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For 4,545 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: 2,928 out of 4545
  2. Mixed: 987 out of 4545
  3. Negative: 630 out of 4545
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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Room
    Room deserves to be seen unspoiled. All you need to know is that the performances of Larson and Tremblay will blow you away.
  4. Truth
    Blanchett burns on a high flame, and Redford finds the wounded dignity in Rather.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Freeheld
    If Freeheld cuts corners to get its point across, Moore and Page never do. You'll be with them all the way.
  10. The Walk
    Ignore the tell and focus on the show, spectacular in every sense.
  11. The Martian
    This suspenseful survival tale, smartass to its core, slaps a smile on your face that you'll wear all the way home.
  12. 99 Homes
    Before it goes off the rails in the final stretch, 99 Homes is a riveting rabble-rouser that thinks it can make a difference. In these days when Hollywood typically dulls our wits, Ramin Bahrani's 99 Homes has a fire in its belly. It's spoiling to be heard.
  13. Mississippi Grind
    The movie needed great performances, and it gets them from Ryan Reynolds and Ben Mendelsohn.
  14. The Intern
    It's not much of a movie. But raging bull Robert De Niro, suited up to play for humor and heart, proves he can be a world-class charmer.
  15. Pawn Sacrifice
    The film offers few answers about Fischer's descent into derangement. But you watch Maguire and slowly, with pity and terror, you understand.
  16. Sicario
    In Spanish, "sicario" means "hitman." In film terms, Sicario is sensational, the most gripping and tension-packed spin through America's covert War on Drugs since Steven Soderbergh's Traffic 15 years ago.
  17. Everest
    There's only one star in this movie: Everest. Kormákur couldn't shoot higher than base camp, around 14,000 feet, without sickening the actors. But a crew traveled to the top to get footage, while much of the climbing was shot in the Dolomites. No matter. You watch Everest and you believe.
  18. Black Mass
    Ice-cold. Dead eyes. Demonic laugh. His face a mask you can't read until he's up in yours. Then run. That's Johnny Depp giving everything he's got in a riveting, rattlesnake performance as South Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger in Black Mass.
  19. Sleeping with Other People
    It makes you laugh till it hurts.
  20. Time Out of Mind
    Gere, who has shockingly never been nominated for an Oscar, gives the performance of his career, intuitive and indelible.
  21. The Visit
    No spoilers, except to say that cheap thrills can still be a blast. Not enough to make up for Shyamalan's awful "After Earth," but it's a start.
  22. Z for Zachariah
    The three actors work wonders. And Zobel, as he did in 2012's mindbending "Compliance," nails every nuance of intonation and posture.
  23. We Are Your Friends
    What hurts is that filmmaker Mia Hansen-Love did it better just a few months ago in "Eden," about the French house movement since the 1990s. In this movie, James tells Cole the ideal EDM track would work up the heart-rate of the crowd to 128 beats-per-minute. We Are Your Friends never even gets us to break a sweat.
  24. No Escape
    This movie really moves. But a fleet of tanks couldn’t help the brothers Dowdle push past the plot holes in this rancid mess.
  25. Digging for Fire
    The movie steps lively with buoyant humor and palpable sexual tension, but keep an eye out for the dark places.
  26. Grandma
    Lily Tomlin works miracles. She's comedy royalty whose best films (Nashville, The Late Show, All of Me, I Heart Huckabees) always cut deeper than a smile. But no Oscar. Maybe Grandma will do the trick. It's a Tomlin tour de force.
  27. American Ultra
    Eisenberg and Stewart stay appealing to the last. The movie, not so much.
  28. Mistress America
    Gerwig is the mistress of all things funny and fierce, and her byplay with Kirke (Gone Girl) is killer. You won't know what hit you.
  29. The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
    Vikander, the sexbot in "Ex Machina," is having a hell of a year. And you can see why. Gaby isn't much of a part, but Vikander makes her a live wire. Her impromptu dance with Kuryakin that ends in a wrestling match is, well, something to see.
  30. 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.
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