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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. Paranoia
    There’s a scene in a members-only club where Wyatt and Goddard meet, giving the two veteran actors the chance to go eyeball to eyeball for a couple of minutes of barbed dialogue. It almost makes the movie worth it.
  2. The Spectacular Now
    By the end of the The Spectacular Now, you’re not quite ready to let these characters go. Instead, like director François Truffaut did with his character Antoine Doinel in a series of films, you want to check back with them every few years, to see how how they’re getting on.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Planes
    Despite gorgeous visuals from an army of Disney animators, the film is one of the weakest the studio has produced in years and deserved a bargain-bin DVD release.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    Lovelace
    The scenes of Traynor threatening and battering his wife feel just as phony and unconvincing as the sunnier stuff that preceded them, partly because Sarsgaard – usually a fine and subtle actor – flies so over the top in his depiction of a creepy Svengali.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Elysium
    One of Blomkamp’s most unlikely conceits is a machine – apparently standard-issue in all of Elysium’s made-to-order McMansions – that can heal all injuries and infections at the flick of a switch. He could have used one to fix Elysium’s battered and broken screenplay.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Attack
    Despite its explosive subject matter, the movie has been carefully calibrated not to offend anybody.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Terms and Conditions May Apply
    Not just a documentary about Internet privacy, but a non-fiction horror flick for anyone who blindly agrees to user licensing agreements online (a.k.a. everyone).
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Blue Jasmine
    Woody Allen’s first Stateside production in nearly a decade is a sharply observed, post-economic crash comedy-drama that boasts a formidable performance by Cate Blanchett and addresses such pertinent real-world concerns as class, gender and corporate criminality in urban America.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Canyons
    The Canyons is actually anything but gratuitously sensational. On the contrary, it’s rather restrained, even conservative affair, far more interested in expositional conversation and a sustained tone of bleached-out melancholy than cranking up the heat.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    2 Guns
    Wahlberg, whose dim-bulb act was over-exposed in Pain and Gain, fares better here in a more heroic role. Stig is a hothead and a narcissist, but he’s also just a little bit smarter than he looks. The same goes for 2 Guns as a whole.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Smurfs 2
    Only adults with 'Smurf-holm syndrome' could love this film.
  12. I Declare War
    The narrative meanders on occasion, the conceit can seem repetitious, the editing is loose. Nevertheless, buoyed by the naturalism of its exclusively young cast, the picture effectively gets into your head and under your skin.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Wolverine
    Whether or not this flies in the unforgiving fan world remains to be seen. But for those less intemperately invested, The Wolverine will come as a welcome and bracing surprise: An almost human-scaled superhero movie about a guy who goes to die in Japan and ends up beating his way back to life.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Computer Chess
    Shot on a vintage Portapak video camera that actually predates the movie’s early-eighties setting and painstakingly crafted to resemble an analog artifact from a bygone era, Computer Chess is, ironically, a comedy about technological innovation.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus
    As Jamie, an American drug tourist desperately seeking a hallucinogenic cactus, Michael Cera pours kerosene on his wet blanket slacker persona.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Fruitvale Station
    We feel the death on the platform so acutely not because it’s a stupid act of randomness, but hardly untypical racist violence, but because we’ve come to love this man.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Casting By
    Casting By is also something of an elegy for a lost era, when talent, even at its rawest, stood far above prettiness as the primary reason for getting the part.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    RED 2
    How many Oscar winners does it take to save the world? Red 2 gathers together a collection of lauded thespians – from A(nthony Hopkins) to (Catherine) Z(eta-Jones) – and leaves them to float on a sea of action-flick clichés.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Blackfish
    As more than one orca expert points out in the film, when you take a creature born to roam thousands of miles of open water and stick it in a pool to do tricks, there’s going to be some behavioural blowback. In Tilikum’s case, it’s actually described as a form of induced “psychosis.”
  20. The Hunt
    While The Hunt strives mightily to provoke outrage, get the blood boiling, pluck the heartstrings and open the tear ducts, it never quite succeeds – a function of a narrative whose failures of credibility, finally, prevent a viewer from wholeheartedly embracing what director Thomas Vinterberg wants us to feel.
  21. Only God Forgives
    Refn’s expectation-defying choice is laudable in theory, but Only God Forgives is a pretty awful drama.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Syrup
    It’s tempting to say that Aram Rappaport’s Syrup sticks, but it’s also true.
  23. Pandora's Promise
    Pandora’s Promise is less an exploration of the subject than a well-constructed sales pitch.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Grown Ups 2
    Like its predecessor, Grown Ups 2 is proudly retrograde, both in its relentless deluge of toilet humour and the way it bear-hugs some good old-fashioned conservative values.
  25. Pacific Rim
    Of all this year’s loud, over-long summer action movies that, in various ways, simulate the experience of having a tin bucket placed over your head and being struck repeatedly with a stick, it must be said that Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim is by far the most entertaining.
  26. Sweetgrass
    An anthropological marvel and an animal-drive movie that belongs beside the classics of the genre - Red River and Lonesome Dove.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Still Mine
    Still Mine is a measured but considerably moving celebration of things hand-crafted, traditional and built to last.
  28. The Way, Way Back
    Like "Little Miss Sunshine," the movie stars Toni Collette and Steve Carell in a story about a dysfunctional family trip, though like "Adventureland," it’s really about a teenager finding acceptance at a local theme park.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me
    In the end, it’s the songs that provide the most eloquent and lasting testimony.
  30. 20 Feet from Stardom
    At times, these singers’ versatility has kept them both regularly employed and deliberately anonymous.
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