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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. 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.
  2. 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.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Solomon Kane
    There's plenty that's good here: a serious tone, steady ­pacing, muddy and bloody scenery and a convincing turn by Purefoy in his own west country accent. But Kane is an ill fit into the ­origins tale template; it's a story with few ­surprises.
  4. Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
    She's entertaining enough, and like most fashion documentaries, it's a mine of pop-cultural history, but the unswervingly generous assessment of her achievements and permanently arch vocal style become a little wearying.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Hysteria
    Gyllenhaal rises above the tedium; sadly, not far enough. Great English accent, though.
  6. Savages
    Sadly, Savages plays up to Stone's worst tendencies: machismo, bombast and self-indulgence, and the factor that could conceivably have made this movie tolerable – humour – is off the menu.
  7. Butter
    There's something about this film's churn of goo and grit that lingers ambivalently, difficult to digest.
  8. The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best
    The comedy is at odds, perhaps even at war, with the gravitational downward pull of bittersweet seriousness, and the sucrose content is pretty high by the end. But it's an entertaining film.
  9. Hope Springs
    As the couple try to rekindle the bedroom flame the note of cutesy comedy kicks in and the movie gets phonier and phonier.
  10. ParaNorman
    It's a likable scary story – with hints of Tim Burton and Steven Spielberg.
  11. To Rome with Love
    Baldwin has some brilliant moments as he icily dismisses Monica's posturing: his final closeup – heavy-lidded, undeceived – is fascinating and rather chilling.
  12. 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.
  13. Hyde Park on Hudson
    Sometimes a film takes your breath away by dint of its brilliance. Sometimes it's on account of its ineptitude. And just occasionally, it's for its shamelessness. Hyde Park on Hudson, for all its captivating shots of cornfields and estimable performances, is the latter.
  14. The Impossible
    Part of the appeal of this affecting and powerful drama is that it puts the viewer right in the moment at every stage, using authentic locations and tsunami survivors to hammer home the reality of this tragedy.
  15. Rust and Bone
    What could have been simply bizarre, sentimental or contrived here becomes an utterly absorbing love story.
  16. End of Watch
    Despite the violence and procedural detail, this is about as gritty as Dixon of Dock Green.
  17. Seven Psychopaths
    There are scenes of complete brilliance, Walken is better than he's been in years, cute plot loops and grace notes.
  18. 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.
  19. The Queen of Versailles
    Never has grotesque wealth looked so unenviable, or its removal been so entertaining, as in this garishly watchable riches-to-rags documentary.
  20. Anna Karenina
    The Wright/Stoppard Anna Karenina is not a total success, but it's a bold and creative response to the novel.
  21. Argo
    There's a degree of puffery in the writing, however, that makes this drama untrustworthy.
  22. Looper
    Once you commit to the lexicon – to the blunderbusses, the silver, the loops that close and the loops let run – you're in for a breathless ride. It's been a patchy summer for sci-fi, absent of anything that really sticks in the mind. Johnson's deep, distinctive film plays on repeat.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dredd
    In a world of compromised adaptations, Dredd is something of a triumph.
  24. [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.
  25. Girl Model
    This fantastically depressing film ought to be shown in school assemblies, or wherever impressionable pre-teens gather to discuss their dreams of media stardom.
  26. Las Acacias
    Exhilarating and moving. This is a very satisfying love story.
  27. Killing Them Softly
    This is an unrepentantly cynical take on the hope-and-change promised to the US in 2008; this year's election race makes it look even bleaker, an icily confident black comedy of continued disillusion.
  28. The Inbetweeners Movie
    They could have called it British Pie, but this TV sitcom spin-off updates the teen summer holiday formula surprisingly entertainingly, considering it doesn't subvert it one iota.
  29. The Master
    The themes may be contentious, but the handling is perfect. If there were ever a movie to cause the lame to walk and the blind to see, The Master may just be it.
  30. Total Recall (2012)
    It's a bit of a flavourless CGI-fest, without the character and comedy of the Arnie version, and it never really gets to grips with the idea of "reality" as a slippery, malleable concept.
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