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For 6,825 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 6825
  2. Mixed: 3,658 out of 6825
  3. Negative: 159 out of 6825
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  1. Cleopatra
    Running at just over four hours, it is as spectacular, lush and extravagant as the studio would have liked its audience to believe. But it also has moments of mind-numbing boredom as the plot,– slowed by extraneous dialogue, drags from Egypt to Rome.
  2. SPECTRE
    Even if this is less satisfying overall than Skyfall, there are sequences that rank with Bond’s best.
  3. That Christmas
    The stories are all individually charming, but overly familiar animation and underwhelming character-design blunt the effect. 
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tin Cup
    Shelton keeps the humour straight down the middle and, just like "Bull Durham" before it, uses the rituals and metaphors of sport to relate the complexities of love and relationships.
  5. Ghostbusters
    The film works for the most part, and even though the laughs notably dry up as the CGI spectacular kicks into gear, its feelgood vibes will most likely have already won you over.
  6. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
    Marvel's most deranged and energetic movie yet, as much of a winning comeback for director Sam Raimi as it is a mega-budget exercise in universal stakes-raising.
  7. Freakier Friday
    Slightly chaotic plotting under-serves the story in places, but it’s saved by an endlessly entertaining Lohan and Curtis.
  8. Night Falls on Manhattan
    It's good to know that the widely liked but underused Andy Garcia has here a juicy dramatic role he can get his chops into.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jagged Edge
    Joe Eszterhas conceives a winning formula, and this is perhaps his best film.
  10. See How They Run
    It works better as a weird relationship movie than a murder-mystery but See How They Run is the whodunnit as hoot, with lots of laughs, oodles of style and played with verve by a quality cast. It also reconfirms Saoirse Ronan as a comedy god.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Kill the Messenger
    Renner’s solid performance anchors a formidable ensemble in the type of well-intentioned docudrama more likely to leave your head shaking than your pulse pounding.
  12. Jeff Who Lives at Home
    There's undoubtedly comedy mileage in an irreverent sending up of the Signs/Magnolia school of everything-is-connected philosophy. Despite the calibre of the cast, the Duplass brothers mostly fail to find it.
  13. Johnny Handsome
    New Orleans looks as photogenic as ever but ultimately Johnny Handsome never quite leapfrogs over its fundamental cracks.
  14. Gone to Earth
    This is a must-see film for its unashamed romanticism, its breathtaking visual delirium, the excellent performance of Cusack as the only rational person in the county and the sheer spirit with which the fundamental daftness of the plot is served up.
  15. Wolfs
    Wolfs has all the practised professionalism of its two anti-heroes, if not quite their spark. But there are few movie stars as straightforwardly enjoyable to watch as Clooney and Pitt.
  16. The Angry Birds Movie 2
    Moving beyond the confines of the app’s premises, The Angry Birds Movie 2 starts slow but flourishes into breezy, colourful fun.
  17. Daybreak
    Shifting between bourgeois soap, tabloid parable and tale of the unexpected, this three-storied study of salvation in extremis makes for unsettling but compelling viewing.
  18. Sweet Bean
    Ostensibly, a lovingly made study of homemade cooking and old-fashioned values, this beautifully played drama also contains a mordant denunciation of the lack of compassion that shapes Japanese attitudes to social stigma.
  19. Trumbo
    It feels terrestrial rather than cinematic, but the joy of Trumbo is in the heroism of its subject and an amazing performance from Cranston.
  20. Reconstruction
    Both women are impeccably played by Maria Bonnevie.
  21. The Many Saints of Newark
    A busier proposition than its HBO forefather, this sets up more than it can pay off. But it does manage to balance fan-service with plenty of rich, original, complex material.
  22. Oranges and Sunshine
    Moving if low-key, Jim Loach's debut feature is proof that compassionate, socially conscious filmmaking runs in the family.
  23. The Last Five Years
    A musical with almost 100% sung verse is not for everyone but Kendrick is as bewitching as ever.
  24. Mary Queen of Scots
    A history lesson with more fire in the belly than most. It turns out that a feminist angle really can revive the same old Tudor psychodramas, thanks in large part to Ronan and Robbie’s authoritative performance.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stealing Beauty
    Bertolucci fans of old may well sigh for the political passion that made his earlier work more powerful. But the grace, craft and real wit in this country house party make it his most seductive film in a very long while.
  26. Allied
    Zemeckis’ old-school romance has its moments and Cotillard gives it her all, but it lacks the zip and chemistry to truly spark.
  27. Dredd
    There was much to dread about this new iteration of Dredd, but it's a solid, occasionally excellent take on the character, with Urban's chin particularly impressive.
  28. The Adjustment Bureau
    By keeping the pace quick, the explanation light and the characters strong, Nolfi achieves the near-impossible: a film puzzle you won't mind leaving unexplained.
  29. Medusa Deluxe
    Thick with sharpened scissors, and barbers with barbed tongues, Medusa Deluxe is a unique take on the whodunnit mould, and a hell of a debut from British filmmaker Thomas Hardiman.
  30. Scream
    For the most part, this is a ‘re-quel’ as fast, funny and ferocious as a Scream movie should be. In an era of elevated horror, it’s a gloriously gory basement party.
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