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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. That Awkward Moment
    Sit tight through the end credits and you'll be treated to a few off-the-cuff outtakes of the guys doing things much funnier than anything in the film itself.
  2. I, Frankenstein
    To be fair, Eckhart is physically impressive and Bill Nighy and his raised eyebrow do their best in the role of demon leader Naberius. But I, Frankenstein shares something else with it's monster-hero, something much worse than its patchwork nature: The film is distinctly lacking in the soul department.
  3. Labor Day
    With his latest film, the mawkish and melodramatic Labor Day, Reitman has done an unexpected about-face: He's ditched Wilder for Douglas Sirk. And the swap doesn't do him — or his fans — any favors.
  4. Maidentrip
    After 519 days at sea, Dekker finally achieves her goal...and decides to keep sailing, only this time with a hunky boy as her mate. If I were her parents, I wouldn't have signed off on that, either.
  5. Gloria
    Both actors still manage to show something we rarely see on screen: the heartache and happiness that come with love late in life.
  6. Stranger by the Lake
    The movie is voyeuristic, sure, but in a way that evokes Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window" more than William Friedkin's "Cruising."
  7. Ride Along
    Hart's exasperated dervish shtick has moments of real live-wire anarchy, including one priceless gag at a firing range. Will it be enough to make Hart a household name? Maybe. But both he and his fans deserve better.
  8. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
    Branagh did a nice job of directing "Thor," but all he can do here is try to energize the recycled pulp of the script.
  9. The Past
    The Past, is hugely ambitious — it's Farhadi seizing his moment — yet it's also a wrenchingly intimate tale of lives torn asunder by forces within and without them.
  10. Tim's Vermeer
    An exquisitely fun documentary.
  11. Lone Survivor
    Berg has made a powerful film and an important reminder of what really happens when we send men and women off to war. It's just too bad that subtlety isn't a stronger weapon in his arsenal.
  12. Justin Bieber's Believe
    When the movie occasionally does confront its hero’s foibles, its answers are disappointingly pat.
  13. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
    In the end, Walter Mitty is a film about acting out our dreams. But Stiller never quite shows us the soul of his dreamer.
  14. August: Osage County
    The movie is red meat for anyone who thrives on a certain brand of punchy, in-your-face emotional shock value. Yet the pull of what happens on screen came, for me, with a major qualification: I went with it, but I didn't totally buy it. The film is a contraption that spreads its darkness like whipped butter on a roll.
  15. The Wolf of Wall Street
    The feverishly paced film is hell-bent on making the audience feel like they just snorted a Belushian mountain of blow. You can practically feel your teeth grinding to dust. As with any high, though, it also doesn't know when to stop.
  16. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
    It's still plenty hilarious in a reheated sort of way.
  17. Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas
    Madea is still a witty character, but the gutter wisdom of her tossed-off verbal hand grenades can’t shock us anymore; even the outtakes that play through the closing credits feel like reruns.
  18. Her
    Jonze's satiric, brave-new-world premise is undeniably clever, but it's also a bit icy emotionally.
  19. Saving Mr. Banks
    Saving Mr. Banks is a wholesomely square film about a wholesomely square film. But damned if its sugar doesn't go down like honey.
  20. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
    Bilbo, as played by Freeman, suggests a sly-dog Dana Carvey without irony, and he is certainly overmatched, but that doesn't mean he's outplayed. Desolation is now his business.
  21. American Hustle
    It's a film of jaw-dropping virtuosity and pleasure, one that leaves you revved, enthralled, tickled, moved, and amazed.
  22. Inside Llewyn Davis
    With Inside Llewyn Davis, they've made a film that is almost spooky in its perversity: a lovingly lived-in, detailed tribute to the folk scene that — hauntingly — has shut their hero out.
  23. Out of the Furnace
    It's Bale, and his almost biblical quest for justice, who burns his way into your soul.
  24. Black Nativity
    While Hudson's and costar Mary J. Blige's soulful, stirring musical numbers are absolute dynamite, the rest of the film's story is larded with enough soap opera twists and heavy-handed schmaltz that you'll feel like you're being bludgeoned with a hymnal.
  25. Oldboy
    In the end, the most impressive performance may be Spike Lee's. He uses skill without gimmickry, flash without fuss, to tap the mesmerizing soul of this pulp.
  26. Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
    All of the highlights are dutifully hit, as in a made-for-TV movie (albeit a lavish, gorgeously photographed one). Unfortunately, they're hit with a sledgehammer.
  27. Frozen
    Frozen is a squarely enchanting fairy tale that shows you how the definition of what's fresh in animation can shift.
  28. Philomena
    Dench and Coogan's chemistry is undeniably great. In the end, he manages to give her the answers she seeks and she manages to give him a heart.
  29. Delivery Man
    The only saving grace is Chris Pratt as Vaughn's deadpan best friend.
  30. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
    Catching Fire is smoothly exciting but a bit of a tease.
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