Peter Travers

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For 3,974 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 60% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 38% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Peter Travers' Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Manchester by the Sea
Lowest review score: 0 Lost Souls
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,616 out of 3974
  2. Mixed: 754 out of 3974
  3. Negative: 604 out of 3974
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Travers
    What They Had
    At first glance, you might mistake What They Had for one of those well-meaning family dramas about what to do when your mom is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. But that would discount the exceptional accomplishment achieved by debuting director Elizabeth Chomko, enlivening her scrappy script with a cast of actors who truly are as good as it gets. You laugh as much as you cry, which means you believe in the movie’s truth.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Travers
    Can You Ever Forgive Me?
    Melissa McCarthy is a lock for a Best Actress Oscar nomination for Can You Ever Forgive Me?
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Travers
    Wildlife
    In a beautifully nuanced directing debut, actor Paul Dano mines the smallest details in Richard Ford’s acclaimed 1990 novel — he and his partner Zoe Kazan wrote the emotionally-attuned script — to create a portrait of a woman who can’t quite catch up with the frustration and feminist stirrings she feels inside.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Peter Travers
    Mid90s
    Near the end, Hill boxes himself into a sentimental corner that takes a little off the film’s edge. But before that, Mid90s bristles with fun, feeling and the exhilaration that comes with risking life’s hairpin turns.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Travers
    Halloween
    That Green’s sequel works as well as it does — it’s still a slasher movie — is due only in part to the director and his collaborators’ copycat admiration for Carpenter’s blueprint. Mostly it’s the troubled times we live in that allows this energizing, elemental horror film to touch a raw nerve for #MeToo.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Peter Travers
    The Kindergarten Teacher
    The art that The Kindergarten Teacher is scanning can be found in Gyllenhaal’s eyes, hungry for a life of the mind and one starved of meaning. Jimmy is not the only one who has something to say. For the filmmaker and her star, this movie is their poem.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Peter Travers
    The Happy Prince
    A sense of injustice runs like a toxic river through Everett’s film, an affront to homophobia through the ages, even our enlightened one. In the end, The Happy Prince makes its strongest mark as a heartfelt salute to Wilde from an actor and filmmaker who was born to play him.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Peter Travers
    22 July
    There’s no doubting its power. This film will take a piece out of you.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Peter Travers
    Bad Times at the El Royale
    Here’s the thing about Bad Times at the El Royale: When it’s good, it’s very, very good — and when it’s bad, this retro whatsit is a whole lot of awful.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Peter Travers
    Beautiful Boy
    It’s a tough, achingly tender film that refuses to trade in false hopes or cheap sentiment. That truth is what makes Beautiful Boy hard to take and impossible to forget.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Peter Travers
    First Man
    Concentrate on the abundant factors that make First Man unmissable and unforgettable. There have been astronaut movies before, good (Apollo 13) and better (The Right Stuff). But few have been as much a triumph of the imagination fueled, not by FX but by indelible feeling, as this one.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Travers
    The Hate U Give
    It is impossible to over-praise Stenberg’s incandescent performance, a gathering storm that grows in ferocity and feeling with each scene.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 20 Peter Travers
    Venom
    This year gave us the best and most imaginative Marvel film in "Black Panther." Now we have the worst.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Peter Travers
    A Star Is Born
    You get pulled into a force field, thanks to Cooper’s behind-the-camera chops and Gaga’s sound and fury. By the time the end credits roll, you realize that, in fact, two stars have been born.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Travers
    Monsters and Men
    Green sometimes hits his points too hard, letting his fierce human drama drift into polemic. But there’s no denying the righteous indignation that fuels Monsters and Men, a powerhouse that couldn’t be more timely or necessary.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Peter Travers
    The Old Man & the Gun
    Sometimes a movie arrives that charms its way into your heart — and The Old Man & the Gun is just such an unassuming, exuberant gift.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 20 Peter Travers
    Night School
    No matter how much money this clunker makes, this is a movie that never should have happened.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Travers
    Tea with the Dames
    It’s delicious — sweet, tart, surprisingly moving and funny as hell.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Peter Travers
    The House with a Clock in Its Walls
    The something extra comes with watching Black and Blanchett match wits, especially the former; he radiates his signature comic moxie with glimmers of the dramatic chops he demonstrated in movies like "Bernie" (2011) and this year’s "Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot."
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Travers
    Colette
    This is the firebrand Colette that Knightley plays with every fiber of her being. She’s something to see.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 0 Peter Travers
    Life Itself
    How do you rate a cinematic black hole that doesn’t deserve a single star? Do you simply give it five eyerolls? Better question: How does a movie, with all the talent in the world going for it, become a such a blithering botch job?
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Travers
    The Sisters Brothers
    Audiard recently won the Silver Lion as Best Director at the Venice Film Festival. Watch The Sisters Brothers and you’ll have no trouble understanding why.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 90 Peter Travers
    Fahrenheit 11/9
    One of Moore’s best and most incisively funny films — right up there with "Roger & Me" (1989), "Bowling for Columbine" (2002) and "Sicko" (2007) — his latest goes way past taking potshots at the Donald, though it does that with piercing intelligence and wounding wit.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Peter Travers
    A Simple Favor
    Until an ending that flies ruinously off the rails, A Simple Favor is raunchy fun that offers an unexpected take on the twists and turns of female friendship.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Peter Travers
    I Think We're Alone Now
    Even Dinklage and Fanning can’t give this failed experiment a heartbeat. You won’t wish for the end of world while watching I Think We’re Alone Now, just the end of the movie.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Peter Travers
    The Children Act
    Thompson never disappoints, nailing every nuance of a judge who lets the world in at the cost of losing her own judgment. This is acting of the highest order.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 20 Peter Travers
    Peppermint
    Even if male stars from Neeson to Bruce Willis have been riding the same gravy train for decades, Garner has the talent to make us expect more. She needed support from the filmmakers. But what did she get? A lazy facsimile of the revenge movie she so richly deserved. There’s no reason audiences should accept it.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Travers
    Blaze
    Instead of following biopic blueprints, Hawke directs Blaze like a Foley song: artful, all over the place and possessed of enough blunt truth and aching tenderness to pull you up short.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Peter Travers
    The Little Stranger
    Kudos to Wilson (how has she not won an Emmy for her brilliant work on The Affair?), who builds what seems at first like a peripheral character into the defiant soul of the movie.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Peter Travers
    Destination Wedding
    There’s a simple reason why it’s hard to imagine why anyone, much less everybody, would willingly spend time with Frank and Lindsay in this agonizing endurance test of a movie. They’re no damn fun.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 0 Peter Travers
    The Happytime Murders
    Maybe its gargantuan god-awfulness is not a exactly a sin against cinema. But throw away your money on a ticket and you’re in for two hours of certain hell.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 30 Peter Travers
    Blue Iguana
    Blue Iguana makes the freshly minted Oscar winner (for his totally worthy performance in Three Billboards) work way too hard to cut through the film’s blatant stupidity and buffet of clichés.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Travers
    Searching
    Searching is a technical marvel with a beating heart at its core, which makes all the difference.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 60 Peter Travers
    Papillon
    Papillon pushes too hard with diminishing returns. Though Hunnam and Malek give it everything they’ve got, they’re denied the chance to make their characters as indelible as McQueen and Hoffman did.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Peter Travers
    Juliet, Naked
    Juliet, Naked is annoyingly hit and miss. But when Annie and Tucker connect with the gob-smacked Duncan, the movie substitutes the hard sell for grace notes and wins us over.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Peter Travers
    Minding the Gap
    Liu creates an unforgettable film experience that will knock the wind out of you.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Travers
    The Wife
    Close plays this ignored, pushed-aside woman like a gathering storm, drawing us into the mind and heart of a heroine who’s not going to take it any more. The actress has received six acting nominations without ever winning an Oscar. The Wife, a funny and fierce showcase for her prodigious talents, might just end the drought. You can’t take your eyes off her.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Travers
    Crazy Rich Asians
    It’s the war between the bonds of family vs. the pull of wealth — a global theme across wide borders and cultures — that gives the film heft. But even when the script drifts into moralizing, it’s the emotions that hold sway.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Peter Travers
    BlacKkKlansman
    Spike Lee is coming at you with his greatest and most galvanizing movie in years. BlacKkKlansman is right up there with "Do the Right Thing" and "Malcolm X" in the Spike’s Joint pantheon of game-changers.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Peter Travers
    The Spy Who Dumped Me
    Light-hearted is the sweet spot for this would-be romp, yet the filmmakers keep trapping its stars in stunts that don’t play to their strengths and the dead weight that McKinnon has to lift in this lumbering spy farce would sink a lesser talent.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Peter Travers
    The Miseducation of Cameron Post
    What a shame that this well-meaning look at the absurdity of gay conversion camps — it won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance this year — lacks the teeth to make its points stick.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Travers
    Hot Summer Nights
    The result is chaotic, but never lacking in energy – and the cast is up for anything.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Peter Travers
    McQueen
    What the film does so movingly as a portrait is show the isolation that comes with creative success.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 60 Peter Travers
    The Equalizer 2
    The Equalizer 2 feels uneven and off balance. But not Washington. Despite his trashy trappings, there’s no one cooler to watch in action.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Travers
    Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
    The last part of the movie, which brings the whole cast together on “Super Trouper,” is almost worth the price of admission. Millions will happily get drunk on the film’s infectious high spirits. For the rest of us, who can’t get with the program, Here We Go Again will go down as more of a threat than a promise.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Peter Travers
    Blindspotting
    Unfortunately, it’s those same feelings that stick in the memory when López Estrada overdoes the melodrama and lets the plot fire off in too many directions. No worries. Diggs and Casal will keep you riveted.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Travers
    Mission: Impossible – Fallout
    The practical effects, meaning the real stuff the computer never touched, make all the difference when you’re asking audiences to see the characters as human instead pawns in a digital game.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Peter Travers
    Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
    Joaquin Phoenix and director Gus Van Sant raise the bar when they use roguish humor and bruising pain to color outside the box.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Travers
    Eighth Grade
    Bo Burnham’s story about a 14-year-old misfit is one of the funniest, saddest and most heartfelt teen movies ever.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Travers
    Woman Walks Ahead
    It’s the sort true-story premise would be a fascinating starting point for a movie … if said film had more than a nodding acquaintance with the truth.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Peter Travers
    Sorry to Bother You
    Oakland-based rapper Boots Riley scores a knockout debut as a director with Sorry to Bother You, a no-mercy satire that gets up in your face, breaks all the rules – and then invents new rules so it can break them too.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Peter Travers
    Whitney
    Though Macdonald offers the sight and sound of Whitney in interviews and home movies, she is never heard grappling with the grave issues the film raises.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Leave No Trace
    You don't just watch it as much as you absorb it until the film's ebb and flow become a part of you.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Peter Travers
    Sicario: Day of the Soldado
    For starters, the follow-up to 2016's Sicario is not in the same essential-viewing category as the original – that's what happens when you remove inspired director Denis Villeneuve from the equation.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Ant-Man and the Wasp
    The thrill of the film is watching Ant-Man and the Wasp team up and raise hell together. Rudd is a winning combination of sass and sincerity. And it's a kick to watch Lilly break out and let her star shine.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Damsel
    Damsel won't work for everyone. It's too quirky for that. But it goes its merrily deranged way with prankish enthusiasm and a genuine sense of the absurd.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    The King
    It's hard to pinpoint exactly when this random, scattershot, overreaching movie stops spinning its wheels and starts flying on a cumulative power that floors you. But when it happens – kapow! By the end we’re looking at Elvis, America and ourselves with new eyes and wondering, once again, if the truth really can set us free.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Travers
    Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
    This sequel has the perfunctory vibe that comes from filmmakers who cynically believe the public will buy anything T. Rex-related, no matter how shoddy the goods or warmed-over the plot.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Travers
    Gotti
    John Travolta, trying earnestly to act his way through a ton of lousy makeup and an even heavier slab of bad screenwriting, plays mafioso John Gotti in this chaotic biopic that jumps all over the place but still fails to manifest a pulse.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Peter Travers
    Tag
    As a movie, Tag is all over the place, with gags too hit-and-miss to cohere into anything truly memorable. But the partytime atmosphere – as if "Dodgeball" mated with "Game Night" – might be just what you're looking for on a hot summer night. With these actors, there’s no downside to watching them let it rip.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Peter Travers
    SuperFly
    At least it looks super fly. It's too bad that Director X (born Julien Christian Lutz), the Canadian short-form film master for the likes of Rihanna, Drake and Nicki Minaj, stumbles when he has to stretch a scene past video length.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Incredibles 2
    This follow-up is every bit the start-to-finish sensation as the original, and you'll be happy to know that Bird's subversive spirit is alive and thriving.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Hearts Beat Loud
    A hack would have turned Frank and Sam into overnight sensations. Instead, the writer-director recognizes the compromises that reality forces on dreams – and this soft breeze of a movie emerges as a scrappy surprise that's hard to shrug off.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Won't You Be My Neighbor?
    In these troubled times, it's a good feeling to see a funny, touching and vital doc that is both timely and timeless.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Ocean's 8
    Ocean's 8 is a heist caper that looks gorgeous, keeps the twists coming and bounces along on a comic rhythm that's impossible to resist. What more do you want in summer escapism?
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Hereditary
    It's Collette, giving the performance of her career, who takes us inside Annie's breakdown in flesh and spirit and shatters what's left of our nerves. Her tour de force bristles with provocations that for sure will keep you up nights. But first you'll scream your bloody head off.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Travers
    Action Point
    A few primo bits sneak through.... But mostly we’re watching the bawdy life being drained out of a once subversive franchise. Action Point is the first Jackass-related movie to play it safe. Now that is truly painful.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Breath
    Baker makes the strongest impression not just with photography on the surf and underneath it – kudos to "water cinematographer" Rick Rifici – but through understanding how surfing allows these boys to aspire as well as dare.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    American Animals
    American Animals is a high-style caper that touches a deeper chord of youthful indiscretion and moral imbalance. You won't be able to stop talking about it.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    First Reformed
    Not only is this faith-in-crisis drama one of the legendary writer-director's most incendiary films ever, it's one of the year's very best – a cinematic whirlwind that leaves you both exhilarated and spent.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Peter Travers
    Book Club
    Some may feel like this smirking sex farce goes down easy. Others may choke on it – or worse, feel like they've wandered into the cinematic equivalent of Christian Grey's Red Room of Pain?
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Peter Travers
    On Chesil Beach
    She's glorious, as she always is. But even Ronan can't totally cut through the academic stuffiness that comes with this posh literary adaptation.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Peter Travers
    Solo: A Star Wars Story
    The movie ride delivered by Solo: A Star Wars Story is more mild than wild, a pleasant way to pass the time instead of a game-changer.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Deadpool 2
    Deadpool 2 throws everything it has at you until you throw your arms up in happy surrender.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 38 Peter Travers
    Life of the Party
    McCarthy falls into the same trap she did in "Tammy" and "The Boss," the two other movies she wrote with her husband/director Ben Falcone. By that we mean she allows her laugh instincts to get buried in a blanket of bland.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 0 Peter Travers
    Terminal
    Yes, you read that correctly: zero stars. When talented people create one of the worst movies ever made, you have to ask: What the hell happened?
    • 49 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Always at The Carlyle
    Dazzling, sometimes hilarious and surprisingly emotional documentary.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Travers
    Breaking In
    The listless, leaden acting, writing and direction in this breathtakingly stupid bomb-ola defies audiences to stay conscious through its drag-ass 88 minutes.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Peter Travers
    The Seagull
    Purists may object to the cuts the filmmakers have made to Chekhov's text in the name of pacing. (And nuts to that tricked-up ending!) But The Seagull still flies on the wings of humor and heartbreak that made it a Chekhov classic in the first place.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Travers
    Overboard
    The snotty rich bastard? That role goes to Eugenio Derbez, Mexico's biggest star, who's allowed to speak a big chunk of his dialogue in Spanish, complete with subtitles. It's the one original idea that this retrofitted Overboard has to offer. The rest of the movie wears out its welcome muy rapido.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 37 Peter Travers
    Bad Samaritan
    Mostly, it's a collection of spare suspense parts that someone ransacked at the movie dump and is trying to resell as fresh product. Good luck with that.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Tully
    Davis gives an absolutely electrifying performance that lends the movie a kick of outrageous originality. This Canadian actress, so good in Halt and Catch Fire and one of the best episodes ever of Black Mirror ("San Junipero") takes it to the next level, suggesting even more exciting things to come.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Disobedience
    A gorgeously acted, written and directed spellbinder.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 12 Peter Travers
    Kings
    What we have in the misbegotten mess called Kings is a film of countless good intentions – one that starts going bad in its first scene, gets worse form there and then dissolves into pure chaos.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Avengers: Infinity War
    Avengers: Infinity War leaves viewers up in the air, feeling exhilarated and cheated at the same time, aching for a closure that never comes ... at least not yet.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Travers
    Godard Mon Amour
    What we have left in Godard Mon Amour, after the laughs dry up, is a thin sketch of a filmmaker who inspired a hero worship in his young bride that dissolved in squabbling, as had Godard's first marriage to another of his leading ladies, actress Anna Karina.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Travers
    I Feel Pretty
    But still: Is it really OK to get off making plus-size jokes just because you tack on a moralizing ending that teaches a lesson about body positivity? Can you have it both ways?
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Peter Travers
    Beirut
    Anderson packs the film with atmosphere spiked with intrigue. And Hamm gives his role a James Bond-meets-Don Draper appeal, tossing off one-liners with a weary insouciance. His scenes with Pike give the movie a resonant power it wouldn't otherwise have.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    The Rider
    Once The Rider hooks you – and believe me, it will – there's no way you will ever forget it.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Borg vs. McEnroe
    These performers keep you mesmerized, making the most of what they're given even when the film sinks into a swamp of whose-dick-is-bigger competitions and sports clichés about product endorsements.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Travers
    Rampage
    It's easy to root for George. The movie deserves the finger.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Chappaquiddick
    The film is corrosive in its take on the injustice that allowed Ted to live and prosper in a protective bubble of privilege. Clarke makes it clear that the man himself most likely felt the same way.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Lean on Pete
    Sobs are earned the hard way in this moving drama, which grips you with such scrappy humor and no-bull grit and grace that you'll be hooked.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Blockers
    Don't get me wrong – the movie lays on the raunch, and there are more gut-busting laughs than you can count. But no one gets objectified or patronized.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    A Quiet Place
    The acting is flawless, with Simmonds and young Jupe making every minute count. Blunt (Krasinski's wife off screen) is in a class by herself, taking a near-silent role and building a tour de force of expressive emotion.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    You Were Never Really Here
    Joaquin Phoenix is simply stupendous in You Were Never Really Here. His performance is damn near flammable — dangerous if you get too close.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Travers
    Tyler Perry's Acrimony
    Enduing a full 120 minutes of this sh*tstorm takes its toll. Bitterness, anger, malice, bad blood – that’s acrimony, baby. And that's what you'll feel if you blow the price of ticket on this hack job.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Ready Player One
    Spielberg's visual inventiveness is unflagging.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Unsane
    Foy's performance is something you don't want to miss. Whether spewing f-bombs, kneeing a suspected assailant in the balls, or promising a blowjob to Nate for a few minutes on his secret cell phone, Foy comes on like gangbusters. Fans of her prim, proper regent on "The Crown" are in for a shock.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Final Portrait
    In Final Portrait, art achieves a permanence that trumps an evanescent feast. What holds us through all the exasperating starts and stops is Rush, a live-wire actor of such effortless charisma that we’re drawn to his every utterance and gesture. Hammer, as a stand-in for the audience, can only stare in wonder as we do.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Isle of Dogs
    As for the animation, it's spectacular in every sense of the word and lifted by a superb Alexandre Desplat score, featuring taiko drums, that marks a new career peak for the Oscar-winning composer of "The Shape of Water."
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Love, Simon
    Love, Simon is a John Hughes movie for audiences who just got woke. And for all its attempts not to offend, it's a genuine groundbreaker.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Travers
    The Leisure Seeker
    Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland can do anything – except, perhaps, save this sentimental drool bucket of senior cinema.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Thoroughbreds
    The late actor (Anton Yelchin) brings a sly wit and bruised conscience to the role that marks him again as a consummate actor and another reason that the feverishly hypnotic Thoroughbreds gets inside your head and stays there.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    The Death of Stalin
    Who'd have thought the demise of a kill-happy Russian dictator could leave you laughing helplessly? That's The Death of Stalin for you, a slapstick tragedy – and for the funniest, fiercest comedy of the year so far – from the fertile mind of Armando Iannucci, the British political satirist behind the HBO's Veep and the sensational, Strangelovian In the Loop (2009).
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Travers
    Submission
    Submission – despite valiant performances from Stanley Tucci and Addison Timlin as the parties involved – lacks the spark it needs to spring to life.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Foxtrot
    Foxtrot makes demands on audiences and then richly rewards them. It's a riveting, deeply resonant achievement.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Travers
    Red Sparrow
    A punishingly long (133 minutes), shamelessly shallow downer that makes the mistake of taking itself oh-so-seriously. Big mistake.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Game Night
    Bateman's dazzling deadpan can raise tired zingers to raucous life with only a throwaway eyebrow lift. And McAdams takes to comedy with a natural actor's grace and precision. Talk about fun company. They're it.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    November
    It's both gravely serious and a demonically funny, a blend meant to catch audiences off balance. Mission accomplished.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Annihilation
    Garland need make no apologies for Annihilation. It's a bracing brainteaser with the courage of its own ambiguity. You work out the answers in your own head, in your own time, in your own dreams, where the best sc-fi puzzles leave things. Get ready to be rocked.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Loveless
    Aside from Alyosha, there's no one to root for here, and Zvyagintsev paints the bleakest of picture. But his filmmaking has a driving force that hurtles you along, and like his 2014 masterpiece "Leviathan," this micro-focused drama allows the director to turn the story of one family into an X-ray of a nation's bruised soul.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    The Party
    The laughs hurt so good, and the guests at this shindig treat each other like dartboards for 71 minutes. Yes, that's short for a movie, but your nerves couldn’t take more.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 0 Peter Travers
    Fifty Shades Freed
    With this last entry, we have officially hit the bottom of the barrel. Whips, chains, butt plugs and nipple clips are nothing compared to the sheer torture of watching this movie.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 63 Peter Travers
    The 15:17 to Paris
    The complex movie that might have been is still on the drawing board, teasing us with a deeper story that's disappointingly out of reach.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Travers
    Black Panther
    Say this about Black Panther, which raises movie escapism very near the level of art: You've never seen anything like it in your life.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 12 Peter Travers
    Winchester
    It shouldn't happen to anyone, much less a Dame – not a movie of such barreling awfulness as Winchester, which strands the great Helen Mirren in a gothic house of cards that collapses on actors and audiences alike.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    A Fantastic Woman
    A Fantastic Woman catches a human being in the challenging and exhilarating process of inventing herself. The result is unique and unforgettable.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Travers
    Maze Runner: The Death Cure
    The Death Cure plot is the essence of rehash.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    The Insult
    Still, the excitement is palpable, and Karam and El Basha (he justifiably won the Best Actor prize at the Venice Film Festival) give the kind of performances that keep you riveted. Even at its most blunt and obvious, this is a movie that stumps for empathy. Who can argue with that?
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    The Final Year
    What chills most about The Final Year is how unprepared Team Obama was for the victory of Trump and the ease with which many of its hard-won policies could be unraveled. Was it blindness, hubris or a combination of both?
    • 35 Metascore
    • 38 Peter Travers
    Proud Mary
    Every paying audience member deserves their 12 bucks back.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Peter Travers
    12 Strong
    What 12 Strong does deliver, however, is a rousing tribute to the bravery of soldiers whose contributions went unheralded for years. That impact cannot be denied.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Peter Travers
    The Commuter
    In the doldrums of January, the movie pulls out every trick in the suspense-thriller book to keep us grinning at each new absurdity. Silly? You bet. Irresistible? Totally.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Happy End
    Happy End is a puzzle and it's our job to connect the pieces. If it doesn't drive you crazy first, you'll find yourself maddened and mesmerized to the bitter end.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
    What an astounding actress Annette Bening is. And she’s at her very best in Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool playing Gloria Grahame.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Molly's Game
    Molly's Game bristles with fun zingers, electric energy and Sorkin's brand of verbal fireworks – all of which help enormously when the movie falters in fleshing out its characters.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Hostiles
    Bale, in a piercing, quietly devastating performance, holds the film's center with commanding authority. It's a film whose brute force tempered with contemplative grace. It's a potent and prodigious achievement.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Phantom Thread
    Taking full measure of Phantom Thread may require more than one viewing – a challenge any genuine movie lover will be eager to accept. Our advice for now: just sit back and behold.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    All the Money in the World
    Though the rest of All the Money in the World expertly skims the surface of this true-life drama, Scott makes it a hell of a ride.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 38 Peter Travers
    The Greatest Showman
    I'm convinced there is a good movie trying to punch itself out of The Greatest Showman. What a shame that Gracey buried Jackman and company in a pile of marshmallow.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Downsizing
    Downsizing brims over with the pleasures of the unexpected, a hallmark of Payne's artistry.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Peter Travers
    Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
    Black is expectedly hilarious, but the beauty part of his performance is that, instead of exaggerating or patronizing this Instagram princess, he finds her vulnerable heart.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    The Post
    A rabble-rousing journalistic thriller filled with fierce commitment and fervent heart.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi
    The Star Wars universe is the best toy box a fanboy could ever wish for, and Johnson makes sure that Jedi is bursting at the seams with knockout fun surprises, marvelous adventure and shocking revelations that will leave your head spinning.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    I, Tonya
    I, Tonya is funny as hell, but the pain is just as real. You'll laugh till it hurts.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Wonder Wheel
    There are valid criticisms of Wonder Wheel as a film that feels more like a stage play – its claustrophobic atmosphere can be stifling. But even covering familiar ground, Allen finds the blunt truth at its core. As Ginny is stripped of her fantasies and exposed to the harsh glare of reality, Winslet stands her ground, as if to say attention must be paid. It should be. Her performance is absolutely astounding.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    The Disaster Artist
    As a director, Franco succeeds beautifully at bringing coherence to chaos, a word that accurately describes the making of this modern midnight-movie phenomenon. Do you need to see "The Room" to appreciate The Disaster Artist? Not really.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    The Shape of Water
    The result is an acting duet that will haunt your dreams and break your heart.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Coco
    Coco brims over with visual pleasures, comic energy and emotional wallop.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Darkest Hour
    Gary Oldman is one of the greatest actors on the planet – and he proves it again as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Travers
    Call Me by Your Name
    It's a swooning new classic and one of the very best films of the year.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Peter Travers
    Wonder
    Wonder is an emotional wipeout, that's for sure, but Chbosky handles it with such tenderness and delicacy, you won't hate yourself (too much) for giving in.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Roman J. Israel, Esq.
    Washington digs so deep under the skin of this complex character that we almost breath with him. It's a great, award-caliber performance in a movie that can barely contain it.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Mudbound
    The director and her cinematographer Rachel Morrison do wonders with the elements that batter the people of every race and social class in the Delta. But it's the storm raging inside these characters that rivets our attention and makes Mudbound a film that grabs you and won't let go.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 63 Peter Travers
    Justice League
    Justice League is a decent crowdpleaser, preferable in every way to the candy-assed cynicism of Suicide Squad. But sometimes shadows need to fall to show us what to be scared of. In the end, this all-star team-up is too afraid of the dark to work its way into our dreams.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Travers
    Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
    It's a renegade masterpiece that will get you good.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Peter Travers
    Murder on the Orient Express
    Murder on the Orient Express offers audiences a deluxe journey to the past, but this pokey train goes off the rails about the time all the characters, except for Poirot, cease to matter.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Last Flag Flying
    The compensation comes in watching these three marvelous actors have a go at it, which they do with piercing humor and heart.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    My Friend Dahmer
    A warped wonder of a movie that takes twisted to areas few have investigated.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Lady Bird
    Just when you think there's nothing original or exciting left to mine from a coming-of-age story, along comes the totally irresistible Lady Bird – a reminder that no genre is played out when there's a new artist around to see it with fresh eyes.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Novitiate
    Shot through with grit and grace, Novitiate is a potent provocation. It's also something special.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 63 Peter Travers
    Suburbicon
    Clooney is too talented and committed a filmmaker not to get in his licks. But with Suburbicon, he's made a movie that is tonally at war with itself.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Thor: Ragnarok
    The whole movie is a grab-bag of insanity so off-the-chain hilarious that you stick with it even when the convoluted plot goes haywire.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    BPM (Beats Per Minute)
    At the end, with Sean's condition scarily deteriorating, the raw and riveting BPM musters the emotional power to floor you.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Wonderstruck
    A film of extraordinary details that adds up to less than the sum of its parts. But, oh, it gives a lovely light.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    The Killing of a Sacred Deer
    Even the opaque hints can drive you cuckoo with frustration. Lanthimos does not coddle his audience. His M.O. is to shock, provoke and leave you talking to the voices inside your own head. The choice is yours.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Peter Travers
    Breathe
    Does the script by William Nicholson sometimes hit the sentiment pedal too hard? It does. But look at the tale it's telling.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Professor Marston & the Wonder Women
    Thanks to Professor Marston and his real-life Wonder Women, something close to a death blow was dealt to the demeaning, centuries-old image of the damsel in distress. It's a hell of an origin story.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    The Foreigner
    Campbell keeps the action cooking and the suspense on a high burner in this compulsively watchable conspiracy thriller, while The Foreigner proves again is that Chan is the Man – now and forever.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
    Your only mistake would be to not see it at all, and miss out on one of the unalloyed pleasures of the fall movie season.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Peter Travers
    Una
    In the case of Una, the play's the thing, with the stage production coming at you in a rush that doesn't allow the characters or the audience to take a breath. In this personal hell of Harrower's creation, there is no exit. The movie, however, keeps opening the door and letting the air in.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Travers
    Faces Places
    Sheer perfection – that's the phrase that springs to mind when describing the humanist miracle that is Faces Places, the year's best and most beguiling documentary.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    The Florida Project
    Willem Dafoe should be on top of Oscar's Best Supporting Actor list for his stellar work in The Florida Project, a film that's as hilarious and heartbreaking as it is unclassifiable.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 38 Peter Travers
    The Mountain Between Us
    And just when you think this movie cannot get more unendurable ... it does. And then some. You can see every twist telegraphed from miles away even in a driving blizzard. The Mountain Between Us is epic all right – an epic waste of talent and your time.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Peter Travers
    Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
    What the film, based on books by Felt and John D. O'Connor, lacks in narrative drive it strives to make up for with psychological probing.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Travers
    Flatliners
    I'm dumbfounded by the idea of remaking a movie that was no damn good in the first place. Is it the possibility of making it better? The exact opposite happens with Flatliners.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Blade Runner 2049
    For Blade Runner junkies like myself, who've mainlined five different versions of Ridley Scott's now iconic sci-fi film noir – from the release print to the Director's Cut and the Final Cut (the last two minus that voiceover Scott and Ford hated) – every minute of this mesmerizing mindbender is a visual feast to gorge on.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Lucky
    No one who cares about movies and those rare actors who can elevate them into something unforgettable would dream of missing this scrappy, loving tribute to a virtuoso. Lucky may not believe in God. But what kind of fool doesn't believe in Harry Dean Stanton?
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Peter Travers
    American Made
    It's all true – but so what? American Made may be fact-based but that doesn't stop it from feeling monumentally generic, like you've seen it all before (Blow, Sicario, The Infiltrator, War Dogs, TV's Narcos ... the list goes on).
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Travers
    The LEGO Ninjago Movie
    The action and jokes pile up with exhausting repetitiveness. But Theroux and Franco make a truly hilarious team.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Peter Travers
    Victoria and Abdul
    Lucky for us, Dench and Frears pick up the slack and turn slim pickings into a fun time at the movies. But Victoria & Abdul could have been oh so much more.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Stronger
    Based on the bestseller by Bauman and Bret Witter and blessed with a nuanced script by John Pollono, the film makes sure that tears, when they come, are fully earned.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Battle of the Sexes
    Battle of the Sexes is not an overtly political movie; it's a blast about two tennis champions going over the top to make a point.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 63 Peter Travers
    Kingsman: The Golden Circle
    True Kingsman fans will appreciate that director Matthew Vaughn reacted to digs at "The Secret Service" for being gratuitously violent, sexually adolescent and politically reactionary by laying all of it on three times thicker.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 63 Peter Travers
    American Assassin
    Gorgeously shot by Enrique Chediak, American Assassin may be too slick for its own good, but O'Brien cuts deep enough to make you root for a Rapp franchise. That's saying something.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    First They Killed My Father
    Clearly a passion project for Jolie. Her adopted son Maddox, 16, was born in Cambodia and served as executive producer on the film. If there is such a thing as a cinematic labor of love, this is it.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Brad's Status
    Thanks to Stiller's prodigious gifts at blending comedy and drama, it's hard not to see ourselves in Brad's besieged humanity. That's the thing with Stiller and White – they make you laugh till it hurts.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    mother!
    Shot with a surrealist's eye for madness and destruction by the great cinematographer Matthew Libatique, Mother! always seems on the verge of exploding. Your head will feel the same way. And I mean that as a compliment.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Peter Travers
    Home Again
    A patently bogus romcom in which every note rings false.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    It
    It works enough of the time to deliver on the promise of bad dreams.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Travers
    Tulip Fever
    Forget fever – this floral-scented fiasco is so lifeless you can barely feel a pulse.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Gook
    Like Kathryn Bigelow's "Detroit," set half a century ago, Chon's Gook uses the past to speak to a tumultuous present. Chon has created a hardass yet hypnotically beautiful film that snarls and sparks to incite, not a fever in the blood, but an urgent conversation about what makes us human. Godspeed.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Beach Rats
    British actor Harris Dickinson gives a smashing breakthrough performance in Beach Rats.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Travers
    The Hitman's Bodyguard
    Reynolds and Jackson make this summer lunacy go down easy with their banter and bullet-dodging skills. They're the only reason that The Hitman’s Bodyguard doesn't completely sink into the generic quicksand from whence it came.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Logan Lucky
    It's a terrific, twisty, funny-as-hell crime flick about so-called hicks who decide that making America great again starts right at home.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Ingrid Goes West
    A pitch-black comedy that dances around its central theme without ever facing it head on. But oh, the demented, delicious mischief it kicks up.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Good Time
    As directed by the Safdie brothers, Josh and Benny, the movie rips through 100 minutes of screen time like Wile E. Coyote with his tail on fire. It's electrifying.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Travers
    The Glass Castle
    Hollywood has a knack for sanitizing books that deserve better. In the case of The Glass Castle, it's a damn shame.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 38 Peter Travers
    The Only Living Boy in New York
    Even the best actors – and this coming-of-age movie boasts a handful of them – can't fight this much tin-eared dialogue.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Wind River
    Yes, his direction hits a few tonal bumps; he could have been tougher on his screenwriter on tightening the plot twists. No matter. Wind River packs an elemental power that knocks you for a loop.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Columbus
    Delicate business is being transacted in Columbus, a whisper-soft debut from Kogonada that nonetheless results in something unique and unforgettable. It's pure cinema.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Travers
    The Dark Tower
    This unholy mess shouldn't happen to a King, much less a paying customer.
    • 12 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Travers
    The Emoji Movie
    Before the jacked-up antics get to be too much, director Tony Leondis and co-writers Erich Siegel and Mike White get in a few satiric licks at a technology we've all come to call home.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
    Truth to Power sprawls when it most needs to focus, diluting the power punch of the original with too much bobbing and weaving. But it's hard to argue that the crusade isn't still vital.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Atomic Blonde
    Theron, in the middle of her action-hero phase and at her "Mad Max: Fury Road" best here, just nails it.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Detroit
    It's a hardcore masterpiece that digs into our violent past to hold up a dark mirror to the systemic racism that still rages in the here and now.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Peter Travers
    Landline
    Landline never finds its emotional footing. Amid all the shouting – and these folks really go at it – there's a void where a soulful core should be.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Travers
    Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
    It's as gorgeous as anything the French filmmaker has made and as empty as a Trump tweet.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Peter Travers
    Dunkirk
    Dunkirk is a landmark with the resonant force of an enduring screen classic.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Lady Macbeth
    Even when Oldroyd loses his directorial grip, Pugh is there to make things right. Not many young actress have that sort of power to command the screen as if by divine right. She dives deep into this terrifically twisted, erotic thriller and makes it matter.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    War for the Planet of the Apes
    Reeves achieves visual wonders even in the stillness before all hell breaks loose. It's what makes War for the Planet of the Apes such a unique and unforgettable experience – that, and Serkis's career-high performance. Hail Caesar, indeed.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    A Ghost Story
    This is a poetic and profound experiment you do not want to miss.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Okja
    Yes, this far-out fable is too much in every department. But it is also the work of a visual storyteller drunk on the power of movies to stir things up ... and maybe even to heal. It's a bumpy ride, for sure, but hold on. Okja is worth it.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Despicable Me 3
    Carell is the life of the party and the main reason this animated blast of slapstick silliness packs appeal beyond the PG crowd.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Spider-Man: Homecoming
    News Flash: Tom Holland is the best movie Spider-Man ever. He finds the kid inside the famous red onesie and brings out the kid in even the most hardened filmgoer.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Baby Driver
    Now this is what I call a summer movie. Baby Driver has it all: thrills, laughs, sex, nonstop action, a killer soundtrack, a star-making performance from Ansel Elgort and a director – Edgar Wright – who can knock the wind out of you.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Peter Travers
    The Bad Batch
    Amirpour dips into an seemingly bottomless supply of signs and symbols to show us an imploding society all too recognizable as our own, and you'll marvel at hallucinatory brilliance of her images. Yet The Bad Batch never finds a way to fuse its scattered intentions into a cohesive whole.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 0 Peter Travers
    Transformers: The Last Knight
    Transformers: The Last Knight is all kinds of awful. It's also the worst of the series to date, which is saying something.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    The Beguiled
    Coppola is a virtuoso of image and sound. but don't mistake her delicate touch for weakness. The Beguiled is a hothouse flower of startling power and intimacy. You can't shake it.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    The Big Sick
    Nanjiani and his wife/co-screenwriter Emily V. Gordon carved this romantic comedy out of her personal hospital experience and their own culture-clash relationship. Their hilarious and heartfelt script has a rare authenticity that pulls you in and keeps you glued to the screen.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 38 Peter Travers
    The Book of Henry
    The Book of Henry starts well, begins flirting with absurdity in the middle – and ends in crashing disaster. But the feeling persists that director Colin Treverrow believes every word in the shambles of a 20-year-old screenplay by crime novelist Gregg Hurwitz.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Travers
    Rough Night
    The women in Rough Night are terrific company. They never wear out their welcome. You can't say the same for the movie.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Beatriz at Dinner
    The funny, touching and vital Beatriz at Dinner probably tackles way more than it can handle, but so what? Godspeed. You won't know what hit you.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Megan Leavey
    Mara is funny, fierce and altogether wonderful, even up against an irresistible costar.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    It Comes at Night
    You want horror that screws with your head? This is your ticket.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    My Cousin Rachel
    Credit Rachel Weisz, who's just the dynamite actress needed to play a character who could be a misunderstood innocent or a fortune-hunting seductress who could be a cold-blooded killer. How delicious to watch the star keep us guessing.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Travers
    The Mummy
    It's a monster fail.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Dean
    Martin excels in the title role.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Churchill
    You can certainly argue just how speculative this film version of Churchill is as history. But Cox's performance cannot be faulted. It's a master class in acting.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 63 Peter Travers
    Wonder Woman
    The star is unstoppable and spectacular to see in motion. Watch her fly.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Travers
    War Machine
    The too-blunt comedy defangs the film. As does the irritating voiceover from the Rolling Stone reporter, played Scoot McNary, which breaks a cardinal rule of filmmaking: show, don't tell.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Travers
    Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
    Bloated, boring, repetitive, draining.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Travers
    Baywatch
    No cliché is left unturned, and Gordon compensates with slick action.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Paint It Black
    It's impossible to quantify what it takes to be a quality director – but damn, you know it when you see it. And you'll see it clear and strong in Paint It Black, a staggeringly impressive feature directing debut for actress Amber Tamblyn.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Wakefield
    The role is a beast, and Cranston, in a tour de force of touching gravity and aching humanism, gives it everything he's got. It's astounding to watch, and an award-caliber performance from an actor who keeps springing surprises.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Alien: Covenant
    It's true that the film is covering old ground – the shocking originality of the first Alien is a one-time thing. No worries. I'd rank Alien: Covenant with the best of the series, right after the first two chapters. Fans are going to freak out. Join in.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 63 Peter Travers
    Snatched
    The pleasures here come almost exclusively from Schumer and Hawn playing off each other like the rock stars of comedy they are.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Paris Can Wait
    If you’re longing for a delicious romantic romp to take your mind off the world going to hell in hand basket, Paris Can Wait is it.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Travers
    King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
    An epic bore that believes if you make a movie long and loud and repetitive enough, audiences will conclude it's saying something profound. Wrong.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    The Lovers
    A meandering but altogether mesmerizing film from writer-director Azazel Jacobs that finds buoyant comedy and touching gravity in the ashes of a relationship.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    The Dinner
    There are bumps along the way, transitions from one medium to another will do that, but this filmmaker and his fierce foursome won't be done till they take a piece out of you. It's a gripping psychological thriller with a sting in its tail.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Travers
    3 Generations
    How do you screw this up? You've got three leading actresses – Susan Sarandon, Naomi Watts and Elle Fanning – who are usually worth watching in anything. But 3 Generations is pushing it. Even nurturing talent can't breathe life into a script that is completely D.O.A.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Travers
    The Circle
    It's a paranoid thriller without suspense, urgency or a single new thing to say.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
    Hanging with Quill and his mercenary space misfits is still everything you'd want in a wild summer ride.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Travers
    Unforgettable
    Unforgettable is definitely the wrong title for a movie you want to erase from your memory the second it ends.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Travers
    The Promise
    The actors do what they can to keep their heads above the sudsy script. No go. It’s distressing to see a great subject go wrong in the right hands.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    A Quiet Passion
    Cynthia Nixon is simply magnificent as Dickinson, finding the sharp wit and searching mind of a woman out of step with the codes and formalities of her time.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
    A spellbinder that features Richard Gere in one of his best performances ever.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    The Fate of the Furious
    The Fate of the Furious doesn't have a thought in its head to match the best of Bond and Bourne. What it is, in every sense of the term, is insanely entertaining.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    The Lost City of Z
    Hunnam is slow to grab us as Fawcett, but the implosive force of his performance soon takes hold.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Travers
    Going in Style
    There are times when Braff and Melfi hint at the darkness of a world that ignores seniors by making them invisible. But this new version of Going in Style sells uplift so hard it loses touch with reality – and any genuine reason for being.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Colossal
    Damned if this wildly witty and surprisingly touching swing at movie madness and gender politics isn't on to something deep.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Graduation
    Graduation, isn't quite on the landmark level of his searing 2007 abortion drama "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days," but this gripping film still sizzles with Mungiu's social-realist concern for people who believe they can't raise their position based on merit alone. In that sense, the filmmaker is working on a universal level.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Peter Travers
    The Zookeeper's Wife
    What makes the film worthwhile, despite its flaws, are those scenes of human and animal desperation that encapsulate the horrors of war.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Peter Travers
    Life
    Let's hope that Ridley Scott follows his own blueprint better in the upcoming "Alien: Covenant." The dull and derivative Life is no competition. It's DOA.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Peter Travers
    Wilson
    Missed opportunities hobble the film as a whole, but Harrelson is in there pitching his best game. That alone is a sight to see.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Travers
    Song to Song
    This movie hits all the wrong notes.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Beauty and the Beast
    It looks the same, moves the same and sounds the same (those Alan Menken songs!) as the original. But some of the magic has gone M.I.A.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Frantz
    The filmmaker is walking a creative tightrope. How do you resist that? My advice is: don't. There are a few fits and starts, and a palette switch from black-and-white to color. But Ozon is onto something about nationalism, borders and a hatred of the other that's as timely as Trump.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    T2 Trainspotting
    This Trainspotting sequel may feel like that for many who raised a fist in unison with the first film's f--k-the-world defiance. There's a hard-won wisdom at work here, as well as an aching sense of loss. Any way you look at it, T2 takes a piece out of you.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Personal Shopper
    It's pure cinema, a hypnotic and haunting dream that tempts us to jump in and get lost. Do it.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Kong: Skull Island
    The dialogue is clunky, the A-list actors are slumming and, yeah, you've seen it all before. But Kong: Skull Island is a creature feature that's damn near irresistible.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Peter Travers
    Before I Fall
    It would be easy to write off Before I Fall as the Groundhog Day of teen weepies – but something raw keeps breaking through the formula to pull us in.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Logan
    If Jackman and Stewart are serious about this being their mutual X-Men swan song, they could not have crafted a more heartfelt valedictory.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    My Life as a Zucchini
    What's lucky is that no matter what language it's in, My Life as Zucchini never sacrifices what’s true for what’s trite and easier to sell. This is animation as an art form, inspiring and indelible.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Get Out
    A jolt-a-minute horroshow laced with racial tension and stinging satirical wit.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Travers
    Fist Fight
    Charlie Day owns one of the highest-pitched male squeaks in the business and he puts it to hilarious use on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. I could watch him in anything – but Fist Fight is pushing it, given that's it's always raining a storm of comic clichés that quickly drowns any semblance of audience goodwill.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 38 Peter Travers
    The Great Wall
    It plays like like a video game in which the goal is to kill as many of these green-blooded monsters as you can before time's up. It's fun for about 10 minutes, and then the tedium seeps in.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 12 Peter Travers
    Fifty Shades Darker
    This, however, is not Mamet – it's a beast of roaring stupidity that devours everything in its path, including the veteran filmmaker.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    A United Kingdom
    It's a tender love story that never goes soft on its provocations. It's a defiant cry from the heart.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    John Wick: Chapter 2
    Remember how the original John Wick snuck up and wowed us in 2014? Now he's back and better than ever. John Wick: Chapter 2 is the real deal in action-movie fireworks – it's pure cinema, an adrenaline rocket of image and sound that explodes on contact.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    The LEGO Batman Movie
    Don't obsess over the rough edges. The Lego Batman Movie rises on its own goofball spirits. Wanna get nuts and shake your sillies out? This is the place to do it.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 0 Peter Travers
    Rings
    If crap movies carried penalties for inflicting torture on audiences, then Rings would merit a death sentence.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    I Am Not Your Negro
    It's unmissable and unforgettable.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    The Salesman
    A dazzling, darkly funny, quietly devastating human drama from the Islamic Republic of Iran.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 38 Peter Travers
    A Dog's Purpose
    A manipulative script about dog reincarnation that whacks your emotions like a piñata – that's forgivable. Not this. It shouldn't happen to a dog.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Peter Travers
    Gold
    As a movie, Gold is slim pickings. But McConaughey keeps you riveted.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Travers
    xXx: Return of Xander Cage
    Diesel has chosen to keep selling stupid to audiences who are inexplicably eager to gobble it up. Damn shame.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    The Founder
    Like Apple founder Steve Jobs, Kroc – who died in 1984 – had a genius for marketing the talent of others. Is that a lesser gift? Not in these United States. Not then. And not in the age of Trump. Set more than a half century ago, The Founder proves to be a movie for a divisive here and now. Step right up. You might just learn something. God help us.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Peter Travers
    Split
    This might have degenerated into a cheap gimmick if not for the way Shyamalan lets us inside the childhood trauma that pushed his tormentor into multiple personalities.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Things to Come
    Huppert's brilliance is indisputable, her performance alternately playful and deeply moving.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Peter Travers
    Monster Trucks
    Monster Trucks is a wreck, fueled by the crazy belief that noise and repetition can disguise the lack of credible writing, directing, acting and FX.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 12 Peter Travers
    Underworld: Blood Wars
    Like the four franchise fillers that preceded it, Underworld: Blood Wars is undoubtedly impervious to bad reviews. What it needs is a stake through the heart.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    I, Daniel Blake
    I, Daniel Blake, a new Loach landmark which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival last year, sums up everything that has kept he muckraking motor running for decades.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 88 Peter Travers
    Paterson
    Adam Driver gives one of the loveliest and least likely to be rewarded performances of the year in Paterson. Why least likely, you ask? Because Driver's indelibly moving portrayal is so lived-in and lyrical you hardly recognize it as acting.
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