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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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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.”
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  10. 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.
  12. 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.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    On My Way
    Emmanuelle Bercot’s amusingly rambling drama hits the expected rest stops with a Gallic shrug and a lot of Gauloises.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Alan Partridge
    Alan Partridge is the cinematic equivalent of Marmite: a much-loved condiment in Britain and a puzzlement almost everywhere else. An acquired taste, certainly, but on the basis of this movie, well worth sampling at least once.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Only Lovers Left Alive
    Disarmingly direct and charmingly directed; it’s a bona fide love story, if an exhausted and occasionally thin one.
  16. Walking with the Enemy
    Does not sink to the bathos of Roberto Benigni’s Oscar-winning film (“Life Is Beautiful”), but it does reduce a period of irredeemable horror to the heroics of a single person.
  17. Brick Mansions
    The thematic stuff, while well-intentioned, is also clunky, and ultimately beside the point. Action, obviously, is what you’re after.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Other Woman
    One of those loud, cringe-y female-empowerment comedies that feels like it was made by people who hate women.
  19. When I Saw You
    A fresh perspective on one of the world’s longest conflicts.
  20. The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden
    Strauch’s orotund prose sounds much like that of Werner Herzog, but without the irony. Herzog’s sensibility is missed here; he could have made a masterpiece about the absurdity of these deluded seekers of Eden.
  21. Finding Vivian Maier
    The chief problem is the documentary’s misapprehension of the artistic personality.
  22. Bears
    As with all of Disneynature’s features, there’s astonishing documentary work on display in Bears — but a leaner, less conspicuously structured view of the wild might have had even greater impact.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    That Demon Within
    There’s a half-realized, half-haunting Hitchcockian psychodrama buried somewhere within That Demon Within. What’s on the surface plays more like Wong and Lam simply forgot to take their meds.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Railway Man
    Throughout, Firth compellingly plays a man struggling to make sense of the ordeal that his life has become. Too often, though, you can feel the movie struggling right along with him.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Transcendence
    There’s a lot of intelligence in Transcendence. Ironically, almost all of it feels artificial.
  26. In Bloom
    Despite the seeming inevitability of tragedy and despair, In Bloom remains true to its title. Though political and personal upheaval threatens to overwhelm them, Eka and Natia’s clarity and courage resist the ignorance, injustice, and rage all around.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Heaven Is for Real
    While Heaven Is for Real asks a lot of questions, it ultimately has no doubt whatsoever about the answers. Take it on faith or not at all.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Watermark
    Watermark feels less focused than “Manufactured Landscapes.” While it presents us with awful and/or awe-inspiring images and ideas, the movie lacks the tightening grip that made the earlier work so unforgettable.
  29. Joe
    Joe is one more in the line of Southern Gothic miserabilism that includes “Winter’s Bone” and “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” films that many have praised but some find condescending.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Birder's Guide to Everything
    At its occasional best, A Birder’s Guide to Everything hints at the profound pleasure of standing very still and witnessing wonders the rest of the world passes by.
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