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For 7,293 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Red Turtle
Lowest review score: 0 The Mod Squad
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,350 out of 7293
  2. Mixed: 1,827 out of 7293
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7293
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  1. Cloverfield
    Cloverfield is an exercise in realism that lacks reality's broader and richer context. Or, put another way, the experiment is artful, but it ain't art.
  2. Miles Ahead
    What hurts Miles Ahead, though, is a lack of imagination.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Fury
    Fury is a war movie with balls of steel and marbles for brains.
  4. The Young Victoria
    Really, Young Victoria is just a lot of costumes in fond search of some drama. And finding precious little.
  5. The Road
    Essentially a love story, as stripped of sentimentality as the landscape is shorn of green, yet an extraordinary love story nonetheless – powerful and poignant and, even in the midst of hope's imminent extinction, hopeful too.
  6. True Crime
    On the whole, the film is content to lumber awkwardly between the condemned man on death row and the intrepid reporter on his save-a-life beat -- there's about as much rhythm in the style as there is sense in the plot.
  7. Surf's Up
    Surf's Up is that rarity in a children's movie, a comedy that's actually exciting.
  8. Miss Sloane
    Miss Sloane is a powerfully conceived thriller with something dead at its centre: there is no reason a female protagonist must be good or well-behaved, but she must at least be interesting.
  9. Vivarium
    Vivarium is an exercise in wringing dry the audience’s emotions until we’re nothing but husks. For some, that could be appreciatively cathartic right about now. Myself, I felt little other than a deep and nagging depression.
  10. The Dancer Upstairs
    The movie is often both smart and creepy, but it's still a novice effort. After an initially engrossing start, it stumbles through a series of implausible coincidences and murky events, barely held together by the magnetic performance of Javier Bardem.
  11. Hieronymus Bosch, Touched by the Devil
    Unfortunately, the actual confrontations this project must have caused happen off camera, but the story of a determined quest is always enlivened by insights into the clawing animals, bizarre monsters and sinful humans that populate Bosch’s fantastical visions.
  12. Lion's Den
    At its most interesting when it shows the lives of women and children prisoners, the film has the feel of a movie-of-the-week cliché when it returns to Julia's improbable crime.
  13. Inside Deep Throat
    This feeble documentary ends up perpetuating the very hypocrisy it means to probe.
  14. Come to Daddy
    A film I had to watch with my hands over my face at times. Part horror, suspense thriller and comedy, Come to Daddy gives us some very creative mutilation, plenty of second-hand embarrassment and laughs in a perfectly paced hour and a half.
  15. The Road to Guantanamo
    As provocative as it is timely.
  16. Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
    While a lot of geography is covered, as a concert film, Conan O'Brien Can't Stop is decidedly thin entertainment.
  17. The Happy Prince
    The cast is solid; Everett’s acting in particular is deep, indelible and award-worthy. We smell Oscar, one might say.
  18. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
    The movie's title proves to be not entirely a case of bait-and-switch. The film really is a homage to vintage Hollywood comedy.
  19. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
    That makes Mockingjay – Part 1 an experience to be endured, like a prison sentence, rather than enjoyed. By all means, bring on the revolution: It has to be more exciting than this.
  20. Where to Invade Next
    It’s frequently funny and entertaining enough, but its insights are far from revolutionary.
  21. Men & Chicken
    It’s a twisted existential grotesque that wrings thought-provoking pathos and even affection for the lunatics running the menagerie, no mean feat.
  22. The U.S. vs. John Lennon
    Speaking as one of the mourners, did I mention how pleasant it is to revisit footage of John Lennon? And to listen to his music which, in this case, comes either in taped performances or laid onto the soundtrack, no fewer than 40 songs drawn almost exclusively from the post-Beatle, pro-Ono phase of his career.
  23. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
    At around the hundred-minute mark, everything in Gunn’s perfect little cinematic galaxy falls apart in a magnificently depressing fashion. It is as if the MCU higher-ups got wind of what was going down and quickly engineered a black hole of studio notes to suck the Guardians into a tesseract of meaningless set-pieces and prolonged B-plot detours.
  24. Lemmy
    This parade of admiration is almost as exhausting as the experience of a Motörhead concert.
  25. Popeye
    A shamelessly commercial and determinedly vulgar director, such as Flash Gordon's Mike Hodges, might have made the film work; it might have succeeded on one level instead of failing on many. [13 Dec 1980, p.E7]
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  26. Blades of Glory
    The movie does offer one historical first: Ferrell, who previously appeared with comedian Sacha Baron Cohen ( Borat) in "Talladega Nights," now appears with skater Sasha Cohen (one point).
  27. State of Play
    Those Hollywood tricksters have managed to shorten the story while slowing the pace -- all of a sudden, minutes are passing like hours.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    We Have a Pope
    If only Moretti had had the faith in his story and its gentle, organic comedy, and done away with the forced silliness.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Cloak & Dagger
    The film Cloak and Dagger is like a visit to the midway; fast and noisy and a lot of unsophisticated fun. [10 Aug 1984]
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  30. Little Odessa
    It's a downbeat flick forged by an upbeat talent - despite the angst in the frames, you can feel the joy of the framer. [23 June 1995]
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