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For 7,291 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Red Turtle
Lowest review score: 0 The Mod Squad
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,349 out of 7291
  2. Mixed: 1,826 out of 7291
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7291
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  1. Cake
    Between a string of post-Friends dismal rom-coms, Aniston has succeeded in these kinds of grownup roles every few years. Here, she negotiates the character’s quirks and contradictions competently, but nothing short of a rewrite from scratch could make Cake palatable.
  2. American Sniper
    While the movie is narrow, it has a deep, melancholic resonance.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Blackhat
    Interminable techno-dud.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    The Wedding Ringer
    This so-called comedy unfolds with embarrassing desperation and mind-numbing vulgarity.
  5. Paddington
    This is not only a dandy, playful movie about a talking bear, but one that gives pause for thought, too.
  6. Winter Sleep
    Faithful to Chekhov, Ceylan spells out nothing except that unhappiness unrecognized is unhappiness compounded, and despite the film’s wintry chill, there’s a thrilling warmth in this struggle to shine a light on life.
  7. Selma
    Taken strictly as a movie, though, Selma is an uneven yet generally skillful effort that has probably drawn more praise and criticism than it warrants.
  8. The Interview
    Elevated to some vague level of importance, not on merit but by circumstance.
  9. Mr. Turner
    Performances are still the heart of Leigh’s work, and at the heart of this film is an extraordinary performance by Leigh’s frequent collaborator, the British actor Timothy Spall.
  10. Unbroken
    A beautifully shot, well-acted, and worthy-to-a-fault Second World War survivor story that only intermittently achieves the kind of emotional impact for which it aims.
  11. Into the Woods
    What is celebrated is the art of storytelling and the bedazzling attraction of a killer cast, uninhibited acting, giddy escapism, attractive visuals and an extroverted score.
  12. The Gambler
    Full of post-hippie fatalism and cynical macho barroom existentialism, the original film feels very much of its era, and the remake anachronistic.
  13. Song of the Sea
    Voice cast member Lisa Hannigan, an Irish songstress who sings here in a Celtic-ethereal style, features on a soundtrack that is mystic, eerie and freeing. Yeats is whispered: ‘Come away, human child/To the water and the wild.’ Inviting? Very much so.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Advanced Style
    These confident women care less about what comes off the runways – ‘money has nothing to do with style,’ says one – than with what can be assembled from thrift-shop finds, homemade items and imagination.
  15. Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
    The SFX set pieces are pretty lame, mostly involving a lot of weary running around and tense, ticking-clock urgency. What elevates Secret of the Tomb is the classicism of its humour.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Annie
    Of the movie’s dozen musical numbers, only three are relatively unmangled versions of their predecessors.
  17. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
    Five Armies only feels truly entertaining when it embraces the arch silliness of its material; like when 92-year-old actor Christopher Lee whirls about in combat with a handful of ghosts.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Imitation Game
    Although sturdy enough in the middlebrow entertainment department, and handsomely mounted in a stiff upper-lip, prestige period-piece sort of way, The Imitation Game is ultimately a frightfully ordinary sort of seasonal ritual.
  19. The Decent One
    The fascination of the film is to see his anti-Semitic development and how matter-of-factly and self-righteously he carries out his monstrous race-cleansing.
  20. Top Five
    Top Five finds Rock in an elevated form, at 49. Things change, sometimes for the better.
  21. Exodus: Gods and Kings
    While the pale skin tones (bronzer is selectively applied) and haphazard mix of American and British accents is distracting, it barely scratches the surface of Exodus’s ungainly artificiality.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Serena
    A film that should be shamelessly soaked in passion and thrusting erotic delirium is instead posed and prettified, to the point where “camp” comes to mean more than the place where lumberjacks work – it’s also the movie’s defining vibe.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Wild
    It’s a movie in which you can feel the spirit of the material infusing the filmmaker both as an artist and as a human being, and what results is that thing that occurs when even the simplest of songs sends sparks to the soul.
  24. Foxcatcher
    The triumph of Foxcatcher is not in the subject but in its art. The clear-eyed compassion and moral intelligence of Miller’s film brings sense to the senseless, and finds the human pulse behind the tabloid shock. It’s not a movie to make you feel good, but, at moments, it reminds you what goodness is.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Penguins of Madagascar
    Any kids’ cartoon that opens with narration by the mondo eccentric German filmmaker Werner Herzog is bound to bring comfort to hearts of certain parents in the house.
  26. Horrible Bosses 2
    Dumb, dumber, dumbest.
  27. Low Down
    Two jazz films won awards at Sundance this year. One of them was "Whiplash"; the other was Low Down, an expressive but somewhat lacklustre first feature from Jeff Preiss. Neither movie is about jazz.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Homesman
    While it’s true that landscape is character in most westerns, it’s also true that the character played by director/co-writer/star Tommy Lee Jones in The Homesman is landscape itself.
  29. Point and Shoot
    Point and Shoot is a riveting documentary and a disturbing portrait of a pampered American’s “crash course in manhood.”
  30. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
    That makes Mockingjay – Part 1 an experience to be endured, like a prison sentence, rather than enjoyed. By all means, bring on the revolution: It has to be more exciting than this.
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