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For 2,969 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 34% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 The Peanut Butter Falcon
Lowest review score: 10 The Legend of Hercules
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,702 out of 2969
  2. Mixed: 1,148 out of 2969
  3. Negative: 119 out of 2969
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  1. The Sheep Detectives
    In an algorithm-driven world in which every decision is made based on numbers, prediction markets or a desperate attempt to be all things to all people (especially the people not buying your product), hooray for this weird little movie that refuses to play that game. If it can’t always figure out quite what it wants to be, it’s all the better for it.
  2. When Marnie Was There
    There are no princesses, monsters or castles in the sky, but that doesn't mean there is no magic.
  3. Terri
    Terri is almost an anti-teen-coming-of-age teen-coming-of-age movie. And it's terrific.
  4. Still Alice
    It's Moore who makes the movie worthwhile, who elevates it from disease-of-the-week fare to the role of a lifetime.
  5. My Donkey, My Lover & I
    It’s delightful. Director Caroline Vignal infuses the film with just enough whimsy — but not too much. It’s not going to rewrite the rules of cinema or anything, but it’s not trying to.
  6. My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea
    Doesn’t plumb the depths of adolescent emotions and high-school politics so much as skims the surface in a psychedelic dinghy.
  7. Despicable Me
    Settles for simply being goofy good fun.
  8. Eileen
    Eileen is indeed a weird little movie, but it leaves a big impact.
  9. The Shrouds
    It doesn’t all add up; it doesn’t even all make sense. Which befits a story involving a man lost in loss, desperate to regain what he cannot. Reality isn’t as important here as feeling something. If you give “The Shrouds” a chance, you will.
  10. The Double Hour
    A tremendously entertaining take on film noir, with all the usual elements of the genre in play - crime, death, possibly murder and doomed romance.
  11. The Invisible Man
    The Invisible Man is a thrilling movie. If nothing else, it will make you question if that feeling you get of being watched is just in your head, or if there really is somebody else in the room.
  12. The Batman
    The Batman is impressively made. The acting is first rate, and the chemistry between Pattinson and Kravitz is magnetic. It’s meant to be an important statement. It’s just not a lot of, you know, fun. Or as someone famously put it in another Batman movie, Why so serious?
  13. Smashed
    Everyone in the film is good. Offerman and Megan Mullally (as the principal at Kate's school) do well in more-dramatic roles than we're used to seeing them in. Mary Kay Place is harrowing without meaning to be as Kate's mother. [25 Oct 2012]
    • Arizona Republic
      • Posted Oct 25, 2012
  14. The Imitation Game
    When it's good, The Imitation Game is very good. Cumberbatch is terrific, which is not surprising, given the marriage of role and actor.
  15. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
    The latest Marvel movie, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, is a rollicking, adventurous … wait, this is a Marvel movie? It is indeed, and all the better for not being necessarily immediately recognizable as such.
  16. Luca
    If this is a story told more broadly than what we’ve seen from Pixar the past few films, so be it. It may not be a masterpiece, but its message is one that can’t be expressed enough. Luca expresses it in a gorgeous, fun way.
  17. Prey
    There are some clunky bits in which the filmmakers aren’t attentive enough to details. And the CGI in some spots is laughably bad. But Midthunder makes up for it. She makes Naru believably tough and smart, the kind of warrior who might well stand a chance against an opponent seemingly impossible to defeat.
  18. Searching
    Searching is a thriller with a gimmick. The entire story takes place on screens — we see the action play out on devices like laptops and phones. But the movie never feels gimmicky, which is perhaps the neatest feat achieved by first-time director Aneesh Chaganty.
  19. The Menu
    Mylod, working from a script by Seth Reiss and Will Tracy, goes all in on the social commentary. Some of it is funny, some of it appalling, none of it as engaging as when Mylod uses food to make statements.
  20. Pete's Dragon
    Pete’s Dragon is a good movie. But it could have used a little more of the magic its characters are searching for.
  21. The Long Walk
    Despite the gore and the tragedies witnessed on screen, I left the theater hopeful.
  22. Koch
    Barsky’s film is light on biographical detail before Koch’s first term began, in 1978. That’s probably fitting. Koch obviously lived for the job.
  23. Spider-Man: No Way Home
    The film is 148 minutes long. Many of those minutes are good, some not so good. But one of them is great. Unreservedly so. Redemption and catharsis arrive in a single fleeting moment that wonderfully and succinctly ties up everything Watts is attempting. Truly one of my favorite scenes in a movie this year.
  24. Ralph Breaks the Internet
    It’s a bit of a letdown, though still entertaining.
  25. Tangled
    And now with Tangled, a delightfully fresh spin on "Rapunzel," the entertainment powerhouse delivers its first classic-caliber computer animation outside the Pixar family.
  26. Edge of Tomorrow
    Edge of Tomorrow repeats itself without being repetitive, takes itself seriously while providing some laughs and offers plenty of action without short-changing us on the intelligence front.
  27. Hacksaw Ridge
    [Gibson's] talent as a filmmaker, Desmond’s story and Garfield’s understated performance make Hacksaw Ridge a good movie, a straightforward story of faith and courage whose complications arise not in the story, but in the telling of it.
  28. 22 Jump Street
    22 Jump Street is, ultimately, a celebration of the silly and the sweet, a combination that's welcome again and again.
  29. We Are What We Are
    With its lush look, uniformly excellent acting, slow cadences and unhurried unspooling, We Are What We Are rewards your patience without skimping on the goods.
  30. Young Adult
    Young Adult is a horror movie disguised as a dark comedy.
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