Keira Knightley loves the bad reviews!

Keira Knightley has expressed her delight at getting bad reviews, and insists it thrives her for success.

The award winning actress and star of brand new movie 'Atonement' has admitted that she can't help checking the news for bad reviews about herself, out of pure curiosity, but says it improves her performances in the long term.

She says: "I seem to have a homing device in me that leads me to absolutely every bad review that I've ever received.

"If I'm sitting in a hairdresser I'll pick up the one thing that has horrific stuff about me in it.

"Which in one sense is incredibly difficult, but in the other constantly makes me go, 'Get better! Get better! Get better!"

Keira Knightley has been under criticism for her first major role in movie 'Bend It Like Beckham', and admitted, accepted and even quoted that her performance was "bad on all levels".