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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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    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Foxcatcher
    The movie’s tone is hushed, restrained; emotional damage is crammed way back where no one can see it yet defines everything through a murky prism.
  2. Penguins of Madagascar
    It’s a movie content to stay within the show’s comfort zone, changing things up mainly with flashier, 3-D visuals, a couple of which are dazzlers, and a theme that doesn’t connect in any notable way.
  3. Horrible Bosses 2
    A new misadventure whose negligibly refined formula somehow ends up being more consistently entertaining.
  4. Point and Shoot
    Despite his neuroses, VanDyke displays self-awareness and humility, and a charisma that ranges from the goofiness of Owen Wilson to the grandiosity of his hero, Lawrence of Arabia.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Homesman
    This odd, ungainly western is harsh in its details, wayward in the telling, yet increasingly powerful as it wends its way back East toward civilization.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
    It’s a cheat, a cash grab, and it makes for 125 dystopian minutes of set-up with no resolution. But come back next November, folks, and we’ll show you the rest! They should have called it “Mockingjay, Part 1 — The Shakedown.” Or “The Hunger Games 3: Rubble Without a Cause.”
  7. National Gallery
    In a sense, there can be nothing ordinary about such an extraordinary place. Furthermore, Wiseman’s special gift as a filmmaker has been to show how searching attention reveals that there really is no such thing as ordinariness.
  8. The Better Angels
    Humorless, pretentious black-and-white tone poem about a very young Abe Lincoln.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rosewater
    What you may not be prepared for is the way that humor does play a part in the story, in the sense that recognizing the total absurdity of a theocratic police state is one way to rise above fear and keep one’s mind free. In Rosewater, ridicule becomes a weapon of liberation.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
    It’s a gentle epic, based on a 10th-century Japanese folk tale, that uses pencils, ink, and impressionistic washes of color to convey a glowing visual otherworld, one that stands in contrast both to Takahata’s earlier work and the hard-edged lines and bright tones of much anime.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Force Majeure
    A cruelly precise, often bleakly comic account of upper-middle-class privilege coming unglued when the cosmos throws a curveball.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Theory of Everything
    The Theory of Everything, in other words, is Jane’s movie as much as it is Stephen’s, and while Eddie Redmayne’s performance deserves every bit of praise and statuary it will get, Felicity Jones has the subtler, less showy role to play and matches him frame for frame.
  13. Beyond the Lights
    Unfortunately, as the story builds toward tenderness, it’s undercut with slathering tongues and bare-chested stud-muffin shots.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dumb and Dumber To
    Everyone has piled into this dumber, sillier, more consistently funny reprise with an enthusiasm that’s infectious, and not in a low-grade medical way.
  15. Diplomacy
    The dialogue also reflects the material’s stage origins in ways that don’t always translate well.
  16. Awake: The Life of Yogananda
    Those looking for further enlightenment might want to pass on the feel-good cinematic hagiography known as Awake: The Life of Yogananda.
  17. On Any Sunday: The Next Chapter
    The fundamental value put forth in Brown’s “Sunday” sequel is not fearlessness but “family.”
  18. Big Hero 6
    A rousing movie that’s satisfyingly infused with traditional Disney sentiment.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Laggies
    There are enough indie clichés to blunt this movie’s edge.
  20. The Overnighters
    Through patience, skill, discretion, and trust, Jesse Moss has taken a seemingly small town story and turned it into both a microcosm of today’s most urgent issues and a portrait of a single suffering soul.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Interstellar
    The movie is “Gravity” cubed, an epic of space travel and human destiny that swings by Saturn, slingshots through a wormhole, and pinballs across a handful of planets on its way to a rendezvous with infinity, conveniently located inside a black hole.
  22. Fifi Howls from Happiness
    In person, as seen in Fifi Howls From Happiness, Mitra Farahani’s ambitious and self-reflexive documentary of the artist’s last days, Mohassess enthusiastically acts out those traits. It’s a performance enhanced by his diabolical, phlegm-choked laughter at his own bleakly ironic pronouncements and denunciations of the world in general.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Listen Up Philip
    Jason Schwartzman is a fine actor, but he has a knack for creating characters you want to punch in the face, and Philip, who has a second novel coming out and is intent on burning all his bridges, is almost marvelously obnoxious.
  24. Horns
    Directed by splat-pack director Alexandre Aja (“Piranha 3D”) with uncharacteristic but still gruesome restraint, adapted from what seems a very busy novel by Joe Hill, Horns resembles an awkward collaboration between Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen King, and Rob Zombie.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    White Bird in a Blizzard
    Only Jane, as the cop who knows exactly what Mrs. Collins’s wayward daughter needs, has the sense of threat the movie is seeking. His and Woodley’s scenes together are dirty and alive.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Citizenfour
    Citzenfour is prosaic in its presentation and profoundly chilling in its details, and if you think Snowden is a traitor, you should probably see it. If you think he’s a hero, you should probably see it. If you haven’t made up your mind — well, you get the idea.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Nightcrawler
    Nightcrawler is about TV news-video parasites, but the freakiest thing in it — the biggest bedbug of all — is Jake Gyllenhaal as the movie’s hero, Lou Bloom.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Whiplash
    At Sundance, Whiplash quickly picked up the nickname “Full Metal Juilliard” on the basis of scenes in which Andrew, plucked from a late-night practice session to be the orchestra’s drummer, is raked over the coals by his new mentor. Horrifying as they are, these sequences are dazzling exercises in total humiliation.
  29. Bitter Honey
    The small Indonesian island of Bali still evokes images of a tropical paradise where Westerners can escape the discontents of the so-called developed world. Much of that romance lingers in Bitter Honey.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
    Birdman finds Iñárritu in the mood for play, and with a mighty cast that fields every pitch he throws.
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