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For 11,478 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 0 Dolittle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,014 out of 11478
  2. Mixed: 3,069 out of 11478
  3. Negative: 2,395 out of 11478
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Big Sur
    A beautiful and sometimes affecting film that (appropriately, some would say) has as much difficulty connecting with the world before it as its protagonist does.
  2. Diana
    Diana isn’t just an egregious case of rewriting history, but one of oversimplifying it.
  3. Free Birds
    Free Birds has the colorful palette, zippy action and silly story to keep kids giggling, but it also delivers a few worthwhile winks to parents.
  4. Kill Your Darlings
    In this tale of longing, loss and regret, it isn’t always possible to know who’s deluding oneself, or someone else. But then, it isn’t always possible to know that in real life either.
  5. Man of Tai Chi
    If for some reason you find yourself in a theater watching the martial arts adventure Man of Tai Chi...feel free to take a nap during the non-fight sequences.
  6. After Tiller
    After Tiller does viewers the great service of providing light where there’s usually only heat, giving a human face and heart to what previously might have been an abstract issue or quickly scanned news item.
  7. American Promise
    The documentary is unwieldy, unfocused and frustrating at times... But the movie is also, somehow, dazzling.
  8. Capital
    Capital is too cynical to ever really suggest that redemption is possible. Not that anyone watching will even care.
  9. Mr. Nobody
    Van Dormael has crafted a saga that, even at two-plus hours, is endlessly, enormously watchable.
  10. Last Vegas
    It’s the actors, plus an exuberant Mary Steenburgen as quick-witted lounge singer Diana, who make the movie more than a middling copycat.
  11. Ender's Game
    Ender’s Game is more than a parable about bullying, or a disquisition on the concept of the “just war.” It’s also a rousing action film, especially in Imax.
  12. Blue Is the Warmest Color
    Hours, even days later, they may find themselves thinking of Adèle and wondering how she’s doing — only then realizing how completely this fictional but very real creation has winnowed her way into their hearts and minds. That’s great acting. It’s great art. And that’s why Blue Is the Warmest Color is a great movie.
  13. House in the Alley
    There’s nothing sly about writer-director Le-Van Kiet’s scenario.
  14. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
    In structure and concept, the film resembles the faux-documentary “Borat,” with the distinction that the cameras here are all hidden. And that is where the film falls down and can’t get up.
  15. God Loves Uganda
    God Loves Uganda clearly lays the blame for it at the feet of the American evangelical movement. The movie doesn’t really argue its case, preferring to stand back, in quiet outrage, as the representatives of that movement are shown with the match in their hands.
  16. All Is Lost
    Chandor’s attention to detail, and the expressiveness and utter believability with which Redford goes about the anything-but-mundane business of surviving, make All Is Lost a technically dazzling, emotionally absorbing, often unexpectedly beautiful experience.
  17. The Counselor
    A movie that, despite its strenuous efforts to appear hardened and sexy and sleek, is unforgivably phony, talky and dull.
  18. Wedding Palace
    Wedding Palace boasts some neat moments.
  19. The Stream
    At the end of the day, the movie’s limitations keep its aspirations in check. It’s safe for everyone, but inspirational for only a few.
  20. Muscle Shoals
    A mesmerizing documentary.
  21. I'm in Love with a Church Girl
    The intentions for I’m in Love With a Church Girl may have been noble, but nearly every part of the delivery turns out to be flawed.
  22. 12 Years a Slave
    Intense, unflinching, bold in its simplicity and radical in its use of image, sound and staging, 12 Years a Slave in many ways is the defining epic so many have longed for to examine — if not cauterize — America’s primal wound.
  23. Escape Plan
    The plot itself is predictably divorced from reality, containing more holes — and smelling staler — than month-old Swiss cheese. All of which means that Stallone and Schwarzenegger end up having to do all the heavy lifting.
  24. The Fifth Estate
    As a piece of filmed entertainment, The Fifth Estate shows why things like authorial point of view and visual sensibility are so essential in bringing such stories to life. Unlike its most obvious predecessor, “The Social Network,” this film doesn’t have much of either, and the weakness shows.
  25. Carrie
    It’s as affecting as drama as it is effective as horror. It wrenches, even as it unnerves.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    A.C.O.D.
    As a look at the state of modern monogamy — or at least our enduring if misguided faith in it — it’s refreshingly acerbic.
  27. The Summit
    Because The Summit jumps around in time and because the events on the mountain happened over two days and at locations often far apart, the already garbled chronology of deaths is made even more confusing.
  28. When Comedy Went to School
    The movie doesn’t offer much more than fleeting and superficial pleasures.
  29. We Are What We Are
    There’s some fun to be had, as long as your idea of fun includes being grossed out.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Escape from Tomorrow
    Juvenile, disjointed and pointlessly revolting at times, although there are a few moments of disturbingly stark visual beauty.
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