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For 6,554 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: 2,481 out of 6554
  2. Mixed: 3,754 out of 6554
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6554
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  1. The Danish Girl
    Well-meaning and polished as it is, The Danish Girl is a determinedly mainstream melodrama that doesn’t really offer new perspectives on its theme.
  2. Black Mass
    Scott Cooper’s Black Mass is a big, brash, horribly watchable gangster picture taken from an extraordinary true story and conceived on familiar generic lines.
  3. Legend
    It’s a disappointingly shallow take on a fascinating period of time and leaves us sorely uninformed, as if we’ve skim-read a pamphlet. The legend might live on but Legend certainly won’t.
  4. Spotlight
    Spotlight never hits the heights of passion, but capably and decently tells an important story.
  5. Beasts of No Nation
    Fukunaga brings flair, muscular storytelling, directness and a persuasively epic sweep to this brutal, heartrending movie.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A Walk in the Woods
    A Walk in the Woods is certainly no Butch Cassidy, but it is interesting to check in with these two still-compelling codgers.
  7. Everest
    Everest is a frustrating movie in many ways – despite some lurches and shocks, it doesn’t quite deliver the edge-of-your-seat thrills that many were hoping for, and all those moderately engaging characters mean that there is no centrally powerful character.
  8. War Room
    One can always keep praying that the next of these films will be a little better.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Welcome to Leith
    It is as well-balanced and observed a documentary as there is, even if no sane human being could side with Cobb and his people.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Finders Keepers
    Finders Keepers pays as much attention to the comedy of the story as the humanity. What could easily be a silly saga or a simple indictment of the culture of fame becomes something diabolically more insightful and uplifting.
  11. The Golden Dream
    It's a tough, absorbing and suspenseful drama, excellently acted by its three non-professional leads.
  12. The Mend
    Many a first-time film-maker thinks they are too good to follow any sort of rules, and blends genres by writing from a purely instinctual level. More often than not, the result is unpalatable. The Mend, somewhat miraculously, is here to buck the trend. Let’s just hope that not too many people decide to follow its lead.
  13. Jafar Panahi's Taxi
    Taxi grew on me. It is not as angry and painful as his previous work, the samizdat This Is Not a Film, but it is subtle, humorous and humane. It tells you more about modern Iran, I think, than you’ll discover on the news.
  14. Station to Station
    The artists’ blathering about the creative process and the nature of existence gets monotonous. It’s the ordinary folk that keep the film on-track.
  15. Hitman: Agent 47
    This vaguely science-fiction action picture based on a video game (and not a sequel to 2007’s Hitman) is an idiotic mess with a bafflingly dense prologue, an endless final battle, lifeless performances and anticlimactic twists, but it does have a degree of visual flair.
  16. American Ultra
    Unfortunately both Eisenberg and Stewart, both frequently brilliant, are on unsure footing here. The movie simply doesn't know if it wants to be Jason Bourne or Cheech and Chong.
  17. Learning to Drive
    [A] touching, insightful and, at the end of the day, extremely well-meaning film.
  18. Tom at the Farm
    The psychological thriller form has imposed on Dolan some discipline, and brought out his talent and energy.
  19. The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
    There’s some nice early-60s period production design and the whole thing moves along smoothly, if unhurriedly. But it never delivers anything like the punch of Tom Cruise’s M:I adventures, nor the wit and distinctiveness of 007.
  20. The Gift
    The debutant director applies himself with the same quiet assurance and attention to detail he’s displayed in his acting projects.
  21. The Falling
    This is terrific film-making – enough to bring a rush of blood to the head.
  22. Fantastic Four
    The cast are some of the most promising actors of their generation, but what chemistry there is between them is swept away by wave after wave of expository dialogue and ludicrous exclamation.
  23. Ricki and the Flash
    Ricki and the Flash’s emotional intensity creeps up on you, and it’s all due to the performances. Everyone’s sympathetic, everyone’s got depth.
  24. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
    It's solid entertainment.
  25. Straight Outta Compton
    The first half of Straight Outta Compton, F Gary Gray’s two-and-a-half hour opus about the birth of west coast gangsta rap, is bursting with energy, exuberance and inspiration. The second half is immobilised by bloat and sanctification.
  26. The Kindergarten Teacher
    One of the most fascinating, if inscrutable films of the year.
  27. A Brilliant Young Mind
    This is an attractively unparochial drama with a bracing interest in excellence.
  28. The Seventh Dwarf
    The script balances kiddie-friendly winsomeness and knowing winks for grownups, and is more tightly constructed than you’d expect, with even fleeting throwaway gags delivering plot payoffs later on.
  29. Vacation
    Helms, a funny performer, is just the face of a mining expedition for easy yuks out of a recognised title. What that says about our regurgitative culture is rather depressing. There’s so much nostalgia on our screens right now. I could really use a vacation.
  30. Zipper
    What’s ultimately frustrating about Zipper is that it seems like it has something important to say about infidelity and the sex industry, but can’t decide what that should be.
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