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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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    • 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  11. Lovelace
    Epstein and Friedman may have the best of intentions, but in the end they’re exploiting Lovelace, too.
  12. 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.
  13. Planes
    Planes has some wonderfully goofy, even ineffable, touches.
  14. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. The Act of Killing
    The Act of Killing is one of the most extraordinary films you’ll ever encounter, not to mention one of the craziest filmmaking concepts anywhere.
  20. Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus
    Silva doesn’t resort to any fancy tricks to depict his characters’ inner experiences. But something happens nonetheless, a bonding of sorts that is almost, if not quite, convincing.
  21. The Look of Love
    Although Raymond’s career extended over five decades of London sleaze, decadence, and celebrity, neither director nor actor provide much insight into the man or his times, not to mention the significance of Raymond’s prime product.
  22. Still Mine
    Though admirable in ambition, McGowan’s decision to broaden his simple story’s scope diminishes an affecting melodrama about the increasingly common, insufficiently acknowledged plagues of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    2 Guns
    The movie has style but increasingly little sense.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner
    Kleine's film is rambling and unfocused but mostly charming, and it steps into deeper waters almost in spite of itself.
  25. Blackfish
    What’s on camera is both damning and expertly assembled, a filmmaking effort worthy of standing with 2009’s Oscar-winning documentary about dolphin abuse, “The Cove.”
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Computer Chess
    Computer Chess is deeply strange and occasionally impenetrable, yet it’s also surreally funny, with touches of science fiction that bedevil the proceedings with outré possibilities.
  27. The Smurfs 2
    That the mushroom-dwelling blue creatures still manage to be endearing even in their second big-screen extravaganza (in 3-D, no less) is about the best that can be said of The Smurfs 2.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Fruitvale Station
    Writer-director Coogler could easily have turned Fruitvale Station into a work of agitprop — a film to work you into a froth of anger — but he’s after things that are harder to grasp: the measure of a man’s life and the smaller struggles, satisfactions, and injustices that can fill it.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The To Do List
    In its exuberantly smutty way, The To Do List is a revolutionary development: a teen sex comedy where the girls get to play nasty and the boys stand around looking vaguely terrified.
  30. The Wolverine
    Jackman spends enough time compellingly playing stranger in a strange land that you’ll put up with a few unwanted doses of the old familiar.
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