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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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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  4. Maniac
    This remake, like Frank’s horrible hobby, remains an exercise in empty repetition.
  5. 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.
  8. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Bling Ring
    The studied impassivity of The Bling Ring feels increasingly like a dodge as the movie progresses; we sense an anger and a moralism that the director’s too cool or too wary or too close to engage.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Much Ado About Nothing
    Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing is just about the sloppiest Shakespeare ever put on the screen. It may also be the most exhilarating — a profound trifle that reminds you how close Shakespeare’s comedies verge on darkness before pirouetting back into the light.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Monsters University
    This is not a bad movie, and to small children it will be a very good one. But it is closer to average than one would wish from the company that gave us “Up,” “Wall-E,” “The Incredibles,” and “Toy Story 3."
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    World War Z
    World War Z is epically realized entertainment that feeds on our fears of apocalypse, but it’s just fast enough and smart enough — and, more importantly, human enough — to keep an audience on edge from start to finish.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Man of Steel
    Snyder knows how to put on a show, and Man of Steel has a massive scope that’s hard to resist... But what’s missing from this Superman saga is a sense of lightness, of pop joy.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    This Is the End
    [A] crass, patchy, often shamelessly funny farce.
  19. The Purge
    The problem with high concepts like this is cooking up a story and characters to go along with it.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Kings of Summer
    A stylish and very funny teenage coming-of-age story graced with surreal fringes and a mysteriously hushed core.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Before Midnight
    If the first two films belong with the greatest (if talkiest) movie romances of all time, the new film is richer, riskier, and more bleakly perceptive about what it takes for love to endure (or not) over the long haul.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Internship
    It’s the kind of Hollywood formula product that proves why the formula’s so hard to kill: simultaneously easy to like and impossible to respect.
  23. Now You See Me
    The editing of the action sequences is an insult to the idea of narrative clarity.
  24. Leviathan
    It is part Rorschach test and part theme park ride as the filmmakers shoot from the strangest places and from such odd perspectives that much of the film consists of trying to figure out what the heck is going on.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Becoming Traviata
    Becoming Traviata might make you feel you’ve seen Verdi’s opera, or it might make you want to see it.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Painting (Le Tableau)
    Creative, colorful, and unexpectedly wise, The Painting is the latest offshore animation to show to kids burned out on computer-generated Hollywood toons.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    At Any Price
    Bahrani is brilliant at small gestures and the way they can speak volumes, but in At Any Price he’s aiming for grand tragedy, and he doesn’t yet have the knack. The pacing of the final act is uncertain; the epic sweep doesn’t arrive.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    What Maisie Knew
    What Maisie Knew flirts with sentimentality but mostly keeps it at bay until the very end, at which point the filmmakers and we realize the kid has probably earned it.
  29. Fast & Furious 6
    At more leisurely, less furious moments, meanwhile, the cast shows the easy chemistry that comes with having now done a couple of these all-hands-on-deck episodes.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hangover Part III
    This third go-round for the "Wolf Pack" doesn't bother to Xerox the original 2009 hit comedy, as 2011's witless "Hangover 2" did. Instead, the new movie heads in different, if utterly formulaic, directions. So it's not terrible. It's just bad.
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