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For 1,246 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 48% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Dark Days
Lowest review score: 20 The Secret Scripture
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 512 out of 1246
  2. Mixed: 673 out of 1246
  3. Negative: 61 out of 1246
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Fast & Furious 6
    With its puerile dialogue, daft performances, flat comic repartee and ear-rupturingly loud sound levels, the experience of watching ‘Fast & Furious 6’ is like listening to death metal pour out of 500-watt speakers while being strapped to a pneumatic drill. Apart from Diesel’s likeably mild-mannered persona, there’s little here that we haven’t seen before.
  2. The Reluctant Fundamentalist
    Riz Ahmed is superb as Changez (pronounced Chan-Gez, not like the Bowie song),
  3. Mud
    It’s a broader, starrier project than either of Nichols’s previous films, and he handles the transition to the major league with relative confidence.
  4. A Hijacking
    A Hijacking’ is gripping in the way the best Danish TV is – in its no-frills authenticity.
  5. Berberian Sound Studio
    Berberian Sound Studio is like nothing before – and whether or not it ‘works’ seems almost irrelevant. In this era of cookie-cutter cinema, Strickland’s deeply personal moral and stylistic vision deserves the highest praise.
  6. Dead Man Down
    A way-too-leisurely thriller whose destination is fairly obvious from early on, but to which the talented cast apply themselves with effortful seriousness.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I'm So Excited
    I’m So Excited is the closest Almodóvar has come in years to early romps like ‘Labyrinth’, ‘Pepi, Luci, Bom’ and ‘What Have I Done to Deserve This?’
  8. Star Trek Into Darkness
    A stop-gap tale that’s modest, fun and briefly amusing rather than one that breaks new ground or offers hugely memorable set pieces.
  9. Erased
    Don’t tell Liam Neeson, but someone had the gall to make a violent Euro-thriller about a rampaging American dad without him. And not a bad one either.
  10. Olympus Has Fallen
    The thrills and the effects are cheap, but this is in hard-driving, good-humoured command of its own silliness.
  11. Evil Dead
    Despite much old-school splatter, it’s seldom frightening and oddly unfunny.
  12. Bernie
    If the crime element feels like little more than a red herring, it’s the characters that give the film its appeal.
  13. White Elephant
    Thematically, White Elephant is a vague animal and its true interest never truly comes into focus.
  14. The Place Beyond the Pines
    An enormously satisfying film: carefully observed and consistently compelling, it feels like an instant American classic, if a minor one.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    1st Night
    The standard of acting is poor beyond belief. What happened to Grant’s career that he should be in the likes of this?
  16. Post Tenebras Lux
    The film’s said to be autobiographical, but that’s entirely left to us to guess.
  17. What Richard Did
    Abrahamson has pulled off something quietly remarkable: a study of morality which never feels like a treatise, a bracingly realistic film about teenagers which never becomes patronising and a gripping melodrama which swerves sentiment. He may also have unearthed a genuine star.
  18. Love Is All You Need
    The cliché-averse will doubtless resist, but the laughter and tears here are never less than fully earned. A lovely film.
  19. Cockneys vs Zombies
    From the moment a pair of workmen crack open a seventeenth-century plague pit and unleash the undead, Matthias Hoene’s lairy, gory zombie comedy delivers.
  20. Iron Man 3
    It’s undeniably entertaining – and worth seeing for Kingsley alone – with the misfires never fully overshadowing the moments of glory.
  21. I Am Not a Witch
    A startling movie, I Am Not a Witch is many things. It’s a magic realist fable set in present-day Zambia that has plenty to say about gender and superstition. It’s also a satire, a tragedy and a comedy. And, impressively, debut writer-director Rungano Nyoni makes this heady mix work.
  22. Borg vs. McEnroe
    LaBoeuf is good, but his performance is – ironically – desperately serious, as is the tone of this film.
  23. Lean on Pete
    It's a road movie where the origin feels more interesting than the destination, but it's never less than warm and likeable.
  24. The Death of Stalin
    Like Orwell on helium, this reimagining of Stalin’s demise and the subsequent ideological gymnastics of his scheming acolytes is daring, quick-fire and appallingly funny.
  25. Stratton
    From chases on boats to bust-ups on buses, the action and locations are fitfully engaging, but the story feels cobbled together and the dialogue is often painful.
  26. God's Own Country
    Writer-director Francis Lee has drawn on his own farming background and his film is full of convincing detail. The lack of chat feels especially truthful.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Chaser
    The best moments come with two bravura and ultra-realistic chase sequences through grotty, dimly lit back allies, and director Na Hong-Jin also does his best to toy with expectations whenever possible. This playfulness, however, backfires massively in the second half when coincidence and unforeseen consequence conspire uneasily with bloody, messy results.
  28. You, the Living
    You won’t know whether to laugh or cry.
  29. Terminator Salvation
    Terminator Salvation isn’t the gritty, futuristic blitzkrieg for which fans of the first two films have been salivating. It isn’t even the slick, entertaining Hollywood blockbuster most were realistically expecting. It is a shambolic, deafening, intelligence-insulting mess, a crushing failure on almost all counts.
  30. Star Trek
    The overall impression is one of unbridled enthusiasm on the part of the film’s makers, both for its predecessors and for the brave new universe Abrams and his crew are exploring.
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