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For 3,960 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 47% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Hell or High Water
Lowest review score: 0 Daddy's Home 2
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,219 out of 3960
  2. Mixed: 1,378 out of 3960
  3. Negative: 363 out of 3960
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  1. The Signal
    You spend a lot of the movie confused, but the great big reveals of its finale don’t feel very shocking at all. Yet it’s not a complete wash and, given the circumstances, that feels like an accomplishment.
  2. The Rover
    It’s overbaked art-pulp. You’re always thinking, What fresh horror is around the next bend?
  3. How to Train Your Dragon 2
    Dragon 2 is at its best when it quiets down and dares to be intimate.
  4. 22 Jump Street
    At its best, 22 Jump Street is less an action comedy than a loosely plotted revue, and though it’s not as witty as either Joe Dante’s "Gremlins 2: The New Batch" or Edgar Wright’s "Hot Fuzz" (in which the directors evinced genuine love for their chosen genres), it’s sure as hell better than a straight buddy-cop sequel.
  5. Obvious Child
    The beauty of Obvious Child is that there’s nothing obvious about it.
  6. Borgman
    Van Warmerdam has a way with images that are both playful and horrific, and you may find yourself chuckling at Borgman as much as you recoil at it. It’s destined for cult status.
  7. The Sacrament
    I found parts of The Sacrament more effective than anything else he’s done to date, as it’s probably the least genre of his movies. But don’t tell West that; I’m pretty sure he still thinks he’s made a horror flick.
  8. Edge of Tomorrow
    It’s probably no great loss, but here and elsewhere the seams show. And in this sort of movie it’s often more fun before we get our bearings and have time to say, “This makes no sense.”
  9. The Fault in Our Stars
    The film does, however, have the best weapon in the world against the perception of slickness: an actress without a smidgen of actressiness.
  10. Filth
    Watching the movie is at once electrifying and maddening.
  11. Night Moves
    The movie is a cunning piece of storytelling, but it’s thin.
  12. Maleficent
    Jolie’s commitment to the part is admirable: She gives this Maleficent a real emotional urgency. But the rest of the movie lets her down.
  13. A Million Ways to Die in the West
    Some of the gags do land — maybe one in four. But the genre-parody genre with big stars and poop jokes needs a little more class than MacFarlane is capable of providing.
  14. The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
    Performance aside, the film never quite manages to figure out what it’s actually about.
  15. The Dance of Reality
    Jodorowsky’s fondness for the surreal and grotesque is in full evidence here. What makes his films so captivating, however, isn’t their strangeness, but their refusal to divide the world into good and bad, even when it’s easy to do so.
  16. X-Men: Days of Future Past
    He’s (Singer) reborn — deft, elegant, spring-heeled — in X-Men: Days of Future Past. The special effects don’t bog him down: They lift the movie to a surreal and more emotional dimension.
  17. Cold in July
    Before you quite know what’s happening, you’re swerving into another sort of movie altogether. And then another. You might not buy them all, but what a great ride.
  18. Blended
    It’s a good family movie the way Hooters is a good family restaurant.
  19. The Immigrant
    It’s richer than anything onscreen right now. It’s worth the pain.
  20. Chinese Puzzle
    Chinese Puzzle isn’t much of a story, but in leaning into and embracing its complications Klapisch is able to isolate little instances — exchanges, glances, fragments from which he can mine profundity. That may feel like a cheat, but it isn’t, because this is a world where the moment conquers all.
  21. Half of a Yellow Sun
    Transporting, well acted, and occasionally powerful. It’s also a rushed, maddening mess.
  22. Million Dollar Arm
    Million Dollar Arm is cute, cloying, simplistic, borderline offensive … and thoroughly effective.
  23. A Short History of Decay
    Not a lot happens, and yet, as in the best so-called “slice of life” stories, you feel one way of life ending and another struggling to be born. The little that happens is enough.
  24. Godzilla
    The problem is that he — unlike most modern sci-fi directors, who throw so much CGI at you that they make miracles cheap — seems peculiarly stingy when it’s time to deliver.
  25. Moms' Night Out
    A weird mix of tired jokes, topicality, and crippling anxiety.
  26. Palo Alto
    The most powerful aspect of this strange little movie is the sense that in an instant things could go very, very bad — even if they don’t. Palo Alto puts you on edge because it’s all dangerous corners.
  27. Devil's Knot
    It’s not a bad film, exactly, but it’s a jumbled, uncertain one, and it never quite makes a compelling case for itself.
  28. God's Pocket
    Slattery adapted the book with Alex Metcalf and gets the tone just right. The film is damnably amusing.
  29. Chef
    A comfort movie about comfort food, Chef won’t knock your socks off, but it believes in itself — and for Favreau, that’s all that matters.
  30. Neighbors
    That very unknowability, which hampered so many Efron performances in the past, turns out to be his most humanizing trait, and Neighbors’ secret weapon.
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