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For 6,628 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: 2,512 out of 6628
  2. Mixed: 3,796 out of 6628
  3. Negative: 320 out of 6628
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  1. Headhunters
    The film doesn't merit chinstroking: it's stuffed with Troma-style riffs around schlock, gore and human effluvia, bookended by Shallow Grave-like sections full of cynical machinations. The parts barely relate, never mind work together.
  2. End of Watch
    Despite the violence and procedural detail, this is about as gritty as Dixon of Dock Green.
  3. Polisse
    A drama with interesting moments, but also some false notes and a wildly bizarre ending.
  4. Bel Ami
    Robert Pattinson has to do an awful lot of hollow-eyed smouldering in this hammily enunciated French period drama, taken from the 1885 novel by Guy de Maupassant.
  5. 300: Rise of an Empire
    It really is pretty dull, though, with the same moments of campy silliness: the same frowning gym bunnies with the same digitally enhanced abs.
  6. The Good Dinosaur
    The Good Dinosaur looks great, of course, but it’s not in the league we’ve come to expect.
  7. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a perfect fit for its target audience – the Harry Potter kids who are following Emma Watson through her baby steps towards the stronger stuff.
  8. Dark Horse
    There is little in the film's pitch-black interior that wasn't tackled better – with more bite, wit and abandon – in "Happiness," "Welcome to the Dollhouse," or "Storytelling."
  9. The Pact
    Nicholas McCarthy's The Pact is a horror film developed from a short, and unfortunately it splits apart while being stretched out to feature length.
  10. Cloud Atlas
    Tykwer and the Wachowskis' other twist on this karmic hokum - to cast each of their actors in multiple roles across the stories, regardless of age or race - is less successful.
  11. Starbuck
    Almost all the charm of the real story is lost through the contrivances and overacting.
  12. Runner Runner
    This is a lazy, trashy film that barely goes through the motions.
  13. The Equalizer
    Denzel is so cool, so made of pure nails he can make even the most preposterous action scene feel thrilling. But Denzel's strength is also his weakness.
  14. Mama
    It has been converted into a proficient, machine-tooled horror flick, stuffed full of shocks and buttressed with back-story. Mama got so flabby the second time around.
  15. About Time
    Curtis's heart is in the right place. In fact, it's all over the place – front and centre and backlighting the whole thing with a benevolent glow. But it is hard not to watch this, read the news that it will probably be his last as a director, and look to the future.
  16. 2 Guns
    There is a fair amount of not sufficiently witty or lovable banter, and Paula Patton gets to play Katharine Ross to their Butch and Sundance. She really has nothing to do except pose fetchingly in her underwear. Not much firepower.
  17. Little White Lies
    Little White Lies unspools as glossy, high-grade tosh, a sun-dappled Big Chill, without the rigour or insight required to make you care about these people and wonder which bed they will eventually wind up in.
  18. The Oranges
    Janney steals the movie in the scene in which she discovers the awful truth.
  19. Lay the Favorite
    Stephen Frears is a supremely accomplished director, but perhaps there was little he could do with this garbled and unsatisfying story about gambling.
  20. The To Do List
    A few laughs.
  21. Rio 2
    It's hard to ascribe much art or wit to a franchise that retains the services of will.i.am as comic relief – and a thoroughly inorganic talent-show subplot feels like another attempt to groom youngsters for life in the Cowell jungle.
  22. [REC] 3: Genesis
    The dancefloor's full of bodies, the bride and groom have been backed into a corner by relatives desperate for their pound of flesh. Pretty much your average wedding, then.
  23. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
    All the fire and lifeblood of this idea has been sucked out and we are left with something bland.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Divergent
    How Orwellian is college? Very, if Divergent is to be believed.
  25. Snitch
    Good intentions are all but submerged in nonsense.
  26. Admission
    The comic material really isn't there, and the plot transitions feel forced and uncomfortable.
  27. Hitchcock
    A disappointing excursion into movie history.
  28. Smurfs: The Lost Village
    Fans of smurfiness may well like it, and Gargamel gets some nice lines, but I have to say that both script and animation are entirely predictable, as if generated by some computer software.
  29. Edge of Tomorrow
    It is basically deadly serious, and after some moderate knockaboutfun, settles into something pretty dull. Where's the edge?
  30. Ant-Man
    Ant-Man is a cut-and-shut muddle, haunted by a ghost, produced by a high-end hot dog factory, by turns giddying and stupefying. Watching it is like channel-surfing between "Hot Fuzz", a duff early 90s Michael Douglas drama and the very schlockiest bits of "Interstellar".
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