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For 6,571 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: 2,490 out of 6571
  2. Mixed: 3,762 out of 6571
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6571
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  1. Amour
    The icy message may be that love is not a consolation as we face death. Rather the reverse. Love will give your death meaning, but make it no less unbearable.
  2. Happy, Happy
    Like Kaja (Agnes Kittelsen), the wide-eyed Madame Bovary at its heart, Happy, Happy starts out cartoonish and ends up oddly endearing.
  3. Rise of the Guardians
    If Rise of the Guardians is finally never more than the sum of its parts, the parts themselves have real appeal.
  4. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
    Despite all those fierce confrontations and tribal divisions, exhaustively rehearsed and mythologised, nobody's really a bad guy and nothing's really at stake.
  5. La Rafle (The Round Up)
    It's a straightforward, heartfelt drama, well acted and well produced.
  6. In Another Country
    In Another Country looks very much like something written on a napkin and shot in the one afternoon that Huppert could come to South Korea. Slight, diverting, forgettable.
  7. A Royal Affair
    The chemistry between Mikkelsen and Vikander barely simmers, when it should boil. Nevertheless, it's a fascinating affair of state.
  8. Keep the Lights On
    Every frame pulses with hard-gained experience: it may be the most lived-in film of 2012, and certainly counts among the most moving.
  9. For a Good Time, Call...
    The dialogue, penned by Miller with Katie Anne Naylon, is subversively salty: surpassing even those Judd Apatow comedies to which it's indebted, this is almost certainly the filthiest movie ever to bear the Universal logo.
  10. Fun Size
    Someday, all US cinema may come to look like this: indifferently shot random events happening to semi-recognisable TV faces.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Bay
    Levinson has always been acutely interested in the minutiae of human behaviour, and it's this concern that makes The Bay the triumph that it is.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lincoln
    If only modern American politics were remotely as entertaining.
  13. Café de Flore
    Remove the subtitles, and it's one of Cameron Crowe's head-in-the-clouds dramas, as scripted by M Night Shyamalan: an insultingly arbitrary reveal, preceded by vast, wailing washes of Pink Floyd and Sigur Rós. A very vanilla sky, this.
  14. This Must Be the Place
    The Holocaust material was not entirely successful, though certainly transmitted with absolute certainty and sincerity. This Must Be the Place is not my favourite of Sorrentino's films, but it certainly deserved inclusion at Cannes, and deserves to be watched for the glorious Byrne moments alone.
  15. Pusher (2012)
    The Pusher remake may not have the full flavour of the original, but it makes brutally clear how the economics of drugs make paranoia and violence a fact of life.
  16. Beasts of the Southern Wild
    Beasts of the Southern Wild is a vividly poetic and maybe even therapeutic response to one of the most painful and mortifying episodes in modern American history, second only to 9/11.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Flight
    Next to Gump, the film has the moral force of a George Steiner essay, but what lends it that force are not the carefully calibrated moral ambiguities of the script, but the bruised, defiant soul that appears to us in the form of Denzel Washington.
  18. Holy Motors
    Weird and wonderful, rich and strange – barking mad, in fact. It is wayward, kaleidoscopic, black comic and bizarre; there is in it a batsqueak of genius, dishevelment and derangement; it is captivating and compelling.
  19. Skyfall
    All of which works terrifically well up to a point.
  20. Frankenweenie
    It's a likable film, though not a sensational development in Tim Burton's career.
  21. Hotel Transylvania
    Comedy gothic isn't exactly novel, and frankly there is a sense here of a movie coasting along on Halloween hype-marketing, without providing as many laughs and ideas as it really could have done.
  22. Ruby Sparks
    Kazan brings to the role a sweet and dignified vulnerability, keeping rigorously to plausible human behaviour.
  23. The Big Picture
    The direction from Eric Lartigau keeps things moving along fast and furious: preposterous it may be, the movie is carried off with some style.
  24. Two Years at Sea
    What a strange and intriguing film.
  25. Sinister
    The snuff-porn aesthetic might suggest a realist drama, but a supernatural dimension is brought into play, making the plot directionless. There isn't an ounce of ingenuity in the way the movie is concluded, but some generic expertise in the way it is put together.
  26. Taken 2
    The premise is looking pretty tired.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Life of Pi
    Hollywood has been waiting for this movie. Get ready for the year of the Tiger.
  28. The Paperboy
    Nicole Kidman gives her best performance since "To Die For."
  29. Wuthering Heights
    Perhaps above everything else, Arnold returns us to the most potent fact about the Cathy and Heathcliff love affair: it is a love affair between equals, not between a woman with coquettish "erotic capital" and a man with property and status.
  30. Tales of the Night
    The pick-and-mix approach is limiting, but there's no denying these are gorgeous amuse-bouches, likely to be devoured by older, more discerning children and dyed-in-the-wool stoners alike.
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