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For 6,824 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 0.8 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 6824
  2. Mixed: 3,658 out of 6824
  3. Negative: 158 out of 6824
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  1. The Amazing Spider-Man
    Graced with great performances from Garfield and Stone, The Amazing Spider-Man is a rare comic-book flick that is better at examining relationships than superheroism. If it doesn't approach the current benchmark of Avengers Assemble, it still delivers a different enough, enjoyable origin story to live comfortably alongside the Raimi era.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Last Boy Scout
    This is a movie for the boys who like watching men being real men - cursing, shooting and fighting - and anyone who likes this kind of wham-bam entertainment will certainly get more than their money's worth.
  3. Robot Overlords
    Less of a riot than Wright’s previous Grabbers, Robot Overlords displays the same knowing intelligence, sense of fun and deep-rooted love for post-’70s genre film. Unlike its titular villains, it’s sleek and it never malfunctions.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tank Girl
    Sadly, despite its various attributes and overall funky MTV sensibilities, this never gets quite brutal or blockbusterish enough and the result is a movie both likely to offend the family and infuriate the aficionados in roughly equal amounts.
  5. How to Build a Girl
    If it fails to mine the deeper themes in this story about a working-class writer fighting to find her footing in the music industry, How To Build A Girl is a resounding success as a showcase of Feldstein’s capabilities in a leading role.
  6. Freakier Friday
    Slightly chaotic plotting under-serves the story in places, but it’s saved by an endlessly entertaining Lohan and Curtis.
  7. Diamonds Are Forever
    Connery has a ball with great stunts, snappy dialogue and a bevy of typically Bondish beauties.
  8. The Predator
    Uneven, occasionally unsavoury and at times frustratingly muddled, but there’s enough bloody, ’80s-style fun in The Predator to give it a pass from long-term fans.
  9. Death on the Nile
    An improvement on Murder On The Orient Express, with the increased focus on Branagh’s Poirot (even with its strange moustache obsession) welcome enough to distract from the problems with some of its ensemble and its too-obvious reliance on VFX.
  10. The Brave One
    It wants to be a modern "Taxi Driver"; it manages to be the new Falling Down, with Foster as fierce as ever.
  11. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
    The look, created by Hooper’s cinematographer Daniel Pearl, and expert art direction is persuasively nasty… but somehow that buzzing saw doesn’t sound as scary as it used to.
  12. Miami Blues
    This is brutal, gory, at times downright sickening stuff, and somewhat twisted types are likely to laugh like a drain.
  13. Alfie
    Law's slick, pretty-boy reincarnation is less icy and insensitive than Caine's wide-boy original, so we still have all the painfully confused "What's it all about?" soul-searching.
  14. A Ghost Story
    It demands patience and an open mind, but Lowery’s return to his indie roots after Pete’s Dragon is a highly unusual and, at times, emotionally shattering fable.
  15. Rango
    A certain percentage of the audience will instantly sieze on this as their favorite movie of all time, and a small, but not insignificant demographic will have nightmares. Verbinski and Depp probably like it that way.
  16. Las Acacias
    A moving drama set against beautiful Latin American backdrops - just don't expect fireworks.
  17. Back in Action
    A solid action-comedy that proves just how much we’ve missed Cameron Diaz in the last ten years. Next time don’t leave it so long, eh?
  18. Australia
    Often beautiful but wildly inconsistent, Australia is none more Baz Luhrmann, which perhaps says it all. Worth a look on the big screen, though.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Tale of Despereaux
    While it meanders on its way to the requisite happy ending, the lush, stylised animation and courtly flourishes would win over anyone.
  20. The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
    Perhaps the best film ever aimed at eight year-old girls to be directed by a 69 year-old man.
  21. The Comfort of Strangers
    Slow and foreboding with a memorably creepy Christopher Walken. If you're looking for fun, this ain't it.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Happy Gilmore
    The real surprise is that it's a lot of fun, with Sandler becoming more personable as the film progresses, and a couple of truly side-splitting scenes.
  23. Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
    It's scatty, scrappy and thoroughly OTT, but then that's like the characters themselves.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Rize
    For all its flaws, it's thrilling viewing whenever LaChapelle opts to show rather than tell.
  25. The Tempest
    Taymor's winningly cast, imaginative take on Shakespeare passes the test of bringing the Bard to film. It may also be the only PG Disney film to contain the word "F---".
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Leap Year
    Aussie migrant Rowe has an acute eye for the emotional badlands travelled by Lopez's struggling journo. A tough but humane and affecting watch.
  27. Star Trek: First Contact
    Unfortunately, left alone on the big screen, distinctly thin characterisation and a plot that looks like a distended television episode, let the new crew down slightly but there are still enough classic moments to keep fans happy.
  28. The Killer Elite
    Peckinpah is never quite as comfortable with the high-rise terrain (including sloppy kung fu) as he is with the dusty rawhide of the West, but it still shows up the slick trigger-edits of new action cinema for the gutless vacuum it has become.
  29. No Hard Feelings
    Much better appreciated as an unlikely friendship story than the raunchy comedy it’s billed as, No Hard Feelings is formulaic but fun, fuelled by the lead pair’s engaging chemistry.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Rocky V
    Bemused out of the ring and brutal in it, Rocky has always been an uncomfortable hero, and it says something for Stallone's skill as a writer that he's been able to keep him going this long. Given the restrictions of the formula, Rocky V is a fitting — even graceful — way to finally hang up the gloves.
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