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For 7,797 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 13th
Lowest review score: 0 Wide Awake
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,958 out of 7797
  2. Mixed: 2,079 out of 7797
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7797
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  1. Spy
    McCarthy’s mind just seems to race in a faster gear than her costars, allowing her to blast off arias of profane put-downs with such speed and demented originality that her mouth practically shoots sparks. As a physical comedian, she possesses the greatest gift of all: She’s totally unafraid of looking stupid.
  2. Entourage
    Entourage, the show and the movie, is about five insanely lucky knuckleheads who have each other’s backs in a town that’s more likely to stab you there.
  3. San Andreas
    San Andreas shows that sometimes the fake stuff can get the job done beautifully. I don’t want to make any claims that San Andreas is a great film. It’s not. But as mindless sensory barrages go, its fakery taps into something real: It shows us just how impotent we all are to control our planet. Unless, of course, you happen to be The Rock.
  4. Aloha
    It happens. Really talented directors sometimes step into the batter’s box, take a gigantic swing, and whiff.
  5. Poltergeist
    The only really frightening thing about the 2015 version of Poltergeist is how haunted it is by the original.
  6. The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence)
    Even by the series’ already low standards, The Human Centipede Part 3 is crap.
  7. Results
    Even by Bujalski’s shaggy standards, Results never adds up to much. Instead it just sort of sputters out and settles for a predictable rom-com ending. Conventional doesn’t suit him.
  8. When Marnie Was There
    The animation is dazzling.
  9. Sunshine Superman
    Interviews with Boenish’s wife, Jean, give his life story perspective and heart.
  10. Slow West
    Imagine Terrence Malick directing the climax of "The Wild Bunch," and you’re on the right track.
  11. Pitch Perfect 2
    PP2 sometimes feels less like a movie than a two-hour episode of Glee ghostwritten by Amy Schumer; jokes fly like they’re being shot from T-shirt guns at a gonzo pep rally, and not all of them stick the landing.
  12. Mad Max: Fury Road
    When you get past Miller’s orgy of loco action sequences—and they’re so good, you may not need to—the story is pretty thin.
  13. Maggie
    The sight of Schwarzenegger in this small, subdued role makes us root for his survival. That’s the power of star wattage at work. Not even the undead can kill it.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    5 Flights Up
    Freeman is funny as a lovable crank, but Keaton’s neurotic performance wears thin.
  15. Saint Laurent
    Actor Ulliel, who’s been the face of both Chanel and Hannibal Lecter (in 2007’s Hannibal Rising), knows how to slither. His version of Yves is spoiled, insecure, cruel—and, in the movie’s ironic final shot, tickled to death that we still seem to care about him.
  16. Hot Pursuit
    What’s spanglish for déjà vu? There’s hardly a single moment in Hot Pursuit that won’t remind you of scenes you’ve seen at the multiplex a thousand times before. (The movie’s original title was Don’t Mess With Texas, probably because Thelma & Louise Ride the Pineapple Express All the Way to Jump Street — and They’ve Got Lethal Weapons, Y’all! was just too long.)
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Ride
    Hunt seems to confuse fast-talking with crackling banter, and the mother-son bond is way ickier than it is cute.
  18. I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story
    Out of costume, Spinney is as impossibly sunny as his alter ego (with none of the crankiness of his other incarnation, Oscar the Grouch). At 80, he has no plans to hang up his feathers—welcome news for kids and parents everywhere.
  19. Far from the Madding Crowd
    With a steely resilience burning beneath her delicate, creamy complexion, Carey Mulligan brings remarkable nuance and a rich inner life to the role of Bathsheba Everdene.
  20. Gerontophilia
    There are the makings of a poignant Harold and Maude-style drama here, but the movie is so amateurish and eager to be shocking, it just winds up feeling creepy.
  21. Iris
    Although the film does hint at Apfel’s creeping sense of mortality as she donates her clothes for posterity, it never gets deep enough under her skin.
  22. Félix And Meira
    Quebecois director Maxime Giroux mistakes long, wordless scenes of characters gazing at each other for tenderness, but he imaginatively uses gospel music as the forbidden food of love.
  23. The Forger
    The art-heist plot is pretty by-the-numbers, but Travolta nearly saves it with his doomed air of paternal helplessness. He makes you feel the weight of being at the mercy of forces bigger than oneself. At 61, he still possesses something rare, even in rote material like this.
  24. Avengers: Age of Ultron
    Still, my real beef with these movies — and this one in particular — is how same-y they’ve started to feel. Each time out, everything is at stake and nothing is at stake.
  25. Adult Beginners
    There aren’t enough laughs here to goose it past formulaic. It’s harmless and mild and likable, but it’s also a toothless comedy that should have had some bite.
  26. Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck
    It proves that Morgen isn’t interested in hagiography. He wants to show us the real Kurt Cobain, warts and all.
  27. The Age of Adaline
    Lively looks fantastic in every era’s fashion as it passes, and she does a nice job of conveying Adaline’s old-world diction and reserve; there’s no Gossip in this girl.
  28. Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
    Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 does all it was created to do: exist.
  29. Welcome to New York
    The film, which sparked enough controversy that French theaters refused to pick it up, spends too much time bogged down in its more decadent scenes to spark any new insights.
  30. Child 44
    It happens more often than it should: A cast of sterling actors is assembled for a movie that doesn’t come close to equaling the sum of its parts.
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