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For 7,601 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Car 54, Where Are You?
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,106 out of 7601
  2. Mixed: 1,473 out of 7601
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7601
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  1. Tammy
    The movie shoves McCarthy and Sarandon in a car together quickly, without much in the way of expository set-up.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Transformers: Age Of Extinction
    It is scattered, weightless, impossible to get hold of, and somehow, after seven years and more than 10 hours of screen time, I could not tell you what these films are about.
  3. Third Person
    How much of what we see in Third Person is the novelist's invention is part of the guessing game that goes on and on. And. On.
  4. They Came Together
    Occasionally very funny, and moderately funny the rest of the time. In mathematical terms that adds up to pretty funny or "funny enough."
  5. The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
    See the movie, flaws and all, simply to see where you stand in this digital river that runs through all our lives, connecting and isolating us in ways we're barely able to comprehend.
  6. A Coffee In Berlin
    The film's surprising, enveloping jazz score is often deliberately at odds with Niko's moody outlook.
  7. Think Like a Man Too
    The sequel is a disappointing step down, and backward.
  8. Jersey Boys
    Jersey Boys the movie is a different, more sedate animal than "Jersey Boys" the Broadway musical.
  9. 22 Jump Street
    Be sure to hang around for the closing credits, which imagine all sorts of "Jump Street" sequels to come.
  10. How to Train Your Dragon 2
    Looks, feels and flows like a real movie. It's better than the last few Pixar features, among other things, and from where I sit that includes "Toy Story 3."
  11. Edge of Tomorrow
    I'm not sure Edge of Tomorrow holds much repeat viewing potential among teenage movie consumers, since the movie's a self-repeating entity to begin with. But once is fun.
  12. The Fault in Our Stars
    Woodley is an ace at handling laughter through tears — "my favorite emotion," as a character in "Steel Magnolias" once said. She improves with each new film, even when the films themselves aren't much.
  13. Maleficent
    This is almost entirely Angelina Jolie's show...this is a performance that goes from point A to point B without seeming rote, or ho-hum.
  14. A Million Ways to Die in the West
    Plenty of comedies aren't funny, but this one is more than that. It's wholeheartedly narcissistic in its portrait of male petulance and self-pity.
  15. Ida
    One of the year's gems.
  16. Million Dollar Arm
    McCarthy is following well-established story grooves here, but scene to scene, he allows the dialogue to breathe and reveal bits of character along with the more expedient bits of plot advancement.
  17. Chef
    Favreau's masterly light touch as an actor hasn't yet translated to a similarly deft offhandedness behind the camera. The movie, slick and shallow, is fairly entertaining anyway.
  18. Godzilla
    The director thinks visually, which sounds redundant until you realize how many monster movies are flat, effects-dependent factory jobs. Edwards knows how to use great heights for great effect.
  19. Neighbors
    One part smart, one part stupid and three parts jokes about body parts, the extremely raunchy Neighbors is a strange success story.
  20. Locke
    Twenty minutes in, Hardy notwithstanding, you might be tempted to bail on Locke. Don't.
  21. The Amazing Spider-Man 2
    Folks, I confess: I'm coping with a mild case of arachno-apatha-phobia, defined as the fear of another so-so "Spider-Man" sequel.
  22. The Other Woman
    Written by newcomer Melissa K. Stack, The Other Woman offers roughly equal parts wit and witlessness, casual smarts and jokes, lingering and detailed, regarding explosive bowel movements. Based on that ratio, I'd say the screenwriter's future in Hollywood looks pretty good.
  23. The Railway Man
    Even when the film's cheating, Firth refuses to tidy up the fictionalized Lomax's emotional state. The actor, so good at playing stalwart men contending with inner demons, can utter a simple line — "I don't think I can be put back together" — and break your heart, legitimately, without histrionics.
  24. The Unknown Known
    It's still worth seeing. This ambitious and powerful sphinx, a major force in a particular chunk of recent history, may not give away much. Watching and listening to how he doesn't give it away — that's the known known here.
  25. Transcendence
    After an intriguing start, Transcendence — aka "The Computer Wore Johnny Depp's Tennis Shoes" — offers roughly the same level of excitement as listening to hold music during a call to tech support.
  26. Under the Skin
    It feels fresh and unpredictable, as quietly strange as the remarkable musical score from first-time feature film composer Mica Levi.
  27. Dom Hemingway
    The material, limited payoff; the performer at the center, never less than arresting.
  28. Rio 2
    Rio 2 offers roughly the same approach to story and to story clutter as did the first movie.
  29. Draft Day
    Draft Day feels like a play, and I don't mean a football play. It feels like a play-play at its sporadic best, in the same way J.C. Chandor's 2011 "Margin Call" felt that way.
  30. Nymphomaniac: Volume II
    Vol. II turns into a battle (like most von Trier films) between the filmmaker's baser instincts and his searching ones.
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