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For 2,984 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Paterson
Lowest review score: 0 Life Itself
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,815 out of 2984
  2. Mixed: 939 out of 2984
  3. Negative: 230 out of 2984
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  1. Rio 2
    A little less agreeable and way more aggressive than its better begetter, Rio 2 has the overstuffed agenda of a movie that’s been focus-grouped to death.
  2. Under the Skin
    Under the Skin falls in love with its bleak monotony. It is a melodrama with all the thrills surgically excised.
  3. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
    Steve and the movie still fly high through plot twists and cool stunts.
  4. Noah
    Darren Aronofsky brings wild ambition and thrilling artistry to one of the Old Testament’s best-known, most dramatic, least plausible stories — Noah and the ark — with Russell Crowe infusing the role of God’s first seaman and zookeeper with all his surly majesty.
  5. Jodorowsky's Dune
    The message to take from Jodorowsky’s Dune: movies once had brains and balls, and lost them.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Divergent
    For a film that supposedly celebrates freethinking, there’s a woeful lack of it here.
  7. Nymphomaniac: Volume I
    It’s as if von Trier shot the main scenes while in one of his famous depressive funks, then edited the film in a more cheerful, impish mood. At times, the tantalizing mixture of sexual neurosis and wayward humor in this memoir of a woman of pleasure suggests a collision between "Fanny Hill" and "Annie Hall."
  8. Need For Speed
    This is cinema reduced or distilled to its purest definition, of movies that move. If you want dewy humanity in your entertainment, watch Lifetime.
  9. Bad Words
    Bad Words seems to be heading into the creepy realm of a sociopath’s case study, yet it’s presented as a breezy satire about a rebel against the system. It must be the Dictionary-Industrious Complex.
  10. Enemy
    Enemy is an arid parable, in which actors are neutered, zombified; they signify themes rather than occupying personalities.
  11. Mr. Peabody & Sherman
    With more sentiment and splash than the original’s sharp wit, Mr. Peabody & Sherman ends up teaching the same lesson as “Peabody’s Improbable History”: every dog should have a boy.
  12. 300: Rise of an Empire
    For all the energetic milling, Rise of an Empire proves superior to its predecessor by making war a game both sexes can play, on nearly equal terms. In comparison, the R-rated "300" seems as innocent as Adam in the Garden before the delicious complication of Eve — or Eva.
  13. Non-Stop
    Shot in grainy, unflattering closeups occasionally alleviated by flashily edited fight scenes, Non-Stop is no more or less than what it intends to be: the kind of midlevel brainless entertainment you might watch, between meals and naps, on an international flight. Try to enjoy the ride — and no texting, please.
  14. Pompeii
    A wildly flawed but fitfully diverting picture.
  15. 3 Days to Kill
    If the movie had been content to replicate the Taken formula, and left the fatherhood angle as a subtext, it would be easier to take. Instead, even for Costner admirers, it’s a hard 2 hours to kill.
  16. The Wind Rises
    It is vigorous, subtle, thematically daring, visually gorgeous.
  17. The LEGO Movie
    The funniest, cleverest, most exhaustingly exhilarating animated feature in ages.
  18. The Monuments Men
    Rather than juicing each element to blockbuster volume, Clooney has delivered it in the tone of a memorial lecture, warm and ambling, given by one of the distinguished academics he put in his movie.
  19. I, Frankenstein
    Ambitious of vision and swooping of camera, I, Frankenstein is no "I, Robot," let alone "I, Claudius," but it’s definitely watchable on a cold Jan. evening or, a few months from now, on your I, Pad.
  20. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
    A reboot of an A-level spy series seems too pretty-good to be true. Shadow Recruit occupies this weekend’s movie screens as familiarly and reassuringly as a Walther PPK fits in the hand of James Bond.
  21. Ride Along
    Too bad that Ride Along never makes it to Ordinary; it sinks into sub-. This is a movie you keep watching only from lethargy.
  22. Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
    Provides the familiar cheap thrills but with a salsa tang.
  23. The Wolf of Wall Street
    By buying the pitch that its central character’s escapades were the stuff of mesmerizing drama or comedy, Scorsese, Winter and DiCaprio reveal themselves as dupes — the latest in a long line of clever folks swindled by Jordan Belfort.
  24. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
    Mitty is a lovely romantic comedy — the portrait of a man, nearly swallowed by the gulf between the world his lives in and the world he dreams of, who manages to bridge the two and to find Ms. Right in the workplace he cherishes.
  25. Lone Survivor
    You may salute Lone Survivor for its desperate intensity; but the film remains pinned down by its military and political dilemma: between gung-ho and F—, no.
  26. The Invisible Woman
    A delicate counterpoise of passion and restraint, The Invisible Woman is a major work in a minor key.
  27. The Past
    It has many of A Separation’s strengths — the acute observation of complex characters in a story that keeps unpacking surprises — but they have become familiar. They lack the revelatory wallop of the first film.
  28. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
    Anchorman 2 is more like SNL in the sharper years (1995–2002), when McKay was a writer and Ferrell one of the Not Ready for Prime Time Players. Expect no more and you should be satisfied. Wine connoisseurs would call this a new Burgundy with an old bouquet.
  29. Inside Llewyn Davis
    Inside Llewyn Davis is more deserving of a Grammy than an Oscar. Problematic movie, great album.
  30. Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas
    This eighth Madea movie is pretty lame even by Perry’s slapdash standards.
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