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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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    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Rover
    There’s a thin line between the iconic and the generic, and The Rover, a grim post-apocalyptic drama from down under, wanders back and forth across it in an adrenaline daze.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
    Yet for all the love emanating from client-pals Michael Douglas, Sylvester Stallone, Emeril Lagasse, and Steven Tyler, there’s a sadness to this movie that remains just off camera.
  3. The Great Flood
    At its best, The Great Flood is hypnotic — at its worst, numbing.
  4. The Signal
    Including the high expectations set up by the film’s early going, Eubank had a thoughtful thriller in the works but along the way he got his signals crossed.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Obvious Child
    It’s a warm, sympathetic, very sloppy, and often very funny little movie about a young woman who, among several other things, is not remotely ready to be a parent and knows it.
  6. The Sacrament
    West’s film differs from the “Blair Witch” template in that the footage is never actually “found.”
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    We Are the Best!
    A messy, congenial empowerment story that knows how aggravating adolescence can be when you refuse to fit in.
  8. How to Train Your Dragon 2
    How to Train Your Dragon 2 recaptures those lyrical highs. But returning writer-director Dean DeBlois also aims to layer on more poignancy for Baruchel and his castmates to play. At points, we’re left feeling a little detached.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    22 Jump Street
    A hugely enjoyable shambles. It’s a comic deconstruction of that most useless of Hollywood artifacts — the blockbuster sequel — that refuses to take itself seriously on any level, which, face it, is just what we need as the summer boom-boom season shifts into high gear.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Words and Pictures
    Enjoyable, occasionally grueling, and overstuffed with incident and agenda.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ida
    The first three-quarters of Ida are as astonishing as anything you’ll see at the movies this year.
  12. Night Moves
    Though at times it threatens to become too generic to be original, or too original to be generic, it retains enough indirection to frustrate those looking for thrills and to engage those willing to be challenged. And by the time the bottom drops out in a characteristically enigmatic ending, Night Moves distinguishes itself as a genuine Reichardt movie.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Edge of Tomorrow
    The fact is that this is a pretty good summer-kablooie movie, and Cruise is better than pretty good in it.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Fault in Our Stars
    Intelligent and earnest, The Fault in Our Stars works well enough to keep a doubter from feeling mugged by sentiment.
  15. Chinese Puzzle
    Puzzle is neither puzzling nor much fun. It reminds you how much better Julie Delpy told the same story in “2 Days in New York.”
  16. The Dance of Reality
    Compared to his previous films, The Dance of Reality offers a nearly coherent narrative and a gentle, reconciliatory tone.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Million Ways to Die in the West
    It’s clear what MacFarlane is shooting for — nothing less than the chance to be both the Bob Hope and the Mel Brooks of his generation. Be careful what you wish for.
  18. Maleficent
    While this is Jolie’s show, obviously — and she’s terrifically arch — the surprising dearth of other compelling characters doesn’t offer much distraction when things get off track.
  19. The Immigrant
    The characters look as if they’d be more comfortable with intertitles than spoken dialogue. And the faces — Marion Cotillard as Ewa, the beleaguered Polish immigrant of the title, holds a close-up as well as Lillian Gish or Louise Brooks.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Teenage
    Regrettably, it’s terrible poetry: a roughly chronological jumble of archival footage, unconvincing period reenactments, gauzy voice-overs, and half-baked ideas that makes one yearn for the stolid dullness of a History Channel documentary.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cold in July
    You may be put in mind of HBO’s recent “True Detective” — the low-down Southern locations, the time period (here the mid-1980s), some truly horrible crimes, a general air of diseased moralism — but Cold in July, while stylishly done, isn’t close to that good.
  22. Blended
    Funny thing, though: The sunnier that Barrymore gets in her scenes with Sandler, the more the iffy elements and leaden bits seem to just melt away.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    X-Men: Days of Future Past
    “Days” is fast, smart, well-acted, and intermittently inspired, and if you don’t know or care who Beast or Blink or Storm are, you can safely skip it.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Double
    With an aptness that may even be intentional, The Double feels both over-familiar and oddly new. It’s safe to call it a Kafka-esque tale, even though the Fyodor Dostoyevsky novel from which the movie is adapted was written in 1846.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Manakamana
    A haunting experience, one that requires patience (and then some) but that offers spiritual, philosophical, and aesthetic rewards beyond the immediate power of words to describe.
  26. God's Pocket
    Best, probably, to appreciate the movie for what Slattery, Hoffman, and the cast do most effectively: craft a pervasive atmosphere of tired people trudging through tired circumstances that only seem to grow more, well, tiring.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Palo Alto
    It’s a solid debut, and it gets to the heart of suburban adolescence in ways that slicker, more ostensibly mature movies don’t. That includes Aunt Sofia’s “The Bling Ring.”
  28. Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq
    Presents enough teasing glimpses into the dancer’s personal and inner life to demand a fuller picture.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Chef
    An engaged, engaging voyage of (re)discovery that’s too in love with its subject to qualify as food porn. It’s food romance.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Million Dollar Arm
    An unusual story and sharp talents have been put through the Disney family-film machinery and come out flattened into formula. It’s an average movie, and that isn’t bad — just average.
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