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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. 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.
  2. Star Trek Into Darkness
    People are unlikely to charge out of the cinema with quite the same level of glee as they did in 2009; but this is certainly an astute, exhilarating concoction.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dredd
    In a world of compromised adaptations, Dredd is something of a triumph.
  4. Gravity
    The film thrums with an ongoing existential dread. And yet, tellingly, Cuaron's film contains a top-note of compassion that strays at times towards outright sentimentality.
  5. The Amazing Spider-Man 2
    Webb's film is bold and bright and possesses charm in abundance. It swings into the future and carries the audience with it.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
    What makes this such a striking film is how the larger scope works perfectly in tandem with the very specific time and setting.
  9. The Yellow Sea
    A deafening explosion of energy, gruesome violence and chaos.
  10. Captain Phillips
    This a quasi-war movie set in peacetime; these men are fighting to the death, but not for nation or principle or ideology — or at least, not a conscious ideology: they are caught in larger economic currents.
  11. Inside Out
    It hasn’t anything as genuinely emotionally devastating as Up, or the subtlety and inspired subversion of Monsters Inc. and the Toy Stories which it certainly resembles at various stages. But it is certainly a terrifically likeable, ebullient and seductive piece of entertainment, taken at full-throttle.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. Goodbye First Love
    This is a fluent, confident and deeply felt movie: unmistakably, if not exactly nakedly, autobiographical.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Your Sister's Sister
    A captivating examination of criss-crossing relationships permeated by incisive performances.
  16. 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.
  17. Beasts of the Southern Wild
    Beasts of the Southern Wild is a vividly poetic and maybe even therapeutic response to one of the most painful and mortifying episodes in modern American history, second only to 9/11.
  18. 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.
  19. Seven Psychopaths
    There are scenes of complete brilliance, Walken is better than he's been in years, cute plot loops and grace notes.
  20. Ruby Sparks
    Kazan brings to the role a sweet and dignified vulnerability, keeping rigorously to plausible human behaviour.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Frozen
    Frozen hews to real, recognisable plumb-lines and casts a lingering spell.
  22. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
    In the first movie, an injection transformed wimpy Steve Rogers into strapping Captain America; similarly, this sequel gives the flagging comic-book movie an adrenaline shot of relevance. You've got to hand it to them.
  23. The LEGO Movie
    An unexpected joy.
  24. How to Survive a Plague
    As activist Larry Kramer remarked, the movement had "its good cops and its bad cops", and there is a remarkable, angry, passionate funeral speech from campaigner Bob Rafsky that helped mobilise Act Up and awaken America's conscience.
  25. Oslo, August 31st
    An intelligent and resonant work from Norwegian director Joachim Trier, a movie that yields up its meanings and implications slowly.
  26. Pitch Perfect
    The soundtrack's ironic bent might dissuade older viewers (Simple Minds are venerated), but they'd be missing out on one of the best musical comedies since A Mighty Wind. The song's the same, but Pitch Perfect is a great cover version.
  27. 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.
  28. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
    Just as 2011's Rise of the Planet of the Apes surpassed expectations, so this sequel delivers on its promise and leaves us wanting more – which we'll almost certainly get.
  29. Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap
    With a very simple premise, rapper Ice-T – this film's presenter and co-director with Andy Baybutt – has created a very enjoyable and often fascinating movie.
  30. 2 Days in New York
    We've rarely seen comedy this smart since Woody Allen and Seinfeld left New York.
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