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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. Gods and Monsters
    As a portrait of a deliciously eccentric individual, Gods and Monsters features a vivid performance from Ian McKellen that makes you think not of James Whale but of Ian McKellen.
  2. Higher Ground
    The film's quiet realism demands from us our own act of faith: We're asked to watch closely and to listen intently in the promise of a greater reward to come. Well, the promise is partly kept.
  3. Golden Door
    As lovely to look at as it is dramatically inert.
  4. I Used to Be Funny
    Mostly I love how Pankiw drops important pieces of information in almost casual ways, because she knows that’s how people, especially funny people, talk.
  5. The Town
    Like Martin Scorsese's "The Departed" or James Gray's "We Own the Night," The Town is a deliberately old-fashioned melodrama that echoes the pulpy mix of violence and romanticism of gangster films of the Thirties and Forties.
  6. Miss Hokusai
    The film is as much about Hokusai as it is about the titular protagonist, and so she defers to her father here as she apparently did in real life.
  7. In Darkness
    Though the conclusion is foregone, Canadian screenwriter David F. Shamoon's script manages to extract suspense out of Poldek's ruthless, calculating nature.
  8. Cyrus
    The emotional geometry is familiar enough to be credible yet odd enough to be creepy.
  9. In the Realms of the Unreal
    The film, like its subject, is more adroit with pictures than with words.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Ballet 422
    Ballet 422 is narrative without the heavy structural imposition of much plot, and the small, captivating tensions that are framed by the film seem to parallel current innovations in contemporary ballet.
  11. After Tiller
    It’s humanizing and heartbreaking.
  12. Flame and Citron
    A satisfying thriller interestingly complicated by its study of character and compromise.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Sully
    Thrilling when we’re on and around the plane (seeing that giant CGI bird splash down, especially on an Imax screen, makes you realize how improbable the whole enterprise was) and too often thudding when we’re not.
  14. Go
    Like circus acrobats who bounce up smiling, the characters end up on their feet, and you realize in retrospect that they survived because somebody, finally, stopped to think. A final thought on Go: Go.
  15. Dressed to Kill
    The technical packaging of his picture is terrific - with its high-tech Manhattan and its split screens and slow motion, Dressed to Kill is - but the goods it opens to reveal are shoddily second-hand. [26 July 1980]
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  16. Into the Abyss
    By Herzog's lofty standards, the result is mildly disappointing. The film lacks the sociological depth of "The Executioner's Song" or the emotional wallop of "In Cold Blood." But it sure is a surpassingly, and compellingly, strange tale.
  17. Interstellar
    While it’s technically eye-popping and intricately structured, Interstellar is at its most fascinating when it struggles hard to communicate those things we human beings call “emotions”. Instead, we get something like a freeze-dried approximation of Steven Spielberg at his most sentimental.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Harry Benson: Shoot First
    When the filmmakers fix the lens on his face and laud his work, Benson looks genuinely embarrassed, mumbling that he’s “shit.” As any seasoned charmer knows, this will only endear you further.
  19. Genesis
    Unlike "Microcosmos" (all insects) and the acclaimed nature doc "Winged Migration" (all birds), Genesis is bogged down by its intentions and too vast a "cast."
  20. Bridge to Terabithia
    Both a cathartic and a creative family entertainment.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Attack
    Despite its explosive subject matter, the movie has been carefully calibrated not to offend anybody.
  22. The Heart of the Game
    The pat inspirational formula is followed to a sweaty T, although it comes here with an inadvertent side effect -- more than a few nagging questions never get answered.
  23. Hollywood Shuffle
    A delightfully satiric comedy. [29 May 1987]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  24. Joy Ride
    Joy Ride is as fantastically filthy as they come, providing enough glorious gags about gagging to carry audiences through the cold, hard winter to come.
  25. Kung Fu Panda
    The film lacks the comic ingenuity of the best in CGI critter movies. It's not fun-for-the-whole-family, like "Shrek." Still, it's a howl and amazement for anyone under 12.
  26. Cryptozoo
    There is a certain charm to Shaw’s deadpan comedy – and I genuinely appreciated what I can only assume was an intentional callback to Michael Cera’s fate in 2013′s This Is the End – but one visit to the Cryptozoo was enough for me.
  27. 40 Acres
    40 Acres is a top-tier genre film that Trojan-horses a flood of knotty, provocative conversations into multiplexes via the best kind of speculative fiction.
  28. Crazy Rich Asians
    As the obscenities of wealth accumulate while a large cast of Asian and Eurasian actors render their many silly characters, the source of the laughter becomes troubling.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    In Order of Disappearance
    A cheeky black comedy and worthy Norwegian successor to "Kill Bill."
  30. Touch
    Touch, adapted from Olafur Johann Olafsson’s novel, is handsome, sentimental and restrained (admirably, in parts). But it also leaves a lot to be desired – yes, a movie about yearning left me yearning – chiefly when it comes to the central romance, which is presented as more ornamental than passionate.
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