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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. Ride Along
    Hart is much like Murphy: fast-talking, mischievous and irresistible. He's so confident and good-natured that we see how Angela fell for her pint-sized slacker.
  2. The Nut Job
    Despite some high-caliber voice talent and shimmering animation, it's hard to get a bead on this tale.
  3. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
    The film is slow in getting started and once it's underway it's only intermittently involving. It's also occasionally far-fetched.
  4. The Legend of Hercules
    There's a fun retro camp to Hercules, with nods to classics such as Ben-Hur and Spartacus, as Hercules finds himself rowing slave ships and crossing desert expanses.
  5. Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
    It's a welcome update, qualifying as the best in the series since the first film captivated and unnerved audiences in 2007.
  6. Lone Survivor
    Survivor is a pummeling, frenzied ride, one of fall's most charged action films. The gunfights and rocket-propelled grenades are palpable, and Berg manages to make the chaos followable.
  7. The Invisible Woman
    A meticulously rendered, tasteful and moving period drama.
  8. 47 Ronin
    While the visuals are lovely to behold, this unremarkable version of the classic 18th century Japanese legend is stiff and uninvolving.
  9. Grudge Match
    Grudge could have saved itself with a rousing finale, but the buildup is so tedious you just want the fight to end.
  10. The Wolf of Wall Street
    It's rambunctious and unruly, but mesmerizing.
  11. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
    By trying to combine fantasy and romance with goofy humor, globe-trotting adventure and feel-good inspiration, Stiller has made Mitty a mixed bag of clashing tones and facile redemption.
  12. Walking with Dinosaurs
    The movie for anyone who has dreamed of watching young dinos in love.
  13. The Past
    Farhadi's latest film is almost hypnotically compelling, spinning an intricate web of predicaments, emotional reactions and resolutions in a domestic drama that leaves the viewer reeling by its conclusion.
  14. Her
    Though set in the future, Her is a timely, soulful and plausible love story.
  15. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
    The movie cleverly spoofs the 24-hour TV news cycle, as well as sexism and racism in the workplace. Not every scene is equally funny, of course, but most of the comic antics generate laughs.
  16. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
    When it's not stalled on silly, it falls into slog territory.
  17. Saving Mr. Banks
    Sentiment is at its heart. The legions who grew up on Disney's Mary Poppins will find it delightfully satisfying to hear snippets of its enormously catchy songs and watch its captivating creative journey.
  18. American Hustle
    With one of the best ensemble casts of any film this year, it's audacious, enthralling and uproarious.
  19. Inside Llewyn Davis
    As played by Oscar Isaac, he's snidely funny, world-weary and deeply sad. Though his story is enigmatic, the film itself is brilliantly acted, gorgeously shot and altogether captivating.
  20. Out of the Furnace
    Bale's is a pitch-perfect, understated performance in this involving neo-noir thriller.
  21. Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
    Sometimes it's the most remarkable and heroic figures whom movies can't seem to get right. Such is the case with Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, a biopic that is more dutiful than illuminating.
  22. Frozen
    Wonderfully enchanting wintry fare.
  23. Oldboy
    Graphically gruesome when it means to be a provocative look at vengeance.
  24. Black Nativity
    Anchored by a topnotch ensemble cast, it's toe-tapping holiday fare that's also a potent reminder that family resentments and hardened hearts serve no one.
  25. Homefront
    Homefront is what "Breaking Bad" may have resembled had Sylvester Stallone written the TV show.
  26. Delivery Man
    The concept's execution is sloppy, full of inconsistencies and plot holes. The situations teeter on funny, but never achieve it. And sections meant to be heartwarming feel lukewarm, far-fetched or inappropriately comical.
  27. Philomena
    Compelling, poignant and gently funny.
  28. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
    Crowd-pleasing and compelling, most of all because of its fiery, charismatic heroine.
  29. The Book Thief
    Anchoring the story is 9-year-old Liesel Meminger (Sophie Nélisse), whose first scenes are riveting.
  30. Nebraska
    Bruce Dern gives the performance of his career as the headstrong Woody in the brilliant, wisely observed and wryly funny Nebraska. What stands out is the fullness of the character, with mannerisms and expressions that make him wholly dimensional.
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