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For 6,616 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 54% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 London Road
Lowest review score: 0 Melania
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,508 out of 6616
  2. Mixed: 3,788 out of 6616
  3. Negative: 320 out of 6616
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  1. Roman J. Israel, Esq.
    Even in the film’s less successful moments, I admired the loose shagginess of it all.
  2. Uncle Frank
    Uncle Frank doesn’t have the witty indirectness of American Beauty or Ball’s TV classic Six Feet Under, but it has a strong and very convincing performance from Bettany.
  3. Rise of the Guardians
    If Rise of the Guardians is finally never more than the sum of its parts, the parts themselves have real appeal.
  4. The Midnight Sky
    Clooney guides the performances competently, but the story drifts pointlessly into space.
  5. Hounds
    The film is perhaps flawed by its ending, which loses a bit of narrative momentum and insists too strenuously on the metaphorical properties, but there is a tang of real evil in the story’s chaos and its final image.
  6. 13 Minutes
    A decently acted, heartfelt film.
  7. Days of Grace
    It's a confident, well-made film that ends up in a blind alley of cynicism.
  8. Jingle Bell Heist
    It’s the problem faced when one of these films is raised just above the gutter-level norm, you end up wanting it to be that much better. As it stands, Jingle Bell Heist is as good as it’s getting for now.
  9. The Prey
    Director, Eric Valette, is an exuberant market-stall trader, hawking knock-off ingredients.
  10. Creative Control
    When something is this engaging (and funny, did I mention funny?) it ceases to merely be about ideas and becomes, even in this borderline sci-fi context, a thoughtful movie about people.
  11. River
    Peedom has now done it again, this time on the subject of rivers with the usual montage of powerful images. Visually rich though it still is, I have to admit to being a bit restless with this kind of globalist Imax-style docu-fantasia.
  12. Jojo Rabbit
    There are no insights to be had – and no laughs.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Mother Mary
    Lowery’s film can dazzle. But to quote one of the director’s clear references, many will spot his inspirations all too well.
  14. Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
    Stubby’s minimal anthropomorphism makes him a believably doggy sort of dog, whose expressions and behaviour clearly indicate that the animators spent many hours studying the real thing.
  15. Work It
    Work It is a fun, mostly entertaining and easily digestible concoction that does everything you expect but well enough for its lack of ingenuity not to matter.
  16. Lights Out
    Lights Out is yet another half-baked, PG-13 scare-em snoozer centered on an underdeveloped supernatural concept that won’t even give kids a good nightmare.
  17. The Deer King
    Juggling palace politics, magical animals and medical ethics, The Deer King can’t get over major pacing problems: the emotional moments are not given enough time to land, as the plot rushes to its next world-building intrigue.
  18. Cry Macho
    There’s a creak of old leather (and other things) in this outrageously dated and hokey sentimental western, made from a script that’s been knocking around the industry for decades; it’s a Swiss cheese of bizarre plot-holes set in 1979, clearly because that is when it was conceived.
  19. Christy
    Sweeney has already shown what a superb and detailed performer she is in the FBI interrogation movie Reality, but this is far inferior: a stodgy, lifeless piece of work.
  20. My Best Friend's Exorcism
    My Best Friend’s Exorcism could perhaps do with one or two genuine scares. But for anyone old enough to remember Tiffany and advice columns in teenage girls’ magazines, this is going to deliver a pleasing shot of nostalgia.
  21. Wicked Little Letters
    There’s something equally impressive and depressing about the squandered potential of misfiring period comedy Wicked Little Letters, a joyless waste of cast, premise and setting.
  22. Populaire
    You'll need to have a very sweet tooth for this, and it makes light of those difficult sexual politics that Mad Men attacked with such fierce satire.
  23. Men in Black III
    It's by no means a triumph, but one of the enjoyable things about Men in Black has always been the malleable nature of its reality.
  24. Snowden
    In his dry and uninvolving dramatic take, Stone has made a film aimed at breaking out Snowden’s story to the masses but it’s made with such limpness that a swift read of his Wikipedia page will prove far more exciting.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Lawless
    Star-studded and violent yet empty as a broken whisky bottle.
  26. Skin
    Jamie Bell’s tough performance carries this forthright, earnest, if limited drama.
  27. Love and Other Catastrophes
    It’s a wonderfully spritzy dialogue-driven work, full of oomph and chutzpah.
  28. A Hologram for the King
    Tom Tykwer’s adaptation is a meandering mess of half-baked storylines that amount to little. Hanks’s affable presence keeps it all afloat.
  29. Happy Death Day
    It’s Groundhog Day meets Scream, although lacking the first film’s novelty and the latter’s postmodern smarts.
  30. The High Note
    There are some comedies that seem to have been rubbed all over with an anti-funny, anti-romance Kryptonite. This is one. It’s the cinematic equivalent of elevator muzak – a festival of glam-smug with zero chemistry between any of its three leads.
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