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For 305 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 1.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score:
The Master
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
Critic Score 20
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 113 out of 305
  2. Mixed: 184 out of 305
  3. Negative: 8 out of 305
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  1. End of Watch
    Forceful and arresting, Ayer's follow-up to "Harsh Times" and "Street Kings" sees him confidently playing to his strengths.
  2. Ping Pong
    An unabashed crowd-pleaser, Hugh Hartford’s table-top portrait avoids patronising its aged subjects, bouncing between sweetly satirical and sincerely moving. Given the theme, it’s only a shame it doesn’t last a bit longer.
    • Metascore: 68
    • Critic Score 80
    Take This Waltz
    Some strained metaphors and character tics aside, this proves both Polley's perceptive eye and Williams' ability to explore life-scuffed emotions. Wry, risqué and real.
  4. The Place Beyond the Pines
    Gosling and Cooper use their star currency to power a slow-burn, heartsick drama. "Blue Valentine" director Cianfrance is a serious talent.
  5. One Life
    Daniel Craig makes a decent fist of the narration. But you could also do without its gush about the “incredible journey” all beings on the planet share.
  6. Girl Model
    The filmmakers stay back, observing, for a restrained, intimate and poignant result.
    • Metascore: 67
    • Critic Score 80
    Robot and Frank
    Playful, patient and finally poignant, Schreier’s deceptively placid odd-couple winner runs the risk of looking minor. But it carefully exceeds expectation, helped in no small measure by Langella’s wily, wistful lead.
    • Metascore: 67
    • Critic Score 80
    Post Tenebras Lux
    Some metaphors score and some miss, but this is leap-of-faith cinema: the rewards entail some risks.
    • Metascore: 67
    • Critic Score 80
    Sound of My Voice
    Like "Martha Marcy May Marlene," this lo-fi psychodrama reaps the benefits of a mesmerising female lead, only this time as cult leader not disciple. Marling continues to impress.
  10. A Late Quartet
    The leads make sweet music in an affecting four-piece that, if not note perfect, plays well to their individual strengths. A marked improvement overall on this year’s other Quartet.
  11. The Hunger Games
    What's remarkable is the lack of cheese. Tacky effects, corny dialogue and creaky performances are all shown the door. We repeat: not the new "Twilight".
    • Metascore: 67
    • Critic Score 60
    The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    Logan Lerman delivers a career-making turn in this sweet, sincere film. It might not be a massive hit, but it will certainly ease a few paths through the awkwardness of adolescence.
    • Metascore: 67
    • Critic Score 80
    Sightseers
    It might not sound much on paper, but it’s all in the delivery, the appealing lead performances combining with Wheatley's sudden tonal shifts to produce a film that’s funny, sinister and strangely moving.
    • Metascore: 67
    • Critic Score 60
    The Sapphires
    A feelgooder spiced by social conscience, this is one of those underdog productions with potential to punch well above its weight.
  15. The Green Wave
    Heartfelt and inventive, this documentary from exiled director Ali Samadi Ahadi chronicles Iran's abortive Green Revolution during the summer of 2009.
    • Metascore: 67
    • Critic Score 60
    Damsels in Distress
    A mixed return for Stillman, Damsels is so whimsically out of step it's like a time-travel comedy without the time travel. Fortunately, Gerwig and some dazzling dialogue save his blushes.
  17. White Elephant
    Writer/director Trapero arguably crams too much into the film’s running time, but potent turns and Michael Nyman’s yearning score are among the compensations.
  18. Ruby Sparks
    Smart, literate and romantic, it's this year's (500) Days Of Summer, but with a few more shadows. Like Calvin, you'll find it hard to resist Ms Sparks.
  19. Yossi
    This is a perceptive, warm-hearted work, anchored by Knoller's impressively less-is-more performance.
  20. Dark Horse
    Though more forgiving than previous Solondz films, Dark Horse is too slight to herald a wholesale change of direction. Yet it's still worth catching, if only for Walken's terrible toupee.
    • Metascore: 66
    • Critic Score 80
    The Angels' Share
    For all its bleak edges, The Angels’ Share warms like a sip of the good stuff.
    • Metascore: 66
    • Critic Score 60
    Seven Psychopaths
    Engagingly off-centre, like Charlie Kaufman taking down Quentin Tarantino, this sunbaked shaggy-dog story is a place-holder film for McDonagh, and often closer to chaos than it is to genius.
  23. Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap
    Freestyle, funny but finally just too repetitive, Ice's affectionate home-movie needed someone to structure it into a deeper documentary.
  24. Corpo Celeste
    With echoes of the Dardennes and Lucrecia Martel, Corpo Celeste's acute sense of place, feel for adolescent confusion and miraculous resolution suggest that Rohrwacher is a talent to watch.
    • Metascore: 66
    • Critic Score 60
    Premium Rush
    It's definitely the 'other' Gordon-Levitt film out this month, but this silly cycler whizzes by amiably. Star charm helps: JGL's enjoyment in his job adds welcome levels of Levitt-y.
    • Metascore: 66
    • Critic Score 60
    Breathing
    Thoughtfully shot by first-time director Karl Markovics, the only warmth comes from the stiffening cadavers.
    • Metascore: 66
    • Critic Score 80
    The Amazing Spider-Man
    It isn't perfect but this reboot's wins outweigh its wobbles. The leads charm, the action crackles and the grooves are well-laid for part two. Untold story? Next time, then.
    • Metascore: 66
    • Critic Score 60
    Pitch Perfect
    Gleeks and Glee-haters alike should rally around this raucous musical comedy. Rebel Wilson is hilarious, Anna Kendrick is terrific and there are as many gross-out gags as there are singing numbers.
    • Metascore: 65
    • Critic Score 60
    Hope Springs
    Fine turns from Streep and Jones bedrock this compassionate, quietly subversive drama.
    • Metascore: 65
    • Critic Score 60
    The Bay
    All prologue and no pay-off, but compelling all the same, this curio plays out like Diary Of The Dead with more diaries and fewer dead.
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