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For 2,045 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 61% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 35% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 Predator: Killer of Killers
Lowest review score: 20 Sir Billi
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,054 out of 2045
  2. Mixed: 953 out of 2045
  3. Negative: 38 out of 2045
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  1. Upstream Color
    Carruth’s furiously elusive second film skirts the line between nonsense and near-masterpiece, like Terrence Malick filleting "Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind."
  2. 2 Guns
    Washington and Wahlberg are an effective double act in an intermittently exciting thriller with more twists than it needs. We’d love to see them partnered again, though perhaps as characters.
  3. You're Next
    Funny and tense, rather than hilarious and terrifying, You’re Next doesn’t rip up the rulebook but it’s definitely read it. If all horror comedies were this good we’d be laughing – and squirming.
  4. Devil's Pass
    Sometimes bad, never boring and, at the last, completely bonkers, it’s proof at least that you can freeze cheese.
  5. Wadjda
    Al-Mansour carefully dodges easy uplift, but her message of hope to future generations of Saudi women is clear.
  6. Zaytoun
    Neatly juxtaposes the beauty of the landscape with the enmities it engenders.
  7. Paradise: Faith
    Laying bare his characters, Seidl uncovers the doubt beneath the armour of religious belief.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Kick-Ass 2
    A fun if sporadically schizoid return to one of the brighter, brasher comic-bookers of recent years.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Planes
    Little ones will love the bright action scenes, but the lack of wit and humanity that makes exec producer John Lasseter’s best work so special will leave grown-ups feeling frustratingly grounded.
  10. Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
    The final showdown whisks up the requisite excitement, but the open-ended coda feels like an optimistic throw of the dice from the franchise showing meagre signs of Harry Potter longevity.
  11. Elysium
    This perfectly alright actioner will entertain newcomers, while leaving Blomkamp fans in a holding pattern until his next project.
  12. The Smurfs 2
    It’s the same sappy drivel as before.
  13. The Frozen Ground
    It’s handsomely lensed, and when Cage and Cusack finally go nose-to-nose, the fur does fly.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    RED 2
    Returning screenwriters Jon and Erich Hoeber have penned a surplus of minor melees and major set-pieces.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Lone Ranger
    Ultimately, it’s not as awful as "Wild Wild West." But we’ll hazard a guess that Pirates 5 can’t come quick enough for Bruckheimer or Depp.
  16. Alan Partridge
    Smartly executed, endlessly quotable and machine-gun quick, this is one of the funniest films of 2013. Accessible for Partridge novices and hugely rewarding for the faithful.
  17. From Up on Poppy Hill
    If Miyazaki Jr elevates the material, it’s through style. Dripping with watercolour warmth, the rapturous images convey how a country’s efforts to right itself resonate with the young.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Heat
    Following the buddy-cop handbook to the letter, The Heat is derivative stuff, but McCarthy gives it the kick it needs to keep rolling along.
  19. Girl Most Likely
    Can’t decide if it’s a broad farce or a poignant portrait. Small wonder then, that it falls short on both counts, failing to earn either Bridesmaids-sized laughs or nods of recognition.
  20. Frances Ha
    Charming, poignant and often very funny, Baumbach and Gerwig’s latest collaboration is a joyous portrait of an unformed personality that should strike chords of recognition in all who watch it.
  21. Blackfish
    Like a more obvious underwater twist on Herzog’s "Grizzly Man," Blackfish presents a persuasive, passionate argument: wild nature’s right to freedom demands respect, cock and all.
  22. Only God Forgives
    It’s no "Drive," and even hardcore fans will struggle to love a film that’s as mad as a bag of prawn crackers, but as an exercise in style, it has many moments to savour.
  23. The Wolverine
    It’s a step up from the garbled silliness of Wolverine’s first solo outing. Unlike Origins, the storytelling is more sharply focused here, ignited by flashes of stylised superheroism.
  24. Blood
    It’s a crisp, cold little thriller with a real sense of the noose tightening around otherwise unremarkable lives.
  25. Broken
    Believably charts a girl’s coming of age but is eventually capsized by lurid melodrama.
  26. Monsters University
    Pixar falls back on the tried and tested in an entertaining caper that will be a surefire kid pleaser this summer. Old favourites are always welcome, but it would have been nice to see some more new ideas too.
  27. The World's End
    The armageddon-through-beer-goggles approach brings the chuckles, but The World’s End stands up as a great example of the genre it ribs. Nostalgic, bittersweet and very, very funny.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sweetgrass
    With its slow tracking shots, complete disregard for edited narrative and endless baaing and whistling, it’ll either bore you to tears or hypnotise you with its weird Herzogian beauty.
  29. A Field in England
    Ben Wheatley’s strangest movie yet: mysticism, mystification and magic mushrooms in a English Civil War setting. Often confusing, occasionally infuriating – but audaciously original.
  30. The Stone Roses: Made of Stone
    Great beginning, patchy middle, bum-note ending. Like the Roses’ 1980s-90s lifespan, Meadows’ loving report on a “live resurrection” is indeed alive and passionate, until too many gaps render it less than godlike.
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