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For 5,164 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 38% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
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: 3,565 out of 5164
  2. Mixed: 1,333 out of 5164
  3. Negative: 266 out of 5164
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  1. Wish I Was Here
    Braff hasn't made another generational statement, but rather a regurgitation of tropes that got old a long time ago.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Trip to Italy
    While The Trip to Italy offers all the pleasures of a posh holiday accompanied by two of the most inventive comedians today, the improvisation here lacks the total unexpectedness that the first enjoyed.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    They Came Together
    In terms of its pure laughter quotient, They Came Together constantly delivers.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Song One
    Barker-Froyland's intention was clearly to make Song One all about music and how it can bring people together. But the result is all about Anne.
  5. Alive Inside
    Whether it's purely through the use of music or through the individual, attentive care given by some of the featured nursing home workers, the proof of positive changes presented in "Alive Inside" provide a sense of idealism amid bleak situations.
  6. Rich Hill
    There are moments when Tragos and Palermo run the risk of transforming their subjects into tools exploited for the sake of the movie's artistic vision, but the best part of Rich Hill is that its participants rise above the limitations of the material.
  7. The Skeleton Twins
    Judging by Johnson's previous feature, "True Adolescence," he's better at crafting characters with credible problems than finding equally credible ways of exploring them. Fortunately, in the case of Skeleton Twins, the actors do the legwork.
  8. The Overnighters
    At first galvanizing in its depiction of survival amid dire circumstances, "The Overnighters" transforms into a devastating portrait of communal unrest.
  9. Love Is Strange
    Love Is Strange is a sophisticated take on contemporary urbanity infused with romantic ideals and the tragedy of their dissolution.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Listen Up Philip
    Like its central character, Listen Up Philip exudes a kind of highbrow affectation that charms more than it alienates.
  11. Land Ho!
    Treasuring small victories and mood above all else, Land Ho! makes it possible to engage with its subjects' pathos and experience their sense of renewal along with them.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Laggies
    Even if the film doesn't leave much to ponder past the closing credits, it's enjoyable while it's unfolding, doing justice to the strengths of Shelton's ever-expanding filmography.
  13. Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter
    Striking a complex tone of tragedy and uplift at the same time, Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter both celebrates the escapist power of personal fantasies and bears witness to their dangerous extremes. It's the rare case of a story that's inspirational and devastating at once.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Infinitely Polar Bear
    Drawing from the wellspring of her own life, Forbes' agile tone allows the film to indulge in heartbreak and humor with equal measure.
  15. 12 O'Clock Boys
    Nathan never condescends to Pug or his cohorts, instead smartly allowing their brazen maneuvers to run the show.
  16. I Origins
    While still invested in grandiose swipes at big ideas and the epistemological babbling of a late night college dorm room conversation, Cahill generates an authentic sense of mystery by keeping a tighter lid on the secrets of the universe.
  17. Happy Christmas
    Sweetly funny and relatable, Happy Christmas builds on the director's previous work by channeling its strong aspects — naturalism and self-effacing, true-to-life humor — into a relatively straightforward but utterly enjoyable character study.
  18. Camp X-Ray
    In between the meandering exchanges lies an unquestionably thoughtful interrogation of a broken system.
  19. Boyhood
    Epic in scope yet unassuming throughout, Linklater's incredibly involving chronicle marks an unprecedented achievement in fictional storytelling.
  20. The Babadook
    The Babadook isn't a transcendent horror film. But its ability to handle and manipulate the conventional tropes apparent in so many of its peers makes it a satisfying ride.
  21. Frank
    Though more in love with its silliness than the insights buried inside them, Frank works to amusingly irreverent effect when combining the two.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Calvary
    Even as it delivers an emotional wallop, not every moment of "Calvary" goes down smoothly, as comedic scenes transition somewhat abruptly to tragic moments and the final reveal never reaches the heights of its Hitchockian inspirations.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    God Help the Girl
    God Help the Girl doesn’t quite succeed in convincing the viewer to toss conventional character development out the window, it still has its moments.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Raid 2
    If The Raid: Redemption was a thrashing drum solo, its sequel is the opulent symphony where every instrument is played with fevered inspiration.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Whiplash
    Revealing both the dangers and payoffs of artistic ambition, Whiplash is sure to establish Chazelle as a directorial force to be reckoned with.
  26. Towheads
    In Towheads, every comic bit is weighted with an awkward blend of sadness and irreverent humor.
  27. Dinosaur 13
    Douglas Miller's Dinosaur 13 is both awe-inspiring and tragic. Conventionally made but featuring an undeniably compelling story at its core, Miller’s debut benefits greatly from the combination of passion and sadness embedded in its subjects’ tale.
  28. Cold Comes the Night
    Chun treats the material with a sophistication that brings its pulpy scenario down to earth. Not even Bryan Cranston with a cheap Slavic accent can stop him.
  29. Interior. Leather Bar.
    As a fleeting essay on sexual biases, it encourages a thoughtful debate, but leaves too many questions dangling to solidify into much beyond a dashed experiment.
  30. Lone Survivor
    Lone Survivor is a grotesque action movie at times impressively directed by Peter Berg that combines the brute masculinity with the ugliness of the battlefield and viscerally unsettling shock value. But it's less a depiction of courage than a brutish magnification of anger and pain, both of which it conveys a lot better than the high ground that it reaches for.
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