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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. Money Monster
    Foster, recovering nicely from her last directorial outing in the surprisingly unfunny "The Beaver," proves her smarts by managing to balance these different strands of humour while keeping the action ticking along.
  2. In the Mouth of Madness
    In the Mouth of Madness may leave your spine a little short on tingle (any amount of irony always dissipates the scares), but it compensates by neither insulting your grey matter nor sparing your funny bone. In a genre more brain-dead than not, that's an awfully attractive trade-off. [03 Feb 1995]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  3. Ron's Gone Wrong
    The bond between Barney and Ron is clearly the reason this movie works.
  4. Florence Foster Jenkins
    As fine as Streep is, however, it’s Grant’s movie.
  5. Abominable
    Abominable has charms to soothe the savage child.
  6. The Foreigner
    The intrigue is high and the action is furious, but a sort of meta subplot is also at work: Sextagenerian action-film hero Chan against onetime 007er Brosnan.
  7. Breathe
    Serkis achieves a careful balance with a film that tastefully covers some delicate territory (their sex life; his right to die), avoids the maudlin and injects some surprising if not entirely successful comedy into the mix.
  8. The Blair Witch Project
    An ultra-cheap movie, ingeniously promoted through the Internet -- is notable primarily as a model of guerrilla-style niche-marketing.
  9. Bend It Like Beckham
    Energetic, eager-to-please culture-clash comedy.
  10. The Angry Birds Movie
    And, make no mistake, this is a movie that is supposed to be seen from the perspective of a small child.
  11. Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
    The film is also a chronicle of the sexual politics of the era – and the subsequent systematic erasure of LGBTQ history (under the guise of privacy and not “spoiling” the illusion) by the juggernaut industry that shaped our culture. That perspective on the proclivities makes Scotty as fascinating as it is poignant.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Ballets Russes
    Ballets Russes should find a wider audience beyond dance aficionados. Like all good documentaries, the human element is the glory of Ballets Russes.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Hidden
    All in all, a fine evening of exactly what it purports to be: hot and heavy action, lightweight story-line, amusing dialogue and a nifty, science-fiction twist. [30 Oct 1987]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
    This is still a seriously entertaining horror movie, one that will please newcomers as well as fans of the original oddity. But by the end of the film, I was wishing the filmmakers had left us wondering about precisely who and what these critters were just a little bit longer.
  15. Dragonslayer
    Dragonslayer documents what happened when California stopped dreaming.
  16. Up in the Air
    As for the implicit tragedy amidst the funny business, the swelling ranks of the unemployed, the movie has no solution but instead offers itself as implicit solace: Escape, ye wretches, into my clever humour and my nifty dialogue and my star's considerable charm.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Lunchbox
    If co-writer and director Ritesh Batra occasionally takes his sweet time getting from point A to point B, it’s equally true that he gives the audience a nice, comfortable ride.
  18. Gleason
    It’s a tough watch, but inspiring.
  19. How to Build a Girl
    The nerd’s coming-of-age is a well-established genre, as is humiliation comedy, yet Coky Giedroyc’s How to Build a Girl is different enough to stand out.
  20. Neil Young: Heart of Gold
    This remarkable concert film, beautifully shot by director Jonathan Demme over two days last summer, is all about legacy, a more-or-less conscious exercise in myth-making on the part of a musical giant facing his own mortality.
  21. The Guard
    The Guard is guilty of being overly cute, but it brims with talent and a freshness that extends beyond the clever script.
  22. Looper
    Looper ups the ante like a poker player on speed. What a potpourri of genres we have here – noir again, but sci-fi too, and action and horror and psycho-drama with existential trimmings, the latter designed to invite the thinking viewer into the fray.
  23. Circumstance
    As the plot moves toward the climax, where each girl is forced to make a hard choice dictated by her unique "circumstance," that feeling of compression, of so many contradictory urges and needs vying for attention, grows almost overwhelming. Such is life among the young in present-day Tehran, up on the screen for all to see – all but those who most need to see it.
  24. Iron Man
    Cynical, hip, politically opportunistic and loaded with kick-ass comic action.
  25. Mavis!
    It’s short on personal details and instead focuses on the performer’s vocation. And when the concert footage slows the doc’s energy down, Mavis’s zest adds buoyancy to the proceedings.
  26. Gladiator
    The upside? Visually polished, credibly acted and competently directed courtesy of Ridley Scott, the film is always likable. The downside? Well, it's never anything more than likable.
  27. Attenberg
    What a strange, moving, puzzling, funny, frustrating and ultimately absorbing film this is.
  28. The Maid
    A little gem of social realism that makes up in polish what it lacks in consistency.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Anthropoid
    Some of these scenes are masterful – and sometimes difficult to watch. But the real horror – mass revenge killings by the Nazis, including the obliteration of the entire village of Lidice – takes place off-screen.
  30. UHF
    The laughs just keep rolling as 'Weird Al' makes a movie. Overheard from a still-convulsing woman after a recent screening of Weird Al Yankovic's UHF: "I'm sorry, but that's funny." I'm sorry, but she's right. Yuks you feel obliged to apologize for are yuks nonetheless. And UHF prompts a lot of apologies.
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
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