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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. Jack Reacher
    This movie is the height of by-the-book dullness.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Guilt Trip
    The movie's silly, predictable, and surprisingly sweet - the sort of thing you can and probably should take your mother to.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    This Is 40
    The best scenes - the only time This Is 40 taps into genuinely messy comic anxiety - feature Brooks, who shpritzes shabby false confidence as Pete's pop, saddled with a younger wife and triplets he can't tell apart. Otherwise, the movie never quite comes to a point.
  4. Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away
    It's better to see it on the stage... a moderately enjoyable film that lacks the awe-inspiring visual and aural aplomb of Montreal-based Cirque du Soleil's live shows.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rust and Bone
    The leads save it, particularly Cotillard, who once again subverts her own glamour with ferocious lack of ego. The movie itself only occasionally matches her intensity.
  6. Barbara
    What Hoss is asked to play - and does play with great skill - is the fine line between self-protection and hauteur.
  7. The Central Park Five
    If the second hour or so isn't as strong as the first, it's because the filmmaking fails to rise to the injustice that's befallen its subjects since their exoneration. It can't, really.
  8. Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
    There is one bright spot. Ellie Kendrick plays Dolly's silly, breathlessly romantic little sister, Kitty.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wagner & Me
    To truly appreciate Wagner & Me, a BBC documentary getting a spotty theatrical release in this country, you have to cherish the music of Richard Wagner with the same quivering intensity as host Stephen Fry.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hyde Park on Hudson
    I don't know if I've ever seen a movie as spectacularly tone-deaf as Hyde Park on Hudson.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
    The downside is that "The Hobbit" no longer looks like a movie at all. It looks like a video.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Neighboring Sounds
    Neighboring Sounds unfolds like a casual nightmare in the light of day.
  13. The Comedy
    At some point, he finds himself drifting around a swimming pool, and it's tempting to think of Dustin Hoffman sinking to the bottom of the deep end in "The Graduate." But there's a difference. Swanson's pool is empty.
  14. My Worst Nightmare
    Huppert's character, who's a tornado of demands at work, is almost as obnoxious as Poel-voorde's. She just not as willfully disgusting. He chews up all the scenery with his thick Belgian accent and splaying limbs and general cartoonishness.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Deadfall
    Wilde is stuck with the harder job of simultaneously playing sexy, innocent, conniving, and heartsore, and the effort appears to give her a headache. "This is kind of like an old movie," Liza says to Jay in one scene. Lady, don't you wish.
  16. Playing for Keeps
    This isn't a genre-less character study, it's myopic romantic comedy, and watching a woman of Catherine Zeta-Jones's easy carnality and fathomless beauty compete for the attention of Gerard Butler, who's pining for Jessica Biel, is dismaying, like spotting Anna Wintour in line at a soup kitchen.
  17. The Waiting Room
    The movie observes the general misery of needing serious medical treatment and the particular awfulness of needing medical treatment you can't pay for.
  18. The Flat
    There's something touching about the way Goldfinger obeys his moral compass. He doesn't seem at all happy with that luxury. It's a burden by a more extravagant name.
  19. The Collection
    The Collection is an honest title. The movie is just a lot of other people's greatest hits.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Killing Them Softly
    A bleakly comic, brutally Darwinian gangland saga that at times comes close to being this year's "Drive." It also does something that, if you're from around these parts, seems downright perverse. It takes the Boston out of George V. Higgins.
  21. Hitchcock
    This is all a long way of saying that the best way to better understand the man who made those and dozens of other movies is simply to see them. There's no case to be made for a mangy shortcut like Hitchcock. It's all surface and formula.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Royal Affair
    A Royal Affair is tosh but it's ripely entertaining tosh, with emotions as flamboyant as the window treatments. There is nothing like a Dane.
  23. Red Dawn
    As a combat action spectacle, the movie takes a straightforward, gritty approach that makes for mostly solid viewing.
  24. Rise of the Guardians
    This does seem to leave room for bigger, bolder, more momentous adventures down the line.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Life of Pi
    Reducing Life of Pi to a homily does it a disservice. Lee gives the framing story short shrift and concentrates on visualizing the inner tale with as much detail and power as possible.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Anna Karenina
    The new film staggers under such a weight of self-conscious visual style that the story never connects with a viewer's emotions. Leo Tolstoy's classic novel has been filmed often, but this is the first time it takes place in a snow globe.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters
    Crewdson's work is distinctive, and this film does a great job helping us understand the specific nature of his vision.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Chasing Ice
    Orlowski does share Balog's smoldering rage at a society that refuses to face the consequences of its actions, and that rage forms the necessary spine of Chasing Ice. This is an agit-doc with no apologies and a lot of sorrow.
  29. Brooklyn Castle
    The biggest complaint about Brooklyn Castle is that there's not enough of her. A presence as magnetic as Vicary's demands more screen time. How did she come to chess (a notoriously male-dominated game)? How did she come to 318?
  30. Silver Linings Playbook
    Cooper gives the performance just the right lunacy and doubt.
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