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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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    • 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.
  2. 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.
  7. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  13. 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.
  17. 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.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
    She’s a diva — she knows it, we know it, the director knows it — but over the years Stritch seems to have learned that the only way to deal with that is honestly. So she’s a paradox: a diva with no illusions about herself.
  20. Child's Pose
    Of all the great monster mothers in cinema history, Cornelia Keneres (Luminita Gheorghiu, who sets the standard other performances should be judged by this year) ranks high on the list.
  21. Bethlehem
    A taut, expertly constructed, and suspenseful police procedural, it also explores the issues of loyalty, trust, betrayal, and revenge that those engaged in such morally ambiguous if essential activities would prefer not to think about.
  22. Mr. Peabody & Sherman
    In the film’s sharpest visual sequence, they land in ancient Egypt, with the filmmakers entertainingly cribbing from “Indiana Jones” and “The Wizard of Oz” to get them out of tight spots.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    300: Rise of an Empire
    Basically, if the first “300” was a pep-talk from Coach on how to lose with dignity, Rise of an Empire is an inspirational speech on the value of teamwork.
  24. Stalingrad
    It’s a brutal bit of screen poetry that’s matched too infrequently by the aching human stories director Fedor Bondarchuk is so anxious to tell.
  25. If You Build It
    If this blend of community service, innovative teaching, and creative approach to design and construction sounds idealistic, the film’s final scenes deliver enough stress and sweat to show that idealism takes hard work, too.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cousin Jules
    Cousin Jules is one of those rare experiences that’s rooted in the past yet feels very much of the moment. On top of that, it’s timeless.
  27. Son of God
    For the most part, though, the film maintains its low ambitions; it is mostly inoffensive, only occasionally ludicrous, and at times, at least for me, genuinely moving.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Non-Stop
    Writers John W. Richardson, Chris Roach, and Ryan Engle bet that the central hook — Who’s the bad guy? How’s he doing this? — will keep us paying attention. And they’re right.
  29. Fatal Assistance
    Fatal Assistance has few answers, and adds little clarity.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tim's Vermeer
    The deeper Tim’s Vermeer takes you, the peskier and more profound the questions get.
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