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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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  1. Museum Hours
    Museum Hours is an unusual film. It lacks a score yet feels like a sonata, intimate and musical. Secret harmonies are being heard.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Girl Most Likely
    One doesn’t really want to beat up on Girl Most Likely, because it means well and everyone in it appears to be having a good time. But so many things are wrong with the film, from a script that’s bright but never sharp to the editing that leaves scenes hanging flaccidly in the breeze.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Only God Forgives
    Only God Forgives is the kind of remarkable disaster only a very talented director can make after he finds success and is then allowed to do whatever he wants.
  4. R.I.P.D.
    There is less eye candy than you would expect, and it’s underwhelming.
  5. RED 2
    A sequel that has some snappy interplay, typically courtesy of Malkovich, but mostly feels like a cast working to manufacture what came naturally the first time.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Conjuring
    The Conjuring digs up no new ground — indeed, it seems almost proud of its old school bona fides — but it plows the classic terrain with a skill that feels a lot like affection. The ghost that’s really haunting this movie is nostalgia.
  7. Turbo
    Turbo makes an entertaining go of it by borrowing very liberally from the “Fast & Furious” franchise — Michelle Rodriguez even voices a character — and sticking a slime trail onto “Rocky” for the rest.
  8. Nicky's Family
    Winton’s inspiring story deserves greater attention but this film isn’t the best representation of it.
  9. Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story
    Bernstein communicates Ungerer’s manic spirit and his irrepressible creativity by punctuating the conventions of talking-head interviews and archival footage with animated snippets of Ungerer’s thousands of illustrations.
  10. A Band Called Death
    In the end Death triumphs, but its allure and obsession remain a mystery.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    I'm So Excited
    I’m So Excited! is probably its director’s most forgettable work. But it has its trashy pleasures, and it beats an in-flight movie — the one place you can bet it will never be seen.
  12. Grown Ups 2
    Grown Ups 2 offers a bittersweet paean to childhood and youth and their inevitable loss. Take the case of Adam Sandler. Didn’t he use to be funny?
    • 65 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Pacific Rim
    Pacific Rim is, hands down, the blockbuster event of the summer — a titanic sci-fi action fantasy that has been invested, against all expectations, with a heart, a brain, and something approximating a soul.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sweetgrass
    A meditative and intensely beautiful documentary.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Way, Way Back
    The movie’s a minor pleasure rather than a major work. But minor pleasures have their place, especially in summertime, and at its best The Way, Way Back goes down like a popsicle on a hot July day.
  16. More Than Honey
    Though overloaded with narration, “Honey” triumphs visually, with stunning shots of bees in flight, tracked in slow motion, “Winged Migration”-style, by who-knows-what technical wizardry.
  17. Hannah Arendt
    A film that ultimately says more about banality than evil.
  18. Just Like a Woman
    What might have proven an illuminating perspective on familiar issues disappoints as Bouchareb fails to turn his outsider’s point of view into new insights, and instead takes the easy route, falling back on familiar stereotypes in his tour of US misogyny and xenophobia.
  19. Despicable Me 2
    The scope of the ’toon espionage-adventure goings-on is surprisingly limited. But the filmmakers so clearly love working on these characters, their creative joy is infectious.
  20. Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain
    Few comedians talk so much to get a laugh, and sometimes the strain shows... And the directors don’t do him any favors by the annoyingly frequent close-ups of audience members in convulsions of laughter.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Lone Ranger
    The greater embarrassment is that so many millions of dollars have been wasted on an entertainment that feels so smug, so pointless, and so thunderously empty.
  22. Maniac
    This remake, like Frank’s horrible hobby, remains an exercise in empty repetition.
  23. Unfinished Song
    [Terence Stamp] and Vanessa Redgrave, as well as supporting actors Christopher Eccleston and Gemma Arterton, raise Paul Andrew Williams’s entry in the golden age genre from mawkish to genuinely heartwarming.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Hijacking
    A Hijacking tells a simple story whose ripples ultimately turn into tidal waves.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    20 Feet from Stardom
    20 Feet From Stardom may possibly be the happiest time you’ll have at the movies all summer, but it comes with a heavy load of frustration. The joy...is in the sound of women singing their big, beautiful hearts out. The pain comes from the anonymity they’ve spent their lives working under and fighting against.
  26. White House Down
    Intentionally or not, Roland Emmerich’s White House Down is the comedy hit of the summer. No other film equals its comic sophistication. Each nutty scenario is surpassed by the next, ludicrous story lines coalesce with expert orchestration, and absurd details return with perfect timing to build to a crescendo of hilarity.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Heat
    If you’re going to make a dopey, bawdy, foul-mouthed, predictable lady-buddy-cop movie, you might as well make it funny. And until it overstays its welcome in the final half-hour, The Heat is shamefully funny.
  28. Berberian Sound Studio
    Though “Berberian” bogs down a bit in its infernal spiral, Strickland proves himself to be a rising talent — a master of sound and fury both.
  29. Fill the Void
    Burshtein has achieved a gripping film without victims or villains, an ambiguous tragedy drawing on universal themes of love and loss, self-sacrifice and self-preservation.
  30. Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself
    Tom Bean and Luke Poling’s documentary shows that its subject’s true talent may have been for an occupation no less rarefied than the ones he failed at: movie star.
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