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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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  1. The Monk
    It is not a story of great depth or passion, but there are intriguing and unsettling moments on its well-crafted surface.
  2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
    It's perfectly workable popcorn entertainment for the school holidays.
  3. Love Exposure
    Deeply strange and politically incorrect, ­baffling, and often funny.
  4. Happy, Happy
    Like Kaja (Agnes Kittelsen), the wide-eyed Madame Bovary at its heart, Happy, Happy starts out cartoonish and ends up oddly endearing.
  5. Les Miserables
    By the end, you feel like a piñata: in pieces, the victim of prolonged assault by killer pipes.
  6. Anna Karenina
    The Wright/Stoppard Anna Karenina is not a total success, but it's a bold and creative response to the novel.
  7. The Woman in the Fifth
    This film has to be indulged a little, and you'll have to negotiate the stumbling block that is Hawke's stodgy, dodgy French accent.
  8. Gangster Squad
    For all the guns and gore, it's as breezy and uncritical as a tale from the True Detective magazine that the cops can't help reading.
  9. Argo
    There's a degree of puffery in the writing, however, that makes this drama untrustworthy.
  10. Into the Abyss
    It is a sombre, thoughtful, restrained and often powerful piece of work.
  11. Warm Bodies
    Zombie-ism in the movies is traditionally inspected for metaphorical qualities. Here it could simply be that we males are emotionally dead … until love revives us.
  12. Magic Mike
    Oddly, Magic Mike somehow looks like a much darker and more challenging movie than is actually the case.
  13. The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
    As ever with comedies like this, all the really funny stuff is in the opening 20 minutes. But it's entertaining stuff, with a scene-stealer from Alan Arkin.
  14. Ender's Game
    The movie's apocalyptic finale indicates that it's bitten off considerably more than it can chew in terms of ideas, but it looks good, and the story rattles along.
  15. Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
    She's entertaining enough, and like most fashion documentaries, it's a mine of pop-cultural history, but the unswervingly generous assessment of her achievements and permanently arch vocal style become a little wearying.
  16. Silver Linings Playbook
    Likable, watchable and has a nice supporting turn from Robert De Niro; I'm not sure I wouldn't rather watch this again than the macho acting in Russell's boxing drama "The Fighter."
  17. Evil Dead
    It is nowhere near as creepy as the recent indie horror "V/H/S," but it is a full-bloodedly grisly and macabre film that zaps over a few scares.
  18. Hyde Park on Hudson
    Sometimes a film takes your breath away by dint of its brilliance. Sometimes it's on account of its ineptitude. And just occasionally, it's for its shamelessness. Hyde Park on Hudson, for all its captivating shots of cornfields and estimable performances, is the latter.
  19. Frankenweenie
    It's a likable film, though not a sensational development in Tim Burton's career.
  20. Silent House
    It's still atmospheric enough, and like the original, has a quasi-theatrical event status. But it feels like a copy.
  21. The Decoy Bride
    It's indulgent, but Macdonald's performance is attractive and relaxed.
  22. For a Good Time, Call...
    The dialogue, penned by Miller with Katie Anne Naylon, is subversively salty: surpassing even those Judd Apatow comedies to which it's indebted, this is almost certainly the filthiest movie ever to bear the Universal logo.
  23. Jack Reacher
    Outrageous but entertaining pulp-melodrama thriller.
  24. The Smurfs 2
    The interplay between animated and live-action elements remains a selling point: Hank Azaria again gives exemplary pantomime as Gargamel.
  25. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
    Fortunately, the animators get stuck in: the foodscape Flint's party passes through is again wittily realised, each frame sprinkled with colourful hybrid creations, from "flamangos" to "shrimpanzees".
  26. Tatsumi
    The slightly slushy tone of celebration rather obtusely fails to engage with the nihilist, pessimist nature of Tatsumi's work. Anyway, an intriguing event.
  27. A Simple Life
    A Simple Life is a tear-jerker, but thoughtful and intelligent, with an anti-sentimental dimension.
  28. Noah
    Impressive as much of his film is, however, Aronofsky never quite solves the main challenge of the semi-literal biblical adaptation: what is so economical, and beautifully expressed, on the page can become a heavy, lumbering beast when translated into conventional narrative.
  29. Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
    The weakness is in the material: these are second-string Miller yarns... But the vision remains uncompromising and it dazzles far more than any sequel should.
  30. 42
    Boseman hits his key scenes out of the park, making a swell couple with Shame's Nicole Beharie, while Helgeland stages Robinson's signature base-stealing with undeniable aplomb.
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