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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. Army of the Dead
    Army Of The Dead is best when Snyder leans into the fun, and allows himself moments of pure silliness. When he aims for more emotional territory — like the rather trite guilt-to-redemption arc between Scott and his estranged daughter, played capably by Ella Purnell — we start to feel the weight of that running time.
  2. Run All Night
    With Neeson on fine form and an encouraging start, it’s a shame that this gritty crime drama feels the need to erupt into a full-blown action movie by the end.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Last House on the Left
    Sartorially dated certainly, but still powerful, disturbing and raw.
  4. The Dead Don't Hurt
    A Western that hits many of the expected beats but which does so in an unexpected manner, being centred on a tender, loving relationship rather than gunplay and grit.
  5. Barely Lethal
    Hardly groundbreaking but this high-school actioner ghosts by on its charm and sense of fun.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Fracture
    The two leads are on fine form, but the surrounding structure is too familiar from a thousand other films. Still, tense and occasionally twisty stuff.
  7. Candy Mountain
    Road movies should be pleasurable and free-spirited, but Candy Mountain drags too much weight around.
  8. Greed
    Like Maximus, the hero who inspires the theme of its pivotal party, Greed will keep you entertained. But patchiness and occasional preachiness mar a clearly heartfelt message movie.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Expendables
    More The Wild Geese than The Wild Bunch, The Expendables is not a wasted opportunity, but more one not fully exploited.
  10. The Army of Crime
    Compelling performances and beautifully told heroics but the pacing is flawed in terms of a thrilling cinematic experience.
  11. Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
    Director Steve Miner, on board because Carpenter passed, made two of the early Friday The 13th sequels and manages the business of the sudden knee-jerk shocks with ease, realising (as the previous sequels didn't) that Halloween movies are supposed to be scary not violent.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Anything's Possible
    Buoyed by its leads’ fizzing chemistry and infectious spirit, Billy Porter’s directorial debut may be flawed, but its feel-good vibes and charm make it prime for comfort viewing.
  13. Barney Thomson
    Merrily gruesome black comedy.
  14. The Defiant Ones
    Uncomfortable viewing which isn't afraid to engage with race-related violence.
  15. Last and First Men
    An unconventional and imperfect first work of a career that would have been fascinating to watch unfold, Jóhannsson’s images are just as strong as his typically excellent, haunting musical composition.
  16. Bananas
    Although there are fine homages to Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Eisenstein and Harold Lloyd here, this is a scattershot offering full of apolitical mockery.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Cracks
    An auspicious debut for Scott, but one whose ingredients are too familiar to really fizz. Green is great, though, in a dark-tinged role that plays to her strengths.
  18. Bad Samaritan
    Dean Devlin finally steps out from Roland Emmerich’s shadow with a tight, twisty little thriller. Add a fourth star to the rating if David Tennant going full Nicolas Cage sounds like your kind of thing.
  19. Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
    It's fine for an epic to sprawl, but you want a sense of purpose at the same time, and this one sometimes loses its way. Still, it’s handsomely shot and well performed, a throwback to the glory days of event-movie horse operas.
  20. Aquamarine
    This fantasy comedy should entertain its pre-teen female market – and repel those silly superficial boys (swoon).
  21. OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
    Plenty of mileage is derived from Dujardin's dismissal of everything Arab, Michel Hazanavicius also throws in some supremely silly running gags, while keeping the plot moving at a clip and establishing a rapport between the hapless hero and his insouciantly accomplished assistant, Bérénice Bejo.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mad Detective
    Director Johnny To's previous flicks are slicker affairs, but there's still plenty here to please the fans.
  23. Mister Foe
    An intriguing rites-of-passage story with a delirious, skewed perspective and an almost palpable sexual pulse.
  24. Perfect
    A gaudy, flamboyant expose that asks a lot of its stars, and gets more than it deserves.
  25. Causeway
    Solid, but understated to a fault. Causeway’s biggest appeal is seeing Jennifer Lawrence and Brian Tyree Henry act up a quiet, powerful storm.
  26. The Beat That My Heart Skipped
    Simmering study of a petty hood-cum-wannabe pianist succumbing to his innate violent side - but there might be a touch too much ivory tinkling for some.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Arcadian
    Though things go off the rails in the third act, Arcadian’s intriguing premise and inspired monster design pack plenty of scares into this post-apocalyptic fable.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    High Heels
    We get a mother-daughter murder melodrama even more farfetched than the Joan Crawford classic, Mildred Pierce, on which this would appear to be loosely based.
  29. Dave
    Although its politics may be shaky, this comedy still works thank to the charm of Kline and an excellent supporting cast. But it's more likely to provide warm, fuzzy smiles than belly laughs.
  30. Victor Victoria
    Edwards and Andrews insisted on using the picture to drive another nail into her detested Mary Poppins image.
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