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Average Movie review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
Lowest review score: 0 Pixels
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,572 out of 5171
  2. Mixed: 1,333 out of 5171
  3. Negative: 266 out of 5171
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Humbling
    The entertainment value of The Humbling comes largely from Pacino's performance.
  2. Wild
    Witherspoon excels as a committed figure battling through each rough day. So long as the action remains on the trail, Vallée stages an engaging survivalist tale that plays up the resolve on Witherspoon's face, complemented with the rich visuals of an expansive landscape.
  3. The Look of Silence
    Compared to "The Act of Killing," Oppenheimer's technique with The Look of Silence is deceptively simple, but it applies a more traditional style of documentary storytelling to extraordinary goals.
  4. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
    Moment to moment, Birdman manages to shift gears, its roaming camera revealing new surprises as it glides along. That degree of unpredictability provides it with the ultimate response to the sea of formulaic mediocrities at the center of its critique.
  5. The Imitation Game
    It's a reserved, almost conservative performance, and in holding so much back so much of the time, Cumberbatch makes his few outward displays of emotion far more impactful.
  6. Rosewater
    Rosewater is lacking in sophistication, but its attitude is infectious.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    About Alex
    Focusing on cultural references and social cues, About Alex fails to give us a big picture compelling enough to overlook its flaws.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Abuse of Weakness
    Huppert gives a virtuoso performance here — not only because she deftly meets the extreme physical challenges of her role, but by playing Maud with unabashed humor and heart.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Lilting
    Whishaw's sensitive performance gives Lilting its emotional intensity.
  10. To Be Takei
    Takei is a natural storyteller who lends an enjoyable flow to the movie’s uncomplicated proceedings.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Giver
    In spite of grand, world-building special effects and a stellar cast, the film falters under giant leaps of faith that land it just outside of the typical audience's threshold of suspension of disbelief.
  12. The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
    The calibration of mature performances and a reasonably credible, if somewhat familiar, scenario make "Eleanor Rigby" a lot more watchable than the strange conceit of the production.
  13. Get On Up
    Though Get On Up never congeals into a satisfactory whole, its fragmentary portrait of the singer at the height of his fame — intercut with his troubled single-parent childhood — effectively shows his invasive power in popular culture.
  14. Young Ones
    The way it reaches to find the humanity in a place devoid of hope shows admirable attempt at a singular vision. But Paltrow overestimates the timeless nature of the story.
  15. Guardians of the Galaxy
    Though the special effects win the day, Guardians of the Galaxy holds court with a sense of humor that transcends its more familiar ingredients.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Finding Fela!
    Even after a superbly made two-hour-long documentary, Kuti keeps many of his secrets to himself.
  17. A Most Wanted Man
    A Most Wanted Man allows Hoffman to go out with not only one of his best performances, but one that epitomizes his strengths.
  18. Lucy
    Lucy doesn't hold together, but with its flashy innovation, Besson's trying to freshen the formula. It's the kind of freewheeling mess of a movie you wish studios would try out more often.
  19. Magic in the Moonlight
    Magic in the Moonlight belongs to the pool of lesser Allen comedies, yet Firth and Emma Stone — as the alleged necromancer Sophie Baker, the object of Stanley's scrutiny and eventually his affections — bring all the zany energy they can muster.
  20. The Purge: Anarchy
    The movie's potential blossoms whenever it toys with the allegorical ingredients head-on. DeMonaco's script plays like a devious Brothers Grimm tale told through the filter of Occupy Wall Street.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Video Games: The Movie
    You’ll get little more than a refresher course in the art of gaming from this documentary.
  22. Horns
    Predominantly a failure of tone, Horns has plenty of admirable traits and yet dooms itself from the outset. It's an admirable conceit stuffed into far less subtle material.
  23. The Tribe
    From one mesmerizing scene to the next, The Tribe never loses its flow. Even its harshest moments are defined by vibrant motion.
  24. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
    It speaks to the masses with some treats for the discerning types in the back.
  25. Closed Curtain
    In the struggle to tell a story, Panahi reveals the redemptive power of art. No longer issuing desperate pleas, he has turned to cinema for the sake of survival.
  26. Premature
    Beers' screenplay manages to sustain the outrageous scenario with a string of jokes that don't take the underlying goofiness for granted. Instead, the writer-director builds on its crass foundations with constant inspired one-liners.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
    Knappenberger has delivered a film brimming with outrage, whose zeal becomes persuasive once Swartz takes on his activist mantle.
  28. Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
    Whenever Lee ventures away from the outrageous particulars of the plot, "Da Sweet Blood of Jesus" transforms into a stylish means of exploring contemporary struggles in urban black America by depicting it as a ballet of navigating personal and practical conflicts alike.
  29. Exhibition
    Exhibition infuses its cerebral exposition with a strong dose of humanity.
  30. The Signal
    Eubank’s talent for creating impressive worlds with few resources is the movie's strongest aspect, but the concept feels like a never-ending exposition of technique without sufficient depth.
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