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For 6,576 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 2.2 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: 2,493 out of 6576
  2. Mixed: 3,764 out of 6576
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6576
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  1. The Good Dinosaur
    The Good Dinosaur looks great, of course, but it’s not in the league we’ve come to expect.
  2. MI-5
    Too often it’s just silly.
  3. Tamasha
    Tamasha keeps shapeshifting, in ways both intriguing and self-defeating.
  4. Submerged
    While we open with dazed individuals in a crashed limousine as it begins to take on water, Submerged’s frequent flashbacks eventually reveal a tiresome crime plot rife with soporific acting and unremarkable dialogue.
  5. Chi-Raq
    While formally quite different from his more universally-respected early work, Chi-Raq has the exuberance and wit you’ll find in Do The Right Thing and Crooklyn. It’s the best film he’s made in a very long time.
  6. A Royal Night Out
    It’s a thin, trickledown sort of fun.
  7. Very Semi-Serious
    It’s a minor work that knows its place in the margins, but is thought-provoking and surreptitiously insightful – and very funny.
  8. Secret in Their Eyes
    Chiwetel Ejiofor, one of our top-tier film actors right now, is on good form throughout, and the others act their hearts out, too. But they are somewhat left out to dry in a production that feels more like syndicated television than a feature film.
  9. Creed
    The script may feature numerous wobbly passages in which everyone eerily states precisely what they are thinking (an unfortunate tradition that runs throughout the series) but if anyone can sell it, it’s Stallone and Jordan.
  10. The Night Before
    Surprisingly, for a movie this ephemeral, the closing sequences, which consist of flashbacks and confrontations, are actually quite touching.
  11. Drone
    Without stridency but with a clear sense of purpose, director Tonje Hessen Schei compiles a mix of original interviews and footage and archive material and simulations to explore the history of drones.
  12. Prem Ratan Dhan Payo
    If the plot’s familiar, no imagination or expense has been spared in mapping the kingdom it winds through.
  13. Tangerine
    There’s real energy.
  14. Love the Coopers
    Amid all this holiday melancholia, Wilde bursts into the film with an intensity that feels held over from another, better movie.
  15. My All American
    My All American is awful; but it gets points, I suppose, for at least looking professional.
  16. The Big Short
    McKay’s attempt to cover so much ground is admirable; and the outrage that courses throughout is deeply felt. But his busy execution...feels labored.
  17. The Dark Horse
    The script could have done without the odd bout of heavy-handed chess symbolism (“a king for a king”) but it’s a solidly entertaining drama with an intriguingly unconventional lead.
  18. Concussion
    A harrowing subject for a film, then, but somehow Landesman – who also wrote the screenplay – never manages to turn it into a gripping movie.
  19. By the Sea
    By the Sea’s uncompromising nature is its most admirable asset. It’s a vanity project that’s difficult to love, but alluring to unpack.
  20. Theeb
    Eid proves a dolefully expressive lead, and Wolfgang Thaler’s ever eloquent camerawork is as fascinated by the discovery of bullet shells in the sand – a clue, and a warning – as it is by the punishingly craggy landscape.
  21. In the Basement
    With In The Basement, [Seidl] seems to falling back on the same old shocks. The freakiness is losing its capacity to disturb.
  22. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
    The pace, which had been so tightly controlled in the first two films, is a curious mess, starting off painfully slowly, then rushing when it really matters.
  23. Out 1: Noli Me Tangere (1971)
    Out 1: Noli Me Tangere is confounding at every level.
  24. McCullin
    McCullin emerges as an unsentimental, plain-speaking, thoughtful man, disgusted at the inhumanity of war – and yet candid about how he is also personally and professionally drawn to its drama.
  25. Regression
    It’s a crunching disappointment: a dull, crass, formulaic and frankly misjudged chiller.
  26. Afternoon Delight
    Director Jill Soloway's comedy-drama isn't perfect – the leitmotif about open eyes feels over-workshopped, and the ending's a bit pat – but it nails with self-lacerating precision the manners and mores of a certain type of hipster parent, the bourgeoisie's muddled attitudes towards sex workers, and the precarious foundations of friendship.
  27. Blue Ruin
    The endgame is disappointingly predictable, but writer-director-cinematographer Jeremy Saulnier has a lovely touch with faces, light and telling details.
  28. Cheap Thrills
    The script is smarter than the premise sounds, with writers David Chirchirillo and Trent Haaga dispensing enough information to make victims both sympathetic and despicable, the instigators charismatic and sinister.
  29. Return to Homs
    Admittedly, there are a lot of documentaries like this, made by citizen journalists recording uprisings in their homelands, but this is one of the best of the recent crop, and a timely reminder of a conflict that's slipped out of the headlines of late.
  30. Mistaken for Strangers
    The result is an amusing, and occasionally touching meditation on fame, sibling rivalry and ambition, with a sweet payoff.
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