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For 6,601 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: 2,500 out of 6601
  2. Mixed: 3,782 out of 6601
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6601
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Phantom of the Paradise
    A garish cult thriller.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Man Who Knew Too Much
    The second version of The Man Who Knew Too Much, which Hitchcock made in 1956, is a curious film. Some of it doesn't really work.
  3. BMX Bandits
    A feast of kitsch and gaudy colour, set to the tune of an 80s synth soundtrack, the film plays like a G-rated music video. And Trenchard-Smith maintaining a buzzing energy throughout.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    TT3D: Closer to the Edge
    The speeds on such narrow, winding public roads are hair-raising and superbly photographed, the crashes spectacular and the riders far more likable than anyone involved in Formula One. Particularly engaging is the zanily amusing, leathered lunatic Guy Martin, a Lincolnshire lorry repair mechanic by day.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Fury
    Like The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Fury yokes together a spy thriller and a domestic drama while also incorporating elements of SF and horror.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ocean's 11
    Ocean's Eleven is devoid of morality other than a dedication to honour among thieves; it's consistently funny in a way that invites appreciative smiles rather than loud laughter; it's exciting without bringing disagreeable sweat to the palms; it's engaging, but never does anything as vulgar as taking us out of ourselves.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Lair of the White Worm
    Ken Russell's phallic farce starring Hugh Grant and Peter Capaldi is drearily sexist, accidentally absurd and undeniably a stinker. But its defiant disrespect for plot and taste win me over.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Pit and the Pendulum
    Corman enhances the narrative with assorted shocks and tinted flashbacks reminiscent of the silent cinema.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Absent Minded Professor
    Wacky, bouncy Disney comedy.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Lady in White
    LaLoggia directs with creepy effectiveness.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Land That Time Forgot
    A rollicking adventure that mixes Nazis, submarines and dinosaurs cannot be described as anything other than eager to entertain. [27 Jun 2007, p.3]
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    • 45 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Monster Club
    Enjoyable spoof horror in which a vampire lures a horror writer to a nightclub populated by ghouls and the like. [28 Apr 2000]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Driller Killer
    If Ferrara is indeed a Van Gogh, then The Driller Killer is his Potato Eaters – an early work that displays, in rudimentary form, all the groundbreaking innovation of the mature works.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Roberta
    Scintillating partnership of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, here still in supporting roles (to Irene Dunne), gives substance to otherwise flimsy fashion-set musical. [04 Oct 1990]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Silent Running
    The screenplay by Deric Washburn and Michael Cimino (later to collaborate on The Deer Hunter) and Steven Bochco (of subsequent Hill Street Blues fame) delivers its ecological message with humour and imagination, and Joan Baez sings the appropriate songs.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Lover Come Back
    Another glossy, witty battle-of-the-sexes comedy featuring the squeaky-clean Pillow Talk pairing of Rock Hudson and Doris Day. [28 Jan 2006, p.53]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Shanghai Express
    This melodrama the director weakens by mistaking postponement of event for suspense. But the film has compensating strength in the star, who photographs more beautifully than before and, though she is acted off the screen by Anna May Wong, shows herself unique in Hollywood by being majestically beautiful.
  18. Ali G Indahouse
    This is an entertaining venture with energy, fun and immature bad taste in abundance.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sands of Iwo Jima
    A gritty and restrained account of men at war. [04 Oct 2008, p.53]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Anderson Tapes
    A clever caper movie. [08 Oct 2011, p.46]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    3 Godfathers
    It's a comical sentimental reworking of the journey of the Magi, with John Wayne, Pedro Armendariz and Harry Carey Jr as the soft-hearted outlaws. [01 Mar 2008, p.53]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    On Moonlight Bay
    Entertainment as wholesome as mom's apple pie. [13 Jan 2007, p.53]
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    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bride of Re-Animator
    The first movie was a real tough act to follow but Yuzna - who produced the first instalment - has a real handle on the necessary sick OTT humour. [18 Oct 2003, p.83]
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Indian Runner
    What actually happens is generally predictable, degenerating into violence as the brothers test each other to the full. But the way the story is expressed is more original, since Penn lingers long enough on his scenes of rural heartland life to get more out of them than would be vouchsafed by your average American family saga. [28 Nov 1991]
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  25. Limbo
    The ending of Limbo is a disappointment, but this is a film which lingers in the mind long after the final credits.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Spider Baby or, the Maddest Story Ever Told
    Director Jack Hill went on to make plenty of classic exploitation movies, such as the more marketable Foxy Brown and Switchblade Sisters, but Spider Baby is him at his trashy, most eccentric best. [15 Jun 2013, p.23]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Scream of Fear
    The plot is nicked from Henri-Georges Clouzot's Les Diaboliques, full of guttering candles, bumps in the night, and the kind of little shocks you hate yourself for jumping at. [08 Nov 2008, p.53]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Through a Glass Darkly
    This is a noble attempt to shed light on a woman's inner struggle for existence. [02 Jul 2011, p.43]
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  29. The Young Girls Turn 25
    Best of all, though, the film is a reminder of how deliriously odd Les Demoiselles was, with its MGM-style dance routines, kitschy pastels, and Gene Kelly as honoured guest hoofer. [21 May 1993, p.4]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Chosen
    What destinguishes the film is the intensity of the performances, with Steiger giving one of his perhaps over-familiar but still compulsive portrayals of an obstinate man beset by problems which render him almost but not quite paralysed. Those who admired him in The Pawnbroker will do so again in full measure. [27 Jun 1982]
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