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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 Fifth Estate
    This is highly competent catnip for the watercooler crowd.
  2. Fading Gigolo
    Turturro has given Allen his biggest and best on-screen turn in years: the part was written for him and it's full of scope for amiable kvetching and nimble slapstick.
  3. What If
    It's pulled this way and that by a hiddly-fiddly soundtrack, spun senseless by scene after scene of Radcliffe and Kazan trading flirtatious banter.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In a World...
    A cameo from Geena Davis is particularly tart, and all the better for it.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    White House Down
    This bona-fide big-budget Hollywood flop at least has the good grace to laugh at itself as it rolls out the dingbat-daft action-movie cliches.
  6. The Double
    The Double isn't an original idea. It wasn't even in Dostoyevsky's time. But it's a great story. And Ayoade has produced a brilliant copy.
  7. Devil's Knot
    It reduces a complex and extraordinary case to soap. It makes you care less, for all its heavy-breathing and cheapo coaxing.
  8. Dallas Buyers Club
    [McConaughey] delivers a twitchy, hostile performance on par with anything he's done since he escaped the rom com cul-de-sac.
  9. Begin Again
    The film's sole saving grace is, of course, Ruffalo.
  10. 12 Years a Slave
    Stark, visceral and unrelenting, 12 Years a Slave is not just a great film but a necessary one.
  11. Enough Said
    All in all a comedy that starts out like a pudding made of first world problems ends up warming your heart and that is in no small part down to the strength of its two leads. As a final act, it's a touching one.
  12. August: Osage County
    It's bracing, but it does feel closer to panto than melodrama, more exhausting than illuminating.
  13. The Railway Man
    From time to time, the script contextualises a little clumsily...but the playing and pacing are terrific.
  14. Insidious: Chapter 2
    Wan remains a crafty enough director to draw your eye warily across the frame. You shouldn't feel so daft for flinching this time.
  15. The Wind Rises
    A gorgeous yet ultimately frustrating tribute to the Japanese airplane designer Jiro Horikoshi.
  16. Out in the Dark
    There's romance and tragedy, but little depth and no nuance.
  17. No One Lives
    Director Ryuhei Kitamura ladles on the entrails like a ghoulish dinnerlady, but his three-way narrative strategies lead nowhere.
  18. Museum Hours
    Like José Luis Guerín's brilliant 2007 curio "In the City of Sylvia," this is one of those rare films that may change the way you view the world.
  19. More Than Honey
    The mystery and beauty of bees emerge strongly enough. But should we be seriously concerned, or not?
  20. Diana
    Poor Princess Diana. I hesitate to use the term "car crash cinema". But the awful truth is that, 16 years after that terrible day in 1997, she has died another awful death.
  21. Rush
    What Rush has to offer is a great human drama, two dangerously talented men pushing each other to risky victory and a superb script, delivered with some mastery by Hemsworth and Brühl.
  22. Prisoners
    In his first English language film, Quebeçois director Denis Villeneuve has produced a masterful thriller that is also an engrossing study of a smalltown America battered by recession, fear and the unrelenting elements.
  23. Kill Your Darlings
    Though it begins as a murder-mystery, Kill Your Darlings may be best described as an intellectual moral maze, a story perfectly of its time and yet one that still resonates today.
  24. Riddick
    The results are by turns boring and bizarre, although Diesel still has some presence.
  25. I Am Breathing
    The directors' intimate domestic images only occasionally match the humour and ruminative poetry of their subject's own, blog-published words, but ghoulishness and undue sentimentality are kept at bay.
  26. My Father and The Man In Black
    For Cash devotees who want a hitherto-hidden perspective on their man, though, this is invaluable viewing.
  27. Upstream Color
    It is invigoratingly freaky and strange, with a Death-Valley-dry sense of humour somewhere underneath — though a little derivative sometimes. More than once, Carruth gives us a close-up on a hand ruminatively stroking a surface: very Malick. And the shots of creepy creatures swarming under the skin are very Cronenberg.
  28. Pain & Gain
    The movie needed some more detachment – and brevity – but Wahlberg shows once again he has the comedy chops.
  29. One Direction: This Is Us
    I suspect a previous, wackier idea for the film was ditched in favour of a slick promotional video about their jaw-dropping global tour, but I also have to admit that this is a rather watchable record of a phenomenon.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Winnie Mandela
    The source material is Anne Marie du Preez Bezdrob's biography, and the period detail is spot on. Yet Winnie: the movie opts to wear its heart openly on its sleeve, and play it absurdly safe.
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