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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 3.1 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. How to Change the World
    Whatever you think of Greenpeace’s less well-considered antics over the years, How to Change the World is a compelling story of one environmentalist’s remarkable combination of prescience, grit and timing.
  2. Around The World In 50 Concerts
    Around the World is stuffed with charming moments, yet often feels disjointed or purposeless.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Kindergarten Teacher
    Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid (whose debut Policeman was a critical hit) keeps us guessing. His message seems clear even if his characters’ motivations aren’t always.
  4. Guidance
    The film is not significant, but it is principled and sweetly subversive. And, like high school, if you’re not careful, you might just learn something from it.
  5. She's Funny That Way
    If anybody should know how to make a good Lubitsch farce, it’s Bogdanovich. Luckily, he already has: You should just watch his classic What’s Up, Doc? instead.
  6. The Diary of a Teenage Girl
    That it’s unsettling not just because of the contentious moral context underlines just how radical any realistic depictions of female desire and sexual experience still are.
  7. I Am Chris Farley
    A bittersweet salute, appraisal and explanation of the early-nineties Saturday Night Live troupe mainstay.
  8. Straight Outta Compton
    Besides the movie’s weight in our contemporary, post-Ferguson historical moment, Straight Outta Compton may also be the funniest, most exhilarating and flat-out best Hollywood movie of the summer.
  9. The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
    The spectacular Italian locations, jazzy score and vehicular action finally go somewhere in the third act, when Ritchie riffs a few stylistic conventions of the era. Mesmerizing and clever, but more style than substance.
  10. Tom at the Farm
    Broadening the original script out to a cinematic thriller of the prey-and-predator variety, Dolan’s direction is not imaginative enough to carry the day.
  11. Shaun the Sheep Movie
    This delightful stop-motion animated romp features no dialogue, which is as it should be – the beauty of animals is in their actions, not words, after all.
  12. Ricki and the Flash
    Regardless of its flimsy emotional interior, Ricki is a worthy addition in this year’s growing canon of strong female-centred films.
  13. The Gift
    The film ends with a delicious question, an uncertainty that will linger long after the credits roll – no ribbon is tied on The Gift.
  14. Fantastic Four
    Apparently Fantastic Four doesn’t want to be another dumb superhero action flick, but try as they might to turn it into a movingly realistic drama, director Josh Trank and a pair of screenwriters never succeed, creating instead a comic book movie that is bizarrely short on humour and action.
  15. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
    Physically ripped, constantly engaged and possessing a quite possibly insane desire to do each and every one of his own stunts, Cruise is the platonic ideal of an action star. And thank god for that.
  16. Vacation
    Unlike Griswold vacations past, the peril in which the family finds itself isn’t leavened by anything funny.
  17. The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
    Jeunet’s major achievement is to capture the book’s complicated museum clutter and hothouse-flower sensitivity.
  18. Irrational Man
    Not merely a bore, it’s excruciating.
  19. American Heist
    American Heist, I want my 94 minutes back.
  20. Paper Towns
    Fans expecting more than a routine coming-of-age story had better prepare for a paper movie.
  21. Southpaw
    The melodrama is uncomfortably high; the checked-box plot is manipulative.
  22. Pixels
    Pixels is a movie without wit, without jokes, with nothing to say but plenty to regurgitate.
  23. What We Did on Our Holiday
    A modest, winning comedy that overtly sneaks in its wisdom about life, worries and what really matters.
  24. Strangerland
    Eerie and unpredictable, Strangerland holds attention, even if traditional suspense tricks are avoided like they were dingos at the daycare.
  25. The Gallows
    It would be easy to spend hours trashing The Galllows if it just wasn’t so disposable.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Self/less
    The narrative is schlocky and groaningly over-familiar, but the film is also uncharacteristically drab visually, with a washed-out colour palette and anemic pacing.
  27. Minions
    With its episodic stream of slapstick gags, Minions has moment of piquant absurdity, but mostly it’s shrill-but-cutesy anarchy works as a visual sugar rush for the preschool set.
  28. Terminator Genisys
    What’s remarkable is that this fifth Terminator is worthwhile precisely because of its franchise cash-in excessiveness. It’s at once an eminently satisfying actioner, jackknifing tractor-trailers and vertiginous helicopter chases and all, as it is a passably thought-provoking comment on memory – headily engaging with the very nostalgia it intends to evoke.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Magic Mike XXL
    It may be a meandering road trip movie about a group of emotive performers who fancy themselves therapists, but Magic Mike XXL is an ingenious revelation of a film.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A Borrowed Identity
    Riklis, working from an adaptation of a popular novel by the Arab-Israeli writer Sayed Kashua, is wryly perceptive of the ways each side exoticizes and demonizes the other.
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