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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. I'm So Excited
    Exuberantly campy.
  2. Museum Hours
    It’s a hybrid drama/art-history essay about how looking at art recasts our experience of looking at the world.
  3. The Lone Ranger
    Eccentric and misguided enough to be almost perversely fascinating, the film doesn’t lack nerve; it’s just not very good.
  4. Despicable Me 2
    An animated sequel that, despite not achieving the inspired lunacy of the first movie where Gru literally steals the moon, is smartly calculated to deliver squeals to kids and amusement to accompanying adults.
  5. White House Down
    Formula action films don’t come much more formulaic that this.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    How to Make Money Selling Drugs
    As it turns out, making money selling drugs is pretty win-win as far as it goes, but keeping it is another matter. So the title isn’t so much a joke as a bleak comment on a desperately cynical economy: In the drug trade, as well as the dubious “war” declared against it, everybody ultimately loses.
  7. Unfinished Song
    In the end, then, just Vanessa Redgrave and Terence Stamp and those voices – their solos contain this picture like carved book-ends, vintage and lovely and still so profoundly of use.
  8. Storm Surfers 3D
    A bit thin on plot, but an unequivocal technical tour de force.
  9. The Heat
    If this were funny, The Heat would add up to your average buddy-cop comedy. Except that it’s not funny, at least not very and not often.
  10. The Bling Ring
    How do you make a movie about shallow people in a shallow culture and not end up with a shallow movie? For writer-director Sofia Coppola, the answer is to dramatize a story “based on actual events,” then to step back and present it as a case study in pure anthropology.
  11. Monsters University
    The background designs are beautiful and there are plenty of lively sight gags, but magic isn’t in the cards.
  12. World War Z
    Leave it to Brad Pitt, producer and star of World War Z, to try to put the zip back in zombie.
  13. Dirty Wars
    A remarkable documentary as important as it is compelling.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Much Ado About Nothing
    It’s a pleasant surprise, therefore, to see what Whedon has done with the Bard’s timeless comedy Much Ado About Nothing.
  15. Man of Steel
    Here are a few adjectives that do not apply to the new Superman movie: Beguiling. Frisky. Nuanced. Quiet. Even the title, Man of Steel, sounds too flighty for this film. Man of Lead, or Man of Plutonium, maybe.
  16. This Is the End
    There are a few laughs at the start of This Is the End, and a couple more at the end of This is the End. As for the endless middle, it’s middling.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    What Maisie Knew
    For those who have read the book, this contemporary adaptation of a once avant-garde story feels exactly right.
  18. Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm
    The portrait of the ailing artist is bittersweet, but when Helms sings or plays, the look on his face is pure joy.
  19. Before Midnight
    It plays like documented fact, a kind of "7 Up" primer on life’s romantic vicissitudes.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Kings of Summer
    The foundation of a much better movie is buried somewhere beneath the debris that’s too quickly piled on to The Kings of Summer, but there’s something at least strangely organic in its abandonment of a sturdier architectural project.
  21. The East
    Unfortunately, The East is not a very good movie, hobbled by an excess of plot, a lack of believability and big gaps of logic.
  22. The Internship
    Though by no means a good movie, The Internship floats along for fairly well for about half its length, thanks to the easy interplay between the two stars and a certain melancholic topicality.
  23. The Purge
    So, fans, gear up for rock-em-sock-em action, yet don’t be disappointed if much of the goonery seems a bit tepid and, dare I say, staged.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Lesser Blessed
    At once a departure from and a follower of teen-movie form, and the fact of the former almost forgives the fate of the latter.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Erased
    Erased, I predict, is a word that will be used to describe what happens to your memory of this cloned facsimile of a movie immediately after watching it.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The English Teacher
    A potentially incisive character study is buried under layers of fluff in The English Teacher.
  27. Blancanieves
    While the story, shorn of its supernatural elements, is mired in abuse and tragedy, its effect is sensual and superficial.
  28. Now You See Me
    There’s a fine line sometimes, as "This is Spinal Tap" reminded us, between stupid and clever. Now You See Me wobbles along that tightrope for much of its running time.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    After Earth
    That there are no surprises (jumps, yes, surprises, no) should surprise no one – Will Smith movies must uplift the human spirit and reaffirm our best instincts while reassuring us that our ticket money has been well invested.
  30. Something in the Air
    An overdose of sympathy makes for a wispy picture, likeable certainly but lacking in crispness and clarity.
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