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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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    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Short Term 12
    He (Cretton) just loves this place and these people so much, he wanted to give us more of them. For that, we should be grateful.
  2. The Grandmaster
    Who knows what they’re fighting about, but given the ecstatic ballet of fists and water, tossed bodies and smashed decor, centered by Leung’s majestic impassivity, it doesn’t really matter.
  3. I Declare War
    Imagination is what these filmmakers could use more of, as their ingenious concept doesn’t develop much beyond a gimmick.
  4. Thérèse
    The film looks great, boasting all the elegant period details that are expected in tasteful French adaptations of treasured national literature, with beautifully photographed Bordeaux landscapes and luxurious interiors. As for the human element, however, the mood is more apathetic than tragic.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Lifeguard
    Writer-director Liz W. Garcia depicts Leigh’s quandary with a heavy hand that gets heavier as the movie goes on, ending with one of those portentous freeze-frames that worked in “The 400 Blows” and never since.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Austenland
    Hess has made a classic rookie director mistake: Any spoof has to be at least as smart as the thing it’s spoofing, and this one’s twice as dumb.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    One Direction: This Is Us
    The problem is that the movie offers no way of differentiating between them beyond their hairstyles.
  8. Getaway
    In the end, it’s hard to remember another action entry that expends so much energy on frenetic blacktop choreography and attention-deficit editing with so little to show for it.
  9. Closed Circuit
    Instead of all-seeing, it’s more like seen it all before.
  10. Cutie and the Boxer
    In this alternately whimsical and grim documentary, Zachary Heinzerling relates the couple’s down-and-out, inspiring saga, which slyly comments on the evolution and ironies of the past half century in contemporary art.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ain't Them Bodies Saints
    It’s a secondhand vision, when all is said and done, but that doesn’t have to be a bad thing when the craft is rapturous.
  12. You're Next
    Like [The Purge and The Conjuring], Adam Wingard’s sly, diabolical, and oddly moral You’re Next draws on the home invasion/haunted house scenario, but outclasses them with its wit, irony, and technically proficient terror.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The World's End
    The World’s End is more frantic than funny, but it’s still funny enough — just — to outweigh its own silliness.
  14. The Attack
    Though director Ziad Doueiri’s uneven treatment of this provocative premise suffers from contrivance and implausibility, it nonetheless arouses profound questions about fanaticism, cultural identity, and the essential mystery of other people, even those we think we know best.
  15. Jobs
    If one were to compare this film to one of Jobs’s own products, it would be more like the Cube than the iPod.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kick-Ass 2
    Kick-Ass 2 is a special kind of crap: the kind smart people make for audiences they think are stupid.
  17. In a World...
    In addition to being very funny, In a World . . . also makes a case for women to be, well, heard. But in terms of cohesion and narrative, it doesn’t quite come together as a movie.
  18. I Give It a Year
    Though Mazer’s ambition is laudable, he has not yet integrated the comedy of manners into the comedy of no manners.
  19. Prince Avalanche
    It’s a surprisingly humorous and humane film — a lyrical little oddity that stands as a welcome return to form.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Spectacular Now
    A cleareyed, disarmingly tender adolescent romance that bears comparison with the best of its genre.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lee Daniels' The Butler
    The Butler is a remarkable, even exhilarating movie not for its inherent Gump-itude but for the social portrait that gimmick allows.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Le Pont du Nord
    Le Pont du Nord is not one of Rivette’s greatest works — honor goes to “Celine and Julie” or 1991’s “La Belle Noiseuse” — but it’s a useful compendium of his themes and it captures a very specific time, place, and sensibility.
  23. Lovelace
    Epstein and Friedman may have the best of intentions, but in the end they’re exploiting Lovelace, too.
  24. In the Fog
    As remorseless in style as it is in message, In the Fog offers little hope and few pleasures, but earns admiration for its elegant exploration of the lowest depths of the human condition.
  25. Planes
    Planes has some wonderfully goofy, even ineffable, touches.
  26. Europa Report
    Technique largely does the work of imagination. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The nuts and bolts of Europa Report may feel very familiar, but the movie doesn’t look quite like anything else.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Blue Jasmine
    Jasmine is a creation to stand with this filmmaker’s best, but Blanchett makes it better. She finds the grace notes in a disgraceful woman and leaves us stranded between horror and pity.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Elysium
    It’s a letdown, but this director’s still a talent to be reckoned with.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    We're the Millers
    It’s an August dog-day special, in other words: a few easy laughs, one or two flashes of inspiration, and enough sentimentality to ensure that no one actually gets hurt.
  30. Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
    Director Thor Freudenthal (“Diary of a Wimpy Kid”) finds his groove with a succession of flashy 3-D renderings... They’re digitized riffs on the Sarlacc pit from “Star Wars” and the finale of “Raiders of the Lost Ark” — but as with the “Potter” cribbing, when it’s done well, it encourages “Percy” audiences to forgive the derivative chunks and thin emotion.
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