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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 Gunman
    Sean Penn’s bad side makes for good action-drama in The Gunman. There’s a grubby, redemptive quality that makes this tough-minded flick feel like the son of “Serpico” and “Salvador.”
  2. The Divergent Series: Insurgent
    Every scene is entwined in clunkiness.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    3 Hearts
    Charged by dynamite performances and Bruni Coulais’s ominous score, this romantic tragedy is more gripping than most thrillers.
  4. Walter
    Crisply directed but inescapably pious and, worse, narratively poky.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Home Sweet Hell
    A dark comedy that isn't funny and a marriage satire that doesn't break new ground.
  6. Cinderella
    Branagh, working from a script by Chris Weitz, gives the film emotional heft. James’ performance — never saccharine, often staunchly independent — makes the story’s more regressive elements float away.
  7. Seymour: An Introduction
    Intimate and intellectual, the film — with a title taken from J.D. Salinger — focuses on the type of person you pass on the street, see in a coffee shop or sit next to on the subway who makes you wonder what life he’s led. One full of melody and muse, it turns out.
  8. Champs
    Often it’s the fighters themselves who best sum up the appeal of “the sweet science.”
    • 19 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Lovers
    Suckers for romance likely won’t complain, but this Josh Hartnett time-travel epic is nuts.
  10. Run All Night
    Fatigue is all we get from Run All Night.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Chappie
    Chappie is as subtle as a sledgehammer. The latest sci-fi action spectacle from “District 9” and “Elysium” director Neill Blomkamp is also sprawling, bombastic, deafening, ugly and ultra-violent.
  12. Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
    Sam Worthington and Jim Sturgess are solid as two of the four kidnappers, but Swedish director Daniel Alfredson pushes the caper button too many times. More sly wit would have helped things come to a head.
  13. Unfinished Business
    Unfinished Business squanders almost every opportunity provided by its potentially funny premise. Instead, it becomes yet another blotch on star Vince Vaughn’s résumé.
  14. Merchants of Doubt
    What the film doesn’t show enough of is how these people got their positions of power. We get much more of the other side, the legitimate scientists, and too much of a magician who pops up to describe cons and double-talk. But he shows how a bunko artist is a bunko artist, whether on a corner or on CNN.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Faults
    Mind control is a topic that should be fascinating, but it’s utterly forgettable in this disappointing, low-budget indie.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    October Gale
    This dramatic thriller is a ball of confusion, but with barely any bounce. The one reason to see it: Patricia Clarkson’s subtle star turn.
  17. The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
    Yes, there are good moments from a team of veteran British actors, but overall, this return visit to the 2012 gray-set rom-com is deadly dull.
  18. The Hunting Ground
    The stories are horrifying, but essential to hear. Kirby Dick’s important documentary puts a personal face to the staggering numbers.
  19. Everly
    What on earth is Salma Hayek doing starring in this exploitative, junky piece of torture trash?
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Maps to the Stars
    For all its venom, “Maps” is one of the more compassionate movies from Cronenberg (“A Dangerous Method,” “Eastern Promises”). The corrosive humor and icy tone eventually give way to melancholy. No one here can be saved.
  21. Focus
    Will Smith may have run through every trick in his bag. In Focus, the one-time fresh prince and former box-office champ looks tired, bored and, even worse, uninspired.
  22. The Lazarus Effect
    Forget the minor, derivative scares in The Lazarus Effect. The real jolt here is seeing a well-known name playing a monstrous evil force.
  23. All the Wilderness
    First-time writer/director Michael Johnson falls back on coming-of-age clichés. But overall, his sensitive, moody camerawork and the cast’s strong performances go a long way toward making the familiar feel fresh.
  24. Wild Tales
    The direct translation of this deliciously devilish film’s Spanish title is “Savage Stories.” That’s a more fitting title.
  25. Hot Tub Time Machine 2
    This version of the time machine is more powerful — it’s made me go back and hate the original.
  26. McFarland USA
    The actors are in good form, but McFarland, USA can’t find its footing.
  27. Queen and Country
    Queen and Country features characters from the earlier movie. And it’s good. But “Hope and Glory” it is not.
  28. The DUFF
    Fortunately, the cast — featuring Allison Janney as Bianca’s scattered mom and Ken Jeong as her sympathetic mentor — is savvy and silly. Really, though, most of the credit goes to Whitman, who stands in, and stands up, for the DUFF in all of us.
  29. Hits
    All the low-hum, behavioral buffoonery gets a bit tedious. Still, cheers to Cross for the satirical road he covers, even with all the potholes.
  30. Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
    This great-looking, often spellbinding film also shows Lee’s sometimes pervasive theatricality threatening to chomp into the story. But the swirling strangeness of “Sweet Blood” makes it his most mesmerizing work since the underrated “Bamboozled” (2000) and “25th Hour” (2002).
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