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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. The Night Comes for Us
    By exploiting the raw physical power of the Indonesian martial art called silat and then emptying buckets and buckets of fake blood upon your cast for kicks, filmmaker Timo Tjahjanto has birthed a monster of a movie, as brutal as it is hypnotic.
  2. Even the Rain (Tambien la Lluvia)
    It's all a bit too schematic, yet the ambition is admirable and the message powerful: Today, no less than yesterday, the weak must be strong to survive, and their strength is endlessly tested.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Young Man with a Horn
    There's one, and only one, good reason to rent this movie - the music. [08 Sep 1990]
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  4. Huda's Salon
    Although the film doesn’t fully deliver on the political-thriller element, it asks some powerful questions: How does violence become intimate, blurring the line of morals and ethics?
  5. Spider-Man: Far from Home
    In five years’ time, it wouldn’t be surprising to see Far from Home ranked near the bottom of everyone’s favourite MCU efforts – the film evaporates, Endgame-style, immediately after viewing.
  6. Space Station 3D
    The film is a vertiginous experience of hanging 350 kilometres above the Earth.
  7. Raising Arizona
    The whole caper loses its rhythm and its direction around the two-thirds mark. By the finish, the punch has left the lines, and the once-purposeful energy goes mindlessly manic - gone are both the point and the parody.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden
    Geller and Goldfine keep the story taut and engaging, except when they get distracted by the current inhabitants of Floreana, who say mostly unsurprising things about living on a remote island.
  9. Live Flesh
    Live Flesh is an often surprising assemblage of attractive parts that never seems to earn a full emotional response. [06 feb 1998]
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  10. Patriots Day
    Berg also creates one scene that should stand as an all-time classic: a residential street standoff between the Tsarnaevs and members of the Boston and neighbouring Watertown police departments.
  11. Slacker
    It's unclear as to how we are supposed to feel about these monologuists, the majority of whom are twentysomething; nothing is how I felt about them, but perhaps I was tired. [27 Sept. 1991]
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  12. Echo In the Canyon
    The music’s evolution and crisscrossing pollination is explained well – Mr. Tambourine Man inspired Rubber Soul which influenced Pet Sounds which begat Sgt. Pepper’s – but why are we watching the randomly selected couch full of Cat Power, Regina Spektor and a catatonic Beck sift through old LPs?
  13. 25th Hour
    Too bad there's also a final 15 minutes that surely ranks among the worst endings an otherwise good movie has ever received.
    • 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)
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Fault in Our Stars
    Fault is at heart a full-throttle, by-the-numbers tearjerker.
  16. Knightriders
    Because it attempts so much more than Excalibur, the disappointment of Knightriders cuts deeper. Romero wants to tell the tale, to comment on it and to relate it to the present; he wants to bring contemporary satirical life to the myth, a service he performed cannily for the Dracula legend in Martin. [18 April 1981]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  17. 21 Jump Street
    A try-anything, fitfully amusing muddle that wears its mocking cynicism a bit too proudly.
  18. Greener Grass
    Fortunately, Greener Grass is as enticing as it is bizarre, and even if you don’t immediately find yourself frolicking amidst its braces-wearing populace, give it time: you’ll eventually be lured in by their take on suburban normal.
  19. Redbelt
    Disappointingly unique.
  20. Selah and The Spades
    But while first-timer mistakes abound – everyone except the three leads deliver performances so stiff I wondered if they were deliberate – Selah and the Spades is more than just a slick calling card. It’s impassioned, informed and sometimes furious work that could find Poe being name-checked herself not too long from now.
  21. Fair Game
    The more compelling performance comes from Watts as Valerie.
  22. Nadia, Butterfly
    The film is not quite a medallist. But it’s certainly a spirited contender.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Teen Titans Go! To the Movies
    This is a show that adults can more than merely tolerate; I am happy to binge-watch it with my nine-year-old.
  24. The Drop
    The interest here is about watching Hardy, bouncing off Gandolfini and the other cast members, as a quiet man who has turned being underestimated into his primary survival skill. And all the while we wait for the moment when Bob the puppy grows into Bob the pit bull.
  25. The Company Men
    The film itself struggles to do justice to each victim. Turns out three stories are two too many. The Company Men should have been downsized.
  26. The Wild Thornberrys Movie
    Moderately witty children's entertainment.
  27. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
    Simultaneously a spectacular act of movie-making and a slight movie. Or is that impossible: When the means are so gloriously abundant, can the end ever be merely trivial?
  28. One Life
    Throughout it all, Winton remains a cypher. There’s no curiosity here about him or the people he dedicated his time to. There’s no emotional journey to help us understand him and the stubborn modesty that made him so reluctant to share his story.
  29. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
    English director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz), takes the approach that movies have been far too reticent. His new film, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, is as vibrant as a cluttered wall of graffiti, jumpy enough to risk retina damage.
  30. The Go-Getter
    This is a fairly well-made picture that's just been fairly well-made too many times before, a knock-off of a thousand other knock-offs.
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