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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. Tim's Vermeer
    Tim’s Vermeer starts off in a playful fashion, but as he soldiers on, our intrepid, mild-mannered technologist finds himself getting emotional. In the presence of art, something happens. By the time it’s over, don’t be surprised if you’re more in awe of the work of an artist than ever before. Maybe this is Penn and Teller’s final, subtle rug-pulling moment: An attempt to demystify the artistic process ends up posing even greater mysteries.
  2. White Reindeer
    White Reindeer is a deliberately awkward little movie, and it’s a hard one to shake.
  3. Out of the Furnace
    We’re supposed to take this more seriously because it takes itself more seriously.
  4. Inside Llewyn Davis
    Joel and Ethan Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis is an exquisitely crafted tale of woe with heartfelt early-sixties folk music — and an overarching snottiness.
  5. Homefront
    A thoroughly boilerplate bayou actioner, with one notable feature. It’s got good villains – nasty, delirious, stupid villains, among them Franco and Ryder – and for that it’s almost worth seeing. Almost.
  6. Oldboy
    Watching Spike Lee’s decent but unmemorable remake of Park Chan-wook’s 2003 revenge picture "Oldboy," I kept trying to figure out why he’d done it.
  7. Frozen
    Frozen is one of the few recent films to capture that classic Disney spirit.
  8. Black Nativity
    It doesn’t always work as drama, but as a musical, it’s often fantastic.
  9. Cold Turkey
    Cold Turkey is a simmering piece of holiday dystopia with a good, scorching boil-over.
  10. Delivery Man
    Delivery Man feels more unformed, as if nobody’s bothered to give it that extra coat of slick Hollywood paint to cover up the patchwork beneath.
  11. Philomena
    The movie is overcalculating and occasionally coarse, but it has a gentle spirit. We should count its existence as a blessing.
  12. The Great Beauty
    The Great Beauty is a subtly daring cinematic high-wire act — an entire film built around one character’s unrealized, unspecified yearning. And it might just be the most unforgettable film of the year.
  13. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
    Relatively speaking, Catching Fire is terrific. Even nonrelatively, it's pretty damn good.
  14. Dear Mr. Watterson
    Look, Dear Mr. Watterson is a nice movie. Calvin & Hobbes fans may get a kick out of it. But it falls squarely into the promotional genre of documentary filmmaking — the same way so many music docs nowadays seem to be just movies about how awesome the director’s favorite band is.
  15. Charlie Countryman
    However you cut it, with all that talent, Charlie Countryman feels like a sad, wasted opportunity.
  16. The Best Man Holiday
    The Best Man Holiday is an inelegant movie, but its cast is so damn likable that we’re still willing to follow them — even when they’re not going anywhere.
  17. Nebraska
    The movie is a triumph of an especially satisfying kind. It arrives at a kind of gnarled grace that’s true to this sorry old man and the family he let down in so many ways.
  18. The Armstrong Lie
    The chronology is confusing at times, but the film is never not fascinating.
  19. Thor: The Dark World
    Thor: The Dark World gets a lot more entertaining in the second hour, when the shape-shifting Loki is sprung from his cell (for complicated reasons) and immediately begins trading bitchy insults with his forthright, manly brother.
  20. Last Vegas
    We know where it’s going, and it doesn’t take long to get there. There are some good jokes along the way, a few of them blandly off-color.
  21. Man of Tai Chi
    It’s the kind of solid, small-scale, entertaining action flick we probably need more of these days.
  22. Ender's Game
    Ender’s Game’s only lyrical presence is Breslin’s. The actress has a gentle soul. In the end, she’s the movie’s mascot, and its mournful spirit.
  23. Dallas Buyers Club
    Despite its downbeat context (a plague at its height), the movie is a crowd-­pleaser — graceful and funny enough to distract you from its gaps and elisions.
  24. About Time
    About Time is like a sermon that starts with a few good jokes and ends with tremulous exhortations to live, live.
  25. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
    For all the fecal matter flying around, and all the dick jokes, Bad Grandpa turns out to be an act of redemption: It’s the anti-Borat. And for all its flaws, it might just be the most heartwarming movie of the year.
  26. The Counselor
    It shows us things — obscene and hilarious, yes, but also just as often harrowing and unforgettable — we never thought we’d see. It’s ridiculous, but it has a ragged nobility all its own.
  27. Blue Is the Warmest Color
    The movie goes on for three hours without an emotional letup — it’s finally overwhelming.
  28. The Square
    The Square is inner-world-shaking.
  29. The Fifth Estate
    The lesson of this is that there’s no easy way to dramatize the story of Julian Assange and that trying to turn it into a conventional melodrama is not just politically irresponsible but dull-witted.
  30. Escape Plan
    Here are two action stars having fun; watching them work together as a team is a lot more entertaining than you might have expected. Try not to think too hard about it, and Escape Plan is stupid, stupid fun.
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