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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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    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Run Silent Run Deep
    Hairy-chested drama aboard a US submarine, cruising dodgy Pacific waters after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Clark Gable is impressive as sole survivor of a sunk sub, given command of another. [06 May 2006, p.53]
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
    Global warming? Walter Pidgeon's Admiral Nelson has the answer in this lively, colourful sci-fi adventure. [11 Mar 2006, p.53]
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Support Your Local Sheriff!
    Lawman James Garner with only drunken Jack Elam by his side takes on town heavies Walter Brennan, Bruce Dern and their gunmen: it has a Hawksian, sub-Rio Bravo ring, but this is an affectionate and funny parody of such westerns. [25 Mar 2006, p.53]
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  4. The Sterile Cuckoo
    An interesting feature, almost a B-side to The Graduate in its way, without the predatory older characters.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Them!
    This is one of the better films of its kind. [31 Jul 1954, p.3]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    They Died with Their Boots On
    They Died With Their Boots On is a shameful whitewashing of history. Great battles, though.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Window
    Tight, claustrophobic direction by Ted Tetzlaff. [12 Apr 1990]
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  8. The Protagonists
    Admittedly Guadagnino throws a little too much into the directorial kitchen sink, but what could have been tasteless and exploitative emerges instead as intelligent and dignified, held together by Swinton’s seriousness of purpose.
  9. Harvey
    Structurally the film is a little shaggy but each time you feel it starting to dip, Stewart (and Harvey) brings it back on track.
  10. The Idiots
    The Idiots works as a situationist provocation about a situationist provocation, though claiming the sentimental high ground at the end. As ever, von Trier gets points for his sheer chutzpah.
  11. Coraline
    It’s a nifty little tale of jeopardy and the eternally fascinating idea of breaking away from your parents: part frightening, part liberating.
  12. Quantum of Solace
    Quantum of Solace isn't as good as Casino Royale: the smart elegance of Craig's Bond debut has been toned down in favour of conventional action. But the man himself powers this movie; he carries the film: it's an indefinably difficult task for an actor. Craig measures up.
  13. Inkheart
    CGI fantasy adventures in the post-Potter, young-adult, old-child mode are not quite my taste, but this one is likably boisterous, and Iain Softley directs with flair.
  14. The World Is Not Enough
    Brosnan brings an intelligence and wit, together with a lightness, to the role - his softly Celtic vowels pleasingly reminiscent of Sean - along with a plausible virility Roger Moore never quite managed. And Pierce wears some beautifully tailored suits as to the manor born.
  15. Erin Brockovich
    Erin Brockovich is a study in Hollywood optimism, and Roberts sells it hard.
  16. Showgirls
    Maybe it’s the last great mainstream exploitation picture, a film which owns and flaunts its crassness; a bi-curious catfight version of All About Eve or Pretty Woman.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
    A cast-iron, self-evident hit, but also just a tiny bit boring, perhaps?
  18. Fight Club
    It really is very very long; watching it like going to an all-night movie show where the only film is Fight Club. Yet it’s tremendously directed and performed with brio.
  19. GoldenEye
    From the current vantage point, this film, not yet entirely dominated by digital effects, looks like a 1960s-vintage second world war film.
  20. Breakfast at Tiffany's
    The movie still looks very good, and you'd need a heart of stone not to love the cat. [Review of re-release]
  21. Animal House
    A period piece, still reasonably funny.
  22. The Killer Inside Me
    The Killer Inside Me is a particular distillation of male hate, as practised by repulsive and inadequate individuals who have been encouraged to see themselves as essentially decent by virtue of the trappings of authority in which they have wrapped themselves. And Winterbottom is tearing off the mask.
  23. The Magician
    It looks and feels like an exceptional student film...Choppy editing and erratic time-shifts tend to undercut rather than enhance the character Ryan has magicked up. [5 May 2006, p.8]
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      • Posted Aug 4, 2022
  24. Fast Five
    For all its absurdity and the family friendly bloodlessness (despite the copious violence), it spins along very smoothly and efficiently.
  25. 13 Assassins
    Over the past decade, director Takashi Miike has churned out gleefully extreme films Audition, Ichi the Killer and Visitor Q, but it's difficult to detect much subversion in this sober, classical effort
  26. Captain America: The First Avenger
    The movie cleverly spins a meta-fictional "origin" myth for Captain America: explaining that he was in fact a propagandist comic-book superhero before becoming a real one. The final scene of the film, and Captain America's very last line, are rather brilliant – though admittedly less brilliant if their sole purpose is to set up sequels.
  27. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
    It's solid entertainment.
  28. We Bought a Zoo
    It's a bit sucrose, especially at the beginning, but this traditional, sweet-natured family film will tug on the heartstrings.
  29. xXx: Return of Xander Cage
    Vin, great ridiculous beefcake lunk that he is, does provide us with some fun.
  30. Melancholia
    The film is entirely ridiculous, often quite boring, with a script showing worrying signs of being cobbled together. But even as a longtime Von Trier doubter, I now have to admit it grows on you; there's a mawkish fascination and some flashes of real visual brilliance.
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