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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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    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    12 Years a Slave
    12 Years a Slave is to the “peculiar institution” what “Schindler’s List” was to the Holocaust: a work that, finally, asks a mainstream audience to confront the worst of what humanity can do to itself. If there’s no Oskar Schindler here, that’s partly the point.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    All Is Lost
    All Is Lost works quite brilliantly on its most basic narrative level.
  3. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
    It’s the kind of outrageous comedy that you might even take your folks to, though probably not your kids. Say what you will about Harmony Korine and his demented geriatrics, at least they take their trash seriously.
  4. The Counselor
    This one has more in common with Scott’s “Thelma & Louise” in the memorable way it escalates, inevitably but also unexpectedly, into a spin through wilder country, and a meditation on bigger themes.
  5. The Summit
    First-time director Nick Ryan isn’t entirely up to the challenge in The Summit, but he does deliver some dramatic and visual highs in the attempt.
  6. Broadway Idiot
    This movie doesn’t make the case. In fact, had they upped the absurdity a notch, it would rival the comedy of Christopher Guest’s let’s-put-on-a-show mockumentary, “Waiting for Guffman” (1996). As it stands, it plays like an infomercial.
  7. Drug War
    It’s clear To is striving to keep the action gripping and creative. Modestly inspired is more like it.
  8. The Trials of Muhammad Ali
    The archival footage in Bill Siegel’s documentary The Trials of Muhammad Ali is wondrous. How could it not be, featuring the gentleman in the title.
  9. I Used to Be Darker
    This sounds like it could be austere and schematic, but the affecting, authentic performances from the first-time actors make these characters thoroughly authentic.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Fifth Estate
    The Fifth Estate is itself the response of an entrenched and corporatized information system toward something it barely comprehends. It makes a media format that has sustained us for decades — the two-hour movie — feel like a 20th-century dinosaur.
  11. Escape Plan
    In one amusing bit of dialogue, Stallone and Schwarze-negger kid each other about being smarter than they look. For a little while at least, we thought we might be able to say the same about Escape Plan.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Carrie
    The new Carrie is a thoroughly dispiriting remake — “retread” is the appropriate word — that could have been directed by any proficient Hollywood hack.
  13. All the Boys Love Mandy Lane
    Despite moments of black comedy and some memorable images, this “debut’’ doesn’t offer a lot to love.
  14. We Are What We Are
    A grade A, meat-and-potatoes genre flick.
  15. Free the Mind
    Though perhaps more suited to PBS or classrooms than to movie screens, the documentary is engrossing and just may encourage more people to look less to pharmacology for answers and more within.
  16. Linsanity
    Lively, if overlong, documentary.
  17. Escape from Tomorrow
    Escape From Tomorrow, Moore’s sometimes surreal, sometimes sophomoric, black comic phantasmagoria, makes for a bumpy theme park ride.
  18. Machete Kills
    Rodriguez does a fair job of keeping the zaniness coming: Vergara’s machine gun bra, Gibson delivering exposition in a “Star Wars” prop, bad guys offed by helicopter blades in dementedly creative ways. It’s enough that you’ll hope Rodriguez makes good on that new faux trailer — for “Machete Kills Again . . . in Space.”
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Romeo & Juliet
    Carlos Carlei’s Romeo and Juliet is a failure of skill.
  20. Muscle Shoals
    Maybe the biggest problem with Muscle Shoals is that it doesn’t dig deeper into something even more miraculous than the music.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A.C.O.D.
    Scott’s probably the perfect actor for this, since he’s too likably lightweight to suggest any emotion more crippling than exasperation.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Captain Phillips
    Director Paul Greengrass creates an aura of urgency so compelling, so rooted in detail, that we temporarily forget what we know and hold our breaths for two-plus hours of tightening suspense.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
    Through luck or Huber’s eye for the odd detail, it adds up to an unexpectedly moving portrait of a maverick at twilight.
  24. Mother of George
    Not your everyday dilemma, but as depicted in this lushly detailed and passionately performed melodrama, the mores and traditions of this sequestered, seldom depicted group take on a broader relevance.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Parkland
    Bulging with period details and a large and busy cast, Parkland is well made and at times queasily fascinating. At others, it gives in to melodrama and the ticking off of facts.
  26. Wadjda
    The world of cinema is richer for the voice of Al Mansour; she speaks for the women of her country, and for people everywhere.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Runner Runner
    When it’s time for the hot sex scene between Timberlake’s ambitious Richie Furst and Rebecca (Gemma Arterton), his boss’s luscious second-in-command, the encounter is as charmless and chemistry-free as the wooden banter that has led up to it. I’ve had dentist’s appointments that were sexier.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Gravity
    The movie’s an astonishingly detailed, visually painstaking state-of-the-art production that advances what the cinema can show us—even as the human story at its center feels a little thin after a while.
  29. Baggage Claim
    “You don’t need a man to define you!” Very true, and so much for feminism. The rest of the film takes a long, convoluted, predictable, and mostly unfunny route to prove that the opposite is the case.
  30. Metallica: Through the Never
    The guys in Metallica are here to remind us that there’s a band behind the rage rock. The IMAX 3-D release Metallica Through the Never is all about reasserting their relevance, loudly.
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