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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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    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
    The new film is a juicily enjoyable crowd-pleaser that works hard at expanding to fit the size of its ambitions and that wants to give the audience a high old time while slipping in reminders of how low some people may sink in the pursuit of power.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Loving
    I like this movie a lot, but it may be too intimate, too slow for some moviegoers.
  3. The Eagle Huntress
    An opportunity to capture on film a unique cultural enclave is reduced to a Hollywood pastiche.
  4. Almost Christmas
    The movie would benefit from spending even more quiet moments with Glover.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Arrival
    Arrival would be nothing without Adams.
  6. As I Open My Eyes
    The coming of age is not just that of character but of a whole nation, and despite the mild-seeming moniker, the Jasmine Revolution earned its victories the hard way.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Gimme Danger
    If Gimme Danger never quite solves the secret of Iggy’s onstage atavism — how he pushed the myth of sheer, unhinged rock ’n’ roll abandon until he embodied it better (or worse) than anyone else, ever — it reminds us of when he was, verily, the velociraptor of popular music.
    • 99 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Moonlight
    In its quietly radical grace, it’s a cultural watershed — a work that dismantles all the ways our media view young black men and puts in their place a series of intimate truths. You walk out feeling dazed, more whole, a little cleaner.
  9. Trolls
    A Cinderella subplot involving the prince’s scullery maid (Zooey Deschanel) is similarly both familiar and tonally refreshing, from the whimsical vocals to the disco skate that subs for a glass slipper.
  10. Doctor Strange
    The upshot: The movie develops a distinctively trippy identity.
  11. Hacksaw Ridge
    It is epic in scope, intimate in detail, and otherworldly in its dimensions, like the Bayeux Tapestry with special effects and a stentorian soundtrack.
  12. 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.
  13. Being 17
    The performances are meticulous and passionate, the narrative low-key and obliquely sensitive enough to conceal, until the traumatic incidents keep piling up, the film’s contrivance.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Handmaiden
    Elegantly depraved and immaculately degenerate, Park Chan Wook’s The Handmaiden is an astonishment. The filmmaking is masterful, very near to Hitchcock in its sly, controlled teasing of the audience.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    American Pastoral
    A new movie based on Roth’s 1997 novel “American Pastoral” offers proof yet again that this writer’s great literary gifts are almost impossible to translate to the screen. Roth is a protean American inner voice. The movies, sad to say, remain better at exteriors.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Inferno
    Inferno is the exact cinematic equivalent of an airport paperback, which is what’s fine and forgettable about it.
  17. Christine
    Campos really doesn’t need to tack on such heavy-handed irony as the scene near the end of a disconsolate woman eating ice cream and singing along with the theme song of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.”
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Aquarius
    Braga has hardly stopped working since, on either continent, but Aquarius is a comeback, a homecoming, and a character film in which both the heroine and the actress playing her are characters of the first order.
  19. Keeping Up with the Joneses
    The best moments come in seeing Galifianakis’s costars try to keep up with him as he finally, frantically lets loose.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Certain Women
    Is Kelly Reichardt the most under-acknowledged great director working in America right now? Her new movie, Certain Women, is one of the glories of this or any other year, but it stays true to Reichardt form, which is to say it’s low-key, allusive, lit up with implied meanings without ever leading us by the hand.
  21. Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
    It all makes for competent but routine suspense.
  22. A Man Called Ove
    Lassgård won’t let you off easy: A scene in which Ove weeps hopelessly before the magnitude of his loneliness will bring tears to the eyes of anyone who has suffered a loss. His Ove is a man indeed.
  23. Kevin Hart: What Now?
    Contrived, inane, absurd, and occasionally brilliant, it’s all a blur.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Accountant
    The Accountant keeps you hanging on all the way to the looney-toon ending, well past the point where your higher brain functions have called it a night. It’s not a good movie but it’s not a bad way to kill a few hours.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    American Honey
    Ironically, the film itself is as gentle and unexploitative as they come. Yes, it deserves the rating, and yes, it depicts teenagers doing things the grown-ups would rather not admit they actually do, but it does so with a poetic curiosity and a sense of what it’s like to be young, poor, and rootless — both future-less and free.
  26. Denial
    The film works adequately as a historical drama.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Girl on the Train
    If only the movie had the courage to be as gonzo as it wants to be!
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Birth of a Nation
    Produced, co-written, and directed by its star, The Birth of a Nation is very much a first film, its hesitancies disguised as bluntness, and the best things about it are Parker’s acting and his ambitions.
    • 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.
  30. Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
    The film’s lone strength is the fleeting dramatic scenes offering a little back story — and pathos — on Rafe’s home life with his sweetly understanding single mom (Lauren Graham, who you’d guess wouldn’t have bothered otherwise).
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