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For 147 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.8 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score:
Blue Is the Warmest Color
100
Lowest review score:
Grown Ups 2
20
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 66 out of 147
  2. Mixed: 71 out of 147
  3. Negative: 10 out of 147
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  1. Berberian Sound Studio
    It is one of the year’s very best films, a great, rumbling thunderclap of genius.
  2. Inside Llewyn Davis
    This is instant A-list Coens; enigmatic, exhilarating, irresistible.
  3. In the Fog
    This is a masterpiece of serious cinema; long, slow and grave as the grave.
  4. Blue Is the Warmest Color
    It is an extraordinary, prolonged popping-candy explosion of pleasure, sadness, anger, lust and hope.
  5. Like Someone in Love
    Like Someone in Love, is another miracle at close quarters. Its subject is the impossibility of intimacy in the modern world: chewy stuff, to be sure, but Kiarostami explores it with a depth and delicacy that recalls the Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu.
  6. Before Midnight
    Where we might have expected a gentle or rueful coda, we get a battle of the sexes as blistering as the best of Tracy/Hepburn, and infinitely more frank.
  7. Pacific Rim
    At first, watching Pacific Rim feels like rediscovering a favourite childhood cartoon – but del Toro has flooded the project with such affection and artistry that, rather than smiling nostalgically, you find yourself enchanted all over again.
  8. The Hunt
    Mikkelsen, who is not given to sympathetic roles, has never been better. This is cinema that sinks its claws into your back.
  9. Frances Ha
    If films were gestures, this one would be a perfectly timed shrug, with the smile to match.
  10. Gravity
    A science-fiction thriller of rare and diamond-hard brilliance.
  11. 12 Years a Slave
    Elicits from McQueen a directing job that's compellingly humble but also majestic, because his radical showmanship is turned to such precise, human purposes.
  12. Stray Dogs
    Every shot of Stray Dogs has been built with utter formal mastery; every sequence exerts an almost telepathic grip.
  13. Under the Skin
    Glazer’s astonishing film takes you to a place where the everyday becomes suddenly strange, and fear and seduction become one and the same.
  14. Iron Man 3
    Black has an instinctive feel for balancing action set-pieces against the passages of soap-opera that are required to make them matter.
  15. Paradise: Love
    Paradise: Love flits nimbly between humour and sadness, and treats potentially ponderous themes such as sex, race and the rancid legacy of colonialism with a welcome light touch.
  16. Love Is All You Need
    Love is All You Need has been made for an audience rarely catered for by the film industry: intelligent adults who enjoy perceptive and good-hearted drama.
  17. What Richard Did
    An acutely compassionate account of unshakeable guilt.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Upstream Color
    Carruth creates a wholly compelling world. And despite my irritation with his deliberate obscurity, my immediate desire when it ended was to stay in my seat and watch it all the way through again.
  19. White Elephant
    On his broadest canvas yet, Trapero mounts a saga about the role of conscience, which might seem old-fashioned if it weren’t so urgently imagined. An added fillip is Michael Nyman’s stirring score, his best in years.
  20. A Hijacking
    Flies buzz, sweat trickles, negotiations continue, and you feel your breath dry up.
  21. The Bling Ring
    Coppola’s uproarious and bitingly timely film feels every inch a necessary artwork.
  22. Nebraska
    This is a resounding return to form for Payne: there are moments that recall his earlier road movies About Schmidt and Sideways, but it has a wistful, shuffling, grizzly-bearish rhythm all of its own.
  23. Only Lovers Left Alive
    The real reason to see this is Swinton and Hiddleston’s sexy, pallid double act: two old souls in hot bodies who have long tired of this Earth, but have nowhere else to make their home.
  24. A Touch of Sin
    [A] stately and ambitious ensemble drama.
  25. Young & Beautiful
    François Ozon’s Young & Beautiful is, in the very best sense, a film that won't add up.
  26. London - The Modern Babylon
    A dizzying collage of all the changes in London’s social and architectural fabric since light was first trained through celluloid.
  27. Grabbers
    This cherishable Irish B-picture is one of those rare horror films with an unimprovable premise.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Much Ado About Nothing
    Acker and Denisof spar with each other in the best traditions of screwball comedy; worthy modern equivalents to Tracy and Hepburn. They’re the main source of joy in a film overflowing with treats.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Look of Love
    It’s funny and touching, but feels like a missed opportunity.
  30. The Act of Killing
    You’ve never seen a documentary like The Act of Killing. If you saw too many like it, your hold on sanity might fray, which is not so much the film’s fault as that of its bloodcurdling subject. This movie is essential.
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