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For 3,130 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 The Wolf of Wall Street
Lowest review score: 0 Event Horizon
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,748 out of 3130
  2. Mixed: 1,003 out of 3130
  3. Negative: 379 out of 3130
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  1. Bon voyage
    Watching it is a little like stumbling upon a frayed valentine you put away years ago and then laughing with pleasure at how much it still means to you.
  2. Take This Waltz
    Take This Waltz is frank, erotic, often very funny and sometimes startling, with an underlying tragic sensibility.
  3. Europa Report
    If this isn’t quite a great movie, it should be an immensely gratifying one for sci-fi fans tired of the conceptual overkill and general dumbness of “Prometheus” or “Star Trek Into Darkness.”
  4. The Secret Life of Words
    A tantalizing and beautiful picture made with tremendous integrity, and anchored by two marvelous performances, Isabel Coixet's The Secret Life of Words still, somehow, doesn't quite work.
  5. The Way, Way Back
    Beautifully executed, loaded with sharp observational moments, and never cheats either its characters or its audience by descending into raunchy teen-movie cliché. This is a delicately balanced and often very funny holiday alternative suitable for pretty much the entire family.
  6. Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
    If Client 9 plays a lot like a murky, gripping political thriller, it lacks a fully satisfying ending -- or a fully satisfying hero.
  7. Why We Fight
    A film that stands out for its passion, ambition and clarion-call sincerity, even amid the contemporary onslaught of political documentaries.
  8. Down Terrace
    When it's all over and you don't have to spend any more time smoking pot with Karl and Bill in their horrid little house, you may feel the elation of tragic catharsis. Then again, you may feel as if you just drank a bottle of drain opener; the difference between those states is subtle.
  9. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
    I kind of enjoyed Rise of the Planet of the Apes despite its evident silliness and the fact that nobody's likely to remember it three weeks from now.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Son of the Bride
    Crisply agreeable picture.
  11. Friends with Money
    This is a dense and sophisticated work about mortality, materialism, madness, jealousy and pity.
  12. X2: X-Men United
    In some ways, X2 is an obvious improvement on its predecessor: It looks more expensive, and its special effects seem to swoop out of nowhere...But "X-Men" was undoubtedly the most elegiac comic-book adaptation of the past few years.
  13. Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers
    Greenwald isn't capable of the magisterial, mournful manner of, say, Eugene Jarecki's "Why We Fight," but the two films would make a natural double bill.
  14. Delirious
    Among DiCillo's best, and returns to the central theme of his career: the elusive and destructive nature of fame.
  15. Paranormal Activity
    It's a hit for the most surprising reason of all: because it's very good.
  16. Honeydripper
    Honeydripper offers a leisurely, atmospheric production with lots of time to appreciate his largely African-American cast, along with rocking musical interludes and just the faintest wash of spirituality.
  17. The Double
    As a pure head-trip visual and auditory experience it feels like one of the biggest discoveries, and biggest surprises, of 2014.
  18. Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter
    A memorable, haunting and highly original American movie.
  19. The Beauty Academy of Kabul
    A spiny, puzzling and highly entertaining film, and whatever you go into it thinking, you're likely to come out thinking something else.
  20. The Place Beyond the Pines
    I never stopped being interested in The Place Beyond the Pines, and never stopped rooting for Cianfrance to make the hubristic ambition of his immense tripartite scheme pay off, even as it evidently falls apart.
  21. Notting Hill
    It's an English movie doing its best to masquerade as the shallowest kind of Hollywood romantic comedy, as if somewhere along the way someone had made a calculated supposition that would be the only kind of comedy American audiences would buy.
  22. Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times
    Rossi's film makes a compelling case on behalf of the traditional values of journalism.
  23. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
    Every minute he's on screen, Whitaker makes Ghost Dog worth watching.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Reviewed by
      Max Cea
    Beatriz at Dinner
    The discomfort that Arteta elicits serves a purpose and is buoyed by a few very funny moments.
  25. The Shining
    Stephen King reportedly loathed the liberties Kubrick and co-writer Diane Johnson took with his story, but King's ur-villain, the emasculated husband from hell, has never been more clearly presented on-screen.
  26. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
    I suspect this picture is pretty close to what fans were hoping for, and for their sake, I'm glad it's markedly better than the two that preceded it. But Revenge of the Sith is still crap.
  27. Fratricide
    Fratricide marks Arslan as one of Europe's hottest young talents, drawing simultaneously on the film traditions of America, Western Europe and the Middle East.
  28. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
    Represents a breakthrough in the moviegoing experience. It may be the first time we've been asked to watch a book on tape.
  29. Fracture
    The picture is clever, somber, quiet: There's just no reason it has to be as deadly boring as it is.
  30. El Crimen Perfecto (The Perfect Crime)
    El Crimen Perfecto is a joyride that leaves you feeling drunk and dizzy and swearing that you haven't touched a drop.
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