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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. Inherent Vice
    They’ve turned Thomas Pynchon’s work into a slapstick noir homage that doesn’t just reward but demands multiple viewings.
  2. Top Five
    It’s one of the most vibrant, sly romantic comedies this year.
  3. The Captive
    Surely an Oscar-nominated filmmaker like Atom Egoyan (“The Sweet Hereafter”) can do better than this nasty and unconvincing thriller.
  4. Free the Nipple
    Shallow and frustratingly misguided drama.
  5. Exodus: Gods and Kings
    This eye-rollingly bad movie is silly, sluggish and miscast.
  6. Red Knot
    It's no surprise that first-time director Scott Cohen is a nature photographer by trade: he's made one of the most gorgeous movies you'll see this year.
  7. The Pyramid
    Poisoned air, feral night-vision critters and hard-to-read hieroglyphics are just the tip of the pyramid for the world's dumbest squad of adventurers who walk right into their own curse.
  8. Pioneer
    This one can't handle the pressure.
  9. Miss Julie
    Liv Ullmann’s screen version of August Strindberg’s 19th-century drama is an austere, pared-down take that does one thing extremely well: It allows actors Jessica Chastain, Samantha Morton and especially Colin Farrell to shine. But this emotionally brutal work is anything but cinematically engaging.
  10. Comet
    Sam Esmail’s fractured romance is beautifully shot and creatively structured, but he never gives us a single reason to root for his mismatched couple.
  11. Murder of a Cat
    This is a perfect example of the kind of indie movie J.K. Simmons will hopefully never have to do again if he wins an Oscar for “Whiplash.”
  12. Still Alice
    Hampered by both an unimaginative script and ordinary direction, but it’s a serious Oscar contender. Why? Because Julianne Moore is in the lead.
  13. Dying of the Light
    The irony is that in the low-key but mildly absorbing “Light,” Cage comes close to making it work.
  14. Wild
    You may admire Witherspoon’s solid performance, but you won’t forget you’re watching a star.
  15. Horrible Bosses 2
    So the big surprise of Horrible Bosses 2 is how far it gets on the hopped-up jabberjaw alliance of Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day. In the 2011 “Bosses,” they were swamped by the conceit: White-collar pals try to kill awful employers. Now, freed up to free-associate, they’re totally winning.
  16. The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness
    This seemingly ordinary biographical documentary about the retiring animation master unfolds, at a deceptively gentle pace, into a work of immense beauty.
  17. The Imitation Game
    Ultimately, though, director Morten Tyldum’s conventional approach doesn’t do full justice to his tragically unconventional hero.
  18. Penguins of Madagascar
    A sassy script and good-natured voice work from Benedict Cumberbatch and John Malkovich should keep kids and grownups entertained over the holidays.
  19. The Babadook
    So many horror films trade depth for a thrill. The Babadook has both. It dispenses with cheap scares and draws tension from a slowly enveloping dread. And when you think you know where it’s going, that’s when it goes in for the kill.
  20. Extraterrestrial
    Most of this dull movie is played straight. But as a local UFO nut, genre stalwart Michael Ironside (“Scanners,” “Starship Troopers”) provides solid comic relief. He feels dropped in from another movie. Or another galaxy.
  21. Food Chains
    The participants make a strong case, although the most emotionally powerful moments involve the workers themselves.
  22. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
    While the plot is too light to sink your teeth into, the dreamlike, David Lynch-style imagery is engrossing.
  23. All Relative
    Does Hollywood have so little to offer women that well-regarded actresses feel obliged to accept demeaning indies like this flatly unfunny, morally vacant comedy?
  24. Reach Me
    The concept itself is bafflingly empty. We’re never given any reason to respect Teddy or his work — which is built on tired, self-help clichés — so we hardly believe in his rapturous fans.
  25. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
    There is a serious lack of action here, which might be overlooked if the script were as smart as in the previous films. What passes for parable here is merely overplotting.
  26. A Merry Friggin' Christmas
    The atonal script is credited to first-timer Michael Brown, but there’s still no explaining Shapeero’s lump-of-coal debut.
  27. The Homesman
    The screenplay, adapted from Glendon Swarthout’s 1988 novel, lacks its heroine’s rigid spine. The story buckles in the latter half. As a result, we wind up watching two very different movies. The first forges ahead with Cuddy’s fiery righteousness. The second takes a much safer route, in which her pioneering spirit is sorely missed.
  28. Foxcatcher
    Rare is the drama that plumbs the quirky, unsettling depths of human nature like Foxcatcher. Simultaneously understated and grippingly edgy, this is an arresting examination of naivete, mismatched worlds and old-fashioned American oddness.
  29. Rosewater
    Rosewater is not about what isolates us, and part of the film’s terrific achievement is its recognition that staying connected is a daily show of strength.
  30. Dumb and Dumber To
    From junky production values to the parade of unfunny supporting characters to its lazy energy, Dumb and Dumber To falls on its face.
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