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For 296 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 40% 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:
5 Broken Cameras
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
The Host
Critic Score 20
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 111 out of 296
  2. Mixed: 178 out of 296
  3. Negative: 7 out of 296
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  1. Electrick Children
    Careful, kids – rock’n’roll can get you pregnant. Or that’s what one Mormon teen believes in this cute lo-fi indie from first-timer Rebecca Thomas.
    • Metascore: 59
    • Critic Score 60
    Celeste and Jesse Forever
    This honest, if not funny, comedy is all about Celeste. If anyone can make you sympathise with affluent LA yuppies, Rashida Jones can.
    • Metascore: 59
    • Critic Score 60
    Warm Bodies
    A Frankenstein’s monster of comedy, romance and horror that’s less than its parts, Warm Bodies entertains but underwhelms.
    • Metascore: 59
    • Critic Score 60
    Savages
    Savages is punishing in places, but there are enough colourful characters and careening twists to make it worth the effort.
  5. Dredd
    Grungy, compact and delightfully violent, Dredd wants to hit you as hard as it can. The sequel may be the movie you really want, but for now, justice has been done.
    • Metascore: 59
    • Critic Score 80
    This Is 40
    Apatow's return creates a pleasantly sprawling, perceptive study of mid-life angst that never lacks for laughs. Promoting Rudd and Mann from Knocked Up's margins to centre stage proves to be a shrewd move.
  7. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
    Tamer than the book and not as funny, this is Salmon filleted. But McGregor and Blunt make fetching lovebirds, while Kristin Scott Thomas is off the scale in a rare comic outing.
  8. To the Wonder
    To The Wonder doesn’t quite live up to the sky-high expectations set by his earlier films. But it’s still a brave, soul-stirring and sensitive work.
    • Metascore: 58
    • Critic Score 80
    Stoker
    Park Chan-wook brings operatic finesse to generic material in his tight-wound, wickedly weird US debut. And Mia Wasikowska nails it.
  10. Trouble with the Curve
    Saluting both America's national pastime and its oldest working icon, Curve is a solid heart-tugger that plays with a straight bat when it comes to plot, character and message.
  11. We Bought a Zoo
    It's slight, sure, and there's a better, less-glossy film buried in the material, but warm performances redeem Crowe's agreeable return.
  12. The Dictator
    Outrageous, outlandish and overboard, The Dictator will satisfy Cohen's army of fans. But it never feels as funny, full-on or fresh as "Borat" and "Brüno."
    • Metascore: 58
    • Critic Score 60
    I Give It a Year
    In a film with obvious ambition, though, it’s a shame that it resorts to formula so quickly.
  14. Men in Black III
    In a summer hardly starved of comic-book properties, this redundant extension of a series that ran out of gas a decade ago doesn't need a neuralyzer to be forgettable.
    • Metascore: 58
    • Critic Score 60
    Lawless
    Stylish and savage, but nothing you haven't seen before. Lawless is something of a blunt instrument but seductive nonetheless.
  16. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
    Charming, spectacular, technically audacious… in short, everything you expect from a Peter Jackson movie. A feeling of familiarity does take hold in places, but this is an epically entertaining first course.
  17. The Lords of Salem
    Occasionally potent but mostly risible, this tale of the occult sees Rob Zombie cast a weak spell. Disappointing.
  18. Trishna
    Some will balk at Pinto's passivity, but Trishna again shows Winterbottom to be one of the few directors today who are liberated, rather than constricted, by classic literature.
  19. The Woman in the Fifth
    Contrived attempts to 'explain' the film's many mysteries ultimately disappoint.
  20. Katy Perry: Part of Me
    Despite being as garish and manufactured as Perry's multi-coloured hair-don'ts, Part Of Me deserves kudos for allowing an element of unpredictability to intrude upon its tween exploitation and sugary vulgarity.
    • Metascore: 57
    • Critic Score 40
    Albert Nobbs
    Good performances, but it's difficult to give two hoots about Close's passion project when the story remains as pinched and hermetic as poor little Albert Nobbs himself.
    • Metascore: 57
    • Critic Score 60
    Rise of the Guardians
    More "oooh… aaah" than "ho-ho-ho", ROTG is so full of yuletide razzmatazz that only true Scrooges will have trouble stomaching it. If only Santa's workshop had given the script more of a tinker...
    • Metascore: 57
    • Critic Score 60
    Evil Dead (2013)
    Closer to Eli Roth than Sam Raimi, this brutal retread combines J-horror atmospherics with torture-porn kills. It’s more evisceration than invention but at least has the courage of its bloody-minded convictions.
    • Metascore: 57
    • Critic Score 80
    Dog Pound
    With largely improvised dialogue and a cast including genuine ex-offenders, Chapiron captures a powerful stench of authenticity.
    • Metascore: 57
    • Critic Score 60
    Snow White and the Huntsman
    A visually inventive, deliciously dark fairytale reheat. The story's far from the stuff of legend, but Theron makes for a ferocious meanie, helping to flush away "Mirror Mirror's" sugary aftertaste.
    • Metascore: 57
    • Critic Score 80
    You've Been Trumped
    A vital, visceral antidote to Trump's slick PR machine.
  27. On the Road
    It may lose its way on occasions, but thanks to a committed cast and a script that captures the Kerouac vibe, Salles' adaptation never ends up on the road to nowhere.
    • Metascore: 56
    • Critic Score 60
    The Monk
    Director Dominik Moll makes some odd style choices – like Looney Tunes-style ‘iris wipes’ – and it’s a while before Cassel fully embraces his dark side, yet his customary charisma is what seals The Monk’s redemption.
  29. Friends with Kids
    Smart dialogue, a gifted ensemble and good intentions from Jennifer Westfeldt, but her grown-up romcom can't quite escape feeling like a sitcom on the big screen.
    • Metascore: 55
    • Critic Score 60
    For a Good Time, Call...
    All right, it's not up there with "Bridesmaids" but, thanks to a game Graynor (here channelling a young Bette Midler), a revolving door of cameos and some gloriously smutty pillow talk, For A Good Time delivers, yes, exactly that.
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