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For 7,964 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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: 5,240 out of 7964
  2. Mixed: 1,556 out of 7964
  3. Negative: 1,168 out of 7964
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  1. Bill Nye: Science Guy
    Channeling Nye’s own gift for making complex ideas simple and clear, the filmmakers edit together these various aspects of Nye’s life with deceptive ease, drawing on interviews and archival material and following him throughout his hectic schedule. This is not hagiography, however; they don’t back off from examining some of his more controversial endeavors and characteristics. That includes his fondness for the spotlight and his ambition, which in a couple of instances has backfired on him.
  2. The Divine Order
    The chief weakness in the movement, and in the film as well, is Nora herself. Played sweetly by Leuenberger, Nora is endearing but hardly embodies the spirit of her Ibsen namesake.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Disaster Artist
    How’s the movie? Extremely entertaining and fairly pointless, and it will probably be taken for a classic by a generation that has likewise never heard of Tim Burton’s “Ed Wood” (1994), a movie that plumbed the wayward soul of its misbegotten moviemaker to depths The Disaster Artist never manages to touch.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Darkest Hour
    A decent biopic, rousing and well-made and unruffled by depth, with an expertly judged performance at its center.
  5. The Man Who Invented Christmas
    Consistently intriguing as all the lit-process tidbits are, the film struggles to mesh footnotes and somber notes.
  6. The Breadwinner
    The film’s episodic nature, which serves to underscore the moments of grim drama, adds to the problem. One can only salute the filmmakers’ ambition and seriousness of purpose, but it’s hard to see who The Breadwinner audience is.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Roman J. Israel, Esq.
    You’re left with another Denzel Washington performance that gets under your skin and stays there, rankling away. That’s a lot more than most movies offer — even the better ones.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Coco
    Coco is a day-glo firecracker celebrating a country and a culture that has been (and continues to be) much maligned, and it’s at its most vibrant when it journeys into and beyond the shadow of death. That’s a paradox I can live with.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mudbound
    Mudbound is four-square and unshowy, and you might mistake it for old-fashioned. But the presence of an African-American director behind the camera affects everything in front of it.
  10. God's Own Country
    As the story arcs toward its touching denouement, it’s those quiet moments — imbued with the windswept soul of the landscape — that harbor the most lyrical beauty.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Justice League
    Justice League may play well to hardcore DC cognoscenti, but if you’re not a fan, the movie’s failings are easy to enumerate. First off, the villain’s a dud.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
    The script is pungent and profanely funny while remaining rooted in strong and serious emotions.
  13. Wonder
    Much as there is right with Wonder, there’s just as much that isn’t. Emotionally, the movie rarely feels false.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Last Flag Flying
    A touching but fairly clumsy effort that only acquires the depths of sadness and resilience it needs if you have the memory of the earlier film shoring it up. It proves that second-hand grace is, after all, still grace.
  15. Dina
    Though he might be uncertain about sex, or even kissing and cuddling, Scott is an incurable romantic. And steadfastly loyal and kind. The value of that is made clear when the filmmakers disclose the full tragedy and horror of what Dina has gone through, and when he sings to her “Before the Next Teardrop Falls.”
  16. Daddy's Home 2
    Returning director Sean Anders strings together mayhem-filled moments that just aren’t the howlers that they’re clearly scripted to be, never mind the fatherly foursome’s chemistry, or the tobacco-stained guffaws Gibson keeps busting out to sell these bits.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lady Bird
    As debuts go, Lady Bird is as strong as they get: funny, ferocious, and wise. It does, however, drape its restless energy and witty observations atop an overfamiliar framework of coming-of-age movies.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Novitiate
    By turns strikingly original and dramatically slick, deeply felt and a little cooked up. It’s well worth seeing, though.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Faces Places
    The documentary is an absolute delight, but it has a faith in everyday folks that feels both stalwart and melancholy, aware that these are exactly the people being swept away by the tides of modernity. It’s a sociopolitical cri de coeur disguised as a vacation.
    • 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.)
  21. Jane
    The film confronts not just the expected issue of environmentalism but also explores themes of survival, separation, loss, and death.
  22. Thor: Ragnarok
    Thor’s bloodsport detour diverts an inordinate amount of the filmmakers’ attention, and ours, from the whole end-of-days buildup. Hopkins gets short shrift, as does Idris Elba’s returning interdimensional gatekeeper, Heimdall.
  23. 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.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Killing of a Sacred Deer
    The cast is earnest and they almost convince us they’re doing important rather than self-important work.
  25. Human Flow
    Beautifully shot and deeply dispiriting, the documentary examines the global refugee crisis.
  26. Thank You for Your Service
    What’s most compelling is the near-documentary quality of Teller, Koale, and Bennett’s characters playing against a VA backdrop of prosthetic limbs and catheter bags, of desensitized clerks and overwhelmed therapists.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wonderstruck
    I walked out of the movie on a cloud of happiness that was only slightly dissipated after a night’s sleep. A critical acquaintance found the whole thing much too icky-sticky sweet. It may be a generational issue.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Suburbicon
    Suburbicon is George Clooney’s sixth feature as a director and the latest spiral downward in terms of quality.
  29. The Snowman
    Director Tomas Alfredson and cinematographer Dion Beebe have given The Snowman a gloriously subdued look.
  30. Breathe
    These successes are inspiring, but deeper and more complex emotions are unexplored. It’s no fault of Foy’s performance; she brings depth, humor, and conviction to her role as the devoted wife. Garfield, on the other hand, labors mightily but can’t overcome the superficiality of the character as scripted by William Nicholson (“Shadowlands”).
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