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For 1,471 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 59% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 39% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Fruitvale Station
Lowest review score: 0 Blair Witch
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 818 out of 1471
  2. Mixed: 501 out of 1471
  3. Negative: 152 out of 1471
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  1. Frankenweenie
    Frankenweenie is stitched together with love and a bit raggedy, like Sparky the dog in question.
  2. Hidden Figures
    It's a lesson that African-American culture offers more inspiring stories than Hollywood has chosen to tell.
  3. Eye in the Sky
    Eye in the Sky remains gripping even when Hibbert tosses in one or two side-taking circumstances too many.
  4. The Paper
    There are a few typos in The Paper, but they're honest - and honestly funny - mistakes. [25 March 1994, p.5]
    • Tampa Bay Times
  5. Much Ado About Nothing
    Much Ado About Nothing is simply a fun time among Whedon and his friends, and for the most part it's contagious.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Catch-22
    Catch 22 will be remembered as a screamingly terrifying and funny interpretation of Joesph Heller's classic work. [27 July 1970, p.42]
    • Tampa Bay Times
  7. Total Recall (2012)
    Farrell's diction is a noticeable upgrade from Schwarzenegger's but there's also his superior portrayal of sweaty apprehension and killer instinct.
  8. Dolphin Tale
    Director Charles Martin Smith presents the kind of movie that gives squeaky-clean a good name.
  9. Fences
    If Fences occasionally feels cinematically inert, it's emotionally resonant thanks to Davis and Washington the actor, not the director as much.
  10. Gulliver's Travels
    This is what the holidays need: a good, Swift kick in the funny bone.
  11. About Last Night
    If this was December, Kevin Hart might be in the Oscar mix, he's that good in About Last Night. Explosively good, a comedy nova who won't shut up and never should.
  12. Magic Mike
    Even when Magic Mike is skimpier than a g-string it soars on daring, as if Soderbergh asked himself who could possibly make a good movie from such offbeat material, answered "I can," and did.
  13. Brooklyn
    Ronan is Brooklyn's linchpin, and its saving grace.
  14. True Grit
    True Grit is a very good movie that might be more embraceable if we didn't know who was pulling the trigger.
  15. I'll See You in My Dreams
    I'll See You in My Dreams is a disarming romantic dramedy, constructed from "geezer flick" cliches, to be sure, yet lifted to another level by the performances, top-to-bottom.
  16. Moonrise Kingdom
    These characters don't realize they're funny, and the actors are determined not to push it. Willis fares best, playing against in-control type; Murray fans expecting a comedy explosion won't find it here.
  17. Hot Shots! Part Deux
    It's silly, derivative and too wacky for its own narrative good; traits that the director and Proft wear like a Congressional Medal of Honor. But it's also the funniest 86 minutes I've spent in a movie theater since, well, Hot Shots! Anybody else ready for Part Trois?
  18. Martha Marcy May Marlene
    The movie always fascinates thanks to Olsen, who'll never be just a semifamous sister again.
  19. The Way Back
    This is old-school monumental filmmaking, without CGI tricks or many soundstage comforts for a dedicated cast. David Lean would probably approve.
  20. This Is the End
    There are no boundaries in this movie, so deal with it or leave.
  21. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
    For the initiated, however, Alfredson weaves a tidy web from loose ends left dangling.
  22. Creed
    Creed proceeds to hit the same beats as six Rocky movies preceding it, all the way to the Big Fight. But there's a difference here. This is the first Rocky movie Stallone didn't write, enabling Coogler and co-writer Aaron Covington to bring new perspective and respect.
  23. Seven Days in Utopia
    In addition to being one of the finest golf movies ever, this film raises the bar on faith-based cinema.
  24. A Most Violent Year
    A Most Violent Year has its share of wham-bam moments — a car-truck-foot chase into the city's bowels is superb — but the action never speaks louder than Chandor's hard-boiled words.
  25. Cedar Rapids
    This movie embraces its inner yokel.
  26. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
    Lawrence makes every moments as Katniss count, pouring out mixed feelings through puffy eyes.
  27. The Jungle Book
    The Jungle Book could use better lighting and less of John Debney's musical score insisting each moment be melodically underlined twice. Still, it's a movie to thrill and perhaps inspire kids to play Mowgli games again. Not outside, of course. Now there's an app for that.
  28. How to Train Your Dragon 2
    How to Train Your Dragon 2 is how to make a sequel, when it gets its head out of the clouds.
  29. Arbitrage
    Arbitrage is a classy soap opera with a charismatic louse at its center, without "Margin Call" didactics, or the misplaced empathy of "The Company Men."
  30. War Horse
    War Horse takes time reaching its full emotional gallop with a late sequence combining man, beast and barbed wire. Yet it remains a technically magnificent ride throughout, and a checklist of visual influences from "All Quiet on the Western Front" to "Gone with the Wind."
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