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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 Nut Job
    Focused mostly on one location, the cartoon is stuffed with exhausting visual mayhem. Some jokes land, but most kids over 10 will roll their eyes.
  2. The Legend of Hercules
    This ludicrously written, buffoonishly acted, irritatingly filmed sword-and-sandals epic hasn't half the sand, sweat or saltiness of other titles in the genre.
  3. Free Ride
    On the bright side, the charismatic Liberato is one to watch. And de Matteo (“The Sopranos”) brings a crucial jolt of assertive energy. Both seem to be in another, more exciting movie entirely.
  4. Raze
    This ugly, dull and idiotic actioner doesn’t know if it wants be fun or grim. It winds up simply being deplorable exploitation.
  5. The Truth About Emanuel
    The most startling truth is about Emanuel is that she's a rather ordinary teen in a rather ordinary movie.
  6. Cold Comes the Night
    Cranston, in a fake beard and dark glasses, seems to be enjoying his goofy act. Trouble is, this isn’t the kind of movie in which goofy earns goodwill.
  7. If You Build It
    This honest and engrossing film shows how ingenuity and spark can restore excitement in education. That goal needs every helping hand it can get.
  8. Hamlet
    This Canadian Hamlet, completed years ago, is as airless as a tomb.
  9. Dumbbells
    A few barely conceived scenes allow Carl Reiner, Tom Arnold and Jay Mohr to show up for a quick paycheck. What’s that title again?
  10. Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
    The concept is the same, and just as tired as it was when the second, third and fourth sequels to “Paranormal Activity’s” 2009 first installment.
  11. For No Good Reason
    When this film focuses on the work, it’s engaging.
  12. Lone Survivor
    Peter Berg’s ultra-bloody battle film “Lone Survivor” is ultimately more grueling than satisfying. It’s more carnage than cinema.
  13. August: Osage County
    If you embrace the overkill, you’ll enjoy it. But if extravagance isn’t your thing, move swiftly on to something lighter and more digestible.
  14. 47 Ronin
    In the monumentally dull 47 Ronin, Reeves mumbles monosyllabic claptrap between dull action scenes. And it’s a shame: At almost 50 years old, the actor allows this turgid, clanky flick to play to his worst stereotypes.
  15. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
    The story Stiller tells manages to float in a most peculiar, satisfying way.
  16. The Invisible Woman
    Directed tastefully by Ralph Fiennes, The Invisible Woman is very lovely to look at. But it lives up to its own title too well.
  17. Grudge Match
    A director who really wanted to honor these actors’ legendary roles, rather than simply use them as a marketing hook, might have found a way to make this concept palatable. Segal (“Get Smart”) is not that director.
  18. The Wolf of Wall Street
    A delirious, manic, push-the-limits comedy of gaudy amorality that tests the audience’s taste. But it’s a gamble that works, since you leave this adrenaline trip wasted, but invigorated.
  19. American Hustle
    There’s a great fever-dream quality to David O. Russell’s American Hustle that instantly reels you in.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sun Don't Shine
    Amy Seimetz's richly textured debut is assured in every choice, from first frame to last.
  21. All the Light in the Sky
    Marie is middle-aged and at a crossroads in All the Light in the Sky, a movie that feels the same way — listless and searching and on its way toward something good.
  22. The Past
    The Past is not as nuanced as its predecessor — and not as impactful, either. But this is still far more complex than most family dramas.
  23. The Selfish Giant
    Both leading actors are teenagers who’ve never acted before — and they are both phenomenal.
  24. Walking with Dinosaurs
    Yes, the film’s CG dinos look great tromping in the Alaskan wilderness, but children deserve better than such unchallenging fare.
  25. Her
    Will you relate more to the bitter, or embrace the sweet? The choice itself is Jonze’s ultimate gift to us: an invitation to leave his film ready to communicate, debate and, most crucially of all, connect.
  26. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
    Like the bloated channels it parodies, the movie stretches to find something to say, then settles for stupid.
  27. Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas
    Comedy characters change and grow. Sometimes, as we see in Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas, they become so much like old relatives that their edge is gone.
  28. Hours
    Most of the movie elicits tense empathy, which builds to a genuinely nerve-wracking sense of dread.
  29. Some Velvet Morning
    As an acting symposium, this is 83 minutes of Tucci exercises; never a bad thing. The wooden Eve does her best, but director/writer Neil LaBute unfortunately underwrote her character — by design, it would seem, given all that transpires.
  30. Liv & Ingmar
    If you’re only a casual observer of Bergman, you’ll find this documentary as inaccessible as his densest works.
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