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For 6,656 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: 2,521 out of 6656
  2. Mixed: 3,814 out of 6656
  3. Negative: 321 out of 6656
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  1. Oslo, August 31st
    An intelligent and resonant work from Norwegian director Joachim Trier, a movie that yields up its meanings and implications slowly.
  2. 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.
  3. The Samaritan
    A clotted, knotted, twisty noir that is, unfortunately, short on the required atmosphere.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Dark Shadows
    This really is a reasonably, moderately, whelmingly good film.
  7. Bonsái
    Jiménez's drama is crisply imprinted; another fine recent Chilean effort.
  8. 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.
  9. Silent House
    It's still atmospheric enough, and like the original, has a quasi-theatrical event status. But it feels like a copy.
  10. American Reunion
    Inevitably, the guys wind up sentimentally telling each other they should do this every year. Please no.
  11. Goodbye First Love
    This is a fluent, confident and deeply felt movie: unmistakably, if not exactly nakedly, autobiographical.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. The Avengers
    It's fun to watch Whedon pitch his heroes against each other. Child's play, maybe, but entertaining all the same.
  17. Elles
    Binoche rises above the lubricious material by giving a thoroughly detailed and committed performance as the journalist.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. The Lady
    One of those agonisingly well-intentioned films whose heart is in the right place, but everything else is wrong.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. Damsels in Distress
    If it's possible for a picture to be at once ideal and imperfect, then Damsels fits the bill.
  26. 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.
  27. We Have a Pope
    Nanni Moretti's new film is occasionally amusing, but is also a frustrating and directionless experience.
  28. 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.
  29. Iron Sky
    It's not terrible, by any means: just not nearly as funny or cruel as its killer premise suggests.
  30. 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.
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