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For 2,968 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 1.3 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: 1,701 out of 2968
  2. Mixed: 1,148 out of 2968
  3. Negative: 119 out of 2968
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  1. The Rider
    The Rider is a beautiful movie, a Western of sorts that isn’t limited to that classification as it chronicles the life of a down-on-his-luck cowboy who simply keeps on living, as difficult as that sometimes can be.
  2. Avengers: Infinity War
    Thanos is the most interesting, and most complex, character here.
  3. Super Troopers 2
    What really saves Super Troopers 2, to the extent that it even wants to be saved, is how gleefully the Broken Lizard bunch goes about its work.
  4. Claire's Camera
    At the beginning of the film, you want Hong to work through the scenes faster. By the time it’s done, you’ll wish they lasted longer. That’s a kind of magic, too.
  5. Love After Love
    The ways in which Love After Love is successful at portraying the grief process is also what makes it at times wildly unpleasant to watch.
  6. Final Portrait
    At times his film is genuinely absorbing, offering insight into the madness and euphoria of artistic creation, along with the sometimes-crushing doubt. Other times it’s just Armie Hammer sitting there. Nothing horrible about that. Just not great, either.
  7. I Feel Pretty
    I Feel Pretty is a good idea that never quite clicks the way it should
  8. You Were Never Really Here
    It’s a really good film, but it’s certainly not an easy one to watch.
  9. Lean on Pete
    At times the film threatens to become relentlessly bleak, but never fully so, thanks in large part to Plummer’s performance. And cinematographer Magnus Nordenhof Jønck finds beauty in the most desolate places; even flashing police lights set against nightfall are inviting.
  10. Where Is Kyra?
    Pfeiffer may be stripped of her luminosity, but she is vivid onscreen.
  11. Borg vs. McEnroe
    Metz does a really nice job of shooting the final match, of ratcheting up the tension. Then again, the five-set marathon does a nice job of that all by itself. Gudnason is good as Borg, but mostly he’s a portrait of tightly coiled silence, occasionally lashing out. LaBeouf is the best thing about the movie.
  12. Aardvark
    Aardvark, while it has its moments, never lives up to the potential the cast would suggest.
  13. Blumhouse's Truth or Dare
    It’s a lame, scare-free film that wants really badly to work in the vein of “It Follows,” but has none of the intelligence.
  14. Rampage
    Seriously, the movie is pretty awful, but Johnson, as ever, seems to be having a ball, even when he’s all serious and concerned and shot up and beaten up and building-dropped-upon.
  15. Beirut
    Beirut is inoffensive in its familiarity, a handsome enough thriller to pass the time. What it’s lacking are stakes.
  16. Foxtrot
    Foxtrot is far too interior to be called flashy, but there’s something striking in director Samuel Maoz’s visual confidence, the way he translates his characters’ states of mind into images.
  17. Keep the Change
    This gently humorous, fiercely honest indie film is a step forward in the quest for a move inclusive Hollywood, which seems to one of the themes of the cultural moment. Some may dismiss it as identity politics. But movies like this prove that it’s about broadening our scope and deepening our understanding.
  18. Gemini
    As mysteries go, writer-director Aaron Katz hasn't really created an effective one. Gemini is entertaining, but Jill isn't much of a detective, and the big puzzle at the center of the film just sort of falls together. You never completely check out of the plot, but don't feel fully invested, either.
  19. Blockers
    There’s nothing self-serious about it. Blockers has all the brashness and irreverence that any comedy fan of the Apatow era could ask for, even as it represents a more gender-balanced future for Hollywood.
  20. 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.
  21. Chappaquiddick
    Chappaquiddick is a study of arrogance, of power and influence wielded corruptly to cast facts into doubt.
  22. The Miracle Season
    The Miracle Season is a pleasant surprise, the rare inspirational sports movie that actually earns its tears.
  23. Finding Your Feet
    If the cast wasn’t so talented and so committed to doing some heavy lifting, Finding Your Feet would be a gigantic misstep.
  24. Journey's End
    Sherriff doesn’t offer any great answers here. It’s not like his play ended wars. But it’s a timely reminder that for all of the talk and negotiation and blustering and posturing, war means death, and “Journey’s End” brings that message home.
  25. Isle of Dogs
    Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs is delightful, giddy fun, but it’s more than that. It’s also insightful and relevant, all while existing inside one of the signature wildly creative, self-contained worlds Anderson creates.
  26. Ready Player One
    Visually, the movie is amazing — jaw-droppingly so. This is as technologically impressive as anything Spielberg has done, if not more so. The story, on the other hand, based on the bestselling novel by Ernest Cline, doesn’t just allow for narrative shortcuts; it practically demands them.
  27. Flower
    For 90 minutes we’re presented with idiot characters who do terrible things to themselves and each other, and in its final gasp the movie tries to retrofit them into heroes.
  28. The Death of Stalin
    Lots of movies mix comedy and horror. But Armando Iannucci’s The Death of Stalin makes real-life horrors the source of hilarity — and it is hilarious — while never making light of the insanity that inspired it.
  29. Unsane
    Foy is terrific, as is Pharoah.
  30. Pacific Rim: Uprising
    It’s better than a “Transformers” movie. Is that damning with faint praise? I’m not sure it’s praise at all. But it is true. Pacific Rim Uprising is, at least for about half the movie, better than a Michael Bay exercise in eardrum shattering. The sequel isn’t as good as the original, however, which probably isn’t a surprise.
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