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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. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
    Good news – it’s incredible. It sets the standard for blockbuster action movies, and manages to be even better than its predecessor.
  2. Cinemanovels
    The ensemble cast clicks, and the ribbon-tied ending is always in doubt.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Earth to Echo
    Would that the movie had gone the next step, and possibly imagined that this bright, shiny little E.T. had figured out how to get kids to do its sinister work for him by providing free WiFi and endless smartphone upgrades in exchange for undying loyalty, we might have had something altogether different on our hands.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Tammy
    As a script it is uneven and tonally inconsistent – best as a brainless, gross-out comedy, less successful when striving for emotional poignancy.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Deliver Us From Evil
    If this movie doesn’t leave you howling at the very idea of demonic possession, you’re in dire need of an exorcist.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
    Delivers a touching, morally outraged portrait that, in memory of Swartz, may inspire people to ask hard questions about how the new world is being shaped away from view, behind closed doors.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    They Came Together
    Poehler’s Parks and Rec co-star Adam Scott is there, playing a sound engineer and so is John Stamos from "Full House," because, you know, that’s funny. Until it’s tiresome.
  8. Transformers: Age Of Extinction
    Everything about Michael Bay’s fourth Transformers movie is too much. Its 165 minute running time. Its convoluted plot. Its deafening score. Its product placement. Its never-ending action scenes. Its swooping camera work. Its overwhelming stupidity. Well before it finished I was numb from its bludgeoning excess.
  9. Obvious Child
    In truth, despite its honesty, this is a flawed little film, its low comedy never funny enough to justify its crudeness.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Jersey Boys
    It never reaches the soaring, cloud-busting heights of Frankie Valli’s otherworldly falsetto, and it doesn’t even try.
  11. The Double
    The film’s bleakness is almost satirical. It’s "Brazil" drained of the daydreams.
  12. How to Train Your Dragon 2
    It’s not about the world catching up to understand poor, lonesome Hiccup. It’s about Hiccup catching up to the expectations of the world on his own.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Chef
    Chef is compelling, somewhat convincing and, according to many who know better than I, it’s largely on trend.
  14. The Sacrament
    The tension fizzles as The Sacrament narrows into predictability, indulging every cliché of found-footage filmmaking and Jonestown-styled cult apocalypticism.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Fault in Our Stars
    Fault is at heart a full-throttle, by-the-numbers tearjerker.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Immigrant
    Visually evokes Coppola’s "Godfather Part II" and Leone’s "Once Upon a Time in America," but in its utterly irony-free melodramatic sincerity also suggests a silent-era woman’s picture à la D.W. Griffith, King Vidor or G.W. Pabst.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Edge of Tomorrow
    All in all, a perfectly superior example of industrially fortified Hollywood fun, and as good a guarantee as Doug Liman can offer that we haven’t seen the last of him yet.
  18. The Grand Seduction
    As sweet as the film can be (a burgeoning romance between Kitsch’s doctor and Liane Balaban’s hard-to-get local borders on the adorable), The Grand Seduction is also deeply cynical.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    We Are the Best!
    Even when his touch is light, the Swedish filmmaker is masterful at capturing youth’s contracted perception of time and amplified emotions: Every slight could mean the end of the world, and every joy feels limitless.
  20. Filth
    Stylistically, Baird seems keen to position Filth as a spiritual sequel to "Trainspotting."
  21. Maleficent
    In truth, you just can’t wait until the wicked Jolie returns to the screen. Whether a malevolent twinkle illuminates her beady eye or a heartbreaking tear rolls down her alabaster cheek, she is the film’s power.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Love Punch
    The Love Punch feels like a remake of an old MGM caper comedy. It’s not, but it feels that way, which will certainly set it apart from the Disney villains, X-people and radioactive sea monsters of the summer movie schedule.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Fading Gigolo
    The preposterousness of this plot marks Fading Gigolo as a vanity project, but it’s hard to take Turturro too much to task when he hits so many other grace notes in between blowing his own horn.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Blended
    The movie offers nothing new or special, but at least it isn’t as painful as watching Sandler walk Al Pacino through a Dunkin’ Donuts rap.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    X-Men: Days of Future Past
    It doesn’t take a lot of wit or imagination to use Richard Nixon as a bad guy, but it’s still satisfying to watch a climatic showdown between two supervillains – one brought back from out of the past and the other from off the comic-book page – and wait to see who blinks first. Seems like we’ll always have Nixon to kick around, after all.
  26. Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case
    The clever and defiant Ai, who is forever filming himself and others on his phone, does in one instance capture Johnsen on camera, but mainly the doc is missing any explanation of how a dissident forbidden from giving interviews agreed to it – as well as much context about his personal life.
  27. A People Uncounted
    Although no single documentary could give a comprehensive account of the Roma’s culture and history, Yeger’s doc offers a sobering, often harrowing understanding of a people and the workings of genocide.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Young & Beautiful
    Never amounts to anything more than its title’s shallow descriptors.
  29. For No Good Reason
    Unfortunately, For No Good Reason sidelines Steadman’s own bona fides, functioning primarily as a second-hand documentary of Thompson, stoking the hagiography of the late hipster icon.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Godzilla
    Godzilla – both the movie and the big guy – is otherwise something of a lumpy, lumbering great beast of a thing, lurching from city to city, continent to continent, smackdown to smackdown and plot point to plot point with singularly graceless indifference to anything other than those take-home jaw-dropper shots.
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