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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. Theeb
    The cinematography is outstanding, revealing the harsh beauty of the land. And the acting...is terrific. The burden rests on Eid’s shoulders, and he more than carries it. He’s a natural, showing us Theeb’s curiosity, loyalty and ingenuity while still retaining the innocence of a boy who has been sheltered from the world outside the desert.
  2. Rust and Bone
    A satisfying story of yearning and, eventually, satisfaction.
  3. Unstoppable
    With a movie like this, trying to guess how it ends isn't the point. Enjoying the ride is, and on that front, Unstoppable delivers.
  4. 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.
  5. Source Code
    What's really cool about the film - in addition to Jake Gyllenhaal's performance as Stevens - is how Jones makes sure that we don't know any more than Stevens does, right up till the end.
  6. Summer 1993
    It’s a film entirely lacking in pomp, but there’s a certain bravado in its delicate reservation. A tender and spare meditation on family unfurls in the stillness of a sleepy, sun-soaked Spanish summer.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Where'd You Go, Bernadette
    Overall the movie is a delightful escape with several laugh-out-loud moments. It's definitely worth "girls night out" or "mom-and-daughter" trip to the movies.
  8. Red Army
    Polsky keeps things lively, both visually and with his editing. But the sometimes-lighthearted approach never undermines the serious business at hand. It enhances it.
  9. The Retrieval
    It is indeed a beautiful film, but with each horizon tinged with sadness.
  10. Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed
    At once hopeful and melancholy, it won't necessarily leave you with deep thoughts to think, but rather a feeling that you can't quite name but sticks in your head like a wistful tune in a minor key.
  11. Blue Caprice
    Moors is neither showy nor exploitative in his telling of the story. He just lays out the details, making “Blue Caprice” not just a story of horror, but of tragedy.
  12. Tully
    Some surprises are more effective than others. But what holds the film together are a couple of really strong performances by Charlize Theron and Mackenzie Davis. They have a terrific, and unique, chemistry that helps smooth over a few rough patches.
  13. Kung Fu Panda 2
    A precisely calibrated crowd-pleasing machine, balancing action, comedy and just the bare minimum of pathos.
  14. All Things Must Pass
    “No life, no music,” the Tower slogan read. For Solomon and the rest, it was more like a battle cry in a war they fought but ultimately couldn’t win.
  15. Perfect Strangers (Perfectos Desconocidos)
    The dialogue snaps with precision and cringe-worthy humor; at times, you feel like you're having one of those awkward moments in which you watch a couple bicker. The movie is delicately perched between low-key believability and telenovela melodramatics, yet never falls too far to one side.
  16. RBG
    RBG, Betsy West and Julie Cohen’s engrossing documentary about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is clearly meant to praise the 85-year-old Supreme Court justice, and it does a fine job of it.
  17. Inequality for All
    An engaging film that’s head and shoulders above the average talking-head parade.
  18. Disobedience
    Lelio, who also directed the excellent “Gloria” and last year’s Oscar winner for best foreign film, “A Fantastic Woman,” never shortchanges the desire or the faith, a neat balancing act between the competing elements at the heart of Disobedience, and the success of which makes it so compelling and worthwhile.
  19. Amy
    [An] exhilarating, brutally depressing documentary.
  20. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
    Rogue One stands on its own, an entry that is at once part of the “Star Wars” franchise (obviously) but also separate – a tougher, grittier film.
  21. Get Out
    A scathing examination of race, a take down of phony liberal sympathies that sticks it to racists of every stripe.
  22. Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down
    It is, of course, impossible not to think of what might have been had Giffords not been shot. Every victim of gun violence inspires that feeling. But Cohen and West capture her work since, both to recover and on behalf of others. The Tom Petty song that inspires the title is apt: won’t back down, indeed.
  23. Chappaquiddick
    Chappaquiddick is a study of arrogance, of power and influence wielded corruptly to cast facts into doubt.
  24. Ghost Stories
    The best thing about Ghost Stories — and there are a lot of good things — is the confidence of its directors.
  25. The Martian
    [An] enormously entertaining movie.
  26. Le Havre
    Le Havre is a small bit of movie magic, a story that plays more as a fable even as it deals with something as topical as immigration.
  27. Veronica Mars
    The mystery isn't the reason to watch the film. Bell is. She's the perfect vehicle for Thomas' sharp, sassy writing, able to deliver a pop-culture-infused put-down with ease. And yet she is also vulnerable, something her relationship with her father drives home.
  28. A Quiet Place
    There is not a lot more to the story other than the effort to stay quiet and, thus, stay alive. But the pregnancy, along with a couple of other squirm-inducing set pieces, is enough to keep you on edge.
  29. Graduation
    The acting is outstanding; Mungiu’s straightforward dialogue and naturalistic shooting make for a movie that feels genuine, with no false steps.
  30. Quantum of Solace
    Quantum is hugely entertaining.
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