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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. Hitman: Agent 47
    Hitman: Agent 47 is a by-the-numbers schlock action sequel that writes its own epitaph when a character mutters the dusty insult, “You’re dead, too. You just don’t know it yet.”
  2. Being Evel
    Those who came of age during Knievel’s rise, rise and fall will enjoy the fun moments. But this family-sanctioned film comes up short in terms of objectivity.
  3. Learning to Drive
    Hungry for some grownup entertainment? Take Learning to Drive for a spin.
  4. After Words
    Director Juan Feldman trusts his actors to charm us, which they do — up to a point. But there’s only so much that can be wrung out of this spinster-meets-exotic stud, “Summertime”-lite affair.
  5. The Mend
    A terrific, quirky New York-set character piece.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Slow Learners
    Even if this movie isn’t fresh, it’s often amusing.
  7. Grandma
    As Elle, Tomlin is Tomlin, which is to say great. Garner’s Sage is whiny, wise and winsome, which is to say an excellent 18-year-old.
  8. Sinister 2
    Say one thing for these killer kids: they’re creative.
  9. American Ultra
    This stoners-meet-government-assassins mashup is as meandering and paranoid as a guy toking up in front of City Hall. Sometimes that’s amusing, but most of the time it’s tiring.
  10. Tom at the Farm
    The movie can’t decide if it’s a drama about homophobia, a horror-tinged thriller or psychological surrealism. The cross-pollination makes for some nice-looking scenes. Ultimately, though, there’s a crop failure.
  11. Mistress America
    Full of smarts, sly insight and New York personality. As a feather in its jaunty hat, the movie also reinvigorates the art of screwball comedy.
  12. Final Girl
    Shocking. Horrific. Stunning. The plot twists in Final Girl? No, the fact that the movie itself was even made — and that Abigail Breslin is in it.
  13. The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
    It’s slow, lethargic, utterly lacking in charm and undeserving of the Cold War setting that is its best trait.
  14. Return to Sender
    Pike phones in a reprise of her Oscar-nominated “Gone Girl” performance, complete with brittle perfection and a loose screw. Fernandez can’t decide whether his rapist is a menacing thug or a sexy innocent. And as Miranda’s father, a bearded, hatted, suspendered Nick Nolte seems to have wandered in from the set of “Witness 2: Amish and Loving It.”
  15. Ten Thousand Saints
    The cast all do well with banal material that’s beneath them, especially Emily Watson.
  16. People Places Things
    This is boilerplate rom-com fare with few plot surprises. But thanks to witty dialogue, strong performances and sure-handed direction, the movie’s also smart, hilarious and an absolute delight.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Straight Outta Compton
    No movie could capture all the alarming incidents and contradictions that make up the complete N.W.A. story. But in order to stress the group’s most righteous side, the movie downplays their youthful excesses as well as their flagrant sexism.
  18. Dark Places
    One of 2015’s dullest.
  19. The Gift
    It’s fun to see Bateman channel his inner prick. But the gaslighting husband/cruel high school tormentor subplot is so underwritten that it feels tacked on.
  20. Fantastic Four
    Someone forgot to put anything fantastic into Fantastic Four.
  21. Ricki and the Flash
    The story here, like a lot of bar bands, goes loud to cover up mediocrity. When Streep sings, though, so does the film.
  22. Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet
    A work of words as lovely as “The Prophet” deserves a better artistic interpretation than this animated venture, which consists mostly of pedestrian, ’70s-quality visuals.
  23. Call Me Lucky
    Angry, quixotic, tragic, heroic — Crimmins’ life is stunning. Catch this portrait and you can definitely call yourself lucky.
  24. Shaun the Sheep Movie
    From the company that gave us “Chicken Run” and “Wallace and Gromit,” this adorable tale about a sheep who leads his comrades on a big-city adventure is some of the most pure visual storytelling you’re going to see this year.
  25. The Diary of a Teenage Girl
    Busy British newcomer Bel Powley is extraordinary as the teen finding her identity in mid-1970s San Francisco.
  26. Cop Car
    Despite the real, bloody stakes, Cop Car keeps a boyish sense of action and adventure through to a twist ending. You have a right to remain thrilled.
  27. The Runner
    The Runner, while painfully low-budget and a little patchy, is an interesting look at how sausage is made.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    6 Ways To Die
    I checked my watch over and over — and I wasn’t even wearing one. The only death the movie really supplies is one from boredom.
  29. The End of the Tour
    One of the best movies of the year.
  30. Best of Enemies
    This terrific, full-meal chronicle of the men and their mouths lets us hear from them not only during debates, but also in subsequent interviews, memoirs and articles.
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