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For 6,911 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 8.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Fruitvale Station
Lowest review score: 0 The Fourth Kind
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,885 out of 6911
  2. Mixed: 2,801 out of 6911
  3. Negative: 1,225 out of 6911
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  1. The Interrupters
    This is crucial work, evidenced by a line on a wall of R.I.P. graffiti that reads simply, "I am next." This film of common folks fighting the seemingly inevitable is just as moving.
  2. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
    The spirit of the series remains true: cheerfully random jokes, blink-and-you’ll-miss-them references and, above all, a silly, stubbornly sentimental streak that only the crabbiest cynic could dismiss.
  3. Veronica Mars
    It’s so much fun you may want to put a few bucks aside for a sequel.
  4. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
    Cloudy 2 is loud, weird and chaotic — just as kids like it.
  5. 20th Century Women
    Kind of like all the other characters Annette Bening plays, year after year - never to nearly enough applause.
  6. Still Walking
    An usually insightful rendering of an ordinary family, Hirokazu Kore-eda's contemplative Japanese drama is the sort of movie that makes its greatest impact long after you've seen it.
  7. Moneyball
    This extraordinary hybrid of a movie lives and breathes the game, yet its achievement is bigger than that. There's a touch of old-fashioned romanticism here, but more crucially there's strategy going on inside Bennett Miller's movie that turns it into something cool and special.
  8. The Grey
    The gristle inside this movie is one of the things that save it from being simply a series of challenges.
  9. District 9
    A memorable, monstrous fable that's consistently gripping.
  10. In the Loop
    One of the sharpest satires in years.
  11. WALL-E
    Rotates around a rusty little robotic hero who's built, as the movie is, with such emotion, brains and humor that whole universes exist in his whirring tones and binocular eyes.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lady Bird
    Greta Gerwig is spreading her wings as a filmmaker — and she soars with Lady Bird.
  13. Slumdog Millionaire
    It's a stunner.
  14. Jobs
    Entertaining and smart, with a great, career 2.0 performance from Ashton Kutcher.
  15. Wagner's Dream
    The finished "Ring" cycle, a combination of "myth, science and legend" made to order as Wagner imagined it, was unique to every viewer's eye. The making of it will be spellbinding to everyone.
  16. Crude
    Corporate inhumanity Berlinger ferociously exposes.
  17. Win Win
    There's a wonderfully steely spine inside of Tom McCarthy'sWin Win," but it's hard to see at first because it's inside the doughy, everyman person of Paul Giamatti.
  18. Roadie
    Michael Cuesta's perfectly-pitched indie captures the pain of arrested development with so much empathy and insight, you can't help but root for the unmoored, overgrown adolescent at its center.
  19. The Post
    True, sometimes director Steven Spielberg lays it on so thick you think he has a trowel. Inspiring scenes are flooded with sunshine. John Williams’ score swells and kvells. (Of course, Spielberg didn’t become America's most popular director by being its subtlest.)
  20. Winnie the Pooh
    There's no bells and whistles here, no 3-D or useless grey fluff, just Pooh as he's always been, silly and true.
  21. Magic Mike XXL
    There are laughs in Magic Mike XXL.... But the real eye-openers are the moments of sex-positive, woman-positive and emotion-positive contemplation.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The LEGO Batman Movie
    This version feels a lot less like a long advertisement for Lego products than the original, which featured multiple "here's how to build something cool" segments. And "LEGO Batman" uses pop culture better than the original.
  23. Kon-Tiki
    This terrific film certainly contains the spark of discovery.
  24. Gabriel
    Rory Culkin’s turn in the deeply felt and haunting Gabriel is so powerful you can’t look away.
  25. The Amazing Spider-Man 2
    There are two types of superhero movies: the ones that brood and the ones that swing. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is proudly the latter, filled with high-energy action.
  26. Rango
    The latest collaboration between Verbinski ("Pirates of the Caribbean") and Johnny Depp is sharp-edged, surreal, and often astonishing in its giddy creativity. What it is not, however, is a family film.
  27. The Illusionist
    If this lovely tribute sends viewers in search of the real thing, that would be a neat trick indeed.
  28. Cyrus
    The comedy of discomfort that runs through Cyrus is often about several things at once. But the most prevalent emotion in this quirky yet genuine movie is the awkwardness that comes with trying to fit into someone else's life.
  29. Gideon's Army
    Gideon’s Army does what the best documentaries have always done: It makes us think about something we’d rather not.
  30. Sicario
    This dramatic thriller finds a spot somewhere between your brain and your stomach, and drills in.
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