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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. A Borrowed Identity
    More conventional in approach than Linklater’s 12-year filmmaking odyssey, “Identity” demonstrates its boldness not with stylistic originality but with political acuity.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Steve Jobs: Man in the Machine
    One of the director’s more superficial efforts; it’s watchable but glib.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Grandma
    It’s predictable in many places and acerbic in others, sentimental when you expect it and poignant when you don’t. But it stars Lily Tomlin, and that’s all you really need to know.
  4. A Walk in the Woods
    It consists of a series of episodic encounters, misadventures, and musings redeemed in part by the presence of two scenic wonders, the unspoiled 2,190-mile grandeur of the Appalachian Trail and the spectacular crapulousness of Nick Nolte.
  5. Meru
    Much of Meru is about that second attempt, filmed with such grandeur and intimacy that sometimes attempting to figure out how they made the incredible shots almost spoils them.
  6. Rosenwald
    Like her subject, Kempner’s film doesn’t try to be flashy or stylish. She adheres to the Ken Burns school of old footage, photos, period ads, newspaper stories and cartoons.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Digging for Fire
    The movie’s a comedy. And while it has its charms, Swanberg is tilling soil here that has been churned since humanity began, and he doesn’t come up with very much that’s new.
  8. Z for Zachariah
    Far from contrived, the triangle that “Zachariah” sketches among the last three folks on earth is all too human.
  9. We Come as Friends
    A fascination with serendipity, irony, and absurdity like that in Werner Herzog’s documentaries propels “Friends” into unexpected territory.
  10. War Room
    It’s only in the late going that the marital drama turns somewhat more authentic, helping to restore a bit of the audience’s, well, faith.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    We Are Your Friends
    It’s worth remembering that movies can have soul, too, if their filmmakers are willing to do the work to find it.
  12. No Escape
    No Escape is a tense but utterly predictable exercise in Western xenophobic paranoia and guilt.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mistress America
    What it feels like, mostly, is a Whit Stillman movie made by someone other than Whit Stillman.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Diary of a Teenage Girl
    The heroine’s voice-overs, delivered into the microphone of a Bell & Howell tape recorder in Minnie’s bedroom, are the movie’s motor. They’re proud and insecure, profanely comic, dripping with adolescent wisdom and self-absorption.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Listen to Me Marlon
    The result is something that feels fresh, even revelatory — a work of elegiac bio-doc impressionism. Listen to Me Marlon gets under the skin of the most mysterious performer of the 20th century and forces us to recalibrate all our feelings about him.
  16. Fantastic Four
    Ultimately, what Fantastic Four delivers is change for change’s sake, rather than change for the better.
  17. Straight Outta Compton
    F. Gary Gray’s Straight Outta Compton starts out strong, peaks quickly, and then gets tangled in complications and compromise and falls apart.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
    A celebration of a time when secret agents dressed impeccably, bantered with style, and had exceptionally cool toys. That the movie is almost instantly forgettable is part of the pleasure.
  19. Alléluia
    Religious allusions aside, Alleluia is like “Psycho” combined with “Bonnie and Clyde,” with Norman and Norma Bates as the conjoined criminal couple on the run.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dark Places
    Grim, ridiculous, and dull.
  21. Samba
    Unfortunately, the material flounders from the broadly farcical to the bombastically melodramatic. Race and ethnicity aren’t so much the problem as gender is. Despite Gainsbourg’s efforts, her character becomes a caricature.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Phoenix
    It is first and foremost a moral tale, and an overpowering one.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The End of the Tour
    Just because David Foster Wallace would almost certainly have hated The End of the Tour doesn’t mean that it’s not a worthwhile movie. And in fact James Ponsoldt’s dramatic adaptation of Rolling Stone journalist David Lipsky’s memoir about his 1996 road trip with Wallace is pretty excellent: heartfelt, probing, funny, above all touching.
  24. The Gift
    In addition to directing outstanding performances, Edgerton also suggests psychological processes by means of space, architecture, and décor, exploiting the walls, doorways, windows, and mirrors of the new house to indicate the status of a relationship or self-image.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ricki and the Flash
    Because Demme genuinely likes people and is interested in them, Ricki and the Flash feels like “Stella Dallas” as remade by Jean Renoir — it’s a humanist suburban fable.
  26. Shaun the Sheep Movie
    Like a great silent movie, it creates its pathos and comedy out of the concrete objects being animated, building elaborate gags involving everyday items transformed into Rube Goldberg devices that sometimes entrap the characters, or, when properly manipulated by them, provide a means of achieving their goals.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll
    There is a surprise waiting in Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten, a labor of love that Pirozzi painstakingly assembled over a span of close to a decade, although the story it tells holds no mystery.
  28. A LEGO Brickumentary
    A wide-ranging new survey of the toy’s global subculture and appeal.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Look of Silence
    Over and over in The Look of Silence, we hear people tell the filmmakers, “The past is past.” The wound is healed, they say, and if you don’t want trouble, don’t reopen it. The movie itself proves otherwise.
  30. Irrational Man
    In the end, this feeble effort remains tainted, however unfairly, by the creator’s personal life. Maybe Allen should have titled it “Rationalizing Man.”
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