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For 7,294 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: 4,351 out of 7294
  2. Mixed: 1,827 out of 7294
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7294
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  1. The Ghost Writer
    The result is a political thriller refreshingly long on grown-up dialogue yet lamentably shy on, well, thrills. This chatty thing does go on.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Life and Nothing More
    The acting is strong, but the uneven pacing means there is so much to absorb in the end, that it’s impossible to discern.
  3. Creed
    For the first time in the series, Stallone did not write the script, yet director Ryan Coogler and his co-writer Aaron Covington aren’t exactly brimming over with fresh ideas: Worn thin with repetition, the sentimental old premise muffles suspense and dampens emotion.
  4. The Iron Lady
    The Iron Lady is a performance in search of a film.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
    Adds more cosmic cliff-hangers than it resolves, and it's not as satisfying as the original. A star war can be an exhausting bit of business, especially when, in the end, it turns out to be something of a cheat.
  6. The Book of Eli
    So we're back on "The Road ," but this time Eli's coming – better hide your heart and, while you're at it, put your brain on hold, the easier to enjoy the action-filled sermon to come.
  7. Life of the Party
    A truly gifted comedic actress, McCarthy is wasting her talents with this vanilla-flavoured story.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Milton's Secret
    Based on the picture book co-authored by Power of Now superstar Eckhart Tolle, Milton’s Secret carries a powerful and important message, but the film feels ham-fisted, clichéd and overearnest at times, especially for adult viewers.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Mirrors
    An occasionally inventive but ultimately plodding horror film.
  10. Sergio
    Wagner Moura (Narcos’s Pablo Escobar himself) does what he can as the sturdy Sergio, and the actor has strong, near-instant chemistry with a love interest played by Ana de Armas.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Inkheart
    This is a stunning-looking film with a dark romantic cloud (quite literally) hanging over its every shot.
  12. Project Power
    Most of the film’s action happens at night, so we really don’t get a good look at the colourful city. Why hire New Orleans as a location if you’re not going to show it off?
  13. The Sum of All Fears
    How's this for frightening: The casting of the lightweight Ben Affleck as a CIA agent who holds the fate of the entire world in his pretty-boy hands. Can't deny it, that got my heart pumping like a bunny.
  14. Imperium
    In short, his film asks that an audience listen to a fair amount of ugly racism without offering much enlightenment or even entertainment in exchange. Words may build bridges but people have to cross them: Imperium remains safely outside the unexplored region.
  15. The Arrival
    A little less fascination with computer tricks, and a little more application of human intelligence could have done The Arrival a world of good. [31 May 1996]
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  16. The Square
    The Square turns from a sharp art-world satire into something egregiously bonkers, a collision of blunt comic beats and heavy-handed social commentary that's more messy than profound.
  17. What's Your Number?
    Once again Anna Faris manages to be the best thing in another not very good Anna Faris movie.
  18. Stop-Loss
    With the release of Stop-Loss, a precedent of sorts has definitely been set. If we've yet to see a brilliant Iraq movie, the wait is over for a bad one – this is it.
  19. The Gambler
    Full of post-hippie fatalism and cynical macho barroom existentialism, the original film feels very much of its era, and the remake anachronistic.
  20. The Invention of Lying
    The result is an erratically funny but often frustrating comedy, with an interesting premise hobbled by internal inconsistencies and uneven writing.
  21. Romper Stomper
    As an examination of social psychosis, the subject is skinhead but the treatment is skin deep. [03 Dec 1993]
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  22. Party Monster
    Alig's superficiality seems to have been his only talent. His banality is a problem that the film can't overcome.
  23. Machine Gun Preacher
    At the end of these "based on a true story" flicks, it's customary to flash photos of the real people over the end credits. There, Sam Childers looks older and less handsome and awfully imposing, a scary sort of cat with raw but authentic tales to tell. I'd like to hear them.
  24. The Informer
    The entire movie doesn’t merely tip-toe into the ridiculous, it dives head-first into the shallow end of stupid, cracking its head, and yours, along the way.
  25. Twilight
    Sometimes sensitive and often silly but really, essentially, beneath his pallor and her panting and their intertwined frustrations, it's just two long hours of coitus interruptus.
  26. Little Ashes
    Anyone interested in hearing the artist's heart-to-hearts properly translated is encouraged to seek out Leonard Cohen's flamenco serenade, "Take This Waltz."
  27. Suicide Kings
    For most of its duration, Suicide Kings turns into something like a hoary murder-mystery theatre piece in the Agatha Christie/Clue tradition.
  28. Body Double
    The trouble with Body Double is not that it sets "new lows" in the treatment of women or anything else, but that a stunningly original talent has willingly hitched itself to a derivative vision. The person De Palma really degrades is himself. [26 Oct 1984]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  29. The Boys & Girl from County Clare
    There will be occasional tears, there must be frequent laughs and the whole contrived structure has the calculated quaintness of Ye Olde Pub at a EuroDisney theme park.
  30. Eight Below
    At two hours, Eight Below becomes rather repetitive and arduous in its final stretch, the rescue mission. But the canine cuteness, breathtaking action and acts of bravery are worth braving the Disney elements -- overpowering, poignant music, an unnecessary romantic subplot -- if you like your movies doggy-style.
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