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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. The Raid 2
    The film was technically astonishing and yet brazenly simple.
  2. Dom Hemingway
    Entertaining if inconsequential gangster farce.
  3. Oculus
    At its best, it delves into the murky areas of memory, childhood trauma, and family conflict. But it forgoes such troubling issues for mumbo jumbo and glowing-eyed wraiths.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Under the Skin
    What’s under the film’s surface is intriguing enough, but it’s the surface itself that holds you in a dark trance. A portrait of alienation filmed from the alien’s point of view — or is it just a woman’s? — the movie’s a cinematic Rubik’s Cube that snaps together surprisingly easily, yet whose larger meanings remain tantalizingly out of reach.
  5. Rio 2
    It’s fun in stretches, but also busily forced.
  6. Draft Day
    It’s a big deal for the NFL and ESPN, no doubt, and Draft Day serves as 110 minutes of product placement for both.
  7. The Unknown Known
    “The Fog of War” (2003), about McNamara, won Morris a best documentary feature Oscar. The Unknown Known takes its title from a favorite phrase of Rumsfeld. It also accurately describes its subject, whose smiling inscrutability makes him consistently fascinating and often maddening.
  8. The Missing Picture
    His film aspires to a poetry about barbarism that will not let us forget.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Nymphomaniac: Volume II
    Vol. II is less focused than “Vol. I” — less funny, too, although there are a few dank laughs — and you feel Von Trier’s inspiration and energy start to flag during the final laps.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Jodorowsky's Dune
    In retrospect, it’s obvious why the film was never produced: The director was a lunatic.
  11. Island of Lemurs: Madagascar
    The animals are so magically entertaining to watch here (helped by some gently mischievous narrative assists), the educational treatment is a fun time in its own right.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Anita
    If you were alive in 1991, the televised images may still stick in your mind and your craw.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Captain America: The Winter Soldier
    The new film isn’t nearly as bleak as Christopher Nolan’s take on Batman (in general, Marvel seems more risk-averse when it comes to fiddling with the crown jewels), but it still creates an action-movie landscape torn between patriotic ideals and harsh post-9/11 realpolitik.
  14. Cesar Chavez
    Plays more like an exercise in nostalgia than a dramatic re-creation of a triumphant fight for civil rights.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sabotage
    Stupid, sadistic, misogynistic, confusing, and more than a little ridiculous. Here’s the thing, though: It keeps you watching, if only to see how tortured the plot or characters are going to get. I’m not sure that “entertainingly awful” is a recommendation, but the shoe fits.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Noah
    Noah is equal parts ridiculous and magnificent, a showman’s folly and a madman’s epic.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Lunchbox
    The Lunchbox isn’t an example of bravura moviemaking or cutting-edge style but simply a tale told with intelligence, restraint, and respect.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Face of Love
    The result isn’t a great movie, but it is an excellent guilty pleasure.
  19. Particle Fever
    A key point, though, is that all the scientists profiled have staked their careers on this one discovery.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Nymphomaniac: Volume I
    Seems calculated to shock, but what’s most disquieting about Nymph()maniac is how funny, tender, thoughtful, and truthful it is, even as it pushes into genuinely seamy aspects of onscreen sexuality. Obnoxious he may be, but von Trier knows how to burrow into our ids.
  21. Grand Piano
    Though Mira shows skill at evoking mood and building tension despite the constrained circumstances of the premise, the narrative quickly and embarrassingly breaks down.
  22. Bad Words
    Misogynistic, homophobic, scatological — none of these words come up in any of the spelling bees that take place in Jason Bateman’s directorial debut, but they apply to the film.
  23. Muppets Most Wanted
    The well-worn plot basics are dressed up nicely by the film’s consistently clever humor, as well as a celebrity cameo roster that’s stacked even by Muppet standards.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Divergent
    Divergent is almost good enough to make you forget what a cynical exercise it is on every possible level. The original 2011 young adult novel by Veronica Roth — reasonably engrossing, thoroughly disposable — reads exactly like what it is: an ambitious young author’s attempt to re-write “The Hunger Games” without bringing the lawyers down on her head.
  25. Visitors
    Visitors is lovely, soothing, like the cinematic equivalent of tasteful elevator music, but it doesn’t convey as much truth as a single glimpse into Triska’s eyes.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Veronica Mars
    They’re calling it a movie, but no matter how you squint at it it’s a TV show.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Grand Budapest Hotel
    What does it add up to? What’s it all about, Wes? In a word: evanescence.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Omar
    The movie lands like a punch.
  29. Better Living Through Chemistry
    One hopes that, for their own good, when any of these actors are offered a script like this again, they’ll have the sense to just say no.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Need For Speed
    All that’s missing is Clyde the orangutan from Clint Eastwood’s “Every Which Way But Loose,” which, trust me, this movie could have used.
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