Film Threat's Scores

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For 5,430 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 60% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 34% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Xanadu
Lowest review score: 0 The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Score distribution:
5430 movie reviews
    • 37 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Garris wrote the screenplay himself and adds one significant improvement over the original short: changing the date of the story from 2001 to 1969.
  1. Slightly better than your run-of-the-mill late winter horror film.
  2. Celebrated actor Lin Chung, whose voice seems to articulate something within himself.
  3. The story's no great shakes here. However, the power of this film lies in the sexual tension boiling between the characters and that makes for a great date movie.
  4. A treasure in celebrating remarkable women with a unparalleled zest for life.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    In the end, don't go see this if you are looking for an intellectual film. If you're into seeing some fun, mindless action in a faithful Marvel comic adaptation for a couple hours, then go see the Hulk smash some stuff.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It’s a crisp piece of entertainment that was worth waiting for, considering that I’ve been waiting quite a long time to see this ever since reading the book.
  5. Call Jane is dripping with amazing actors giving solid performances, but only Banks is given a chance at Oscar bait. Weaver’s Virginia is a sagacious activist with long hair, always reminding the group to keep the goal in mind, but we are cheated of heavier moments with her. What is here is wonderful, but it could have used a few moments of gravity.
  6. This is a truly strange love story that definitely grew on me as it ran its course, or perhaps it was just that infectious song sinking its hooks into me.
  7. It’s the investigative portion of the movie that is most engaging.
  8. Directed by Colin Minihan, What Keeps You Alive is an exercise in extreme style and visual trickery in the hopes of keeping the tension high. He isn’t subtle when dropping clues, cutting to an object more than a couple times as to warn us this will be important at some point. Working from his own script, the movie deserves some credit for not always arriving at the most obvious conclusions, even if it takes a well-trodden path.
  9. Takashi knows how to make a great, sleazy Yakuza film, but what I’m missing here is that sense of something brand new.
  10. Viewed as an epic fantasy, Imakake’s basked-in-golden-hues fever dream of a film is inspired and highly artistic, if overly complex and at times kind of ridiculous. Viewed as an endorsement of a cult, The Laws of the Universe: The Age of Elohim is more than a little creepy and didactic. Any way you view it, it’s pretty damn fascinating.
  11. The only thing lacking, in this case, is the pay-off in actual scares. Surrogate is a worthwhile journey that held my attention throughout, with top-notch performances from a mostly female cast.
  12. Not for me, and in spite of that, I found it really funny, smart and sweet. I enjoyed it.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Alan Ng
    After Yang is a good-looking movie, especially for one that’s mostly talking and conversations, the acting is good — an easy feat for seasoned actor Colin Farrell and Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja is adorable as hell. But unfortunately, it misses its storytelling potential by focusing too much of our attention on the wrong story elements.
  13. A cold war thriller told from the Russian point of view which gives it the appearance of having more credibility and dark truth than if this were an American story.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's got everything the genre calls for – boppy music, cute boys, cute girls, lots of sexual lingo, and most importantly, laughs.
  14. The facts and ideas presented within definitely make a strong case for something whacky going on out there that's far beyond our control.
  15. Although not a great film by any stretch, it is a fascinating slice of a fractious period in American history.
  16. The surprisingly sweet Shallow Hal finds Peter and Bobby retreating to a gentler mode -- and, in the process, a far less funny one.
  17. The art direction finds a new identity, the music by Radiohead’s Thom Yorke could easily be held up against the predecessor’s soundtrack by Goblin, the story makes sense, the performances are all on point, yet, without the glorious murder set pieces, we wonder why we are watching, to begin with.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Unfortunately, due to its limited premise, The Mole Agent never goes beyond showing the problem of loneliness. There no solutions, even if viewers like me interpreted some from watching the film. Nevertheless, through a unique premise and an engrossing style, The Mole Agent shines a light on a part of our society that we don’t talk or think about enough.
  18. A musical feast for eyes and ears alike.
  19. One cannot deny that the director provides all the clues possible, while still leaving it to the viewers to decide if this is a film, as one of the many lawyers featured mentioned, about “people being paranoid or is the system really out there to get them.”
  20. Aside from the poorly considered inclusion of staged drama, Framing John DeLorean competently breezes through the rise and fall of the legendary car mogul.
  21. The story is set in real world Mexico, not a cleaned-up movie world simulacrum.
  22. Makes one interested in seeing the inevitable sequel, but one is also left to somewhat question the worth of sitting through this first installment.
  23. Wan has style to spare, his direction brimming with confidence and his by-now-familiar trademarks.
  24. Jesus Camp works nicely as a time-capsule document confirming the impact -- and popularity -- of American evangelism.

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