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For 6,573 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 2.3 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: 2,491 out of 6573
  2. Mixed: 3,763 out of 6573
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6573
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  1. The Identical
    The corn in The Identical is as tall as an elephant’s eye – but there’s nothing that says the story of a man torn between his religious upbringing and his desire to be a musician can’t make for a good movie. In fact, considering a little movie called "The Jazz Singer," there’s ample proof that it can be groundbreaking.
  2. Thunder and the House of Magic
    It is soulless, like something that has been generated by a computer programme.
  3. She's Funny That Way
    Bogdanovich is a formidable figure, but with this movie he’s just coasting. He surely needs to find a screenplay more attuned to his brilliance, rather than a derivative, low-octane comedy.
  4. 99 Homes
    This is a tough, muscular, idealistic drama that packs a mighty punch, and Shannon and Garfield are excellent.
  5. Manglehorn
    Pacino's Manglehorn is a subtle master class in neutral shading, with none of the garish flashes that sometimes bedevil his work.
  6. As Above, So Below
    There are some interestingly contrived moments of claustrophobia and surreal lunacy, but this cliched and slightly hand-me-down script neither scares nor amuses very satisfyingly.
  7. The Look of Silence
    The Look of Silence — like The Act of Killing — is arresting and important film-making.
  8. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
    There’s no doubt it makes for a jubilant ride, a galvanic first blast. But it remains a film which feels deeply thought rather than deeply felt; a brilliant technical exercise as opposed to a flesh-and-blood story.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Patema Inverted
    The animation is intricate and beautiful but the narrative is clunky and heavy-handed in places.
  10. The Two Faces of January
    There are many attractive parts to this thriller – handsome leads, a meaty Patricia Highsmith plot, Mediterranean sunlight on cream linen suits – but it's no greater than the sum of them.
  11. The Inbetweeners 2
    Yes, the franchise's appeal lies in watching very ordinary boys making prats of themselves – but couldn't the vehicles transporting them to the wider world display slightly more ambition?
  12. Lilting
    This debut feature from the Cambodian-born, London-based film-maker Hong Khaou is heartfelt, intelligent film-making on a shoestring budget.
  13. Metro Manila
    It's a resourceful, distinctive film that builds to a satisfying crescendo.
  14. Jealousy
    It's certainly atmospheric and cool in a new-New Wave way, but really, what's the point?
  15. The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
    While Benson treats his characters with care and respect, his depiction of grief can feel studied and not felt.
  16. Step Up: All In
    This really doesn't have the fun or the zip of that earlier Miami adventure. The dialogue is even more tired and, crucially, the dance sequences themselves are looking less fresh this time around.
  17. The Expendables 3
    [A] blundering jackhammer of a film.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    War Story
    Jackson is wise to keep Keener's pushy, desperate Lee in centre focus.
  19. The Killer Inside Me
    The Killer Inside Me is a particular distillation of male hate, as practised by repulsive and inadequate individuals who have been encouraged to see themselves as essentially decent by virtue of the trappings of authority in which they have wrapped themselves. And Winterbottom is tearing off the mask.
  20. Guardians of the Galaxy
    The movie practically satirises itself as it goes along, glossing over its own absurdity in the process.
  21. Hercules
    There are some rousing battle scenes, preceded by stirring addresses on the subject of going to Elysium – all cheekily borrowed from Ridley Scott's "Gladiator."
  22. Lucy
    The end of the movie goes completely off the rails, but in a way that is charming in its stupidity.
  23. Horns
    Horns plays instead like a high concept beer advert – breezily stylish, memorable in its time, but a bit too full of gas.
  24. Salvo
    Salvo is a strange, involving, if flawed movie.
  25. The Green Prince
    Schirman's film (produced by the team behind Man on Wire and Searching For Sugarman) is as gripping as any high-concept Hollywood thriller and as psychologically knotty as Greek tragedy.
  26. Honour
    It's as if the film-makers felt they couldn't deliver the didactic lesson unless they wrapped this up in pulpy, thriller trappings.
  27. Beyond the Edge
    It's a testament to the film-making that, despite the fact that we know the outcome, there's a great sense of relief when they finally reach the summit.
  28. Marius
    Not just cinéma de papa, but cinema de grand-papa.
  29. Deliver Us From Evil
    This is television-level moviemaking top to bottom, from its preposterous premise, scenery-chomping performances, idiotic sound cues and force-fed jump-scares. Deliver Us From Evil delivers formula, and in a formulaic fashion.
  30. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
    Just as 2011's Rise of the Planet of the Apes surpassed expectations, so this sequel delivers on its promise and leaves us wanting more – which we'll almost certainly get.
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