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For 7,945 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 0.9 points 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: 5,227 out of 7945
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7945
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7945
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  1. Older Than Ireland
    There is a fair share of such Betty White-ish feistiness on display, but the pathos creeps in unexpectedly.
  2. The Little Stranger
    Wilson gives a performance that in its own way is as striking as Gleeson’s.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Wife
    What unites the film’s two halves — what makes it worth watching, period — is the road Close’s Joan travels as she decides whether to reclaim authorship of her own life. It’s a diamond forged under pressure — a performance of great fury that only finds its voice at the end.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Juliet, Naked
    The cast — Rose Byrne, Ethan Hawke, comic sad sack Chris O’Dowd (“Bridesmaids,” “The Sapphires”) — is in a higher weight class than the material and, rather than be dragged down into formula, they raise the movie up to the nearly scintillating.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    A Midsummer Night's Dream
    This adaptation feels like a soap opera made by someone who has seen too much late-stage Woody Allen and flounders with the self-importance of a director unable to read either text or city.
  6. Kin
    So, yeah, Kin is a bit of a biker movie, too. More important, it’s also a family drama. In their first-time feature-directing effort, twin brothers Jonathan and Josh Baker — speaking of kin — turn Cain and Abel inside out and upside down. Why be east of Eden when you end up that far west of Motown?
  7. Operation Finale
    Notoriously remembered as a mastermind of the Final Solution, Eichmann was also infamous for the just-following-orders dispassion he maintained all the way through his trial, a banality that Kingsley channels expertly.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Support the Girls
    Herein lies the quiet magic of Support the Girls — the reason to see it, the reason that keeps it coming back from the recesses of a reviewer’s psyche: Lisa is kind. That’s the secret, the reason the film is a little diamond.
  9. The Happytime Murders
    Some of this smutty irreverence is undeniably hilarious, goosed along by Melissa McCarthy’s game presence as Phil’s estranged LAPD partner and human foil. (In other felt-free casting, Maya Rudolph is equally entertaining as Phil’s trusty secretary, even if Elizabeth Banks and Joel McHale go to waste.)
  10. Mile 22
    Berg and Wahlberg deliver a relentlessly paced, addictively slick paramilitary thriller actively catering to fans of gonzo brutality and turbocharged machismo.
  11. Alpha
    The stylishly crafted film mostly succeeds in its engaging (and tagline-ready) ambition to chronicle “how mankind discovered man’s best friend,” even if its naturalistic strengths are swapped out for an exaggeratedly epic tone in the later going.
  12. Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
    Telling all is not necessarily the same thing as telling the truth, even if Bowers’s memory seems as clear as the glint in his bright blue eyes. Maybe it’s his ego that’s not clear — or too much so.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Skate Kitchen
    A coming-of-age story set on four wheels, has the distinct charm of a film assured of its voice, even as its central character strives to find her own.
  14. Crazy Rich Asians
    Maybe the key is how nicely self-aware the move is. On the soundtrack, for example, we hear both “Material Girl” and “Money (That’s What I Want)” sung in Mandarin. Everything’s so over the top it’s a bit weightless, which in this context is a compliment.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Miseducation of Cameron Post
    In its tactful, observant way, the film is unrelenting in assessing the damage that blind faith can wreak on its children and heartening in showing how those damaged find strength in each other.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Nico, 1988
    It’s Dyrholm’s film, though, and Nicchiarelli’s, and between them the two women do honor to their subject in all her contradictions.
  17. Puzzle
    Why can’t the film maintain its subtler shadings throughout? It’s a puzzle.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    BlacKkKlansman
    A ferocious mix of prankishness and cold fury that is one of the director’s strongest yet most entertaining works in years.
  19. Dark Money
    Reed follows the proceedings as they happen and builds the suspense of a top-notch courtroom drama.
  20. Christopher Robin
    It’s surprising to see how straight McGregor plays it for director Marc Forster (the J.M. Barrie portrait “Finding Neverland”), allowing the CG-animated Pooh and friends to endearingly steal the show.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Far from the Tree
    Brisk and deeply engrossing.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Spy Who Dumped Me
    It’s essentially “Romy and Michelle’s Mission Impossible” or “Lucy and Ethel Live and Let Die,” and it’s an easy, awfully disposable two hours that scatters some off-kilter belly laughs among a lot of labored gags and efficiently-shot action movie setpieces.
  23. McQueen
    Bonhôte and Ettedgui leave viewers winded from the pace of the ascent. But much the way we know that there was a rise, we also know a fall is imminent. This is where McQueen wobbles.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Blindspotting
    The best parts are the breezes of real, observed life that breathe through many of the scenes — the street corners, the storefronts, the rough camaraderie of guys hanging out, the wary warmth of women.
  25. Custody
    As for Drucker and Ménochet, they vividly embody the roles of abuser and victim but have little else to work with.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mission: Impossible – Fallout
    Not just one of the best but, at its best, an exercise in pure action-movie propulsion and an essay in how to get from Point A to Point B in the most ingenious and exhausting way imaginable.
  27. The Equalizer 2
    Save for a couple of crisp standalone segments incorporated as tone-setters, Washington’s first-ever sequel is a narratively and visually muddled disappointment, one that regularly confuses numbing brutality with vicariously thrilling righteous vengeance.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Green Fog
    The Green Fog is a cinephile’s mash note — and a glimpse of the beautiful film library of Babel that lives in Guy Maddin’s head.
  29. Love, Cecil
    All in all, Beaton could have been a character in an Evelyn Waugh novel — both belonged to the Bright Young Things, in ’20s London — except that he and Waugh detested each other.
  30. Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
    “Don’t Worry” is not a conventional biopic. That makes sense — Callahan sure isn’t a conventional biopic subject — but that unconventionality can present problems. Sometimes the movie is sentimental. More often, it’s scabrous. Maybe if the movie didn’t feel overlong (trim and tight it’s not), those qualities might seem better balanced.
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