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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 Dark Knight Rises
    The Dark Knight Rises may be a hammy, portentous affair but Nolan directs it with aplomb. He takes these cod-heroic, costumed elements and whisks them into a tale of heavy-metal fury, full of pain and toil, surging uphill, across the flyovers, in search of a climax.
  2. Ice Age: Continental Drift
    With the fourth film, the Ice Age family animation franchise is looking almost extinct.
  3. Magic Mike
    Oddly, Magic Mike somehow looks like a much darker and more challenging movie than is actually the case.
  4. Alps
    Follow the film-maker. Let him lead you by the nose. Lanthimos knows exactly where he's going.
  5. Trishna
    Winterbottom's location work in Jaipur and Mumbai has richness and spectacle, but somehow this does not come fully to life.
  6. The Pact
    Nicholas McCarthy's The Pact is a horror film developed from a short, and unfortunately it splits apart while being stretched out to feature length.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Brave
    For the animation studio's debut foray into fairytale, Pixar has delivered a rousing family melodrama.
  8. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
    Bekmambetov directs with gusto, and the forthright absurdity of the story, combined with its weirdly heartfelt self-belief is winning.
  9. Take This Waltz
    In theory, these are twentysomethings we're talking about. But they walk and talk like fortysomethings or fiftysomethings, such is their dullness and self-absorption.
  10. The Five-Year Engagement
    As for Violet, Emily Blunt brings to the role genuine sympathy, and she continues to thaw out the ice-queen hauteur of her earlier movies.
  11. The Amazing Spider-Man
    It's the successul synthesis of the two – action and emotion – that means this Spider-Man is as enjoyable as it is impressive: Webb's control of mood and texture is near faultless as his film switches from teenage sulks to exhilarating airborne pyrotechnics.
  12. Men on the Bridge
    All in all, this is a carefully modulated plea for tolerance and mutual understanding.
  13. Polisse
    A drama with interesting moments, but also some false notes and a wildly bizarre ending.
  14. Rock of Ages
    Doubtless, like The Producers, it will be adapted back into the theatre, some time in 2017, at which time it will be even more bland and tiring.
  15. The Woman in the Fifth
    This film has to be indulged a little, and you'll have to negotiate the stumbling block that is Hawke's stodgy, dodgy French accent.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Your Sister's Sister
    A captivating examination of criss-crossing relationships permeated by incisive performances.
  17. Dark Horse
    There is little in the film's pitch-black interior that wasn't tackled better – with more bite, wit and abandon – in "Happiness," "Welcome to the Dollhouse," or "Storytelling."
  18. Corpo Celeste
    An accomplished debut.
  19. Bel Ami
    Robert Pattinson has to do an awful lot of hollow-eyed smouldering in this hammily enunciated French period drama, taken from the 1885 novel by Guy de Maupassant.
  20. Snow White and the Huntsman
    The result is tangled and overblown.
  21. Prometheus
    Ridley Scott has counter-evolved his 1979 classic Alien into something more grandiose, more elaborate – but less interesting. In place of scariness there is wonderment; in place of tension there is hugely ambitious design; in place of unforgettable shocks there are reminders of the original's unforgettable shocks.
  22. A Cat in Paris
    It's a slight, attractive tale: a childlike fable of a little girl and her preternaturally intelligent cat that swiftly devolves into a very old-school cops and robbers yarn.
  23. What to Expect When You're Expecting
    Someday Hollywood will think of women as more than fallopian tubes in heels; until then, we're stuck with this kind of project.
  24. Men in Black III
    It's by no means a triumph, but one of the enjoyable things about Men in Black has always been the malleable nature of its reality.
  25. Oslo, August 31st
    An intelligent and resonant work from Norwegian director Joachim Trier, a movie that yields up its meanings and implications slowly.
  26. Moonrise Kingdom
    A very charming, beautifully wrought, if somehow depthless film - eccentric but heartfelt, and thought through to the tiniest, quirkiest detail in the classic Anderson style.
  27. The Samaritan
    A clotted, knotted, twisty noir that is, unfortunately, short on the required atmosphere.
  28. Jeff Who Lives at Home
    The film is watchable and often funny, but still seems encumbered with a kind of Sundance-indie self-consciousness, and I wondered if, in the end, it was doing anything more than the far more unassuming and gag-packed Harold & Kumar movies.
  29. The Dictator
    The Dictator isn't going to win awards and it isn't as hip as Borat. Big goofy outrageous laughs is what it has to offer.
  30. Dark Shadows
    This really is a reasonably, moderately, whelmingly good film.
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