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Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Before Night Falls
Lowest review score: 0 Movie 43
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 776 out of 1505
  2. Mixed: 461 out of 1505
  3. Negative: 268 out of 1505
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  1. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
    The first live-action endeavor from director Brad Bird (The Incredibles, The Iron Giant), Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol is filled with the verve and clarity of his animated action sequences while lending just enough gravity and remote plausibility to the stunts and gadgetry to keep it from becoming a glorified cartoon in and of itself.
  2. Bluebird
    Bluebird is undoubtedly a remarkable achievement, especially for a first-time filmmaker.
  3. Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter
    The genius of Kikuchi’s performance is that – by the end – her slow descent into mania humanizes Kumiko precisely when it would have been so easy to reduce her into caricature.
  4. Gone Girl
    Gone Girl is a rare bird: a tricky, weird mystery that benefits from people knowing its twist from the outset.
  5. Jimi: All Is by My Side
    A closer, richer examination of a slice of time as specific as it is short.
  6. Hellaware
    It is a rather sly affair, slipping in some genuine food for thought amongst its snickering.
  7. A Walk Among the Tombstones
    Frank’s film is much more of a noir outing than a straight action feature, and Neeson slips right into the tone and feel of the hard-boiled detective offering. Neeson may have been treated to a big career resurgence thanks to his knack for big action, but he’s great as Matt Scudder, and the darker charms of the film suit him wonderfully.
  8. The Maze Runner
    For a genre that so often sacrifices character development and smaller narrative developments, the majority of The Maze Runner feels quite refreshing and worth the navigation.
  9. The Guest
    A truly entertaining and dizzyingly wild horror film.
  10. Rosewater
    The humor and drama don’t neutralize each other; in what’s perhaps Stewart’s most successful achievement as a director, the changes in tone work in a harmony, not at cross-purposes.
  11. Nightcrawler
    A fantastic, sleek and fun satire.
  12. Wild
    Heartfelt and haunting, sympathetic while still aware of the limits of sympathy, Wild incorporates beautiful direction, smart writing and brave acting.
  13. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
    This is not a film in need of creativity, passion or energy; what it needed was restraint, consideration and direction. This is not saying that Birdman is awful, or a debacle; there are superb scenes here, as well as excellent performance moments, but they get drowned out in the flood of Iñárritu’s ambition, energy and fantasies.
  14. The Imitation Game
    Strong, stirring, triumphant and tragic, The Imitation Game may be about a man who changed the world, but it’s also about the world that destroyed a man.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    As Above, So Below
    The film’s finely tuned middle act, a fast-paced and quick-witted journey into (possible) madness, eventually gives way to an unsettlingly over the top final section that relies far too much on larger setpieces and supposed “big scares” that are never as good as the smaller, weirder stuff.
  16. To Be Takei
    This portrait of the actor winds up being a parable about all of us.
  17. The November Man
    A nicely-made action-thriller, one with analog car chases and non-digital explosions, like a long tall glass of cold water in a world that mostly offers you Bud Light or Crystal Pepsi.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    Stray Dogs
    Stray Dogs pushes Tsai’s cinema of laissez-faire long takes, performative observation and pangs of regret and loss to their extreme.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 69 Critic Score
    Wetlands
    Juri’s performance makes it impossible to divert your eyes from the screen, no matter how much you might want to, and a brave film that eventually succumbs to convention is still braver than most.
  20. Swim Little Fish Swim
    What ultimately holds the film back, I believe, is its tendency to err too far on the side of that sweetness — it indulges too often in the hallmarks of the mediocre indie, the stuff a press release might call quirk, to level its more substantial points with real seriousness.
  21. The Hundred-Foot Journey
    An amiable cast and a satisfying enough story make The Hundred-Foot Journey stick to your ribs, even if it’s hard to swallow early on.
  22. Guardians of the Galaxy
    [A] blend of classic sci-fi fare and current pop-culture irony is what rockets “Guardians” into the stratosphere.
  23. And So It Goes
    A nice enough reminder that as time goes forward, we have to as well.
  24. Magic in the Moonlight
    This picture isn’t as showy or obvious as one of his (many) masterpieces, but it is quite good and deserves your time and respect.
  25. The Purge: Anarchy
    The Purge: Anarchy expands on its predecessor, but the excellent news is that the sequel isn’t just bigger and badder and bleaker; it’s also better, smarter, stranger and tougher.
  26. Mood Indigo
    Despite being clever and crafty it can’t break out of the curiosity shop. It’s the finest diorama in there, but something to admire, linger over then move past.
  27. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
    Serkis’ Caesar gets more than his fair share of rip-snortin’ badass moments. He’s arguably the finest leader of men we’ve seen on screen since “Lincoln.”
  28. Earth to Echo
    It’s not exceedingly original, it is well-made and a solid entry into the subgenre.
  29. Transformers: Age Of Extinction
    Either I’m getting dumber or the “Transformers” sequels are getting more coherent.
  30. Life After Beth
    Baena takes a well-tread road, leaving behind the guts of his promising story and never capitalizing on the charms of either romance or his leading lady.
  31. Nothing Bad Can Happen
    his bleak and somewhat sadistic picture is the type of movie that unfolds like a slow car wreck. You know something bad is going to happen, you just aren’t sure what, or how, and when it eventually happens it is repulsive and yet you still can’t turn away.
  32. Snowpiercer
    Snowpiercer is bold and brutal and committed, but no setting, no matter how inventive or beautiful, can compensate for storytelling that strains plausibility even as it batters your senses and sensibilities.
  33. 22 Jump Street
    22 Jump Street is a success, as there is a little good ol’ fashioned “heart” beneath its post-modern veneer.
  34. The Fault in Our Stars
    The film has enough charm and humor to keep it appealing to a wide audience, and dumbing things down doesn’t feel particularly smart or canny, and proves to be a minor distraction to an otherwise majorly entertaining feature.
  35. Edge of Tomorrow
    A mix of forward-looking sci-fi, classic themes, deft plotting and superb writing and direction, Edge of Tomorrow may be the pure-pleasure blockbuster to beat this Summer.
  36. X-Men: Days of Future Past
    Even when it seems mercenary and muddled, X-Men Days of Future Past is enjoyable and well-made and actually about character, a necessary shot of adrenaline born of both inspiration and desperation for a franchise that desperately needed one.
  37. Saint Laurent
    Bonello's decision to show rather than tell keeps the audience on its toes.
  38. Maps to the Stars
    Cronenberg’s map doesn’t lead to a satisfying destination in a typical story sense, but it is a remarkable quest. For a movie that has so many problems, it is one of the more watchable ones.
  39. Foxcatcher
    Nothing short of fascinating.
  40. Lost River
    Ryan Gosling wanted to make an art film and, despite some dull patches, pretty much succeeded.
  41. Million Dollar Arm
    This is a film about a journey, and while the destination – baseball’s major leagues – is continuously dangled in front of its protagonists, it’s getting there that counts. Oh, and also how fast you can throw a ball. That counts, too.
  42. Calvary
    The film has much more talking than acting, so McDonagh is wise to give it all the zest he can muster... But McDonagh, for all his agility as a writer, stumbles in fleshing out the story.
  43. Neighbors
    You’ll laugh if you’re young, you’ll laugh if you’re old.
  44. Walk of Shame
    Far-fetched, absurd and hopelessly schticky, but if you can get past its boring initial set-up, it’s actually quite funny.
  45. The Amazing Spider-Man 2
    An essential entry in the cinematic canon of Spider-Man, complete with new villains, new questions, and new heartaches.
  46. The One I Love
    The film is brisk, funny, smart, and artful, a strong pairing of high concept and relatable storylines.
  47. The Quiet Ones
    Worth making a little noise about if you’re a horror fan.
  48. The Other Woman
    The Other Woman eschews plenty of standard genre expectations to make an unexpectedly friendship-friendly film.
  49. Oculus
    It’s clean, lean and smart.
  50. Draft Day
    While Draft Day is a very agreeable and predictable movie, it is also very timely.
  51. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
    Captain America: The Winter Soldier neatly and entertainingly puts into motion some big changes in the Marvel universe, while still sticking to its own charms — no easy feat, but one fit for a hero.
  52. Afflicted
    Afflicted is an exciting, adept and smartly skillful debut horror film.
  53. Tom at the Farm
    If Tom at the Farm is occasionally impenetrable as a drama, it’s seldom less than gripping as an exercise in suspense, especially when Dolan’s precise sense of timing revitalizes otherwise familiar moments.
  54. Boyhood
    Like the best of fiction, it conveys greater truth about coming to terms with the world at large, and regardless of whether each individual scene is ultimately justified in its inclusion, the cumulative impact of seeing something resembling a life unfold over a mere two hours and forty minutes is overwhelming.
  55. Manakamana
    It is amazing, given the modesty of its scope and means, how much Manakamana is able to achieve.
  56. Hide Your Smiling Faces
    The landscape is a definitive presence throughout the film, which has almost no music and very little dialogue. The film is short (approximately 80 minutes) and maintains a good sense of dread throughout.
  57. Divergent
    Over-plotty, convoluted, full of unanswered questions and unquestioned assumptions — is a big part of the problem here, but director Neil Burger (“Limitless”) pulls off a neat trick here, in that Divergent is a pretty diverting piece of moviemaking pulled from a not-especially-good story.
  58. Muppets Most Wanted
    With Muppets Most Wanted, the vaudevillian pandaemonium is alive and well.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Veronica Mars
    The winks and nods to fans are deliciously satisfying.
  60. Chef
    If the Favreau-written “Swingers” concerned itself with the pursuit of meaningful romance and the Favreau-directed “Made” tackled the pursuit of a better living, then the slight if continually amusing Chef is clearly his paean to rekindling one’s passions, whether as an artist, a husband or a father.
  61. The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears
    Lengthy passages are unrelated to any discernible narrative, and seem to exist in that interzone your mind travels through just before it goes to sleep.
  62. The Grand Budapest Hotel
    Anderson has abandoned a bit of his whimsical nature for the later portions of the film, but the film’s first half hour presents one of his most darling settings yet, until, of course, it all crumbles into murder, mayhem and bad renovations.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Grand Piano
    Wood’s energetic, tightly wound performance carries the movie; his ability to juggle all the different information coming at him — keeping time on the piano while speaking and hitting his cues — is admirable and probably exhausting.
  64. Non-Stop
    A relatively high-flying adventure, injecting the always-entertaining airplane-set thriller with some fresh thrills and a cadre of characters worth getting invested in.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    About Last Night
    It’s funnier than it has any right to be, really.
  66. RoboCop
    RoboCop has sound and fury to spare and even an inspired idea or two lurking beneath that polished exterior, but much like its upgraded namesake, this watchable mess ultimately lacks a prime directive to call its own.
  67. A Field in England
    I’ve given A Field in England two tries now and each time found it to be occasionally ferocious and funny, severely trippy for stretches and at times outright tedious. With that said, I still can’t wait to see what the man does next.
  68. The LEGO Movie
    Just plain funny, loaded with joke after joke and pun after pun.
  69. The Trip to Italy
    The Trip to Italy is plenty enjoyable for fans of the first one and these two, but by the end, it also has the consistency of reheated comfort food.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    They Came Together
    They Came Together is a very fast, often very funny riff on a very tired Hollywood formula.
  71. The Skeleton Twins
    While it’s only modestly effective at the serious stuff, at least it’s free of sanctimony and preciousness.
  72. Life Itself
    It isn’t surprising how warm and enjoyable Life Itself is – James is a singularly talented documentarian who literally owes his career to Ebert, and Ebert approached the facts of being filmed the same way he faced films, or for that matter faced anything: With honesty and good humor.
  73. Land Ho!
    Though its uncluttered simplicity and refreshing lack of cliches render it sublimely enjoyable, the film never digs deep enough to give itself much weight.
  74. God Help the Girl
    Murdoch’s film is fraught with ambition and aspiration, but a little thin on talent and technique.
  75. The Raid 2
    Good luck finding a modern martial-arts epic that can even hold a candle to it.
  76. The Voices
    Here is a pitch-black psycho-horror-comedy to restore one’s faith in the “What the eff did I just watch?” genre.
  77. Happy Christmas
    Swanberg’s most mature and satisfying film yet.
  78. Listen Up Philip
    Listen Up Philip is big, sprawling and tortured, if a little lacking in focus – while funny in parts, it isn’t really a comedy.
  79. The Lunchbox
    This long-distance love story is comfort food in any language, perfectly agreeable and unlikely to surprise.
  80. Love Is Strange
    Throughout the picture you understand the miracle and good fortune of finding love, and recognize the great changes in tolerance American society is currently (albeit slowly) undergoing.
  81. Whiplash
    [An] unusually unromantic approach to music education is one of many noteworthy things about Whiplash, a funny, exhilarating drama — bordering on psychological thriller.
  82. A Most Wanted Man
    While the final act might not surprise or stun, it does feature some classic le Carre movements, some trademark Corbijn ease, and a terrifying Hoffman bellowing at the sky – not so bad for just another spy film.
  83. Camp X-Ray
    With its painfully plain-spoken conflicts and eventually oversold gestures of kindness, Camp X-Ray may offer frustratingly little insight into the hazy world of wartime morality, but if nothing else, it suggests that Stewart may escape her own “Twilight”-shaped prison yet.
  84. Laggies
    Superbly written, handsomely made and full of terrific performances, Laggies is Shelton’s best film to date.
  85. Ride Along
    Ride Along is a strong recommend when Hart is talking, but merely a mediocre attempt at a movie when he’s not.
  86. Maidentrip
    An instantly and enduringly compelling documentary.
  87. Big Bad Wolves
    A masterfully queasy blend of dark humor and darker humanity.
  88. Lone Survivor
    Ultimately seems at war with itself, torn between its duties as an entertaining, engaging movie and a somber, sincere memorial, and in splitting the difference, the film effectively assaults its audience almost as aggressively as its subjects.
  89. The Double
    The Double taps into a deep reservoir of psychic turmoil even as it navigates the script’s abundant jokes, and the nightmare of the heart of the film is doubtless universal.
  90. The Banshee Chapter
    Where The Banshee Chapter thrives is the overwhelming claustrophobia of the film.
  91. The Great Flood
    The movie on its own is great, but with this music it's sublime.
  92. The Missing Picture
    A gripping, fascinating and visually arresting memoir.
  93. The Selfish Giant
    An emotionally punishing experience.
  94. Jodorowsky's Dune
    It never quite elevates itself above something like a really well produced behind-the-scenes featurette on a high end Blu-ray. But if you’ve got that Jodorowsky T-shirt aping the Judas Priest logo, you may as well start lining up now.
  95. The Rocket
    The kid performances are impressive and the subtext of a region still shaking off the effects of a long-ended war gives seed to some much needed discussion.
  96. Blue Ruin
    A feral and staggeringly well-conceived revenge saga.
  97. Walking with Dinosaurs
    Educational content, clever and photorealistic dinosaur CGI, and John Leguizamo voicing a prehistoric bird. What else would one need for a fun movie stew?
  98. Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas
    One terrible sub-plot away from being a legitimately good movie.
  99. White Reindeer
    White Reindeer concedes that much about Christmas is funny — its notions quaint, its fixtures cliched. But it proposes that beneath this sometimes lurid veneer lay something to cherish all the same.
  100. American Hustle
    While American Hustle succeeds when it comes to casting and characters, it’s dragged down by a murky and poorly-paced narrative.
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