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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. Timbuktu
    Abderrahmane Sissako's passionate and visually beautiful film Timbuktu is a cry from the heart.
  2. Still the Water
    Kawase's film is sometimes beautiful and moving but I couldn't help occasionally finding it a little contrived and self-conscious.
  3. The Search
    It could be that Hazanavicius wanted, once again, to channel some of that Old Hollywood big-hearted sincerity — just as he did with his silent-movie triumph The Artist. But the outcome here is naive and misjudged.
  4. The Homesman
    Tommy Lee Jones shows some true storytelling grit in this superbly watchable frontier western; he has a muscular and confident command of narrative, driving the plot onward with a real whip-crack, and easily handles the tonal swings between brutal shock, black comedy and sentimentality.
  5. Clouds of Sils Maria
    If Assayas's film finally falls just shy of being great art itself, it is at least handsomely staged and played with conviction.
  6. Saint Laurent
    Saint Laurent is a well made but bafflingly airless and claustrophobic film.
  7. Two Days, One Night
    A tense dramatic situation and a subtly magnificent central performance from Marion Cotillard add up to an outstanding new movie from the Dardenne brothers.
  8. The Captive
    As a straight procedural, this might have worked if Egoyan did not try the audience's patience and insult their intelligence with how utterly implausible his drama is. But line by line, scene by scene, it is offensively preposterous and crass.
  9. Maps to the Stars
    The status-anxiety, fame-vertigo, sexual satiety and that all-encompassing fear of failure which poisons every triumph are displayed here with an icy new connoisseurship, a kind of extremism which faces down the traditional objection that films like this are secretly infatuated with their subject.
  10. Mr. Turner
    What a glorious film this is, richly and immediately enjoyable, hitting its satisfying stride straight away. It's funny and visually immaculate; it combines domestic intimacy with an epic sweep and has a lyrical, mysterious quality that perfumes every scene, whether tragic or comic.
  11. Leviathan
    Leviathan is acted and directed with unflinching ambition, moving with deliberative slowness and periodically accelerating at moments of high drama and suspense. It isn't afraid of massive symbolic moments and operatic gestures.
  12. Goodbye to Language 3D
    It is an uncompromising and exasperating 70-minute cine-collage placed before us on a take-it-or-leave-it basis, composed of fragments of ideas, shards of disillusionment.
  13. Mommy
    Dolan's energy and attack is thrilling; his movie is often brilliant and very funny in ways which smash through the barriers marked Incorrect and Inappropriate.
  14. Winter Sleep
    In fits and starts, this is a stunning picture. At its best, Winter Sleep shows Ceylan to be as psychologically rigorous, in his way, as Ingmar Bergman before him.
  15. Coming Home
    A sweet yet suspect romantic drama.
  16. The Rover
    Michôd creates a good deal of ambient menace in The Rover; Pearce has a simmering presence. But I felt there was a bit of muddle, and the clean lines of conflict and tension had been blurred: the dystopian future setting doesn't add much and hasn't been very rigorously imagined.
  17. Foxcatcher
    It is a gripping film: horrible, scary and desperately sad.
  18. Wrinkles
    This movie has the same desolate quality as Philip Larkin's poem The Building, and yet it is tender and lovable, too.
  19. Welcome to New York
    Welcome to New York proves thoroughly engrossing. Here is a work of ragged glory; dirty and galvanic. [Unrated Version]
  20. X-Men: Days of Future Past
    Non-devotees might well give up, but director Bryan Singer always has a neat special effect, a well-timed gag or an action set piece around the corner, whipping up the action towards a symphonic climax.
  21. Half of a Yellow Sun
    the film is often stately and sluggish with some very daytime-soapy moments of emotional revelation.
  22. Godzilla
    While many people might want to go to the cinema to see Godzilla, what they get instead is a load of homosapiens desperately trying to put a human face on the drama.
  23. The Wedding Video
    We get one or two outrageous sight gags and massive "getting progressively drunk" montages, and some neatly managed comedy on the laugh-with/laugh-at borderline.
  24. Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
    Perhaps as a parable, simplicity is what is required, although sometimes the film does not rise to tragedy. Visually, Age of Uprising is classy and plausible, but delivers less than it promises.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ping Pong Summer
    It's gawky and awkward, but just like Rad's breakdancing worm, this one gets better as it goes along.
  26. The Other Woman
    The Other Woman scrawls out a dumb dumb-feminist message with a big, fat marker pen.
  27. The Bachelor Weekend
    One or two set pieces don't quite have the requisite heft, yet the movie clicks whenever co-writer/director John Butler stops to admire the scenery.
  28. Last Passenger
    Nooshin holds on to a strain of logic that doesn't often survive at this level of filmmaking.
  29. The Quiet Ones
    The arrestingly fierce Cooke, in particular, is surely a star in the making.
  30. Obvious Child
    A glorious jumping bean comedy that moves from the profane to the poignant in the blink of an eye.
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