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For 1,505 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 49% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 48% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
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. Sound City
    We’re given fairly straightforward talking-head accounts complemented with an increasing amount of archival material as the narrative progresses further towards the present, all coated in a VH1-suited slickness that belies the reported funk of the studio itself. Fortunately, that slickness is in service of tales from some substantial musicians.
  2. Olympus Has Fallen
    The action is the real star here, and it’s all good enough. It isn’t great – the aerial special effects are distractingly cheap – but at least there’s lots of it on display.
  3. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
    You won’t be upset you saw it, you’ll have some fun, you’ll see Wolvie beat the living hell out of a helicopter. These are good things, and it’s why studios are provided huge budgets to play with in the first place.
  4. Some Girl(s)
    It’s minor LaBute, but nonetheless short and bittersweet.
  5. Maniac
    Maniac is a bit like watching an amputee play hopscotch: there’s no way that it’s polite to stare for this long, but you just have to see if this guy’s gonna make it to the end.
  6. Baggage Claim
    Little chance of finding realism or romance but the laughs are there.
  7. Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
    It’s the odd touch of local color — like the backdrop of an abandoned amusement park, or the arrival of a Civil War steamer crewed by Confederate zombies — that makes these routine acts of derring-do a bit easier to bear.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas
    One terrible sub-plot away from being a legitimately good movie.
  11. Ender's Game
    Since it took 28 years to get it to the big screen, the fact that the end result feels rushed and hasty probably qualifies as irony.
  12. Peeples
    Peeples saves itself from a complete belly flop, by the barest of margins, by leaning heavily on its initial strength of good-natured charm.
  13. White House Down
    At best, White House Down is a sure-fire way to kill two hours, if not countless brain cells.
  14. 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.
  15. The Banshee Chapter
    Where The Banshee Chapter thrives is the overwhelming claustrophobia of the film.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. The Skeleton Twins
    While it’s only modestly effective at the serious stuff, at least it’s free of sanctimony and preciousness.
  19. Fill the Void
    Fill the Void is, in the worst sense of the word, a “women’s picture,” in which people wring their hands and worry, wail and weep over marriage and maintaining the status quo.
  20. Afternoon Delight
    Afternoon Delight will both depress and engage an audience, usually just depending on the minute of the movie you find yourself watching.
  21. God Help the Girl
    Murdoch’s film is fraught with ambition and aspiration, but a little thin on talent and technique.
  22. Machete Kills
    More focused and less preachy than its exploitation-riffing predecessor, the comparably shoddy Machete Kills nonetheless peters out in the homestretch (and, for some, surely sooner).
  23. Riddick
    Riddick is a fractured skeleton of a script, with each distinct installment scratching its own itch.
  24. Lee Daniels' The Butler
    Full of truth that's ultimately diluted by a lack of focus.
  25. 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.
  26. 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.
  27. The Lords of Salem
    The film’s final shot ranks among its least graphic and yet most puzzling, a slap-in-the-face piece of punctuation that reminds the most accommodating viewers that, even on his good days, Mr. Zombie is really only making movies for an audience of one.
  28. Drug War
    Drug War is by no means a bad film, but it doesn’t do much to push the needle of originality, and doesn’t glide enough to represent perfection of the genre.
  29. 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.
  30. Despicable Me 2
    Despicable Me 2 is fun, especially near the culmination. Structural issues aside, it’s impossible not to like these characters, all of them, rendered with love, always entertaining even when the story around them doesn’t make much sense.
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