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For 4,534 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 The Wolf of Wall Street
Lowest review score: 0 Joe Versus the Volcano
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,923 out of 4534
  2. Mixed: 982 out of 4534
  3. Negative: 629 out of 4534
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  1. Avengers: Age of Ultron
    A whole summer of fireworks packed into one movie. It doesn't just go to 11, it starts there.
  2. The Jungle Book
    A visual marvel that cuts a direct path to the heart.
  3. Infinitely Polar Bear
    The movie is a small miracle, lifted by Ruffalo and these two remarkable young actresses. Refusing to soften the edges when Cam is off his meds, Ruffalo is a powerhouse. He and Forbes craft an indelibly intimate portrait of what makes a family when the roles of parent and child are reversed.
  4. Gleason
    It promotes an awareness of ALS that goes beyond the best-intended any ice-bucket challenge — and ranks as a profound achievement.
  5. The Host
    Is it that scary? Yes. Will it reduce you to quivering jelly? Oh, my, yes! Does it bust the bonds of the Godzilla formula to fuse fright with feeling? Better believe it, dudes.
  6. For Your Consideration
    Catherine O'Hara is comic perfection as Marilyn Hack.
  7. Only the Strong Survive
    One for the time capsule.
  8. Graduation
    Graduation, isn't quite on the landmark level of his searing 2007 abortion drama "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days," but this gripping film still sizzles with Mungiu's social-realist concern for people who believe they can't raise their position based on merit alone. In that sense, the filmmaker is working on a universal level.
  9. Dogville
    Kidman gives the most emotionally bruising performance of her career in Dogville, a movie that never met a cliche it didn't stomp on.
  10. Sing Street
    Sing Street is the most romantic movie you'll find anywhere these days, brimming over with music, fun and the thrill of first love.
  11. The Town
    Affleck and Hall make this unlikely love story palpably moving. And Renner (The Hurt Locker) is dynamite - he radiates ferocity and feeling.
  12. Colossal
    Damned if this wildly witty and surprisingly touching swing at movie madness and gender politics isn't on to something deep.
  13. Star Trek Into Darkness
    Kudos to Abrams for going bigger without going stupid. His set pieces, from an erupting volcano to the hell unleashed over London and Frisco Bay, are doozies. So's the movie. It's crazy good.
  14. Trainwreck
    Sweet is not how Schumer wants Trainwreck to go down. She wants to explode rom-com clichés and replace them with something fierce and ready to rumble. Done.
  15. Catfish
    There's more killer suspense and shocking intimacy in this one-of-a-kind documentary than you'll find in a dozen thrillers. You'll laugh hard and cry too.
  16. Saved!
    Fanaticism is Dannelly's target, not faith. That's what makes his film a keeper: It sticks with you.
  17. Stronger
    Based on the bestseller by Bauman and Bret Witter and blessed with a nuanced script by John Pollono, the film makes sure that tears, when they come, are fully earned.
  18. Never Let Me Go
    The melancholy attached to the impermanence of life and love suffuses this film, making it memorably haunting and hypnotic.
  19. The King's Speech
    Two men alone create an epic landscape of feeling in one of the very best movies of the year.
  20. Guardians of the Galaxy
    Guardians of the Galaxy does the impossible. Through dazzle and dumb luck, it turns the clichés of comic-book films on their idiot heads and hits you like an exhilarating blast of fun-fun-fun. It's insanely, shamelessly silly – just one reason to love it.
  21. Waiting for Guffman
    I lost it just watching Corky show off such memorabilia as "My Dinner With Andre" action figures and a "Remains of the Day" lunch box. Priceless.
  22. Knocked Up
    Rogen and Heigl step up to the plate with a tougher task from Coach Apatow: Nail every laugh and the emotions underlying them. No worries. They knock it out of the park.
  23. 21 Grams
    You won't see more explosive acting this year.
  24. Straight Outta Compton
    Straight Outta Compton plays better when it's outside the box, showing us N.W.A power and the consequences of abusing it. Would the movie be better if it didn't sidestep the band's misogyny, gay-bashing and malicious infighting? No shit. But what stands is an amazement, an electrifying piece of hip-hop history that speaks urgently to right now.
  25. Why We Fight
    Why We Fight deserves high praise for making it that much tougher to wear blinders.
  26. Rush
    It's Morgan's core script, full of humor, heartache and verbal fireworks, that lifts Rush above the "Fast & Furious" herd.
  27. The Age of Innocence
    Day-Lewis is smashing as the man caught between his emotions and the social ethic. Not since Olivier in "Wuthering Heights" has an actor matched piercing intelligence with such imposing good looks and physical grace.
  28. Enough Said
    It sounds like rom-com hell. And it would be if Gandolfini and Louis-Dreyfus weren't such an appealing pair of misfits. It's a pleasure just to watch them spar.
  29. The Imitation Game
    It's been a long time since intellectual sparring created such excitement onscreen. I've heard a few critics dismiss this mind-bender as hopelessly old-hat. Ha! If so, long live retro. ​
  30. The Squid and the Whale
    Without jerking tears or reducing the acid content of his wit, Baumbach's humane movie gets under your skin.
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