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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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    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Most Wanted Man
    The great pleasure of le Carré-land — for some, it’s the frustration — is that one’s own moral certainties are quickly stood on their head.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    And So It Goes
    And So It Goes looks like it was shot on outdated video equipment and has a forced, jokey script by Mark Andrus (”As Good As It Gets,” “Georgia Rule”).
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lucy
    It’s all ridiculous and enjoyable, and at the movie’s center is an actress creatively guessing at what omniscience might feel like.
  4. Borgman
    Is Borgman a fable? A fairy tale? A parable? An allegory? A burlesque of Western bourgeois life in the 21st century? One thing Dutch writer-director Alex van Warmerdam’s film isn’t is a black comedy, even if that’s what it’s meant to be. The movie’s black, all right, but a comedy has to be funny.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wish I Was Here
    As an actor, Braff does thin-skinned sad-sack quite well. As a writer, he’s hopelessly banal. As a director, he’s a disaster.
  6. Lucky Them
    What follows is no “Citizen Kane,” or even “Velvet Goldmine” (1998), Todd Haynes’s arty tale of a reporter trying to track down a missing glam rock star, in which Collette also starred, playing the missing man’s alcoholic wife.
    • 100 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Boyhood
    Boyhood is a stunt, an epic, a home video, and a benediction. It reminds us of what movies could be and — far more important — what life actually is.
  8. Planes: Fire & Rescue
    Ed Harris, who voices Blade Ranger, the no-nonsense helicopter who heads the fire-and-rescue operation, doesn’t lay it on too strong. Julie Bowen, as Lil’ Dipper, an air tanker, does.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sex Tape
    This frantic farce about a married couple whose video frolic goes viral would be much less bearable without the topspin Segel imparts to even his silliest dialogue. But he looks hollow-eyed and gaunt, like a man starving himself to prove a point. I want the old, lumpy Jason Segel back. Eat, bubbe, eat.
  10. The Purge: Anarchy
    Give credit to writer-director James DeMonaco for at least attempting to give his action thriller some heft with a plot that concerns our obsession with violence, ham-fisted as it is. But The Purge: Anarchy is still just an excuse to bombard us with high-powered weaponry, armored vehicles, vigilantes, and masked marauders in creepy Joker-like makeup.
  11. A Coffee In Berlin
    So where does that leave this coming-of-age comedy written and directed by Jan Ole Gerster? Somewhere in the middle, lukewarm and inoffensive, trying hard not to be plebeian or pretentious.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Venus in Fur
    “Venus in Fur,” the 2010 David Ives play that conquered off-Broadway in 2010 and Broadway in 2011, has been thoroughly and maliciously Romanized.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
    Visually, this movie is big, bold, often awe-inspiring.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Third Person
    Third Person staggers well over the two-hour mark only to self-destruct in a burst of overwrought cleverness.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Begin Again
    Begin Again is pleasantly predictable if you’re in an undemanding mood. If you’re not, it’s unbearable, like hearing a treasured folk song given a Hot 97 makeover.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Snowpiercer
    On the level of a popcorn thrill ride, Snowpiercer is a beaut.
  17. Deliver Us From Evil
    Though Derrickson offers some new twists on old tricks, and evokes a mood of menace with rainy streets, gloomy interiors, and the transformation of comforting everyday objects into something horrible, the story soon devolves into variations of many movies we have seen before.
  18. Earth to Echo
    Green and his cast deliver a wonderful surprise. Echo himself, a generically precious alien, is the least of it. The funny, moving, authentic bond among the kids in the movie is the unadvertised draw.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tammy
    It just plonks down the actress and a handful of stellar co-stars without much in the way of a script, storyline, or actual jokes. Yet you may still come out with a smile on your face. It’s very odd.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
    Knappenberger can’t paint his subject as an imperfect human being because Swartz simply means too much to too many people right now. He’s a focal point for social and political change, with communal grief as its engine.
  21. Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago
    Despite the climactic hugs all around and spiritual healing celebrated by a tearful service in the cathedral, some moments en route make an impression.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
    It has been said before but it’s worth saying again: Gore Vidal was born to the toga, even if he never actually wore one.
  23. Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger
    Filmmaker Joe Berlinger isn’t so much inspired as disgusted by the notorious gangster in his newest documentary.
  24. Transformers: Age Of Extinction
    One thing you have to give Bay credit for: He has a knack for bringing A-list talent down to his level. Like Mark Wahlberg, Oscar nominee for “The Fighter” and “The Departed.”
  25. The Grand Seduction
    Charming, but not seductive.
  26. Citizen Koch
    In other words, Citizen Koch is preaching to the choir. Which might not be a pointless exercise, seeing how the choir failed to show up for the last midterm election in 2010, and might need extra motivation not to repeat that mistake this November.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ivory Tower
    Rossi gives us a survey course when what we need is a seminar; the movie is a useful “What’s Wrong With College 101” but the advanced study remains to be done.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Korengal
    Korengal is a more diffuse film than “Restrepo,” less reportorial, and not nearly as emotionally overpowering.
  29. Think Like a Man Too
    Think Like a Man Too vastly surpasses the septic “The Hangover Part III.” If Story and company keep thinking like filmmakers, maybe three will be the charm.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Jersey Boys
    Behind the familiar hits, Jersey Boys is a story about the pressures and rewards of professionalism. Far too little of that has made it into this biopic. It’s just too mediocre to be true.
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