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For 4,546 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: 2,929 out of 4546
  2. Mixed: 987 out of 4546
  3. Negative: 630 out of 4546
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  1. Prisoners
    Some will write off Prisoners as shameless exploitation. But like Clint Eastwood's "Mystic River," to which it's been compared, Prisoners is so artfully shaped and forcefully developed that objections fade.
  2. 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.
  3. Rush
    It's Morgan's core script, full of humor, heartache and verbal fireworks, that lifts Rush above the "Fast & Furious" herd.
  4. Blue Caprice
    Blue Caprice is a cinematic punch to the gut, a mind-bending meditation on how to mold a killer, and one of the most potent and provocative true-crime movies ever made.
  5. The Family
    Robert De Niro – wait for it – in the role of a mobster. Now there's an original idea.
  6. Adore
    Working from a script by the gifted Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons, Atonement), who seems to have traded his wit for a paycheck, Fontaine manages the trick of making sex joyless. Like porn. Then she tops that by draining her film of variety, longing and feminist insight. Like farce. Ouch.
  7. Salinger
    We also learn that five of his books, written in secret, will be published between 2015 and 2020. Can't wait to read them. Can't wait to forget this movie.
  8. Riddick
    An alternately kick-ass and clumsy piece of sci-fi claptrap that puts its empty head down and gets the job done.
  9. In a World...
    In fact, Bell the writer, director, producer and actress knows how to set a savvy trap. While we're laughing, she pulls the rug out, making us see Carol's world as a microcosm for the world every working woman lives in. That she does it with subtlety, humor and touching gravity marks Bell as a filmmaker to watch.
  10. The Grandmaster
    What's on screen in The Grandmaster is off-puttingly disjointed, but it's also dazzling in its startling action and ravishing romance.
  11. Passion
    Is a Brian DePalma movie that laughs at Brian De Palma movies still worth your time?
  12. Getaway
    When Macbeth said, "It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing," he must have had visions about Courtney Solomon's Getaway, a car chase thriller with zero thrills and a stench that all the perfumes of Arabia couldn't erase.
  13. Short Term 12
    Rehab movies nearly always make me cringe, as if the audience needs to take medicine, as if hope needs to be force fed. Short Term 12, an exceptional film in every way, breaks the mold.
  14. You're Next
    The surprise is how effective Wingard is at keeping the atmosphere jumpy and tense. And you can't help rooting for Erin, who could win Survivor if she went on the show. Vinson's take-charge performance is the life of this badass party. When you're ducking in your seat, it's nice to have someone to root for.
  15. The World's End
    It'll knock you on you ass from laughing when you're not rubbing your eyes in disbelief.
  16. Paranoia
    It galls me that Hollywood thinks we're shallow enough to swallow this swill. Or am I just being paranoid?
  17. Jobs
    Jobs is a one-man show that needed to go for broke and doesn't. My guess is that Jobs would give it a swat.
  18. Ain't Them Bodies Saints
    Ain't Them Bodies Saints offers no glib answers or smooth resolution, but there's no question that Lowery is a filmmaker with a striking future.
  19. Lee Daniels' The Butler
    It's watching Cecil open his eyes, in Whitaker's reflective, powerfully understated performance, that fills this flawed film with potency and purpose. Striving really does bring its own glory.
  20. Lovelace
    We pity Linda, but it's no substitute for understanding her.
  21. Elysium
    Like District 9, an allegory of apartheid that took four Oscar nods and put Blomkamp on the map, Elysium delivers sci-fi without dumbing it down. It's a hell-raiser with a social conscience.
  22. The Canyons
    Stephen Rodrick's New York Times article about the making of The Canyons had humor, suspense and propulsion. They should have made that movie. What we have here is dead on arrival.
  23. The Spectacular Now
    James Ponsoldt's funny and touching coming-of-age tale covers old ground with disarming freshness.
  24. 2 Guns
    Hell, I really meant to at least like 2 Guns. But I couldn't. The movie just didn't make the extra effort.
  25. The To Do List
    Does Carey go too far? Duh. But why gripe when you can't stop laughing?
  26. Blue Jasmine
    Want to see great acting, from comic to tragic and every electrifying stop in between? See Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine.
  27. The Wolverine
    This pissed-off man of Adamantium claws is stalking new ground (Japan), and his fight with yakuza on top of Tokyo's speeding bullet train is a wowser.
  28. Blackfish
    Forget "The Conjuring," Blackfish may be the scariest movie around.
  29. Only God Forgives
    Where "Drive" shrewdly mystifies, Only God Forgives stupefies. You can see its gears grinding. But I'll always hang on for a rare talent like Refn. Even when he stumbles, he leaves you eager to see what he's up to next.
  30. The Conjuring
    It scared the living crap out of me. Only at the movies is that a compliment.
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