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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. The Woman in the Fifth
    This film has to be indulged a little, and you'll have to negotiate the stumbling block that is Hawke's stodgy, dodgy French accent.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Your Sister's Sister
    A captivating examination of criss-crossing relationships permeated by incisive performances.
  3. Dark Horse
    There is little in the film's pitch-black interior that wasn't tackled better – with more bite, wit and abandon – in "Happiness," "Welcome to the Dollhouse," or "Storytelling."
  4. Corpo Celeste
    An accomplished debut.
  5. Bel Ami
    Robert Pattinson has to do an awful lot of hollow-eyed smouldering in this hammily enunciated French period drama, taken from the 1885 novel by Guy de Maupassant.
  6. Snow White and the Huntsman
    The result is tangled and overblown.
  7. Prometheus
    Ridley Scott has counter-evolved his 1979 classic Alien into something more grandiose, more elaborate – but less interesting. In place of scariness there is wonderment; in place of tension there is hugely ambitious design; in place of unforgettable shocks there are reminders of the original's unforgettable shocks.
  8. A Cat in Paris
    It's a slight, attractive tale: a childlike fable of a little girl and her preternaturally intelligent cat that swiftly devolves into a very old-school cops and robbers yarn.
  9. What to Expect When You're Expecting
    Someday Hollywood will think of women as more than fallopian tubes in heels; until then, we're stuck with this kind of project.
  10. Men in Black III
    It's by no means a triumph, but one of the enjoyable things about Men in Black has always been the malleable nature of its reality.
  11. Oslo, August 31st
    An intelligent and resonant work from Norwegian director Joachim Trier, a movie that yields up its meanings and implications slowly.
  12. Moonrise Kingdom
    A very charming, beautifully wrought, if somehow depthless film - eccentric but heartfelt, and thought through to the tiniest, quirkiest detail in the classic Anderson style.
  13. The Samaritan
    A clotted, knotted, twisty noir that is, unfortunately, short on the required atmosphere.
  14. Jeff Who Lives at Home
    The film is watchable and often funny, but still seems encumbered with a kind of Sundance-indie self-consciousness, and I wondered if, in the end, it was doing anything more than the far more unassuming and gag-packed Harold & Kumar movies.
  15. The Dictator
    The Dictator isn't going to win awards and it isn't as hip as Borat. Big goofy outrageous laughs is what it has to offer.
  16. Dark Shadows
    This really is a reasonably, moderately, whelmingly good film.
  17. Bonsái
    Jiménez's drama is crisply imprinted; another fine recent Chilean effort.
  18. Patience (After Sebald)
    In keeping with the spirit of Sebald's writing, Gee's film is teasing, elegant and perhaps inevitably unresolved: an invitation as opposed to a destination.
  19. Silent House
    It's still atmospheric enough, and like the original, has a quasi-theatrical event status. But it feels like a copy.
  20. American Reunion
    Inevitably, the guys wind up sentimentally telling each other they should do this every year. Please no.
  21. Goodbye First Love
    This is a fluent, confident and deeply felt movie: unmistakably, if not exactly nakedly, autobiographical.
  22. Tonight You're Mine
    A jaw-droppingly self-indulgent, shallow, smug if mercifully brief feature with a plot that looks like the outline for a pop video.
  23. Mother's Day
    An ingenious idea for a suspense thriller – or maybe even an old-fashioned, "Wait Until Dark"-style stage play – turns out instead to be the pretext for a crass, over-long and tiresome splatter nightmare.
  24. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
    It is oddly like an Agatha Christie thriller with all the pasteboard characters, 2D backstories and foreign locale, but no murder.
  25. A Little Bit of Heaven
    This film is one long biopsy of pure horror: the tumours of sentimentality and bad acting metastasise everywhere, and Bernal, in particular, is horrendously bad.
  26. The Avengers
    It's fun to watch Whedon pitch his heroes against each other. Child's play, maybe, but entertaining all the same.
  27. Elles
    Binoche rises above the lubricious material by giving a thoroughly detailed and committed performance as the journalist.
  28. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
    It feels as if you've seen it many times before. Bill Nighy isn't in it, for example, and yet afterwards I had an intense memory of Bill Nighy being in it, the way amputees can feel their toes itching.
  29. Lockout
    Pearce has fun; world-weary in the style of a 15-year-old told one too many times to tidy his room – but shoddy special effects and the surface-level sass of the president's daughter leave this one spinning in low orbit.
  30. Marley
    What results is an immensely detailed overview of Marley's life and times, from the hillside Jamaican shack where he grew up to the snowy Bavarian clinic where he spent his last weeks in a fruitless attempt to cure the cancer that killed him in 1981, aged 36.
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