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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. Video Games: The Movie
    The modern stuff is undeniably fawning. But given the eye-popping visuals, you understand the enthusiasm. Especially if you left your heart, and thousands of dollars in quarters, in an arcade.
  2. The Purge: Anarchy
    The film’s “What if?” scenario takes the germ of an interesting social-science idea and lets it rot in a nasty, ethically questionable cesspool of junk cinema.
  3. Sex Tape
    How could a movie that offers Jason Segel riffing on sex and Cameron Diaz regularly disrobing be so dull?
  4. A Long Way Down
    The results are awkward and atonal.
  5. Rage
    As for our leading man, he’s clearly just messing with us now. Who else would make a revenge thriller called Rage and then sleepwalk his way through it?
  6. Road to Paloma
    Monument Valley makes an appearance, and there are soulful moments of slow motion. There’s enough heart here to make up for whatever first-timer miscalculations ride along too.
  7. Affluenza
    The movie’s ennui feels like so much posing, and the Bret Easton Ellis-lite characters are monotone. It’s rich in effort, but it all comes to diminishing returns.
  8. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
    Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is awe-inspiring.
  9. Closed Curtain
    Pahani’s films have become increasingly indistinguishable from his complex life, making them a challenging but often thrilling experience.
  10. Land Ho!
    The lack of narrative fireworks is, oddly, the movie’s big gimmick.
  11. Premature
    The blatantly misogynistic treatment of the female characters, who exist solely to service Rob and his best friend (Craig Roberts), would have felt retrograde in a movie made decades ago.
  12. Wrinkles
    Ferreras is similarly frank, but heavy doses of humor and empathy, along with gorgeous hand-drawn animation, keep things from getting too morbid.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Beyond the Edge
    Though impressively shot, the doc is a weak advertisement for 3-D. Hillary's bees pop out during a background episode, but that's old hat. It's the story of that final ascent is the real stirring stuff.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Me and You
    The director's "Stealing Beauty" and "The Dreamers" were both sympathetic but prurient films about teenage sensual awakenings. Me and You is sweeter and more resonant, and a potent comeback for the 73-year-old director of "Last Tango in Paris" and "The Last Emperor."
  15. Life Itself
    The irony is that Ebert famously lost his actual voice. Yet as the extraordinary documentary Life Itself shows, that couldn’t quiet one of America’s most beloved critics and cultural commentators.
  16. Deliver Us From Evil
    Actually, Ramirez should probably have been cast in the lead, since things flatten out whenever he disappears.
  17. Earth to Echo
    Earth to Echo is a copy of a copy. The movie feels less like a weak “E.T.” than a substandard “Mac and Me.” And you may not even remember the latter, a 1988 flop — the fate likely to hit this well-meaning but underwhelming effort.
  18. Tammy
    The fact that it stars the extremely funny Melissa McCarthy is both its saving grace and incredibly frustrating.
  19. Snowpiercer
    The film features plenty of elements that seem familiar from previous cinematic dystopian visions — class warfare, decrepit living, a feeling of terminal velocity — yet you can’t help but admire director Bong Joon-ho’s high-wire act.
  20. Postman Pat: The Movie
    The 6-year-old I watched it with summed it up perfectly: “It starts out fun but then it’s kinda sad and scary. And sorta boring, too.”
  21. Bound by Flesh
    Most of all, she (Zemeckis) brings generosity and compassion to the Hiltons’ tragic story.
  22. Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger
    Filled with horrific but colorful anecdotes, director Joe Berlinger’s incisive look at the mobster life of Boston career criminal and FBI informant “Whitey” Bulger is essential viewing for fans of lurid, true underworld tales.
  23. The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
    Melancholy, often muddled documentary.
  24. The Pleasures of Being Out of Step
    This mellow chronicle of Nat Hentoff is like a tour through New York’s past.
  25. Begin Again
    Knightley does fine work, but she’s been miscast. Her innate sophistication undermines the movie’s intentions right off the bat. We never believe her as Greta.
  26. Transformers: Age Of Extinction
    If you're not an 11-year-old boy, or a grown-up in the mood to feel like one, the endless "wow!-that-car-is-now-a-deep-voiced-robot" scenes lack thrill. In fact, the action scenes, as in the previous films, are downright headache-inducing.
  27. Think Like a Man Too
    The actors make the raucousness feel as easy as the cinematic couples therapy.
  28. Jersey Boys
    As the most comfortable performer among this inexperienced cast, Walken brings a crucial maturity. In contrast, Young seems to have been hired primarily for his uncanny falsetto.
  29. Le Chef
    Daniel Cohen’s genial French comedy is as airy as a soufflé. Alas, it’s not nearly as satisfying.
  30. Coherence
    Byrkit and his actors successfully build a sense of tension, and then dread, from what appears to be an extremely limited budget. Indeed, the movie was shot primarily in his own living room.
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