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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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    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Patriots Day
    At best, it's unnecessary. At worst, it's vaguely insulting.
  2. The Meddler
    The Meddler is a disappointment after the talent Scafaria demonstrated in her 2012 feature debut “Seeking a Friend for the End of the World.”
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Life
    Like Life itself, this alien is nasty, brutish, and short.
  4. Café Society
    Café Society is a romantic comedy where the romance is lackluster and the comedy an afterthought.
  5. Don't Breathe
    An original thriller about a home-invasion robbery gone wrong. To clarify, that would be “wrong” as in “not according to plan” – but also “wrong” as in “so dementedly repugnant, it just isn’t right.”
  6. Our Kind of Traitor
    Whatever the turning point, his transformation from feckless academic to stalwart knight occurs too easily. It should be the heart of the story, but instead is just a troublesome detail in a hollow movie.
  7. The Neon Demon
    Elle Fanning is impeccably cast as Jesse, a quiet, sweet-natured ingénue shuttling between sketchy photo shoots and her clichéd newcomer’s digs in a seedy Pasadena motel.
  8. Morgan
    At its best, the movie is provocative, sleekly assured, and a legit showcase for its intriguingly deep ensemble
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Nerve
    There’s a line between enjoyably stupid and stupid-stupid, and Nerve sails over it right around the halfway mark.
  10. Spaceman
    Overall the results are amiable, if also slack and talky.
  11. Almost Christmas
    The movie would benefit from spending even more quiet moments with Glover.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rough Night
    What’s nice about this movie, actually, is that you can get a few shameless laughs out of it and then forget you saw it at all.
  13. The Grinch
    The result is a reworking that feels both unnecessary and uninspired, even if it’s too genial and visually captivating to be flat-out off-putting.
  14. The Foreigner
    If the movie can’t maintain its interest in Chan, why should we? This narrative splice job simply doesn’t hold together. Call it a taut mess or a hot mess, take your pick.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mary Poppins Returns
    Mary Poppins Returns is torn between taking audiences back to their childhoods and treating them like children. You might have a good time but don’t be surprised if you feel a little dociousaliexpeisticfragicalirupus afterward.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Bad Batch
    Amirpour has the potential to see things as no other filmmaker does, but she doesn’t yet have a vision, and she may not as long as she keeps fiddling around with genre conventions laid down by others. She’s an eccentric magpie of a director, and this time the pieces she collects glitter but never quite cohere.
  17. All I See Is You
    What emerges from this pretentious if diverting mishmash is a story that is equally predictable and contrived, but nonetheless offers some worthwhile insights into the notion of the male gaze and the subjugation of women.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    LBJ
    It’s an entertaining piece of Hollywood waxworks if you don’t set your expectations very high and it’s probably the best movie Rob Reiner has directed in more than a decade. (This only sounds like a compliment.)
  19. The Eagle Huntress
    An opportunity to capture on film a unique cultural enclave is reduced to a Hollywood pastiche.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Girl Asleep
    There’s a lot of talent here and a lot of enthusiasm; also a lot of influences that haven’t been successfully reprocessed into something convincing or fresh. It’s a mess, but a reasonably charming one.
  21. The Promise
    Too glossy to truly immerse audiences in the horrors it depicts.
  22. Coming Through The Rye
    Ironically, the phoniness that iconic teen romantic Holden Caulfield despised pervades Jim Sadwith’s Coming through the Rye, a semi-autobiographical tale of hero worship and literary integrity.
  23. Tommy's Honour
    A climactic contest takes place in arctic weather that would rival any New England Patriots playoff game. Had the filmmakers drawn more on this rowdy, hardy spirit, not to mention the hirsute gravitas of Peter Mullan, it might have done justice to its legendary subjects.
  24. Bitter Harvest
    As the film darkens, it intensifies its focus on tragedy and atrocity and begins to do some justice to one of the largest and least known genocides in history.
  25. American Assassin
    Trouble is, the movie’s dopiness isn’t in fact something you can get past. “American Assasinine” is frequently more like it.
  26. Wilson
    A lot of talent gets wasted in Wilson: not just Harrelson, Dern, and Clowes.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Downsizing
    The film’s ultimate message — help other people, basically — is, while useful and necessary, dramatically rather slack, and you notice with a shock that the film’s central conceit has almost entirely dropped off the table by the final third. Payne’s microcosm is so like our macrocosm that after a while he simply forgets to make the distinction.
  28. Robin Hood
    Some of the film is slow. Some of it is silly.
  29. The Last Word
    If “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946) had mean Mr. Potter standing on the bridge ready to jump, rather than James Stewart’s beaten down hero George Bailey, it still would not have been as namby-pamby as Mark Pellington’s treacly and bromidic The Last Word.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The War with Grandpa
    Not that terrible, but dispiritingly generic — the kind of off-brand, cable-ready product that functions as advertised but could have been cast with anybody other than some of the most unique and celebrated performers of their generations.
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