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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 Cabin in the Woods
    However smart and sophisticated this film is, it may disappoint those who, in their hearts, would still like to be genuinely scared.
  2. The Lady
    One of those agonisingly well-intentioned films whose heart is in the right place, but everything else is wrong.
  3. Headhunters
    The film doesn't merit chinstroking: it's stuffed with Troma-style riffs around schlock, gore and human effluvia, bookended by Shallow Grave-like sections full of cynical machinations. The parts barely relate, never mind work together.
  4. Post Mortem
    With its pale, washed-out colour palette, its eerily slow, almost somnambulist pacing and occasionally bizarre emotional demonstrations, Post Mortem is strangely gripping.
  5. Damsels in Distress
    If it's possible for a picture to be at once ideal and imperfect, then Damsels fits the bill.
  6. Tatsumi
    The slightly slushy tone of celebration rather obtusely fails to engage with the nihilist, pessimist nature of Tatsumi's work. Anyway, an intriguing event.
  7. We Have a Pope
    Nanni Moretti's new film is occasionally amusing, but is also a frustrating and directionless experience.
  8. Mirror Mirror
    It's evasive and feeble; Julia Roberts is not a properly funny or satisfying villain, and yet neither is she the interestingly flawed, even sympathetic figure she might have been if the film had kept the all-important question she asks the mirror.
  9. Iron Sky
    It's not terrible, by any means: just not nearly as funny or cruel as its killer premise suggests.
  10. Tiny Furniture
    Dunham, who pads through much of this extremely well-written, often funny and very touching film in the semi-nude, doesn't give a damn about any of it.
  11. Into the Abyss
    It is a sombre, thoughtful, restrained and often powerful piece of work.
  12. This Is Not a Film
    This Is Not a Film is a compelling personal document, a quietly passionate statement of artistic intent, and an uncompromising testament to his belief in cinema.
  13. The Pirates! Band of Misfits
    It is effortlessly and unassumingly funny – and terrifically smart.
  14. Wrath of the Titans
    Bill Nighy and Toby Kebbell liven things up in the supporting cast.
  15. The Island President
    Could Nasheed be the political Prospero to save the island – and the planet? Well, now he is out of power, and the Copenhagen summit was a disappointment. Perhaps his advocacy will help to bring the climate change issue back into political fashion.
  16. Intruders
    This is really very humdrum stuff compared to the electric strangeness of "Intact."
  17. Goon
    Brutal, bloody and presided over by a portrait of Her Majesty the Queen, the Canadian ice hockey in this movie is a cross between Rollerball and a prison riot: harking back to the robust certainties of Paul Newman's 1977 bonecruncher "Slap Shot."
  18. Act of Valor
    The gimmick behind this excruciating propagandist movie about the US special forces' war on terror is that it features not actors but actual Navy Seals.
  19. The Kid with a Bike
    The film is unafraid of emotion, unafraid of plunging into basic human ideas: the need for trust, and the search for love.
  20. The Deep Blue Sea
    Rachel Weisz performs with enormous intelligence and restraint.
  21. John Carter
    Dejah, with her seen-it-all-before smirk, is not a very sympathetic heroine, and Kitsch is stolid and dull. And as for the red planet, the answer to David Bowie's famous question is no. What a sadd'ning bore it is.
  22. The Decoy Bride
    It's indulgent, but Macdonald's performance is attractive and relaxed.
  23. Contraband
    It's a thriller in which the twists become so absurd that it becomes a kind of caper, but without the humour.
  24. We Bought a Zoo
    It's a bit sucrose, especially at the beginning, but this traditional, sweet-natured family film will tug on the heartstrings.
  25. In Darkness
    There is release at the end of this fine film, but no euphoria; just a sense of having come through a period of evil, the memory of whose darkness will never entirely lift.
  26. Bill Cunningham New York
    He lived until recently in bohemian chaos in one of the "artist apartments" in Carnegie Hall, and cares nothing for money or vanity. That's real class.
  27. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
    With his two early features, "Distant" (2002) and "Climates" (2006), Ceylan has showed himself a superb film-maker. This is his greatest so far.
  28. The Raven
    It runs out of steam in the final 10 minutes, but there's some gruesome drama and Cusack is on decent form.
  29. 21 Jump Street
    In its outrageous way, 21 Jump Street has real laughs.
  30. The Hunger Games
    The Hunger Games is that rarest of beasts: a Hollywood action blockbuster that is smart, taut and knotty. Ably filleted from the Suzanne Collins bestseller, it's a compelling, lightly satirical tale.
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