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For 7,964 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: 5,240 out of 7964
  2. Mixed: 1,556 out of 7964
  3. Negative: 1,168 out of 7964
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    • 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.
  2. 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.
  5. 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.
  7. Dark Money
    Reed follows the proceedings as they happen and builds the suspense of a top-notch courtroom drama.
  8. 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.
  11. 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.
  13. 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.
  15. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Eighth Grade
    At times, Eighth Grade plays like a nature documentary about life and death on the savannas of suburbia.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
    I wish I could tell you that Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is ridiculous and I hated it, but the fact is that it’s ridiculous and I loved every minute.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Skyscraper
    You’ve seen almost all of this before, with more wit and a better villain.
  22. Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
    As a general survey of Williams’s life, as a collection of precious backstage outtakes, and as a nostalgic trip back into his comedy stylings, Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind does the trick. It’s a sad, but satisfying, visit with a special man.
  23. The King
    The idea behind Eugene Jarecki’s nonfiction film The King — you can’t really call it a documentary — is crazy-good inspired.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sorry to Bother You
    There are a lot of reasons to be thankful for Sorry to Bother You — one being that it represents the return of the inspired/demented midnight-movie satire — but the rise of Lakeith Stanfield to leading man status is probably the most satisfying.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Zama
    The final shots are both majestic and damning, and they lift the film with a kind of gentle contempt into a surrealism that makes an awful kind of sense, the world in its lushness swallowing Zama as it will swallow us all. Some movies unfold as dreams; Zama dances us playfully toward the edge of nightmare and then asks us to open our eyes.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Whitney
    A family affair, a family failure. The life of Whitney Houston seems like a cage match between competing egotists who call one another relatives. No doubt a certain pall hangs over the film, perhaps inevitable with the subject, and aided by the cathartic candor of most interviewees.
  27. Ant-Man and the Wasp
    It’s fast, it’s funny, it’s superficial, it’s full of likable stars and scientific mumbo-jumbo, and, above all, it taps into the human urge to see big things become little and little things get big. It’s as close to lizard-brain entertainment as superhero blockbusters get, and as the mercury pushes toward 100, I’ll take it.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Three Identical Strangers
    One of the more entertaining yet profoundly disturbing documentaries of this or any year.
  29. Boundaries
    Character quirks know no limits in the indie dramedy Boundaries, a multi-generational road-trip movie that gives both Vera Farmiga and Christopher Plummer richly drawn roles to play.
  30. Sicario: Day of the Soldado
    Murky, clunky, but sometimes nihilistically exhilarating.
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