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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 Wolf of Wall Street
    The Wolf of Wall Street, for all its abundant appeal, is no Greek tragedy. It lacks the wildness of Taxi Driver, the jeopardy of GoodFellas and the anguish of Raging Bull. Far better to view this as a stylistic homage, a remastered greatest hits compilation, an amiable bit of self-infringement.
  2. 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.
  3. A Fantastic Fear of Everything
    Crispian Mills's London-based horror-comedy is so spectacularly bungled that it leaves the viewer in a state of advanced petrification.
  4. The Christmas Candle
    A real Christmas miracle would cause every copy of this film to spontaneously burst into flames.
  5. Fill the Void
    The story unfolds intriguingly within an intimate, almost claustrophobic environment. There is perhaps something ultimately undeveloped about it, but the film is a well acted, well presented piece of work.
  6. Big Bad Wolves
    The actors lend it a sick heft, and there are droll, region-specific footnotes...but one senses the sniggering film-makers playing variably funny games with our phobia of pedophiles, rather than having anything lasting to say about it.
  7. Black Nativity
    Beneath middling songs – walloped out in the artless, post-Cowell manner – there's something faintly touching about its vision of broken homes.
  8. Getaway
    You watch the resultant, wholly bloodless carnage with brain in neutral and eyes glazing over, as you would a re-run of Police, Camera, Action! at two in the morning.
  9. Homefront
    [Jason Statham] has some nice, relaxed moments with onscreen daughter Izabela Vidovic, and gets to fulfil half his audience's fantasies in wiping the smirk from James Franco's face.
  10. Trap for Cinderella
    Looks dated and clunky, like a drawn-out episode of Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected on TV, and the direction doesn't have Softley's usual drive.
  11. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
    The Desolation of Smaug is a cheerfully entertaining and exhilarating adventure tale, a supercharged Saturday morning picture: it's mysterious and strange and yet Jackson also effortlessly conjures up that genial quality that distinguishes The Hobbit from the more solemn Rings stories.
  12. American Hustle
    It is an intriguing confection of a movie, announcing its influences candidly, but exerting its originality too.
  13. Cold Comes the Night
    Even Cranston looks to be on auto-pilot here: he comes stomping through the action with a perma-scowl that suggests that his break from playing Walter White is little more than a busman's holiday.
    • 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. Dirty Wars
    The movie has rather silly, Bourne-style thriller graphics, which are unnecessary: it has an important story to tell.
  16. Free Birds
    Enjoyable, with some funny lines.
  17. Leviathan
    Not an easy watch, and something in which you must make an investment of attention – but a fascinating piece of work.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Frozen
    Frozen hews to real, recognisable plumb-lines and casts a lingering spell.
  19. Flu
    Coughs and sneezes do indeed spread diseases in this amusingly feverish thriller, a Korean attempt to take back some of those lurgies let loose by Soderbergh's colder-blooded "Contagion."
  20. The Family
    Robert De Niro does further damage to a reputation much battered by "The Big Wedding."
  21. Anton Corbijn Inside Out
    At times it looks like a parade of celebs, but the film comes belatedly to the point when it discusses Corbijn's parents, particularly his late father, whose approval Anton sought but perhaps never quite got.
  22. In Fear
    Lovering coolly sticks to a rule often disregarded by horror movies looking for an instant scare: the weird, tense build-up is just as disturbing as the reveal.
  23. Dom Hemingway
    Everyone is trying way too hard and Dom's final speech is toe-curlingly misjudged and charmless.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Best Man Holiday
    The Best Man Holiday takes advantage of the actors' pre-existing chemistry to add zing to standard tropes of midlife crisis and melodrama.
  25. Weekend of a Champion
    The movie has some real archival value and the simple juxtaposition of Polanski and Stewart – the oddest couple in Cannes, surely – has a surreal impact. But I wonder if there isn't something a little bit placid and self-satisfied about the film, which is paced remarkably slowly, given the subject matter.
  26. Everyday
    A valuable, meticulously observed and wonderfully acted social-realist feature about a family under pressure.
  27. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
    What lets the movie down is its heart, or lack thereof. The reprise of the Games introduces new adversaries (and some allies) but has exactly the same dynamic as in the first movie.
  28. How to Survive a Plague
    As activist Larry Kramer remarked, the movement had "its good cops and its bad cops", and there is a remarkable, angry, passionate funeral speech from campaigner Bob Rafsky that helped mobilise Act Up and awaken America's conscience.
  29. Love Tomorrow
    Frankly, the performances and line-readings are uneven. The couple's journey through night-time London is interesting: both have a painful past that they are at first reluctant to discuss, especially Maya, but these disclosures are not dramatically developed in any really satisfying way.
  30. Pandora's Promise
    This film certainly chops up a few sacred cows. Could it be that the anti-wind brigade will have to make common cause with climate change scientists?
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