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For 7,948 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Argylle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,230 out of 7948
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7948
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7948
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    White Bird in a Blizzard
    Only Jane, as the cop who knows exactly what Mrs. Collins’s wayward daughter needs, has the sense of threat the movie is seeking. His and Woodley’s scenes together are dirty and alive.
  2. The Better Angels
    Humorless, pretentious black-and-white tone poem about a very young Abe Lincoln.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
    It plants a flag for a new corporate entertainment franchise and it will make international containerships of money, so does it matter that Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is joyless and incoherent? Probably not.
  4. Hellion
    Based on her short film, Candler’s Hellion pads its slender, commonplace, but potentially rewarding premise with contrivances, clichés, repetitiousness, and, when all else fails, implausible, arbitrary melodrama.
  5. Le Chef
    Usually a French comedy such as this requires some crude modifications before a studio like Touchstone can remake it for American audiences. In this case, though, they just need to lose the subtitles and dub in the voices of actors like Rob Schneider or Adam Sandler. Until then, bon appetit!
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Birder's Guide to Everything
    At its occasional best, A Birder’s Guide to Everything hints at the profound pleasure of standing very still and witnessing wonders the rest of the world passes by.
  7. A Coffee In Berlin
    So where does that leave this coming-of-age comedy written and directed by Jan Ole Gerster? Somewhere in the middle, lukewarm and inoffensive, trying hard not to be plebeian or pretentious.
  8. Oculus
    At its best, it delves into the murky areas of memory, childhood trauma, and family conflict. But it forgoes such troubling issues for mumbo jumbo and glowing-eyed wraiths.
  9. Cooties
    Wilson has some fun lampooning ’80s action tropes, but he’s also just doing Dwight Schrute with a twang at times. McBrayer and Garcia barely get to play one-note characters, let alone ones that you’ll remember.
  10. A Walk Among the Tombstones
    The problem with this adaptation of Lawrence Block’s detective yarn isn’t that it casts Neeson in a role we’re seeing him play again and again. It’s that no one else in the movie makes a character feel nearly as broken-in and fully inhabited as he does.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Rover
    There’s a thin line between the iconic and the generic, and The Rover, a grim post-apocalyptic drama from down under, wanders back and forth across it in an adrenaline daze.
  12. Brick Mansions
    The thematic stuff, while well-intentioned, is also clunky, and ultimately beside the point. Action, obviously, is what you’re after.
  13. Run All Night
    The story loses its convincingly scaled sense of jeopardy in the late going, and it ultimately unravels.
  14. Fatal Assistance
    Fatal Assistance has few answers, and adds little clarity.
  15. How to Be Single
    Exhausting and seemingly endless.
  16. Ride Along 2
    You’ll have to be satisfied with a modest assortment of energetically comic moments here, because the story sure isn’t a reason to catch this encore, and neither are who-asked-for-’em cast additions such as Ken Jeong.
  17. Hotel Transylvania 2
    For the haters out there, you could see where Sandler reprising his role as a cartoon Dracula in Hotel Transylvania 2 might just be the perfect metaphor: Yep, there he goes again, evilly sucking the lifeblood out of decent entertainment. Now come on, let’s grab the torches!
    • 77 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Buzzard
    Potrykus seems to be going for a critique of disengaged youth stuck in a corporate dystopia of dead-end jobs and fear of life itself. But as a “Clerks” for the Millennial generation, the social commentary of Buzzard tastes about as half baked as the Hot Pocket in Marty’s toaster oven.
  19. The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden
    Strauch’s orotund prose sounds much like that of Werner Herzog, but without the irony. Herzog’s sensibility is missed here; he could have made a masterpiece about the absurdity of these deluded seekers of Eden.
  20. Lucky Them
    What follows is no “Citizen Kane,” or even “Velvet Goldmine” (1998), Todd Haynes’s arty tale of a reporter trying to track down a missing glam rock star, in which Collette also starred, playing the missing man’s alcoholic wife.
  21. The November Man
    Sadly, the film rapidly devolves into an AARP version of a Jason Bourne-like vendetta, only bloodier and less meaningful.
  22. The Hundred-Foot Journey
    Unfortunately, this is one movie about food that I’m forgetting already.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Magic Mike XXL
    The first hour of Magic Mike XXL is deadly.
  24. Walking with the Enemy
    Does not sink to the bathos of Roberto Benigni’s Oscar-winning film (“Life Is Beautiful”), but it does reduce a period of irredeemable horror to the heroics of a single person.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sisters
    When the new movie wings it, it sputters but clears the runway. When it sticks to the script, it crashes and burns.
  26. Why Don't You Play in Hell?
    It’s a self-reflexive tour de force, laugh-out-loud in its outrageousness, a true gift from the Movie God, who, if not Tarantino, is in this case probably Sam Peckinpah. You just have to endure 90 minutes of inanity to get to enjoy it.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    X-Men: Apocalypse
    Point is, the property is running on bald tires, and, for all its ear-splitting racket and lavish effects, “Apocalypse” is the barest of retreads.
  28. Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
    “Axel F” is a joyless affair, a mediocre simulacrum that made me long for the original.
  29. The Grand Seduction
    Charming, but not seductive.
  30. Point Break
    When the action sequences move into the sky-diving stuff, they give you a real rush.... Otherwise, though, Point Break is all wet. Too bad, because you always get the sense in a Kathryn Bigelow outing ("Near Dark," "Blue Steel") that she's trying to push a genre into new places. [12 July 1991, p.54]
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