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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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    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stoker
    Literary references and symbolism abound in Stoker. You can get tied up trying to figure out who is what. That is the idea. All the clues are there. You just have to look closely.
  2. Lore
    Australian director Cate Shortland's drama is overflowing with such poetic visual touches, conjuring up a fairytale landscape of long shadows, wafting curtains and waving fronds.
  3. Mama
    It has been converted into a proficient, machine-tooled horror flick, stuffed full of shocks and buttressed with back-story. Mama got so flabby the second time around.
  4. Beyond the Hills
    Enthralling, mysterious and intimately upsetting – a terrible demonstration of how poverty creates a space which irrational fear must fill.
  5. Frances Ha
    Gerwig's performance is full of depth and nuance; self-conscious without being mawkish, clever behind the kook.
  6. Spring Breakers
    Full credit to Korine, who sustains this act of creative vandalism right through to the finish. Spring Breakers unfolds as a fever dream of teenage kicks, a high-concept heist movie with mescal in the fuel tank.
  7. Beautiful Creatures
    The plot is wildly silly and shot full of holes, maundering endlessly on its slow trawl towards the climax. But the cast at least play it like they mean it, and keep it honest for a spell.
  8. One Life
    Quite a spectacle, and a nice family outing.
  9. A Good Day to Die Hard
    I don't think it knows where it's going. I'm not even sure it cares.
  10. Room 237
    [Room 237] raises very interesting ideas about how we view a film, about what happens if we take the act of viewing down to a deeper, molecular level, and about how a movie's significance and effect need not be those intentionally willed by the director.
  11. Warm Bodies
    Zombie-ism in the movies is traditionally inspected for metaphorical qualities. Here it could simply be that we males are emotionally dead … until love revives us.
  12. Wreck-It Ralph
    For me, it never came to life.
  13. A Liar's Autobiography - The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman
    The film's depiction of the ugliness and strangeness of his self-hating LA celeb lifestyle is disturbing. Not just for Python fans.
  14. Promised Land
    Promised Land seems to lose its nerve a little politically: as it goes on, you realise it isn't about fracking at all, but a tract on machiavellian corporate behaviour and their employees' self-deception.
  15. Hitchcock
    A disappointing excursion into movie history.
  16. No
    A fascinating case study in basic-level democracy.
  17. Movie 43
    Movie 43 is sketchy, in every sense. It's a collection of short comedy films in the manner of the 70s cult classic "Kentucky Fried Movie," each with a separate director, in which many very famous actors have been persuaded to take part.
  18. Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away
    A tedious, misjudged marriage of Olympic opening ceremony, Eurovision half-time show and most recorded nightmares, Worlds Away is set in a mysterious land of make-believe.
  19. Bullet to the Head
    Even Stallone's rumbling voiceover possesses the drooping tone of a lullaby – like 45rpm vinyl played at 33. And if you think that reference is retro, you should see the actual movie.
  20. Yossi
    It's a film full of tenderness, resting on a tremendous, sad performance from Knoller.
  21. The Sessions
    The Sessions can be sugary, but it's likable.
  22. Like Someone in Love
    It is a beautifully shot, and very nicely acted beginning to something: but finally frustrating.
  23. Hors Satan (Outside Satan)
    Devotees of Dumont's earlier films – particularly his 1999 film "Humanity" – will instantly recognise the style, the locale, the narrative, the bizarre quasi-realism, in which events take place in a world infinitesimally different from the one we inhabit. As ever, the visionary, radioactive glow is compelling.
  24. Gangster Squad
    For all the guns and gore, it's as breezy and uncritical as a tale from the True Detective magazine that the cops can't help reading.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Storage 24
    The whole thing proves unexpectedly entertaining.
  26. Pitch Perfect
    The soundtrack's ironic bent might dissuade older viewers (Simple Minds are venerated), but they'd be missing out on one of the best musical comedies since A Mighty Wind. The song's the same, but Pitch Perfect is a great cover version.
  27. West of Memphis
    A gripping documentary.
  28. This Is 40
    It's not bad, exactly – but it is boring and very rarely funny. This is laboured. This is aimless. This Is 40. It's really quite a grind.
  29. Jack Reacher
    Outrageous but entertaining pulp-melodrama thriller.
  30. Barbara
    The weird oppression and seediness of the times is elegantly captured, and Hoss coolly conveys Barbara's highly strung desperation.
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