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For 7,945 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Argylle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,227 out of 7945
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7945
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7945
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  1. Max
    These promising themes aren’t given much more than surface treatment, making for a movie as conveniently tidy as some coming-home schmaltz on basic cable.
  2. Ted 2
    She (Seyfried) provides some real charm, something the movie otherwise lacks. She also seems like a plausible part of the action in a way that Kunis never did.
  3. Losing Ground
    As a directorial debut, Losing Ground astonishes with its assurance, subtlety, and style.
  4. Testament of Youth
    It is hard to rate Vikander’s acting abilities from this performance. Her sly automaton in “Ex Machina” had more emotional range.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Wolfpack
    The movie only looks like a coming-of-age freak show from the outside; in reality, it’s unexpected proof that flowers can grow even in a prison.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
    In other words, this movie isn’t just about an adolescent boy — it pretty much is an adolescent boy.
  7. Dope
    Full of energy and attitude, it’s the sort of movie that likes to startle, if not necessarily shock. No wonder Dope was an audience favorite at Sundance last winter.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Inside Out
    It is a joy for audiences seeking entertainment, an ingenious work of craft for those paying close attention, and a wallop of feeling that’s still too rare coming from a cartoon.
  9. Heaven Knows What
    All this desperation and squalor reeks of authenticity. Many of the actors are from the streets themselves, and such locations as a crash pad rented out by a dotty lady could never be dreamed up by a Hollywood screenwriter.
  10. The Farewell Party
    A bittersweet, wryly comic, keenly observed look at senescence.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Connection
    It’s an easy film to watch and become engrossed in, and it’s just as easy to forget, despite a true-life twist that darkens the final minutes without making much of an impact on the whole. Expertly shot, excitingly edited, smartly acted, The Connection never quite connects.
  12. Jauja
    Alonso sustains an atmosphere of otherworldly immanence in a vivid setting, with a style involving long takes with characters posed as if in tableaux vivants.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
    It’s all as entertaining as it is outlandish.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Live From New York!
    There’s no backstage dirt, then — for that, pick up the 2002 “uncensored history” written by Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller — but there is an honest appraisal of the show’s peaks and valleys over the years.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Jurassic World
    Jurassic World is a roadworthy retread, a summer blockbuster that has more than its share of absurdities and bald patches but gets by anyway because dinosaurs.
  16. When Marnie Was There
    Though the narrative of “Marnie” bogs down toward the end, this does not diminish its spell.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Results
    What happens when a rigorously non-mainstream filmmaker tries to reverse-engineer a mainstream romantic comedy? The result, in all its charming perversity, is Results.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Nightmare
    Less a straight doc than a psycho-cinematic inquiry into unknown territory, it’s really something to see. Whether it’s something to believe is another matter.
  19. Spy
    The character is sweetly sympathetic — less “Tammy” than “Mike & Molly” — and the laughs and chaos are all the more infectious for it.
  20. Insidious: Chapter 3
    There’s no end in sight, and that’s what’s really insidious.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Love & Mercy
    Despite the lumps in the batter, Love & Mercy ends up involving and affecting, because the performances are honest and the stories it tells are inherently dramatic.
  22. Entourage
    The film is stuck in the inconsequential rut of the series. The characters are static, and the comedy is situational rather than dramatic.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Félix And Meira
    Even in the city’s most crowded place, Giroux makes his lovers seem like the only couple on Earth.
  24. In the Name of My Daughter
    More disappointing than the film’s inertia and amorphousness is its sacrifice of the real-world themes of class, money, corruption, and power. Unable to decide what story he wanted to tell, Téchiné hedges his bets and loses everything.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Slow West
    Slow West doesn’t really go anywhere we haven’t been, but because Maclean is discovering the genre for the first time, we see through his fresh yet jaundiced eyes.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Aloha
    Aloha is as generic as its title. The islands exist solely as an exotic backdrop for the pretty Hollywood haoles to play in. Business as usual, and I never thought I’d say that about a Cameron Crowe movie.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Good Kill
    Good Kill is by necessity a grim piece of work, one that fields a powerful and unexpectedly terse performance from Ethan Hawke while stumbling over plot developments that seem increasingly forced. Niccol can be forgiven his outrage even as it leads him to create drama out of agenda instead of the other way around.
  28. Winter Sleep
    Such miserable people; why should we care? Maybe because Ceylan does. By staging this petulant misery in a snow-filled world of melancholy, unearthly beauty, he underscores their tragedy.
  29. Saint Laurent
    Bonello takes on the point of view of Saint Laurent himself, exposing a visionary world seen from within that is as strange and wonderful as that of a magnificently stitched garment turned inside out.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    I'll See You in My Dreams
    A work of quiet, crystalline empathy, I’ll See You in My Dreams is notable for reasons that nearly overshadow its modest yet indisputable charms. It’s a drama about the kind of people invisible to the movies and much of our culture — senior citizens in the early evening of their lives — and it grants its characters individuality in ways that are almost wholly free of cliché.
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