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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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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Arbitrage
    You've seen it all before, but lead Richard Gere drenches the proceedings in the old razzle-dazzle.
  2. Alps
    Follow the film-maker. Let him lead you by the nose. Lanthimos knows exactly where he's going.
  3. Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
    The endlessly prolific Takashi Miike returns with this superbly acted revenger's tragedy.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stoker
    Literary references and symbolism abound in Stoker. You can get tied up trying to figure out who is what. That is the idea. All the clues are there. You just have to look closely.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lincoln
    If only modern American politics were remotely as entertaining.
  6. The Impossible
    Part of the appeal of this affecting and powerful drama is that it puts the viewer right in the moment at every stage, using authentic locations and tsunami survivors to hammer home the reality of this tragedy.
  7. Jayne Mansfield's Car
    It's ambitious enough to aim at polished, intelligent character drama, and pulls it off successfully.
  8. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
    Let's hope Klayman gets to make a sequel.
  9. Dreams of a Life
    Dreams of a Life is a painful film, a Christmas film with no feelgood message, but one which I think would in fact have interested Charles Dickens. Watching it is an almost claustrophobic experience, but a very powerful and moving one.
  10. The Paperboy
    Nicole Kidman gives her best performance since "To Die For."
  11. The Green Wave
    Ahadu pulls the curtain back on a government that was willing to imprison and torture its electorate.
  12. Rush
    What Rush has to offer is a great human drama, two dangerously talented men pushing each other to risky victory and a superb script, delivered with some mastery by Hemsworth and Brühl.
  13. Avengers: Age of Ultron
    It’s all operatically mad, and the city-destroying final confrontation is becoming a bit familiar, but Whedon carries it off with such joy and even a kind of evangelism.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Samsara
    It may be just more of the same from Fricke, but with his unique process, another incredible-looking lap around the world is more than welcome.
  15. Rust and Bone
    What could have been simply bizarre, sentimental or contrived here becomes an utterly absorbing love story.
  16. West of Memphis
    A gripping documentary.
  17. Breathing
    The "breathing" of the title becomes a cleverly recurrent motif, and Markovics's script circles around the themes of death and life in thoughtful and elegant ways: it is a well-carpentered screenplay which bears every sign of having been a labour of love, worked on fruitfully over many years.
  18. Keep the Lights On
    Every frame pulses with hard-gained experience: it may be the most lived-in film of 2012, and certainly counts among the most moving.
  19. Las Acacias
    Exhilarating and moving. This is a very satisfying love story.
  20. The House I Live In
    Among Jarecki's interviewees is David Simon (author of The Wire) who is incandescent with contempt for the system.
  21. Two Years at Sea
    What a strange and intriguing film.
  22. Prisoners
    In his first English language film, Quebeçois director Denis Villeneuve has produced a masterful thriller that is also an engrossing study of a smalltown America battered by recession, fear and the unrelenting elements.
  23. Bad 25
    Lee wants to clear away the tabloid smoke and spite, and bring the focus back to Jackson's professionalism, his craftsmanship, his artistry and his pop genius; the movie defiantly insists that Jackson was and is superior to his detractors.
  24. Ginger & Rosa
    This is a teenage movie that could in other hands have been precious; instead it has delicacy and intelligence.
  25. Frances Ha
    Gerwig's performance is full of depth and nuance; self-conscious without being mawkish, clever behind the kook.
  26. Much Ado About Nothing
    But Whedon's key coup is in simply directing a very good version of the play. He's got a keen ear for comedy, a no-nonsense approach to ditching the gags that don't work, a deft hand for slapstick and an eagerness to use it.
  27. Upstream Color
    It is invigoratingly freaky and strange, with a Death-Valley-dry sense of humour somewhere underneath — though a little derivative sometimes. More than once, Carruth gives us a close-up on a hand ruminatively stroking a surface: very Malick. And the shots of creepy creatures swarming under the skin are very Cronenberg.
  28. To the Wonder
    At its best, Malick's cinematic rhapsody is glorious; during his uncertain moments, he appears to be repeating himself. But what delight there is in this film.
  29. Tabu
    It's a gem: gentle, eccentric, possessed of a distinctive sort of innocence – and also charming and funny.
  30. Barbara
    The weird oppression and seediness of the times is elegantly captured, and Hoss coolly conveys Barbara's highly strung desperation.
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