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For 6,656 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: 2,521 out of 6656
  2. Mixed: 3,814 out of 6656
  3. Negative: 321 out of 6656
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  1. Life of Crime
    It gleams with a faintly-tacky, country club sheen, as if it'd been sheep-dipped in essence of 70s and come out feeling peachy.
  2. Parkland
    If the film finally doesn't tell us anything we did not already know, the approach makes a worn-out old tragedy feel supple and urgent.
  3. Night Moves
    This director, in the past, has shown herself to be an ace with the teasing, hanging ending and Night Moves saves the best for last.
  4. Labor Day
    With its frank approach to the basics of human desire, its steady, intense focus on a small-town story which could have come straight from Douglas Sirk, Reitman's fifth feature appears to bear little resemblance the four that went before.
  5. Joe
    Joe also stands as a reminder of what a terrific actor Cage can be when he is able to harness and channel his wilder impulses.
  6. The Invisible Woman
    The Invisible Woman shies from propaganda just as Nelly shies from impropriety. Fiennes has done the right and proper thing here. He has, at 50, made a mature movie, prudent in the best possible sense.
  7. The Fifth Estate
    This is highly competent catnip for the watercooler crowd.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. Begin Again
    The film's sole saving grace is, of course, Ruffalo.
  16. 12 Years a Slave
    Stark, visceral and unrelenting, 12 Years a Slave is not just a great film but a necessary one.
  17. 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.
  18. August: Osage County
    It's bracing, but it does feel closer to panto than melodrama, more exhausting than illuminating.
  19. The Railway Man
    From time to time, the script contextualises a little clumsily...but the playing and pacing are terrific.
  20. 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.
  21. The Wind Rises
    A gorgeous yet ultimately frustrating tribute to the Japanese airplane designer Jiro Horikoshi.
  22. Out in the Dark
    There's romance and tragedy, but little depth and no nuance.
  23. No One Lives
    Director Ryuhei Kitamura ladles on the entrails like a ghoulish dinnerlady, but his three-way narrative strategies lead nowhere.
  24. 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.
  25. More Than Honey
    The mystery and beauty of bees emerge strongly enough. But should we be seriously concerned, or not?
  26. 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.
  27. 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.
  28. 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.
  29. 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.
  30. Riddick
    The results are by turns boring and bizarre, although Diesel still has some presence.
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