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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. Good Kill
    Because it's so rooted in real life, the drama Good Kill is even more terrifying than “The Purge,” Ethan Hawke’s horror film from two years ago.
  2. The Seven Five
    Director Tiller Russell sometimes get sidetracked — a dangerous thing in a story that already has a lot of twists, turns and off-ramps. But it’s a story you have to hear, from the guys who lived it and may never live it down.
  3. Maggie
    Its creepy atmosphere aside, Maggie is a slog of the living dead.
  4. Playing It Cool
    Screenwriters Chris Shafer and Paul Vicknair’s script feels like a first draft that was written in one night as they got pumped up on Red Bull and speed-watched Netflix. Guys: Another few polishes could only have helped.
  5. Saint Laurent
    Fashion junkies and junkie junkies are the only audiences likely to enjoy Saint Laurent.
  6. The D Train
    In this dramatically disappointing comedy, Dan (Jack Black) is a loser. And not a lovable one, either.
  7. I'll See You in My Dreams
    The movie is by turns a romance, a chick flick, a coming-of-age film and even a stoner movie. There’s something for everyone, with the possible exception of cretins who don’t appreciate great writing, casting, directing and especially acting.
  8. Mad Max: Fury Road
    Strap in, load up and hang on because Mad Max: Fury Road is a freaky, ballsy, phenomenal ride.
  9. Piku
    While the movie has far more toilet humor than you might expect, the locations and overall sweetness of the performances make Piku a good winding-road pick.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Bravetown
    This isn’t Bravetown. It’s Crazytown.
  11. Hot Pursuit
    Hot Pursuit gets cold quickly. That’s certainly not the fault of stars Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara, who work to keep this blessedly brief action-comedy shaking and cruising to an unthrilling end. The blame lies with a dopey script, director Anne Fletcher and a lazy Hollywood assumption that female buddy flicks should be as half-assed as their male counterparts.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Far from the Madding Crowd
    Director Thomas Vinterberg’s romantic rollercoaster honors Hardy’s rustic vibe. Remarkably, too, he’s made a thoroughly modern film anyone can relate to — it’s like a “what a woman wants” discussion set in Victorian times. It’s also an instant classic.
  13. Welcome to Me
    Kristen Wiig is scary. That’s a good thing. It’s part of her appeal as a comedian, and crucial in the funny-weird comedy-drama Welcome to Me, which uses the working-without-a-net aspect of Wiig’s humor to unsettling effect.
  14. Gerontophilia
    Comely Lajoie plays the part of catnip admirably, with bing cherry eyes and a Quebec accent. And as Mr. Peabody, Walter Borden gives better than the stock flamboyant roué that the role deserves.
  15. The Water Diviner
    Despite the incongruous romance and abrupt action beats, Crowe gives a likable, sympathetic performance. But it all starts to dry up before our eyes. Emotions feel false or melodramatic, flashbacks are drawn out and coincidences and connections are forced.
  16. Avengers: Age of Ultron
    Avengers: Age of Ultron is a kinetic, wicked mix of muscle and magic. Look no further if you want a world of superpowered freaks and geeks. But be aware: It comes at a cost. Vaporized in the parade of action and characters is the wonder and simplicity of its first, superior entry.
  17. The Age of Adaline
    Plausibility, shmausibility. This is pretty schmaltz done right.
  18. Misery Loves Comedy
    Explaining humor is usually like boiling water — it evaporates. But the funny folks in actor Kevin Pollak’s well-structured doc can actually break down what they do.
  19. The Forger
    Travolta’s face looks immobile, while Plummer and Jennifer Ehle, as Cutter’s estranged, strung-out wife, look out of place. Sheridan (“The Tree of Life”), though, does seems comfortable in a movie where the colors blur sloppily.
  20. Little Boy
    Somewhere amid the storytelling rubble in Little Boy there’s a decent message against racial prejudice. But it’s suffocated beneath a hokey premise and hopelessly square execution.
  21. Adult Beginners
    The not-funny-enough dialogue can’t mask writer Kroll’s unoriginal plot.
  22. Just Before I Go
    The former “Friends” star clearly wanted something special, but sadly the result is ... this.
  23. Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
    James' everyman appeal is stretched to the limits here, like that polyester shirt he wears.
  24. The Dead Lands
    National Geographic meets the WWE in this brutal, brawling revenge tale set in pre-Colonial New Zealand, mixing insight into indigenous Maori culture with barked dialogue and vicious arterial sprays, making for a simple but exciting adventure.
  25. Félix And Meira
    Felix and Meira is tender and sad, and wonderfully shot in snowy Quebec, but ultimately fails to connect. It’s such a gentle whisper of a film, it’s hard to hear what it wants to say.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Road Within
    They don’t come more clichéd than this indie road movie about three runaways who bond as they drive. But riveting, full-blooded performances from the young leads and a tough-love ending raise it above what you may expect.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Unfriended
    Unfortunately, the engine underneath that gloss is woefully familiar, offering the same jump scares we’ve seen a thousand times before.
  28. Child 44
    The mystery at the heart of the film is a riddle wrapped in an enigma covered in dullness.
  29. Monkey Kingdom
    If you don’t love monkeys already — and really, we all should — then Monkey Kingdom will swing you in the right direction.
  30. True Story
    True Story is a prisoner of its own dull storytelling.
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