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For 6,389 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Pain and Glory
Lowest review score: 0 Surf Nazis Must Die
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,483 out of 6389
  2. Mixed: 3,431 out of 6389
  3. Negative: 475 out of 6389
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  1. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
    Welcome to the Jungle is mostly great fun, with Jack Black outrageously entertaining as a teenage girl. But we need to talk about Karen. As Ruby Roundhouse, Gillan is stuck in less clothes than one of Rihanna’s backing dancers. It’s a dig at the hypersexualization of women in video games, apparently. If so, perhaps the male director (or one of the four male writers) can explain how fixing the camera on a skimpily dressed female character makes the point.
  2. God Help the Girl
    The whole phantasmagorical enterprise is so sweetly confident that it just about gets away with its entirely casual approach to believability.
  3. The Split
    Flemyng's direction is efficient if lacking in real flair, but Burnett Guffey's crisp camera-work, the taut plotting, and the generally high standard of the performances make for a pleasing, if undemanding modern noir thriller in the tradition of The Killing and The Asphalt Jungle.
  4. Norwegian Wood
    As a chronicle of grief and passion, however, the film is perilously close to being an exercise in tactile but touchy-feely passive-aggression.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Oliver & Company
    Cornball adventure ensues, punctuated by healthy helpings of singing, dancing and general merriment.
  6. To the Wonder
    To the Wonder is arty for sure, but for the first time, its maker is working with anxieties we all feel. Let’s hope this Malick sticks around for a while.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Lady Sings the Blues
    What it tells you most about is those kitschy concepts of 'stardom' and the like on a soap-opera/backstage drama level.
  8. Zero Bridge
    Writer-director Tariq Tapa-who shot much of this vérité-style film by himself-does a beautiful job attuning us to Dilawar's drifting routine, but what's especially striking is how he gives equal weight to the supporting characters.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    ffolkes
    With more imagination, more of Faith Brook's send-up of a well-known lady PM, and less of Moore's excruciatingly smug misogyny, this might just have made it to comic levels.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Shivers
    Misanthropic, indeed, but the black humour and general inventiveness place it high above most contemporary horror pictures.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Life in a Day
    Life really sings when it's simply pulling together thematic montages - of waking up, food preparation or answers to the question "What do you fear?" - or letting a genuine moment unfold without comment.
  12. August: Osage County
    What ran more than three hours onstage now barely cracks two, and the cutting can be felt in the way the often gut-busting bad behavior is privileged over psychological credibility.
  13. It: Chapter Two
    Even as it drifts into narrative indiscipline, you appreciate the movie’s attempt to make sense of a troubled, beclowned present.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Twice in a Lifetime
    While there is an admirable depiction of 'real' people at work or settling down for the big match with a six-pack, the material is still no more than the great middle class drama of adultery, worked out with its very familiar rows and guilts. The acting, however, is a fascinating primer in just who can handle the medium. Burstyn and Madigan come out as if born to the art.
  15. Troubadours
    It's such a haphazard, absent-minded history lesson that you'd think the filmmakers had ingested some of the era's pharmaceuticals before concocting this tribute.
  16. F9: The Fast Saga
    It's a bloated two-and-a-half-hour mess. An endless patchwork of weightless, computer-drawn blah and fake out ‘deaths’ that underline the total lack of stakes.
  17. Cosmopolis
    Director David Cronenberg - who knows a thing or two about bodily expressions - understands, finally, what to do with the Twilight star, turning his zombified handsomeness into a stark canvas upon which we can project our own anxieties.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dillinger
    Milius filters his story through countless B movies and detective stories, indirectly paying homage to all the different media that have contributed to the Dillinger legend, but keeps things the right side of nostalgia.
  19. Footloose
    Suffering through flatlining romantic and dramatic interludes isn't any less painful now than it was in '84, but when this musical occasionally kicks off its Sunday shoes, the dynamic memory-lane trip actually approaches - Kevin help us! - something resembling genuine fun.
  20. Gogol Bordello Non-Stop
    Non Stop doesn’t know how to hit it and quit; it’s a rock doc that screams loud and says frustratingly little
    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Crimes of the Future
    The humour couldn't be blacker, and the quality of invention is outrageously high.
  22. Pirate Radio
    Giggles, not belly laughs, come frequently, and it’ll help if viewers love U.K. comics.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Year of the Dragon
    Once again Cimino's ability to handle furious action set pieces is well to the fore: a shootout in a Chinese restaurant and a battle with two pistol-packing Chinese punkettes put him in the Peckinpah class. The connecting material, however, is by turns muddled, crass and dull, amounting mostly to Stanley's interminable self-justification.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Fortune
    Events degenerate into miscalculated farce and underline Nichols' continuing slick superficiality. Adrien Joyce's much hacked-about script sounds as though it was once excellent: a pity everyone treats it so off-handedly.
  25. Defamation
    Like Moore’s modus, Shamir’s stroll is sloppy, but his willingness to tip sacred cows is truly courageous.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Child's Play
    While some of the supernatural stuff about witch-doctors and Mojo dolls is a bit daft, Holland's sure handling of the suspense and shock moments lends the film a sharp and scary edge.
  27. Stoker
    Drooling fanboys and "Buffy"-loving academics are sure to go wild — not that there’s anything wrong with that…right? Stoker is a gorgeous wank job; just prepare to hate yourself for loving it.
  28. Trouble with the Curve
    Adams gets a delectable onscreen partner in Justin Timberlake as a novice scout who takes an interest in Mickey. Even the old half-naked-moonlight-swim gambit feels fresh with these two involved.
  29. Nerve
    With its engaging story, energetic soundtrack and slick production values, Nerve is an easy watch for restless young minds.
  30. Eternity
    A delightful premise never fully comes to life in this sweet romcom, which is a real shame because it gets off to such a strong start.
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