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For 4,677 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 61% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Fruitvale Station
Lowest review score: 0 Amos & Andrew
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,969 out of 4677
  2. Mixed: 1,022 out of 4677
  3. Negative: 686 out of 4677
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  1. Furious 7
    Furious 7 offers edge-of-the-seat excitement with outlandish action sequences, inventive stunts, hilarious cartoonish moments and even some touching emotion.
  2. While We're Young
    Who's more pretentious: hipster Millennials or bourgeois Gen Xers? It's a question While We're Young toys with, if only to provide a context for a sharply observed and witty dark comedy.
  3. Get Hard
    Get Hard is hard to sit through and hardly funny. So unless you're really hard up for entertainment, stay away from this tone-deaf raunchfest.
  4. Home
    Home could have fashioned a more original story, dug deeper into a theme of cultural understanding and jettisoned the toilet humor.
  5. The Divergent Series: Insurgent
    This second installment, based on Veronica Roth's series of YA novels, feels cobbled together and less focused than 2014's Divergent, and lacks tension and excitement.
  6. The Gunman
    The only redeeming feature about The Gunman is its exotic locations.
  7. Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter
    Kikuchi brought humanity to the robots-vs.-monsters action of Pacific Rim in a small supporting role, and she ups that much more with the meek title character of Kumiko, directed by David Zellner from a screenplay co-written with brother Nathan.
  8. Danny Collins
    Like an uneven album, the movie has some harmonious, authentically lilting moments and other off-putting ones.
  9. The Hunting Ground
    Director Kirby Dick has gone from examining sexual assaults in the military in 2012's "The Invisible War" to investigating rapes on college campuses. His is an impassioned and well-researched film that will incite outrage.
  10. Cinderella
    With its vibrant sparkle and enchanting visuals, Cinderella almost makes you believe in magic.
  11. Run All Night
    These movies can't possibly be the best chance Neeson has got. Certainly he's offered more nuanced dramas that call on subtler acting skills and don't entail a mounting body count.
  12. The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
    More like a serving of lukewarm treacle than savory tikka masala.
  13. Chappie
    Chappie is meant to inspire questions about what it means to be human, and at times it does. However, director and co-writer Neill Blomkamp doesn't explore its intriguing premise deeply enough.
  14. Unfinished Business
    A bland road-trip film that falls flat while heaping on the raunchiness.
  15. Focus
    Focus never quite comes into clear view. It's a muddled and twisting romantic caper that at times feels like Steven Soderbergh lite.
  16. Maps to the Stars
    If a pointless and nasty Hollywood satire filled with vile characters and no one to root for sounds like a good time, go see Maps to the Stars.
  17. The Lazarus Effect
    With its homages to "Frankenstein," "The Exorcist" and "The Shining," director David Gelb's The Lazarus Effect is at least smarter and tenser than last year's crop of tame horror films.
  18. The DUFF
    If you've seen "Mean Girls" or "Easy A," you've seen a far better version of The DUFF.
  19. McFarland USA
    A cross-cultural charmer, an endearing true story told with intelligence and warmth by director Niki Caro (2002's Whale Rider).
  20. Hot Tub Time Machine 2
    Some of the gags are stupid-funny, others are just puerile, making for a hit-or-miss experience.
  21. Kingsman: The Secret Service
    Mashing up satire, subtle social commentary, clever gadgetry, keen wit and high-octane style, this spy saga — based on the comic book series The Secret Service — is bolstered by a terrific cast.
  22. Fifty Shades of Grey
    Sitting through the turgid and tedious S&M melodrama that is Fifty Shades of Grey may feel like its own form of torture.
  23. The Voices
    The quirky film is simultaneously bizarre, humorous, disturbing and suspenseful.
  24. Seventh Son
    Moore goes into operatic mode as Mother Malkin, a nasty witch who morphs into a menacing winged dragon. The worst performance, however, belongs to Jeff Bridges as a marble-mouthed, curmudgeonly knight named Master Gregory.
  25. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
    The live-action elements — mostly in the person of Antonio Banderas as cranky pirate Burger Beard, who spends most of his time addressing a flock of seagulls — don't mesh seamlessly with the animated sequences. It almost feels like two movies awkwardly melded together.
  26. Jupiter Ascending
    The sci-fi film's reported $175 million budget must have gone largely into loopy production design, wild costumes, outlandish hairstyles and colorful make-up. It certainly didn't go into developing a coherent script or coaching believable performances.
  27. Black Sea
    Claustrophobic, compelling and suspenseful.
  28. Black or White
    Give Binder credit for addressing racial divides even if not as profoundly as one would hope.
  29. Project Almanac
    What was once fresh and innovative now is tired and overdone.
  30. Mortdecai
    With a varied wardrobe of retro men's finery and a hirsute upper lip, the title character of the silly comedy Mortdecai is the center of a whirlwind of horrible British accents, too much gagging, not enough good gags and weak dialogue that, while not exactly terrible, is terribly boring.
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