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For 7,964 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: 5,240 out of 7964
  2. Mixed: 1,556 out of 7964
  3. Negative: 1,168 out of 7964
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    • 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  9. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.”
  13. The Grand Seduction
    Charming, but not seductive.
  14. 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.
  17. 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.
    • 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.
  21. The Great Flood
    At its best, The Great Flood is hypnotic — at its worst, numbing.
  22. 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.
  24. 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.
  26. 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.
  30. 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.
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