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For 6,581 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: 2,495 out of 6581
  2. Mixed: 3,767 out of 6581
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6581
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  1. RoboCop
    A deafening, boring action pile-up that is more Call of Duty than Robocop.
  2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
    Young kids will find the second, more action-heavy half of the film entertaining, but everyone else will want to crawl into their shell.
  3. 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.
  4. The Hangover Part III
    This is less a caper than a trudge; a linear adventure that proceeds in fits and starts, with few surprises and fewer laughs. There's barely even a hangover.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
    This is film-making at its most cynical. But none of it actually makes much sense.
  6. Dead Man Down
    Director Niels Arden Orpev was in charge of the original "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," starring Rapace, but fails to create a revenge thriller with anything like the same focus.
  7. The Man with the Iron Fists
    It's leaden, boorish and dull.
  8. The Internship
    There is a creepy, undead feel to this lumbering comedy set in the offices of Google, and Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn have a distinct Baron Samedi look in their eyes.
  9. 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.
  10. The Family
    Robert De Niro does further damage to a reputation much battered by "The Big Wedding."
  11. Baggage Claim
    Romcom fans deserve something with more heart.
  12. Grace of Monaco
    It is a film so awe-inspiringly wooden that it is basically a fire-risk. The cringe-factor is ionospherically high.
  13. Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension
    It’s a test of one’s tolerance for watching predominantly empty frames – the anonymous performers scarcely count – in the hope something will jolt us from mounting tedium.
  14. Laurence Anyways
    It goes on for ever without getting properly started: an epic of depthless self-indulgence.
  15. Arthur Newman
    The flat-out dullness of Arthur is the point of Dante Ariola's debut feature, but it's also its undoing.
  16. Blended
    It proves very much un film de Sandler: so lazy you feel unconscionably guilty for snorting at the three jokes in its two hours that merit any response.
  17. Deliver Us From Evil
    This is television-level moviemaking top to bottom, from its preposterous premise, scenery-chomping performances, idiotic sound cues and force-fed jump-scares. Deliver Us From Evil delivers formula, and in a formulaic fashion.
  18. The Other Woman
    The Other Woman scrawls out a dumb dumb-feminist message with a big, fat marker pen.
  19. Assassin's Creed
    It’s rare to see a film quite so lacking in animus. It exists only to gouge money out of gamers. They might well want to stick to the game.
  20. Shield of Straw
    It is put together with technical competence, but is entirely cliched and preposterous, and it implodes into its own fundamental narrative implausibility.
  21. Diana
    Poor Princess Diana. I hesitate to use the term "car crash cinema". But the awful truth is that, 16 years after that terrible day in 1997, she has died another awful death.
  22. A Castle in Italy
    A strained jeu d'ésprit which is smug, precious, carelessly constructed, emotionally negligible, and above all fantastically annoying. It's a terrible waste of real acting talent.
  23. Jimmy P.
    Scenes have a habit of stopping at any second, with or without whopping soundtrack.
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