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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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    • 28 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Good Day to Die Hard
    There are two problems with A Good Day to Die Hard: It’s terribly filmed and nothing in it makes any sense.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Beautiful Creatures
    It’s all a big, gluey metaphor for a girl’s sexual fears and raging mom conflicts, and, as in “Twilight,” the metaphor itself gets buried under mounting waves of CGI nonsense and a ridiculous back story about reincarnated Civil War lovers.
  3. Safe Haven
    A movie that passably ambles along in generic-melodrama mode before finally insulting audience intelligence one time too many.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    56 Up
    The attitude of many “UP” fans hovers between voyeurism and concern, between cherishing these people as distant friends and as extensions of ourselves. They’re canaries in the coal mine of human existence.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Side Effects
    A sleekly clever murder mystery, the film plays as many games with the audience as it does with its characters, and for the majority of the running time — the challenge comes from matching wits with what you’re seeing.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Identity Thief
    Unfunny, predictable, and vulgar, it’s the generic equivalent of a Judd Apatow movie. As always, you get what you pay for.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Stand Up Guys
    We get it: Stand Up Guys is supposed to be cutesy criminal magic realism. But Stevens, an actor turned director, never finds the right vibe, and the movie's genuinely creepy misogyny sours the attempts to go sentimental in the final act.
  8. Parker
    The best we get here are modest action diversions.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Movie 43
    The line between gross-out humor that's inspired and the kind that's witless is fine indeed, and Movie 43 obliterates it with poop and movie stars.
  10. Bullet to the Head
    It's a surprise that Stallone is as funny as he is playing a hit man paired with a cop in Bullet to the Head. He's man-cave witty in a way that his "Expendables" movies have strived for but haven't really managed.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Warm Bodies
    I don't know if the first zombie date flick is a step forward or backward for civilization as a whole, but I can say that Warm Bodies pulls off a pretty impressive trick: It has its "Twilight" and goofs on it too.
  12. Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
    Wirkola tears through Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters with such giddy abandon, it ends up being splattery fanboy fun. Preposterous, clearly, but fun.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Liar's Autobiography - The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman
    The results are exactly as patchwork as that sounds, with sequences of rowdy, sacrilegious invention punctuated by long spells of tedium.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Quartet
    Quartet is a sweet-tempered, rather fuddly drama about retired opera singers, and compared to a slick crowd-pleaser like "Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," with whom it shares a star and a sentimentalized view of old age, it's a mess.
  15. The Last Stand
    Kim doesn't sweat interweaving his story threads in any tightly controlled way. Just when the need-for-speed stuff really starts to gain traction, he'll shift for a surprisingly lengthy stretch to comic relief with the deputies and local wacko Johnny Knoxville.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Amour
    What happens between two people? Only the chemistry that keeps us from stumbling through the chaos by ourselves. Is that an illusion, too? Amour says it doesn't much matter. There is no dignity in life except love.
  17. Mama
    The frustration, though, is how much the movie leans on made-ya-jump scares and contrived plot devices when its quieter chills and already fraught setups are so potent.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Broken City
    As the implausibilities and conspiracies and double-crosses pile up, Broken City paints itself into a corner. A plot can be confusing as long as the filmmakers themselves don't seem confused, but that's not the case here.
  19. Fairhaven
    O'Brien and his castmates seem to play loose with his script a bit more than they should in an effort to give the material a lived-in feeling.
  20. Gangster Squad
    Gangster Squad is an almost movie. It's almost terrible. It's almost entertaining. But it's missing the shameless insanity of a wonderfully bad movie, and the particular vision, point of view, and coherence of some very good ones. So it sits there in between - loud, flashy, and unnecessary.
  21. Texas Chainsaw 3D
    All the makers of Texas Chainsaw 3D cared about was getting your $16.
  22. Hitler's Children
    The moral weight of Hitler's Children is unmistakable. So is that weight's inertness.
  23. Bestiaire
    The images are meant to accumulate shame, and they do. But they also might be too much.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Impossible
    An earnest, extremely grueling, prodigiously crafted true-life drama that takes one of the worst natural disasters in recorded history and reduces it to a bad day at Club Med.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Zero Dark Thirty
    It's a movie made with the same coolly fanatical attention to craft the lead character displays in her work. Bigelow is now recognized as one of our true filmmaking naturals.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Not Fade Away
    It's both achingly affectionate and a terrible mess.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Promised Land
    It's a fine line between interesting characters and "Northern Exposure" quirk, but the movie mostly stays on the right side of it.
  28. Parental Guidance
    Parental Guidance is overly generous with regard to the silliness. However, it's not clueless. Crystal seems determined to give as generously as he gets. When a bully whacks him, Crystal covers the bully in vomit. Good for him.
  29. Django Unchained
    The movie Quentin Tarantino has written and directed is corkscrewed, inside-out, upside-down, simultaneously clear-eyed and completely out of its mind.
  30. Les Miserables
    After 2½ hours, the movie's become a bowl of trail mix - you're picking out the nuts you don't like and hoping the next bite doesn't contain any craisins. All the carefully crafted misérables turns into a pile of miz.
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