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For 7,298 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: 4,355 out of 7298
  2. Mixed: 1,827 out of 7298
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7298
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  1. Amazing Grace
    What's missing, in the direction no less than the script, is any real sense of dramatic urgency.
  2. One Last Kiss
    Though credibly performed and photographed, it's hard to care about a film that proposes as epic tragedy the plight of a callow rich boy who is forced to choose between his beautiful, self-satisfied 22-year-old girlfriend and an equally beautiful, self-satisfied 18-year-old mistress.
  3. Dirty Dancing
    Dirty Dancing is "Flashdance" with a triple-digit IQ.
  4. Saving Mr. Banks
    Certainly, this imagineered version of P.L. Travers’s life provides an orderly drama, but it’s uncomfortably reductive. It may be a small world, after all, but it comes in a lot more shades than Saving Mr. Banks suggests.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Warriors
    Walter Hill, who directed Charles Bronson's Hard Times, puts the action sequences (that's a euphemism for head-bashing and crotch-gouging) together with panache and this exploitation picture strolls right along. [10 Feb 1979]
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  6. Made in Dagenham
    This time out, with a few exceptions, the inspiration feels solid and earned, not saccharine and contrived.
  7. The Gingerbread Man
    And, in a pointless riffing on the title, there are ginger kitties galore -- this flick has enough cats to launch a Broadway musical.
  8. Beauty and the Beast
    Disney’s live-action revival of the Beauty and the Beast franchise is nothing if not lively, albeit occasionally overwrought: The dinnerware’s number, Be Our Guest, turns into a hallucinogenic sequence worthy of Busby Berkeley.
  9. X-Men: First Class
    That's partly why X-Men: First Class is such fanboy fun, as the script departs from official Marvel lore to invent a whole new "origin story" for the mutant ensemble.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Dancer
    While there’s plenty of footage of Polunin executing multiple pirouettes and twisting acrobatically through the air, real ballet fans will lament the lack of evidence of emotion and artistry in his dancing.
  11. The Prince of Tides
    Director Barbra Streisand does justice to the popular book until the two-thirds mark of the film, whereupon the script abruptly changes from a psychic history to a gauzy romance. A Prince of a movie, until the end. [27 Dec 1991]
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  12. Oscar and Lucinda
    In a sometimes misguided narrative, their scenes together are right on track -- they add lightness, even a shimmering hint of humour, to a symbol-laden drama. Theirs is a unique romance that has a sparrow's frail beauty -- it beats with a trembling, fluttering heart.
  13. Alien: Covenant
    The new film is intended to act as several things, none of them particularly admirable. It is a sequel to the underperforming and largely confusing "Prometheus"; it is a prequel to Scott’s own 1979 classic "Alien."
  14. Sunset
    Perhaps Nemes was hoping to let the precision of his intricately staged images artfully clash with the absurdity of a chaotic plot. But the result is more tedious than tense.
  15. Monsters University
    The background designs are beautiful and there are plenty of lively sight gags, but magic isn’t in the cards.
  16. Deadpool
    First-time feature director Tim Miller has created a work that’s both aggressive and not aggressive enough.
  17. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
    However, for me and my two kids (aged 10 and eight), this dive into the deep sea wasn’t as thrilling an adventure as we’d hoped for.
  18. The Courier
    There are immense, leisurely pleasures to be found in The Courier, which presents a familiar spy-versus-spy drama in a familiar way. Which is fine: So long as you’re not expecting subversion or surprise, you can gently sink yourself into director Dominic Cooke’s intentionally, pleasantly lukewarm waters and come out the other side refreshed and squeaky-clean.
  19. Men
    With Men, the British filmmaker is stubbornly needling his audience with a never-ending barrage of pointy-ended questions that he has neither the inclination nor intention of vaguely addressing or even thinking through on his own terms. Men is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, all scrawled in crayon.
  20. The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part
    The filmmakers even manage to introduce a tune as devastatingly ear-wormy as the original’s Everything Is Awesome, even though its title (Catchy Song) betrays the fact that everyone here is working both a little too hard, and not quite hard enough.
  21. The Disappearance of Alice Creed
    The best Brit noir since "Croupier" is a complex, marvellously twisty thriller.
  22. The Matador
    Never as good as you'd hoped or as bad as you'd feared, The Matador is one of those of up-and-down experiences -- here a sharp pica of wit, there a welcome veronica of absurdity, but, now and then, just a bit too much bull in the ring.
  23. Maudie
    The heart and mind of Maudie are always in the right place.
  24. Dangerous Animals
    Dangerous Animals is like a bowl of shark-fin soup laced with a dollop of vegemite: not exactly good for either you, your taste buds or the environment, but strangely compelling nonetheless.
  25. The Good Boss
    Bardem gives the kind of stately, anchoring performance that can just about make up for any shortcomings the film might otherwise face.
  26. Panic Room
    Generally makes good on its promise. There are shivers to be felt, especially in the early stages, and there's fun to be had, including the post-movie pleasure of detecting the soft spots in the plot. The result is an always-watchable picture from a director capable of more.
  27. Bad News Bears
    It falls short of the original but surpasses its sequels.
  28. High-Rise
    Like Wheatley’s 2011 film "Kill List," High-Rise switches genres effortlessly – black humour one moment, dystopic parable the next – until it becomes its own singular, horrifying, immensely captivating thing.
  29. The Wheel
    With compelling performances from leads Amber Midthunder and Taylor Gray, it’s impossible not to be invested in where they end up.
  30. The Living End
    In the best picaresque fashion, there's wit here, and irony, love in its many guises, and even a glimpse of transcendent hope. Despite (or maybe because of) the specifically gay characters and themes, the film resonates far beyond its particulars - indeed, in many ways, it goes directly to the divided heart of contemporary, ailing America. [21 Aug 1992]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
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