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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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    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Counselor
    Working as a screenwriter for the first time after years of seeing his novels successfully adapted to the screen, McCarthy is stretching his powers of language and mood – and, all too quickly, stretching his slim story and cast of characters way too far.
  2. The Taste of Money
    It is a strange slo-mo farce, well directed, highly sexualised – shallow, but sleek.
  3. Ender's Game
    The movie's apocalyptic finale indicates that it's bitten off considerably more than it can chew in terms of ideas, but it looks good, and the story rattles along.
  4. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
    Fortunately, the animators get stuck in: the foodscape Flint's party passes through is again wittily realised, each frame sprinkled with colourful hybrid creations, from "flamangos" to "shrimpanzees".
  5. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
    Sacha Baron Cohen's "Borat" set the bar very high for this type of narrative-driven prankery, and in comparison, Bad Grandpa comes across as disjointed and aimless.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wolf Children
    Telling the story through the eyes of the harried, bereaved but indomitable mother gives this calm, funny, only occasionally schmaltzy family film a maturity Twilight never reached.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Muscle Shoals
    A stubborn charmer whose life was a magnet for tragedy, Hall is the emotional centre not only of the Muscle Shoals sound but of this film.
  8. Closed Circuit
    It plays as cut-price Le Carré; a recording of a recording of superior films. The picture is fuzzy, and the plot becomes garbled.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Thor: The Dark World
    No amount of tool-wielding heroism can save The Dark World from being a startlingly unbalanced movie.
  10. Saving Mr. Banks
    Saving Mr Banks is an indulgent, overlong picture which is always on the verge of becoming a mess. Thankfully, reliable old Tom Hanks snaps his fingers and – spit, spot – everything more or less gets cleared away.
  11. Seduced and Abandoned
    It's a guilty-pleasure romp of a documentary, filmed at last year's Cannes film festival, all about the gorgeous, deadly and heartbreaking business of cinema itself.
  12. One Chance
    The movie is strongest is when it strips away the facts and focuses on the emotional notes.
  13. Belle
    Amma Asante's second feature tells Dido's extraordinary story in handsome, if formulaic, style.
  14. Our Day Will Come
    It's a road movie that runs out of road – and out of ideas.
  15. Baggage Claim
    Romcom fans deserve something with more heart.
  16. V/H/S/2
    There are some dull stretches here, but also some grisly instant hits: nasty, deplorable, vulgar and sometimes brilliant.
  17. Machete Kills
    The odd vivid shot reminds you of Rodriguez's dynamic visual imagination, but also what it's wasted on here: a project as indifferent as some of the trash that inspired it.
  18. Which Way Is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington
    Junger articulates a number of subtle and unexpected ideas about Hetherington's work, and about combat reporting in general.
  19. Romeo & Juliet
    It has a sort of soapy reliability, but compare it to the blazing passion of Baz Luhrmann's modern-day version with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danesin gangland LA and it looks pretty feeble. Plus, the liberties taken with the text mean that it might not even be all that suitable for school parties.
  20. Captain Phillips
    This a quasi-war movie set in peacetime; these men are fighting to the death, but not for nation or principle or ideology — or at least, not a conscious ideology: they are caught in larger economic currents.
  21. In the Name Of
    Co-writer/ director Malgorzata Szumowska, improving upon 2011's Elles, downplays the conflicts in a scenario apparently ripe for torrid melodrama, allowing the story and characters to reveal themselves at their own pace.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Emperor
    Thank heaven for Jones's reliable grouchiness, his bloodhound eyes, high-belted paunch, and deader-than-deadpan drawl offering welcome relief from the historical schmaltz.
  23. Filth
    For the first half-hour it's got a full-on horrible energy, but there isn't enough humour for it to qualify as comedy, and not enough reality or plausible characterisation to justify calling it any sort of procedural noir.
  24. Metallica: Through the Never
    In between songs there's a movie within a movie as Dane DeHaan silently takes on the forces of anarchy on behalf of the band. Awesome.
  25. The To Do List
    A few laughs.
  26. Sunshine on Leith
    A remorselessly rousing attempt to do for the Scottish pub rock twins what Mamma Mia! did for Abba or Tommy for The Who.
  27. Girl Most Likely
    Odd zingers and residual eccentricities (a Whit Stillman cameo, anyone?) stand as traces of the blast it might have been, but this cast surely signed on in anticipation of many more laughs than there are in the final cut.
  28. Hannah Arendt
    This is a formal and pedagogic production, but worthwhile nonetheless.
  29. Greedy Lying Bastards
    We call our House of Commons proceedings Punch and Judy: but the climate-change deniers on Fox News are Punch on steroids. It's a chilling and depressing picture.
  30. Smash & Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers
    The casefile remains open, but this considered investigation matches the Panthers' bravura with an organisational flair of its own.
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