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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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    • 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.
  3. 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.”
  4. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  10. 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.
  14. 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.”
  16. 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.
  19. Godzilla
    An uneven spectacle that can’t sustain its solid first-half character moments. But the movie can also flash a surprising, often clever sense of legacy, and is intermittently capable of thrilling us.
  20. Soundtrack for a Revolution
    The music is the occasion, and it’s stirring. What linger, though, are the images — and the ideals and emotions they convey.
  21. Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return
    This is mythology that’s famously transportive in every sense, but the animators struggle to take us anywhere truly captivating, or even clearly defined.
  22. Belle
    Belle has the pace and sumptuous cinematography of a Merchant and Ivory production, but none of their memorable characters, subtle performances, or literate dialogue.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Beneath the Harvest Sky
    While the climax of Beneath the Harvest Sky is a jumble of crosscutting, thunderstorms, and an inconveniently collapsing house, the movie never loses the pulse of people and tragedies it knows too well.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Locke
    The seductively gripping cinematic stunt that calls itself Locke bears a slight resemblance to the recent “All Is Lost.”
  25. Fed Up
    Like “An Inconvenient Truth” (2006), the Oscar-winning film about climate change, it is a call to action. As a screed, it builds a credible, engaging argument, presenting evidence, statistics, talking-head testimony, whimsical charts, poignant personal stories, and animated illustrations of digestive processes to make its case.
  26. For No Good Reason
    One of the best things about the documentary is their interaction, as Depp visits Steadman at his home in the English countryside — surely, it has a garden? — watching him draw and paint (and splatter) in his studio while asking him questions about his life and work.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Neighbors
    The crassly funny, not entirely irrelevant comedy Neighbors represents something of a watershed: the moment when all those Judd Apatow bad boys tremble on the edge of maturity, look back, and see the soulless face of a younger generation gaining on them. The face belongs to Zac Efron.
  28. The Quiet Ones
    The Quiet Ones simply has nothing to say.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Amazing Spider-Man 2
    I'm still not convinced we needed a new Spider-Man series, but at least this installment is interestingly mediocre instead of actively bad.
  30. Dancing in Jaffa
    “So how are you going to get them to dance together?” Dancing never explains how. Instead, as in similar films such as “Hoop Dreams,” it focuses on the contest, reducing the participants to a handful of representative kids who end up learning something about themselves and others.
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