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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. Stand Up Guys
    Some nice touches, though it needs to be indulged.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Last Vegas
    Last Vegas is a good-natured bimbo of a movie, it'll do just about anything to please you, though luckily that includes delivering the 20 big laughs you feel you're owed (unlike The Hangovers), and gently jerking a tear or two. You enjoy it in spite of yourself.
  3. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
    Like Agatha Christie’s detective novels, there would appear little in the way of aesthetic – as opposed to technological – progression; having set the tone so definitively at the outset, each film delivered exactly what it promised.
  4. Penguins of Madagascar
    Penguins of Madagascar is an injection of sugar direct to the pineal gland and woe betide any parent who tries to get their children to take a nap after seeing it.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Kung Fu Panda 3
    This is a visually sumptuous kids’ film that will also charm adults.
  6. Pain & Gain
    The movie needed some more detachment – and brevity – but Wahlberg shows once again he has the comedy chops.
  7. The Place Beyond the Pines
    The Place Beyond the Pines is ambitious and epic, perhaps to a fault.
  8. Tales of the Night
    The pick-and-mix approach is limiting, but there's no denying these are gorgeous amuse-bouches, likely to be devoured by older, more discerning children and dyed-in-the-wool stoners alike.
  9. My Father and The Man In Black
    For Cash devotees who want a hitherto-hidden perspective on their man, though, this is invaluable viewing.
  10. The Big Picture
    The direction from Eric Lartigau keeps things moving along fast and furious: preposterous it may be, the movie is carried off with some style.
  11. We're the Millers
    Hang on for the outtake bloopers over the credits and you'll see Aniston momentarily unsure how to take a joke at her expense.
  12. Saving Mr. Banks
    Saving Mr Banks is an indulgent, overlong picture which is always on the verge of becoming a mess. Thankfully, reliable old Tom Hanks snaps his fingers and – spit, spot – everything more or less gets cleared away.
  13. Pusher (2012)
    The Pusher remake may not have the full flavour of the original, but it makes brutally clear how the economics of drugs make paranoia and violence a fact of life.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Oldboy
    Oldboy is lively but numb — checked out, as if Lee were directing it following a period of intense convalescence.
  15. A Liar's Autobiography - The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman
    The film's depiction of the ugliness and strangeness of his self-hating LA celeb lifestyle is disturbing. Not just for Python fans.
  16. In Another Country
    In Another Country looks very much like something written on a napkin and shot in the one afternoon that Huppert could come to South Korea. Slight, diverting, forgettable.
  17. Citadel
    Foy's talent lies in suggesting horror, not delivering it.
  18. La Rafle (The Round Up)
    It's a straightforward, heartfelt drama, well acted and well produced.
  19. Gimme the Loot
    Some of the movie doesn't exactly convince, and some of the scenes have an actors-improv feel to them, but there's always plenty of humour and energy.
  20. Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet
    This film is justifiably celebratory and respectful, and it reaches out beyond the rock fanbase.
  21. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
    This Anchorman sequel knows who its fans are, and does its best to keep them happy. No one will be complaining.
  22. Mud
    Mud is an engaging and good-looking picture with two bright leading performances from Sheridan and Lofland.
  23. Hercules
    There are some rousing battle scenes, preceded by stirring addresses on the subject of going to Elysium – all cheekily borrowed from Ridley Scott's "Gladiator."
  24. The Iceman
    As a demonstration of the banality of evil, The Iceman is certainly effective and Shannon's performance gives the film its power.
  25. The Taste of Money
    It is a strange slo-mo farce, well directed, highly sexualised – shallow, but sleek.
  26. Yossi
    It's a film full of tenderness, resting on a tremendous, sad performance from Knoller.
  27. The Fifth Estate
    This is highly competent catnip for the watercooler crowd.
  28. Caesar Must Die
    The most powerful thing about the film is the "audition" scene at the beginning in which the prisoners have to introduce themselves in two ways: sorrowingly, and then angrily. It is a brilliant sequence, and the rest of the film doesn't quite match it.
  29. Muppets Most Wanted
    A wasted opportunity.
  30. I'm So Excited
    It's all watchable and pretty funny, and the big setpiece is the three wildly queeny stewards Joserra, Fajas (Carlos Areces) and Ulloa (Arévalo) going into a drug-fuelled song-and-dance routine: a rendering of the Pointer Sisters' I'm So Excited.
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