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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. I, Frankenstein
    Eckhart doesn’t really do any of that classic grunting as Frankenstein 2.0, but maybe he should have.
  2. 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”).
  5. 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.
  6. Ride Along
    Hart’s clowning here is that rare case where louder is, in fact, funnier.
  7. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
    Slick, loud, assured, overplotted (way overplotted), fairly diverting, and pretty much empty.
  8. Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
    What I found more disturbing was the casual misogyny of the convoluted story line.
  9. 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.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Justin Bieber's Believe
    Where Bieber’s first concert documentary, 2011’s “Justin Bieber: Never Say Never,” chronicled his rise to fame, his new one is damage control.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
    The movie is extremely well produced, it features two excellent lead performances, and it is dull.
  15. Grudge Match
    Stallone and De Niro simply don’t generate enough combative spark to make this anything more than an amiably mediocre diversion.
  16. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
    The quest ends in a surprise Capra-esque resolution, which both satisfies and cloys.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Her
    It is a love story. Also a profoundly metaphysical meditation on what it means to be human. Also one of the more touchingly relevant movies to the ways we actually live and may soon live. Oh, and the year’s best film, or at least the one that may stick with you until its story line comes true.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Wolf of Wall Street
    One of the funniest yet most depressing movies in Martin Scorsese’s long career — a celebration and evisceration of male savagery, financial division. It’s like “GoodFellas,” only (slightly) more legal, which is very much the point.
  19. White Reindeer
    Writer-director Zach Clark doesn’t rise much above that level of subtlety in his lampoon of the phony goodwill and soulless commercialism of the Yuletide season. Luckily, he has a cast that elevates the puerility into genuine pathos and absurdity.
  20. Walking with Dinosaurs
    However well-intentioned the movie may be, it spills over with flat cutesy humor, making a slog out of an experience that should be filled with wonder.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Inside Llewyn Davis
    A transporting cinematic experience with a churl at its center, and how you feel about the movie may depend on how you feel about the churl.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
    While Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues is a disappointment — how could it not be? — it’s not for lack of trying. If anything, the movie tries too hard.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    American Hustle
    It’s a juggling act that Russell can’t sustain and doesn’t: The last 20 minutes feel aimless, and the movie doesn’t end so much as coast to a halt. And still you walk away giddy and full. American Hustle takes your money and makes you glad you were fleeced.
  24. Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas
    It’s a Christmas nightmare, stuck with two obnoxious relatives who think they’re funny, and won’t shut up.
  25. The Last Days on Mars
    Last Days aspires to the kind of no-frills, psychological terror of Duncan Jones’s brilliant “Moon” (2009) but, despite some determined performances, settles for the clichés of the abortive “Apollo 18” (2011).
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Saving Mr. Banks
    Because it’s a Hollywood movie from a major corporation looking fondly at itself, it concludes that, while art may heal our psychic wounds, craftsmanship and commerce heal them better.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
    Second verse, same as the first, a little bit shorter and a little less worse.
  28. At Berkeley
    The observations coalesce into a cogent whole, providing insights that are never overtly stated.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Punk Singer
    As pointedly as The Punk Singer looks at the past, the movie’s uncertain where the energy of that original moment has gone. Where are the riot-grrrls of today? Take your daughters to the movie, then ask them.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Out of the Furnace
    Out of the Furnace could have been a starkly powerful human drama or a cheesy, vibrant action film. It splits the difference and ends up playing like a lesser Springsteen song.
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