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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. Renoir
    A syrupy drizzle of tasteful prettiness covers this cloying movie about the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Michel Bouquet) and his film-maker son Jean Renoir (Vincent Rottiers).
  2. Stand Up Guys
    Some nice touches, though it needs to be indulged.
  3. The East
    The East – a sleek thriller clogged by its noble message – heads south. It becomes sanctimonious, makes you contrary. I left craving a Big Mac.
  4. Venus and Serena
    The sisters themselves reveal a little, mostly because of Serena's unguarded imperiousness; but as a study of sports supercelebrity it's a tad subdued.
  5. Despicable Me 2
    Nothing here to challenge anything from the Pixar golden age, but Despicable Me 2 is a sweet-natured family film.
  6. Thanks for Sharing
    Shame was erotic compulsion turned into opera, full of sombre vibrato. Thanks for Sharing is probably the more realistic, as well as more mainstream, and there's a generous pinch of very funny lines, mostly bestowed on Robbins.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Breathe In
    The story of the ingenue who enters the fold and awakens deep feelings is nothing new, but Doremus makes it all utterly captivating. He mines just the right amount of drama and spontaneous comedy from each moment and the foreshadowing is perfectly weighted.
  8. Adore
    An incredibly provocative piece of work, featuring a brave and vulnerable performance by Naomi Watts (who seems perhaps a little too young) and a career-high acting masterclass from Robin Wright (who is cast perfectly).
  9. Snitch
    Good intentions are all but submerged in nonsense.
  10. Before Midnight
    Before Midnight is intimate and intelligent, and also undemanding in the best possible way,
  11. The Look of Love
    This is a shallow but watchable movie, and it nicely conveys the world of semi-respectable Soho porn, sadder and tattier than its sleazier end, with its desperate champagne lunches and dreary afternoon hangovers.
  12. Touchy Feely
    The semi-improvised dialogue has the juicy tang of authenticity in the hands of this highly competent cast, and the players and Shelton never sneer at the characters' new-agey beliefs.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Secret Disco Revolution
    Rather than simply charting the rise and fall of disco to a thumping soundtrack, the film presents an unexpected school of thought – that disco was actually a vehicle of liberation, a revolutionary tool used to end the oppression of women and black and gay people in 1970s America.
  14. Admission
    The comic material really isn't there, and the plot transitions feel forced and uncomfortable.
  15. Stuck in Love
    The sharp edges of the story are sentimentally sanded down; there's a fair bit of slush, and it's a pretty quaint view of what writers and a writer's life are actually like.
  16. Man of Steel
    The whole film ends up feeling weighed down: though Man of Steel bounds from one epic setpiece to another, you're left with the nagging feeling that you just can't work out what the central twosome see in each other. And for Superman and Lois Lane, that's hardly ideal.
  17. Monsters University
    A fun, disposable watch.
  18. Grabbers
    It is fantastically silly, often funny, with some unshowy but very serviceable digital effects.
  19. After Earth
    He's done it again. M Night Shyamalan has done it again. Again. Done it. Again. He has given us another film for which the only appropriate expression is stammering, gibbering wonder that anyone can keep making such uncompromisingly terrible movies with such stamina and dedication.
  20. The Last Exorcism Part II
    It's competently made, but pointless.
  21. World War Z
    While some of World War Z is rotten, the whole stands as a punchy, if conventional action thriller.
  22. You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
    Despite its moments of charm and caprice, the film is prolix, inert, indulgent and often just plain dull.
  23. The Prey
    Director, Eric Valette, is an exuberant market-stall trader, hawking knock-off ingredients.
  24. Everybody Has a Plan
    It certainly doesn't bore.
  25. The Purge
    The film doesn't develop its one good idea so much as stumble around in the dark with it for 85 minutes, crashing noisily into the furniture.
  26. Call Me Kuchu
    The film-makers have turned what could have been a detached news report into a moving human tragedy.
  27. London - The Modern Babylon
    Temple's film is refreshingly free of cliché. A very heady experience.
  28. American Mary
    It's made with gusto, but there's little dramatic interest for non-enthusiasts.
  29. Something in the Air
    This is a great-looking movie with a sure sense of time and place; it is obviously a personal, and in fact, autobiographical work about Assayas's own youth. But for all its flair, I came away dissatisfied at its colossal self-indulgence and creamy complacency, and the way historical perspective and meaning are permitted to dissolve in its sunlit nostalgia.
  30. Epic
    What stands out is the animation. The microcosmic woodland world is luminous and detailed, and there's a nice disconnect of scale whereby humans appear as lumbering, slow-motion giants.
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