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For 7,291 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: 4,349 out of 7291
  2. Mixed: 1,826 out of 7291
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7291
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  1. The Lover
    THE Lover is lyrical and sensuous, very pretty and strangely hollow. Deliberately hollow, I think - the flatness at the centre of this film is meant to correspond to the emptiness at the heart of its young protagonist. And the audience is supposed to fall into that void and hear its echo, feel the residual ache. Yet we don't - we're content to comprehend the theme without feeling it. Our emotions are spared, and, as a result, we watch the proceedings at a safe remove - appreciative yet detached, admiring yet unmoved. There's much to love about The Lover, but not enough to love passionately. [30 Oct 1992]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  2. A Christmas Tale
    It sure ain't the Christmas of Dickens's imaginings. Dysfunctional overachievers all, the Vuillards are a family bizarre enough to make the Royal Tenenbaums look like candidates for a Hallmark card.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Beatriz at Dinner
    Beatriz at Dinner works well beyond both lecture or lesson because of the care and attention everyone has put into the people that play them out.
  4. Dark Horse
    The plot's problem is insoluble: There is no honest ending for Abe other than a completely undramatic continuation of the trapped life he has lived so far. So we get narrative disjunction and a limp conclusion instead of the brilliant reversal of formula that was promised.
  5. Despicable Me 2
    An animated sequel that, despite not achieving the inspired lunacy of the first movie where Gru literally steals the moon, is smartly calculated to deliver squeals to kids and amusement to accompanying adults.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Hitman: Agent 47
    It’s tempting to think Hitman undermines any beauty it musters with its habit of ridiculousness.
  7. The Future
    It can definitely grate on your nerves but, at best, it also gets into your mind, and sticks fast.
  8. Harriet
    There is such a thing as being too reverential, and too many scenes – including one where a roomful of white abolitionists applaud Tubman – insist on Tubman’s greatness, instead of letting us discover it.
  9. The Life of Reilly
    A tender tale of semi-triumph.
  10. Baghead
    A late summer treat. And in case you are wondering, yes, there is mumbling.
  11. One True Thing
    Thrown into exalted company, Zellweger easily holds her own in the film's most difficult role.
  12. The Secret Life of Pets 2
    The message of the film is that life throws surprises. While that is true, this predictable film itself is not one of them.
  13. Red Eye
    Sitting through Red Eye is like watching a master carpenter at work on a custom bookcase. No one would call the result art, but you're sure bound to admire the sheer craft of the thing, the clean lines and seamless joints and meticulous attention to detail.
  14. The Devil's Double
    New Zealand-born director Lee Tamahori (Once Were Warriors, Die Another Day) avoids biopic tropes, filling the screen with the jolts of a violent thriller and exploiting the few comic possibilities.
  15. Johnny English Strikes Again
    Most refreshingly, Johnny English Strikes Again is the rare secret-agent film that feels wholly unself-conscious.
  16. Bodied
    Focused on one cocky white student’s foray into the world of California battle rap, Bodied is at times vile in its content and bananas in its execution. But Kahn is not a mere shock artist, and as the film progresses and twists its perspective, it’s clear the director is playing a much deeper, more complicated and extremely messy game.
  17. Brotherhood of the Wolf
    Utterly preposterous but so full of enthusiasm and flashy style that it's entertaining anyway, The Brotherhood of the Wolf is like the platypus of genre films.
  18. Red Satin
    Part of the charm of Satin Rouge is that it avoids the obvious with humour and lightness.
  19. Most Wanted
    There is not much more you could ask of a Canadian thriller, even if the director lets the Thailand-set portions of the film devolve slightly into clichéd Brokedown Palace territory.
  20. Frenzy
    Not Hitchcock's best, but far from his worst. [01 Mar 1997, p.11]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  21. Casino
    Visually impressive, splendidly performed, thematically significant, this is a movie in full possession of every key cinematic asset except one -- a solid script. Casino is a polished vehicle with an untuned engine.
  22. Frankie
    Sachs manages this day in the life without cumbersome exposition thanks to the texture of this casting, all while keeping the disparate concerns of three generations moving.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Can You Ever Forgive Me?
    Coming out of the Toronto International Film Festival last month, critics were touting McCarthy as an Oscar nominee. Her work is nuanced and insightful, though it may not be showy enough for Academy voters.
  24. The LEGO Batman Movie
    It all makes for an entertaining, occasionally delirious ride – especially the opening sequence.
  25. Spider-Man
    There's a particular upside-down, half-masked kiss that instantly becomes one of movie history's more memorable smooches. It's the kiss to send any teenaged boy on a spinning high, as well as launching the new age of arachnophilia.
  26. Rams
    There’s lots of wisdom here, but in the Icelandic barrens, good cheer has sometimes gone missing. Yes, there’s a price to pay for being stubborn.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Birders: The Central Park Effect
    Equally enrapturing are the birders themselves, including the writers Jonathan Franzen and Jonathan Rosen – contemplatively articulate in all their geeky birding glory – and especially Starr Saphir, who leads birding tours through Central Park.
  28. In America
    In the end, is In America slight in its sentimentality and manipulative in its moral? Sure, but that's the job of any fable or myth.
  29. Up
    Disney has historically peopled cartoons aimed at children with violent, gruesomely animated villains. For all its delicious whimsy, Up is no exception.
  30. A Single Man
    Then again, Colin Firth is enough. Every movie is a performance, but very seldom is a performance a movie.
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