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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. We Need to Talk About Kevin
    Ezra Miller's sneering, absurdly precocious evil-child performance makes him just another bad-seed horror villain.
  2. Thunderbolts*
    The first Marvel film in ages to look, feel, and move like an actual feature film and not a slop bucket of CGI.
  3. Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
    The documentary seeks only to make a joyful noise, and is sometimes laboured in the love it so keenly wants to express. Then again, as Leonard would be the first to concede, there are worse sins than flawed worship.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Early Man
    There's a quaintness about the film, from the animation style to the wholesome jokes – there's not much in the way of asides for the adults in the audience – that is refreshing for this pop-culture-obsessed animation era.
  5. The East
    Unfortunately, The East is not a very good movie, hobbled by an excess of plot, a lack of believability and big gaps of logic.
  6. In a Violent Nature
    This is an ambitious, methodical, immersive, and admirably devious experiment in conjuring atmosphere and testing gag reflexes. It will quicken your pulse, tighten your throat and – for those on its extremely particular wavelength – bust your gut.
  7. Batman Returns
    The film preaches the gospel of unpredictable change, of ironic metamorphosis, of a psychological ebb and flow from love to lust, hope to despair, good to evil. But if the message is fluid, the medium is static at best and chaotic at worst - there's very little controlled motion in this picture. [19 June 1992]
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  8. Monster House
    A serviceable story served up as a large animation experience for kids.
  9. The Wave
    While The Wave doesn’t quite match the saga of, say, The Impossible from 2012, it’s a film absolutely worth catching.
  10. Shaolin Soccer
    One of Stephen Chow's extravagant and very funny martial-arts spoof movies.
  11. Slums of Beverly Hills
    There's an alchemy that can transform personal experience into a great film, but it was nowhere nearby when Tamara Jenkins wrote and directed this lacklustre first feature.
  12. Goodbye Lenin!
    It's mainly a hunt for ironies, usually playful but occasionally poignant, and the search is definitely successful enough to merit our attention -- although maybe not the two-hour running time.
  13. The Edukators
    Perhaps the harshest criticism of the new German film The Edukators is that it doesn't make you feel any better edukated.
  14. The Hateful Eight
    Tarantino is a masterful storyteller, painter of cinematic images and director of actors; the script, the cinematography and the cast of outlandish characters, created by a powerful ensemble dashingly led by Jackson, can’t be faulted in any way.
  15. 10
    The biggest anti-bonus of all, however, is the subject itself: running amok in middle-age. The French have already gnawed that particular turkey meatless. Now it has been passed to North Americans, who are picking the bones. Those bones rattle. [6 Oct 1979]
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  16. Matt and Mara
    There is an intensity and commitment in Campbell’s work that mesmerizes, even frightens, with its sheer boldness.
  17. The Illusionist
    For a film meant to float on a gossamer veil of mystery, The Illusionist falls -- make that flops -- with quite the heavy thud. It's an intended piece of magic that plays like a ponderous slab of melodrama, sleight of hand gone ham-handed.
  18. Office Space
    What began as discomfiting satire soon devolves into silly farce. By the time Friends star Jennifer Aniston pops up as a waitress-cum-love-interest (quite a stretch for her), it's a sure sign we're back within the smug confines of the Tinseltown formula flick.
  19. Charlotte's Web
    It's not exactly radiant, but at least the movie's a little bit humble.
  20. The End of the Line
    The End of the Line's most topical hook is its exploration of bluefin tuna, which, as a sushi delicacy, is sometimes called the "most expensive meat on the planet."
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Howling
    The ironic use of every seventies psychological cliche in an unapologetic, unabashed B-movie elevates The Howling to irresistible silliness. Written and directed by Joe Dante, who comes to us straight from the horror-movie forge of Roger Corman, The Howling pays enthusiastic scenic homage to B-movies while remaining faithful to the exploitation formula of the genre. [15 May 1981]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Professor Marston & the Wonder Women
    Because like the Wonder Woman mythos itself, there's almost too much ground to cover in just a single installment.
  23. Chuck
    It may not go the distance, but it’s surely worth a step into the ring.
  24. For Your Consideration
    The target is way too easy and the tone far too smug. This time, they're shooting fish in a barrel with a bazooka and congratulating themselves on their marksmanship.
  25. Chavela
    The story is simply told: the rise, fall and comeback of a lesbian trailblazer and soul-crushed singer. Chavela the person is more fascinating than Chavela the film – a tequila-sunrise love letter to an unknown icon.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Hustle & Flow
    Fortunately, writer-director Craig Brewer manages to conjure a world so rich and believable that we barely notice the Hollywood predictability of the plot.
  27. The Water Man
    The Water Man myth feels incomplete. What is magical, though, is the chance to root for a young Black male hero as he navigates a family crisis that’s both specific and universal, and not based on race.
  28. Richard Jewell
    Hauser is just as skilled and invested an actor as any of the more critically certified players alongside him here, including Sam Rockwell as Jewell’s anti-authoritarian lawyer and Kathy Bates as Jewell’s overprotective mother.
  29. Heaven
    The result is a beautifully designed, lyrical fable of a movie, full of God's-eye shots from on high, placing the characters against the Italian scenery and medieval architecture.
  30. The Bourne Identity
    The problems with Damon's character are the problem with the movie: It's about plot mechanics, not heart and soul.
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