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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. A LEGO Brickumentary
    As Corporate promotional videos go, this one snaps together right out of the box. As a movie, it can be as annoying as stepping on a stray LEGO brick with your socks off.
  2. Listen to Me Marlon
    The result is fascinating. That goes both for acting students, since we get insights into Brando’s craft, and those looking for gossip.
  3. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
    The perfect summer action flick. It’s full of attractive people, gorgeous locations, loathsome bad guys and a pounding score that ties it all together. This is what the “Fast and Furious” movies want to be, and the Bond pictures used to.
  4. The Kindergarten Teacher
    Slightly mesmerizing performances from Larry and young Shnaidman just manage to sustain interest in this quiet story. Even if it’s going nowhere.
  5. Extinction
    If only they had more screen time. The film’s core problems: too little zombie and too much plot. The upside, though, is McColgan as Lu. Chafing against her small world, McColgan is cute, charming and clearly someone to watch.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    I Am Chris Farley
    The movie is never able to get to the bottom of why the man so loved by his friends was unable to be comfortable out of the spotlight. But I Am Chris Farley is a warm, nostalgic reminder of a talent who died before his time.
  7. Jenny's Wedding
    Any humor, though, is buried deep in bad writing. So the joke’s on us. Writer-director Mary Agnes Donoghue is surely well-intentioned, but her tin ear and very-special-episode worldview miss the mark.
  8. Vacation
    After a while, Vacation starts to reek like a car when the kids have their shoes off. Really, though, that stench is a studio digging through its old titles, trying to find something fresh to remake.
  9. Paper Towns
    If you’re searching for smart, soulful teen entertainment, you can start looking inside Paper Towns.
  10. Pixels
    Every joke is lame, every special effect unspecial.
  11. Frank the Bastard
    Why doesn’t Wendy Vanden Heuvel do more film? As Clair’s cranky cousin Alice, she does more acting with a smirk and a turtleneck than the rest of the cast combined.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Outrageous Sophie Tucker
    This gossipy, affectionate movie about the daughter of Jewish Ukranian immigrants’ rags-to-riches story and her survival as a star into the mid-1960s is a lot of fun. But it doesn’t get under her skin.
  13. Southpaw
    When boxing cliches work, they can deliver a knockout. When they don’t, as in Southpaw, we get just punch-drunk.
  14. Samba
    With the tender love story, charming comedy and underlying point of shared humanity all getting equal standing, directors Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache earn the benefit of the doubt. You won’t be bored.
  15. The Stanford Prison Experiment
    Director Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s film underserves its cast of up-and-comers (Thomas Mann, Ezra Miller, Tye Sheridan), allows the usually solid actor Michael Angarano to go astray with a scenery-chewing role and buries Crudup in fretting and sanctity. Worse, the experiment’s inherent drama is exacted with a tin ear and a cheesy style.
  16. Staten Island Summer
    It all goes nowhere slowly, with only a few visual jokes to break the monotony.
  17. Famous Nathan
    Some segments are too long, but Famous Nathan contains a unique flavor that history-loving New Yorkers should relish.
  18. Lila & Eve
    You can get a little lost following the chain of drug dealers who Lila and Eve gun down. Then again, narrative coherence isn’t really the point. What is vital is Davis’ wrenching performance as a mother who’s done everything right, but remains powerless to keep her children safe.
  19. Mr. Holmes
    Stories about mythic figures at the end of their days are compelling — but they still need some zing. That’s what Mr. Holmes is missing.
  20. Web Junkie
    China has classified Internet addiction as a clinical disorder, calling it the single most dangerous threat to the health and well-being of Chinese teenagers. That’s a tough superlative to achieve, considering the levels of air and water pollution in China.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Trainwreck
    Trainwreck is rarely as laugh-out-loud funny as early Apatow or “Inside Amy Schumer,” but it is consistently amusing and constantly engaging.
  22. Irrational Man
    Irrational Man plays, like so much of Woody Allen’s work over the past 20 years, like a bad Woody Allen parody.
  23. Ant-Man
    Because of his easygoing comedy persona, Rudd is a perfect choice — and another example of Marvel’s savvy casting. He never takes anything too seriously, but he seems invested in the emotional side of the story.
  24. Tangerine
    Tangerine offers a warts-and-all depiction of a subculture seldom treated with respect by straight society. The movie handles it in a sincere way that’s entertaining, too.
  25. Tap World
    This crowded 72-minute doc “focuses” on at least 13 different dancers in a well-meaning but misguided and ultimately frustrating love letter to tap.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Minions
    Introduced in “Despicable Me” in 2010, those yellow, pill-shaped, gibberish-speaking “Minions” now have their own spinoff — and they still ride a fine line between irritating and adorable.
  27. Mad Women
    It’s a good thing writer-director Jeff Lipsky is a film distributor in real life. He’s his own best hope for getting this dreck out there.
  28. Self/less
    Laughable/Bad
    • 30 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Gallows
    Sorry, but this kind of high-school horror was old when Jamie Lee Curtis was young. All the ugly, shaky, night-vision camerawork in the world will not make it seem fresh. Or remotely scary.
  30. Strangerland
    The brooding and emotional prickliness gets overwhelming. Kidman tries her best to flesh out her character, but writer-director Kim Farrant gives this still-undervalued actress little to do.
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