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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. The Danish Girl
    What Hooper has crafted is a work of probing intelligence and passionate heart.
  2. Creed
    The good news is that Coogler puts his own stamp on it. You can feel this fine indie talent stretching his wings in the mainstream.
  3. The Night Before
    It's rowdy fun with a dash of sweetness.
  4. Secret in Their Eyes
    The Americanized version is miscast, misguided and misbegotten.
  5. Legend
    Helgeland's script is hit-and-miss, not on the Oscar-winning level of his L.A. Confidential. Still, Hardy is a show all by himself, an actor flying without a net and having a ball. You will too.
  6. Carol
    Haynes' commitment to outcasts, then and now, makes Carol a romantic spellbinder that cuts deep. It's one of the year's very best films.
  7. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
    The good news is that Mockingjay – Part 2, the big finale, has quit the ass-dragging in favor of what made the book a page-turner. There's the visual fireworks, for sure. But there's also the darkness of the theme.
  8. James White
    Some movies are so good and true and tough-to-the-core they should just sneak up on you. James White is one of them.
  9. The 33
    Inspiration is what The 33 is selling. And it's hard not to get caught up in the rescue. You forgive the movie its faults, or most of them, because its heart is firmly in the right place.
  10. By the Sea
    Writer-director Angelina Jolie's attempt to emulate European art cinema is a slow, sodden, stupefyingly dull take on a 1970s marriage gone bad.
  11. Trumbo
    Luckily, Trumbo has a powerhouse Bryan Cranston to light a fire under the moldier clichés in John McNamara's script.
  12. Spotlight
    This landmark film takes a clear-eyed look at the digital future and honors the one constant that journalism needs to stay alive and relevant: a fighting spirit.
  13. Brooklyn
    Brooklyn is easily the year's best and most beguiling love story. The surprise is that it also goes deeper, sadder and truer.
  14. SPECTRE
    Craig puts heat and heart into Spectre, as if he's taken Bond as far he can. The movie is a fever dream of all the Bond villains and all of Bond's efforts to see a life past them.
  15. Burnt
    A cheerless and unappetizing plate of piffle that deserves to be smashed against a wall or at least sent back to the kitchen.
  16. Our Brand Is Crisis
    Director David Gordon Green and screenwriter Peter Straughan sometimes stumble over this vast terrain of self-serving scoundrels (Trump trumps anything they can make up), but the laughs keep firing.
  17. I Smile Back
    Silverman, digging so deep into her character that we can feel her nerve endings, is like nothing we've seen before. She's fierce and unerring. No showing off; she just is. This is acting of the highest caliber.
  18. Suffragette
    What makes Suffragette a relevant rabble-rouser, besides Mulligan's fierce, affecting performance, is the way it won't bow to the kind of Hollywood formula that tsk-tsks about how bad it was then — only to wrap everything up with a comfy banner that says, "You've come a long way, baby."
  19. Rock the Kasbah
    Director Barry Levinson and screenwriter Mitch Glazer lucked out getting Bill Murray to play Richie Lanz, a loser who makes losing hilarious. Murray just kills it.
  20. Goosebumps
    Nonstop mayhem follows in a stampede of comic terrors ready made for Halloween. Sure it's exhausting. But Goosebumps, knowing its audience, lets it rip.
  21. Crimson Peak
    A ghost story in which superior camerawork, costumes and production design work together to put the audience in a trance. It's tough on actors not to get swallowed up in the scenery.
  22. Room
    Room deserves to be seen unspoiled. All you need to know is that the performances of Larson and Tremblay will blow you away.
  23. Truth
    Blanchett burns on a high flame, and Redford finds the wounded dignity in Rather.
  24. Beasts of No Nation
    It's the remarkable Attah, whose young face reflects a hellish journey, that makes this fierce movie a blazing, indelible achievement.
  25. Bridge of Spies
    Bridge of Spies may be a snooze to the ADD crowd allergic to historical drama, but it's dished out by experts.
  26. Pan
    Joe Wright's origin story of Peter and the lost boys has to be the dimmest, deadliest take ever on J.M. Barrie's Pan myth.
  27. Steve Jobs
    If you're going to interpret on film the searching mind of an indisputable genius, it helps not to make too many dumbass moves. On that basis, score a triumph for Steve Jobs, written, directed and acted to perfection, and so fresh and startling in conception and execution that it leaves you awed.
  28. Freeheld
    If Freeheld cuts corners to get its point across, Moore and Page never do. You'll be with them all the way.
  29. The Walk
    Ignore the tell and focus on the show, spectacular in every sense.
  30. The Martian
    This suspenseful survival tale, smartass to its core, slaps a smile on your face that you'll wear all the way home.
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