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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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  1. Collateral Beauty
    Too well-meaning and too infused with genuine poignancy from Smith and Harris for the film to be dismissed as just a trigger for our snark reflex. But it’s a shame that the tears Smith sheds aren’t serving a better conceived story.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
    The cast does good work, despite a less-than-great screenplay.
  3. Things to Come
    Cinematic rarity — a genuinely philosophical film.
  4. Miss Sloane
    It answers most questions by the end, except the most important one: Is the devil in Miss Sloane, or is Miss Sloane the devil?
  5. Office Christmas Party
    This last angle had us thinking back to “Risky Business,” as did the Chicago setting and the reveling gone off the rails. Here, though, there’s no edge to the wildness, nothing memorable.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Jackie
    Jackie is a chamber drama rather than an epic; an impressionistic work of emotional opera rather than a chronological parade. What is this movie trying to do? Simply dramatize everything that can go on inside a woman simultaneously marginalized and revered.
  7. Mifune: The Last Samurai
    We hear from Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, several still-awed costars, one of Mifune’s sons, Kurosawa’s script supervisor, and a film sword master identified as “killed by Mifune more than a hundred times.”
  8. Seasons
    The voice-over narrator (Perrin) recites environmentally pious platitudes that offer little enlightenment about what’s on the screen. This is annoying when something strange and unfamiliar is being shown.
  9. Allied
    What Allied increasingly offers is insincere sincerity: As the emotional quotient rises, so does the phoniness.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Manchester by the Sea
    Manchester by the Sea is an experience worth having, not for the magnificence of its impact or the far-flung grandeur of its settings but for the way it illuminates with quiet, unyielding grace how you and I and our neighbors get by, and sometimes how we don’t.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Elle
    Elle may be the purest distillation of his worldview yet, and it’s a terrifying thrill.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rules Don't Apply
    This is not a well-made film but it is an enjoyable one, in part because it’s genuinely unpredictable and in part because it’s a pleasure to see one of the great stars of his era on a movie screen once more.
  13. Moana
    If you’ve ever been fortunate enough to visit this corner of the world, you’ll instantly recognize the blissful natural grandeur that Moana captures, as well as the Pacific’s intimidating vastness.
  14. The Love Witch
    Visually, it has the intense intimacy of a dream.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Nocturnal Animals
    I don’t mean it as a cheap shot, but Nocturnal Animals is very like an exquisitely rendered window display. It’s something at which you pause and peer into and catch your breath — and then move on.
  16. The Edge of Seventeen
    This is less a throwback to cutely misunderstood Molly Ringwald than to “My So-Called Life” — but with our high-school heroine stuck in a spiral like Claire Danes never knew.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
    Directing the film version, Lee gets lost in the grotesque pomp of the halftime spectacle and its lead-up. He gets fine performances from the actors playing the soldiers and a terrible one from Stewart, who flails her arms like an amateur. Martin’s role is beneath his talents, while Vin Diesel’s, as a Zen warrior of a sergeant, is almost beyond belief.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bleed for This
    Teller is cornering a market on recklessness in the roles he chooses -- the energy from that demonic drum solo at the end of “Whiplash” seems to carry over into the ferocity with which Vinny pounds at life. He’s not very smart, he’s kind of a jerk, but he never, ever stops, and Bleed for This earns your respect for him.
    • 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.
  21. The Eagle Huntress
    An opportunity to capture on film a unique cultural enclave is reduced to a Hollywood pastiche.
  22. 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.
  24. 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.
  27. 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.
  28. Doctor Strange
    The upshot: The movie develops a distinctively trippy identity.
  29. 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.
  30. 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.
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