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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. Exodus: Gods and Kings
    It is half turkey, half triumph.
  2. 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.
  3. American Sniper
    [Clint Eastwood's] gripping, incurious film gives the impression of having not so much been directed as dictated. It stares so fixedly down the rifle sight that it is finally guilty of tunnel vision.
  4. The Gambler
    This spiral of self-imposed despair feels like part three of a trilogy of American financial darkness after Killing Them Softly and The Counsellor. The Gambler isn’t quite so audience-unfriendly, but those looking for a typical Wahlberg thriller might come away disappointed. Others looking for a less sure bet might reap the rewards.
  5. About Elly (2009)
    About Elly confirms Farhadi's shrewd judgment of pace, dramatic technique and formal control of an ensemble cast.
  6. Paddington
    Full credit to the film-makers, who manage to map their digital bear against his human co-stars and marry Bond’s antique conceit to a high-concept story.
  7. Night Will Fall
    This is an extraordinary record. But be warned. Once seen, these images cannot be unseen.
  8. The King and the Mockingbird
    It's a richly conceived treat.
  9. Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets
    You can't help thinking he's missed the point of Pulp. Their music denigrated the people as much as it celebrated them. Habicht leaves the city in love with a surface-level reading of Cocker's take on it.
  10. The Rewrite
    Perhaps any screenwriting teacher could explain why romantic comedies such as this frontload it with all the jokes in the first act, and then get progressively sentimental and humourless. This one becomes gooier and squishier until the comedy has entirely gone.
  11. Dumb and Dumber To
    I’d be lying if I said this movie didn’t crack me up on more than a few occasions.
  12. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
    Director Francis Laurence ekes a paltry story out. The special effects are limp and the script a little creaky, although somehow it still manages to thrill.
  13. A Most Violent Year
    JC Chandor’s period crime drama is rigorous, resourceful and as smart as a whip...But its canny tactical struggle remains a joy to behold.
  14. The Better Angels
    There’s slow cinema and there is boring cinema, and this is an unfortunate example of the latter.
  15. Private Peaceful
    Private Peaceful is a small-scale story in essence, which works efficiently on the non-epic scale in which it's presented.
  16. Plot for Peace
    It's a fascinating story.
  17. Interstellar
    It’s a glorious spectacle, but a slight drama, with few characters and too-rare flashes of humour. It wants to awe us into submission, to concede our insignificance in the face of such grand-scale art. It achieves that with ease. Yet on his way to making an epic, Nolan forgot to let us have fun.
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    • 80 Critic Score
    Trash
    As a mystery, Trash is compelling enough though its milieu and the outstanding performances at the centre of the movie are what set it apart.
  19. 1,000 Times Good Night
    Binoche's performance – tiresomely radiating a martyred integrity – is mannered and self-conscious, and her character's professional work is naively imagined.
  20. Still Alice
    This is an effortlessly excellent film, about a horribly hard subject.
  21. Citizenfour
    Citizenfour is a gripping record of how our rulers are addicted to gaining more and more power and control over us – if we let them.
  22. Fury
    Fury is a punchy, muscular action film, confidently put together and never anything other than watchable.
  23. Before I Go to Sleep
    It aims for sexy and/or dangerous, but the tone is dry and the pace lags.
  24. The Innocents
    Clayton brilliantly uses slow dissolves to create ghostly superimpositions, and the harmless squeals of bath-time fun, or squeakings of a pencil, suggest uncanny screams.
  25. Inherent Vice
    Anderson has all manner of fun with the tale's whirling, blurring trajectory. His film is like a jubilant spin painting in which the characters have been scattered and splattered to the furthest reaches of the frame.
  26. Bad Turn Worse
    There is talent and ambition here: the film has style, mood, references – and, inevitably, a great opening and credit sequence – though it's short on substance.
  27. Haider
    It makes the text feel newly alive, bristly, radical. A palpable hit, in any language.
  28. For Those in Peril
    The movie is intensely acted, with a sense of interior longing possibly inspired by Terrence Malick, but it is also sometimes contrived and straining self-consciously for dramatic mood and moment.
  29. Dracula Untold
    It’s no-frills, B-movie modesty might have been winning, if it weren’t so dashed-off.
  30. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
    For family entertainment, you could do a lot worse.
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