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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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    • 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.
  3. Grudge Match
    Stallone and De Niro simply don’t generate enough combative spark to make this anything more than an amiably mediocre diversion.
  4. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  16. 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.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Oldboy
    Lee’s Oldboy stands on its own. It just stands a bit shorter.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Philomena
    Philomena is a tearjerker of rare honesty and craft.
  21. Homefront
    Boston University product Gary Fleder (“Kiss the Girls”) directs the action with grungy efficiency, and the movie does hook us with a certain lurid anticipation of just how far things might escalate.
  22. Frozen
    Frozen could also leave its mark as the next step in the Disney Princess feminist revisionism championed by last year’s “Brave.” Where that film staunchly pushed a men-don’t-define-me theme throughout, here it’s the requisite fairy tale ending that gets tweaked.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Nebraska
    It’s a movie that floods you with emotion when you least expect it.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Jerusalem
    This IMAX spectacular largely does what it’s supposed to fascinate, educate, and visually wow the audience, in 45 minutes or less.
  25. Go for Sisters
    Though fitfully entertaining, it lacks the conviction and urgency present in even the weakest of his quasi agit-prop productions.
  26. American Promise
    The result is an extended home movie that is also a sociological experiment.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Book Thief
    The film is unobjectionable, sentimental, and not a little dull.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Armstrong Lie
    The Armstrong Lie is one for the time capsule, because it preserves for future generations a very particular modern response to scandal: confession without remorse.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Delivery Man
    Delivery Man is predictable but likable, schmaltzy but sweet.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
    Very few people will take in this spectacle of a society amusing itself to death, of “reality games” and the vapid media hysteria that surrounds them, and not draw a parallel to our own televised bread and circuses. At its best, “Catching Fire” is a blockbuster that bites the culture that made it.
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