backgrounds and animation are wonderful, the film suffers from an intensely depressing middle section, full of heart-stopping chases, damaged friendships and forgettable songs more likely to invoke fidgets than sniffles among the younger contingent in the audience.
  2. Puss in Boots
    Like most kittens, it's not always perfectly behaved, but at least this new Puss adventure doesn't have you reaching for the cinematic spray bottle. And thank goodness the spin-off does nothing to neuter the charismatic cat's appeal.
  3. Bill & Ted Face the Music
    Reeves and Winter look like they’re having a blast getting the band back together in a fun but forgettable time-travelling comedy. Neither bodacious nor bogus.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Scarface
    Perfomances are excellent, and despite its moralistic conclusion, the film has since become de rigueur viewing for crack barons, who know a good shoot-em-up when they see one.
  5. Being Julia
    It's a shame the suggested theme of identity remains undeveloped, but there are enough laughs and splashes of nostalgic glamour to excuse that.
  6. American Made
    Cruise is as compelling as ever with charm to spare, and this is a ceaselessly entertaining, sometimes tense romp. Although it doesn’t dig much below the surface.
  7. Fast Charlie
    A bit of an odd one, an action-comedy throwback that doesn’t quite know what it wants to be. Still, it bodes well for Pierce Brosnan’s new phase as a grey-haired action star.
  8. Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
    It’s a classy weepy with some killer dialogue, but Bening is the big sell here. Given one of the juiciest roles of her career, she makes every moment count.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    La Femme Nikita
    One of the most cinematic movies to come along in a while, with sparse dialogue, top-notch action and plenty of visual razzamatazz.
  10. Plainclothes
    Carmen Emmi compellingly mines thriller tropes to capture the fraught experience of suppressed sexuality, but it's Lucas and Andrew’s heart-rending, beautifully performed love story that endures.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Jindabyne
    A great idea is weighed down by an over-egged screenplay, but the setting and cast bring out its best.
  12. Last Flag Flying
    Last Flag Flying is a thoughtful tally of the cost of war on ordinary lives that also manages to be a funny, moving men-on-a-road-trip movie. It’s that rare thing: a sequel, albeit 44 years late, that is worth catching up with.
  13. Noises Off...
    The jokes start wearing thin, and most of the noisy characters become rather tedious well before the rag-bag of thesps finally pitch up on Broadway.
  14. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
    With its driving jazz score, hilarious dialogue and overdrive melodramatics, this is the ultimate expression of the American cinema's greatest fetishes: big breasts, fast cars, tight jeans, and sudden death. This is, in its own way, one of the great films of the 60's.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Velvet Goldmine
    On paper, fine; on celluloid, a Rocky Horror Show of nightmarish proportions.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Viva Riva!
    On the basis of this expertly engineered crime thriller Djo Munga is a director going places.
  17. Corpo Celeste
    Quietly compelling, the cerebral slice of social realism is well worth hunting down.
  18. The Housemaid
    Great houses, shame about the plotting. The sort of glossy nonsense you might happily half-watch on a lazy Sunday.
  19. Sneakers
    A very neatly plotted blend of elaborate heist and twisting thriller, peppered with amusing gags and smart one-liners for its top class ensemble.
  20. Swan Song
    Though not always as profound as it aims for, Swan Song is a tender, warm-hearted reflection of a life well lived. If it’s possible for a prolific septuagenarian to be a revelation, Udo Kier is exactly that.
  21. Love Jones
    Love Jones is fun, at least for the first hour, after which the melodrama takes over and the characters stop being witty and become schmaltzy instead.
  22. A Tale of Two Sisters
    Masterfully manipulative and bloody scary.
  23. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
    There are thrilling flashes of Gilliam getting back to top form here. A scrappy movie with more ideas than it can control, but one born out of a passion and determination that are wholly infectious.
  24. Caught Stealing
    For the most part, Caught Stealing is a riotous, rollicking ride studded with New York’s concrete grit — but its sharper edges prove more difficult to endure.
  25. Operation Mincemeat
    Though occasionally undone by its Sunday-teatime tendencies, this is a spirited and gently entertaining slice of wartime espionage, with sharp, wry performances from the ensemble cast.
  26. Gallipoli
    A haunting and moving tribute to the Australians who sacrificed their lives in WWI against not the Germans but the Turks at the lesser sung battle of Gallipoli from the assured hand of Peter Weir.
  27. The Runaways
    Cringe-making fun for survivors of the '70s. For the younger majority: a familiar rise and fall of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll enlivened by the gender reversal and performances.
  28. Ron's Gone Wrong
    An amiable, amusing story of unlikely friendship, which is as aware of what makes people tick as it is of what makes tech troubling.
  29. My Week with Marilyn
    At moments hilarious and others touching, it's a sweet, slight affair, more pretty pageant than pithy biographical drama. Expect awards nominations to stack up for Williams and Branagh.
  30. Kill Your Darlings
    A vibrant, insightful film about writers and writing, featuring Daniel Radcliffe’s best post-Potter performance.
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