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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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    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Wind Rises
    Should you see it? Of course you should. Anything Miyazaki does is worth your time. But the movie’s a gorgeous, problematic anomaly in an illustrious career.
  2. Stranger by the Lake
    What Stranger by the Lake lacks in suspense and back story it makes up for in atmosphere: It’s a subtle exercise in the pathetic fallacy.
  3. Easy Money: Hard to Kill
    Once again, the most resonant drama here is all about conveying a self-loathing born of inescapable circumstances.
  4. In Secret
    That’s the key to this movie — the way Thérèse looks at things; it’s a rare film that focuses on a woman actually looking and how she responds to what she sees.
  5. Pompeii
    Anderson’s stab at rendering the Mount Vesuvius catastrophe with a 3-D “Titanic” gloss.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    3 Days to Kill
    3 Days to Kill is pretty terrible, but it’s not really Kevin Costner’s fault.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    12 O'Clock Boys
    As a depiction of extralegal activity, 12 O’Clock Boys is eye-opening but sometimes needlessly ambiguous.
  8. Like Father, Like Son
    A bittersweet musing about the nature of parenthood and about the conflict between nature and nurture, it is as banal and insightful as its title.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Winter's Tale
    Goldsman takes Helprin’s book — a work overflowing with events, ideas, characters, passions — and pounds away at it until all that’s left is mush.
  10. Endless Love
    Though Zefferelli’s version was trashy and downright nuts, at least it made you feel the love. This pallid replay just seems endless.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    About Last Night
    Despite a frisky soundtrack that starts off with James Brown’s “Sex Machine” — trust me, it’s downhill from there — this is the visual equivalent of Muzak. You don’t have to see it to have seen it.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    RoboCop
    The film doesn't embarrass itself or dishonor its predecessor, which is something.
  13. Vampire Academy
    Despite such attractions as Gabriel Byrne as a vampire with a skin disease and a décor that combines Hogwarts with “Suspiria,” the only lesson learned here is that Hollywood needs fresh blood.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Monuments Men
    It’s a great story, and much of it’s true. This should work like a pip. Instead, The Monuments Men is a tonal mishmash: Half “Hogan’s Post-Doctoral Heroes,” half “Saving Private Rembrandt,” and half “Ingres’s 11.” That’s three halves, so you can see the problem.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The LEGO Movie
    The first great cinematic experience of 2014.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Gloria
    If the movie’s about anything, it’s about the tension between what we owe our families and what we owe ourselves.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Labor Day
    The movie’s a somber affair, but if you see it in the right frame of mind, it’s the guilty-pleasure hoot of the season.
  18. That Awkward Moment
    As for the dialogue, although the characters talk really fast, swear a lot, and overlap their lines, what they’re saying isn’t very funny or authentic. It’s as if David Mamet collaborated on writing an episode of “Two and a Half Men.”
  19. I, Frankenstein
    Eckhart doesn’t really do any of that classic grunting as Frankenstein 2.0, but maybe he should have.
  20. Gimme Shelter
    Gimme Shelter is sometimes moving and inspiring, but you have to wonder: Though Kathy and her movement give teenagers shelter, do they give them a life?
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Invisible Woman
    Beneath the period décor and lamp-lit elegance, this is a story of a profound emotional crime prompted by profound love.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Square
    An electrifying, at times heartbreaking documentary from the Egyptian-born, Harvard-educated documentarian Jehane Noujaim (“Control Room”).
  23. The Nut Job
    The plot doesn’t take clever turns, the visual thrills aren’t all that thrilling, and you’re ultimately left to get your heist-movie kicks elsewhere.
  24. Ride Along
    Hart’s clowning here is that rare case where louder is, in fact, funnier.
  25. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
    Slick, loud, assured, overplotted (way overplotted), fairly diverting, and pretty much empty.
  26. Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
    What I found more disturbing was the casual misogyny of the convoluted story line.
  27. Wrong Cops
    No doubt a labor of love, the result is just plain laborious for the audience.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Past
    The Past, the new film from Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, is taut, quiet, democratic, observant — a fine meal made with rare and subtle ingredients.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    August: Osage County
    So, no, August: Osage County isn’t all that original, and sometimes it’s just a lot of yelling. But it does rouse itself to a powerful fury every so often, and Letts knows an audience’s dirty little secret: We love the bloodlust of a family feeding on itself.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lone Survivor
    The actors are excellent, as are the bruising re-creations of the firefight and the uncountable injuries sustained.
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