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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 Monuments Men
    It’s a graceful, engaging film — I enjoyed it. But it could have been called "The Tasteful Dozen."
  2. Visitors
    All joking aside, this is a director who is incapable of creating something that’s not beautiful. He can, however, on occasion indulge in a little too much cliché.
  3. I, Frankenstein
    Eckhart plays Frankenstein’s monster in a monotonous, teeth-gritting mode, as if someone had one gun on him and another on his family.
  4. Gloria
    Gloria doesn’t lie about a woman’s dwindling options. It’s rife with disappointment and humiliation. But bleakness does not preclude buoyancy. It still manages to leave you with the urge to dance.
  5. Stranger by the Lake
    The mystery may be resolved, but the suspense and uncertainty remain. And so, Guiraudie ends his film on a cold, almost cruel note of existential solitude that just might, if you let it, break your heart.
  6. Gimme Shelter
    Whatever its politics, Gimme Shelter fails on multiple levels.
  7. The Nut Job
    A delightfully goofy slapstick cartoon with a surprisingly dark heart.
  8. Ride Along
    It all mostly works, but you can’t help but wonder at times if it could have been a lot funnier if it had just a bit more edge.
  9. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
    The movie itself isn’t dull. It’s moderately stylish, moderately suspenseful, fun in patches. It hits its marks. But the setup lacks urgency.
  10. In Bloom
    In Bloom feels, more than anything else, like a war movie.
  11. The Invisible Woman
    With her swanlike neck and ever-flushing complexion, Felicity Jones has a perfect nineteenth-century look, but there’s something forward and modern about her physiognomy, her huge eyes and strong nose and overbite. As she gazes down in enforced modesty, you feel her soul about to burst. The performance is startlingly vivid.
  12. Lone Survivor
    Crudely written, rife with clichés, and leaves out anything that would transform a piece of propaganda into a work of art akin to Samuel Fuller’s "The Steel Helmet," Brian DePalma’s "Casualties of War," or Steven Spielberg’s "Saving Private Ryan."
  13. The Legend of Hercules
    Like so many of today’s action films, The Legend of Hercules is too busy peddling slick, stone-faced portent to ever bother making us laugh, or engaging us in any way.
  14. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
    Exquisitely produced, immaculately acted, and thoroughly uninvolving, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a perfect nothing of a movie.
  15. The Past
    It’s absorbing for a long while, at least half its two-hour running time — an evocatively photographed soap opera with actors who are impossibly gorgeous and yet human-looking — but it goes on and on, piling on twists, adding devices so clunky they’d have embarrassed most nineteenth-century problem-dramatists, refusing to jell despite the actors’ prodigious suffering.
  16. Grudge Match
    The result is maybe more interesting than we might have expected, but it’s not particularly funny.
  17. 47 Ronin
    This one never quite decides if it wants to be a big, boisterous epic or a solemn retelling, and it nearly disappears into the crack between the two.
  18. The Best Offer
    Part of the pleasure in watching The Best Offer is the elegant, unassumingly suspenseful way it unfolds. You never quite know where it’s all headed, in part because it never quite tells you what kind of movie it is. I called it a “romantic thriller,” but there’s a lot more movie here than that.
  19. Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
    Does anybody really find this crap scary anymore?
  20. Justin Bieber's Believe
    My daughter wants you to know that the movie is great and that you shouldn’t listen to a hater like me. I envy her belief.
  21. August: Osage County
    In the all-star movie adaptation of August: Osage County, another play that holds the stage with fang and claw feels less momentous onscreen.
  22. The Wolf of Wall Street
    A veritable orgy of immorality, each scene making the same point only more and more outrageously, the action edited with Scorsese's usual manic exuberance but to oh-so-monotonous effect.
  23. Saving Mr. Banks
    A fair number of people have responded with tears and laughs to Saving Mr. Banks, but I found it interminable.
  24. American Hustle
    The movie is a slot machine that never stops spitting quarters.
  25. Hours
    The film’s brooding tension would probably work even without the recent tragedy of real-life events. But now, while uneven, the film is uniquely involving — right down to a final shot that will break your heart into a million pieces.
  26. Some Velvet Morning
    This smallest of films marks a welcome return to the world of interpersonal miniature for the writer-director.
  27. Her
    In Her, Jonze transforms his music-video aesthetic into something magically personal. The montages — silent, flickering inserts of Theodore and his ex-wife recollected in tranquility — are sublime.
  28. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
    Scene after scene rockets past dumb, past camp, past Kabuki, and into the Milky Way of Silly where laws can be made up and discarded as long as what happens gets laughs.
  29. Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas
    I don’t know, maybe it worked as theater. Onscreen, it’s torture.
  30. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
    Much of the bloat is still there, but The Desolation of Smaug, the second film in the Hobbit trilogy, is a real improvement – filled with inventive action set pieces and dramatic face-offs that we (finally, at long last, hallelujah!) care about.
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