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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 3.1 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. The Face of an Angel
    Winterbottom is not out to thrill, but to lecture on the truth, which, he believes, can only be found in fiction.
  2. Debug
    Writer-director David Hewlett probably had visions of a pocket-sized 2001: A Space Odyssey, but instead produces something closer to Cheap Space Nine.
  3. Jurassic World
    Jurassic World never breaks out of its own confines of homage and imitation. The movie ends up as an awkward, ungainly hybrid: large, but inconsequential.
  4. Heaven Knows What
    Although the film is raw, intense and even beautiful at times, the queasy knowledge of how it all came together constantly threatens to uproot any artistry. This doesn’t mean Heaven Knows What is a failure – just hopelessly complicated.
  5. Entourage
    Even the emotional foundations of the Entourage franchise, those oaths of fealty, family and friendship, have rotted, hollowed out by the characters’ tendencies toward flippant sexism, homophobia and straight obnoxiousness.
  6. Tu Dors Nicole
    The night scenes are particularly resonant, mixing humour, suspense and textured visuals. This is the kind of film dream from which you feel reluctant to wake.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Aloha
    Aloha is a marshmallow of a film: soft on the inside, soft on the outside and wholly devoid of substance.
  8. San Andreas
    Between its steroidic CGI and emotionally vacant plot line, the movie is all flex, no muscle.
  9. Gemma Bovery
    Fontaine’s flirtatious pastiche stands on its own. For Flaubertians, however, it offers up even more droll entertainment. Though admittedly some of the laughs will be from recognizing their own cleverness.
  10. Pitch Perfect 2
    Although it works well as an encore, the likelihood is that this thing isn’t over until the Fat Amy zings again.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Mad Max: Fury Road
    Its true subject is the thrill of the chase and the means by which the movies express it, which is to say it’s one hell of a ride in the same direction taken by the characters: deep into a desert of vast and horizonless emptiness.
  12. Adult Beginners
    A thoughtful, unsurprising dramatic comedy executive produced by Jay and Mark Duplass. If you know the indie filmmaking siblings from their HBO show Togetherness, you will be comfortable with the wry, understated Adult Beginners.
  13. Phoenix
    With a riveting performance-within-a-performance of subtle physicality by Nina Hoss, the charade in which a woman plays her own doppelganger certainly borrows tension, look and conventions from postwar film noir.
  14. Hot Pursuit
    It’s a chase film, it’s a buddy film, it’s a ridiculous, loud and often offensive romp. Witherspoon’s character is cornball and annoyingly adrenalized – what was she thinking?
  15. Can't Stand Losing You: Surviving the Police
    A sloppy, unremarkable rockumentary drearily narrated by the nearly literate Police guitarist, who, perhaps at someone else’s insistence, reads passages from his 2006 memoir "One Train Later."
  16. Far from the Madding Crowd
    Feels like a missed opportunity to do a country romantic melodrama in grand style.
  17. Avengers: Age of Ultron
    Whedon can’t quite work the same miracle twice. Age of Ultron also bears the familiar stretch marks characteristic of middle movies in franchise series.
  18. Cas & Dylan
    Wildly energetic performances could perhaps disguise some of these problems – or at least keep an audience entertained during a slow ride – but Priestley does not draw from his performers the work we all know they can do.
  19. After the Ball
    Titular ball scene, fancy dress makeover and lost stiletto shoe notwithstanding, the chaste nominal romance is less interesting than the fun, family-friendly Shakespearean shenanigans are.
  20. Ex Machina
    Ex Machina is a clever film with one indelible performance from Isaac.
  21. The Water Diviner
    But just as Anzac troops had quite a go of it in Gallipoli, Crowe (who also stars as the doggedly bereaved father and exceptional well-digger here) is in tough with critic-historians aghast at The Water Diviner’s pro-Turkish slant.
  22. The Forger
    Occasionally a movie comes along that’s such an awkward compilation of ideas it fascinates: The Forger, a Boston-set melodrama involving cancer, Impressionist art and deadbeat dads, is only about half that good.
  23. Lost River
    In time, we may look back at Lost River as a fascinating mess or a misunderstood miss. As for his promise, I’d be fine if Gosling promises to never make a film like this again.
  24. The Age of Adaline
    In a wink to Canada, the most urgent emotion is a throwaway bit in the movie when they bicker on whether to call the board game’s plastic scoring piece a wedge, cheese or pie, an indelible argument for the ages.
  25. True Story
    This mannered, muddled drama about journalistic lapses and worse, crimes, stars comic buddies Jonah Hill and James Franco (This is the End) in a decidedly unfunny story.
  26. Beyond the Reach
    Beyond the Reach, adapted from the same Robb White Deathwatch novel that spawned the 1974 Andy Griffith-starring television movie "Savages," is a deadly, desert-set game of cat and mouse that is tired and beyond plausibility.
  27. Monkey Kingdom
    The story of the colony’s exile and return feels like a dull sermon, but the animals themselves, with their expressive faces and Moe Howard hairdos, can switch from slapstick to pathos faster than Charlie Chaplin.
  28. Unfriended
    Perhaps Gabriadze has created a new genre here, but do we want to sit all day in front of an office computer and then go out and spend dollars to watch a small screen on a bigger screen for entertainment?
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Cut Bank
    If you’ve already been to Fargo, or at least visited the place via movies or TV, you’ve got scant reason to go to Cut Bank.
  30. Road Hard
    Road Hard is funny enough, and if its hum is predictable at times, its humanness is a welcome zinger.
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