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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. 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.
  5. 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.
  7. 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.
  9. Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
    It all makes for competent but routine suspense.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  14. 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.
  18. 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).
  19. Command and Control
    Kenner and Schlosser not only remind us of a danger that never went away, but honor the men whose bravery was never recognized.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Masterminds
    It’s weird-stupid more than good-stupid.
  21. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
    The movie bogs down only toward the finish, when it turns into a metahuman free-for-all.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Deepwater Horizon
    A taut, engrossing action movie about real-life heroes, so why is it a disappointment? Because director Peter Berg is telling the wrong story.
  23. Storks
    The result is a story that’s awfully scattered thematically, but one with such inventive wit and screwball-quick pacing that issues like spongy motivation hardly seem to matter.
  24. The Lovers and the Despot
    What they don’t quite make clear, and perhaps it is impossible to do so, is what really happened in this odd episode of international espionage epitomizing movie-mogul tyranny.
  25. Goat
    John Landis’s “Animal House” (1978) this is not.
  26. The Dressmaker
    Aussie Rosalie Ham’s quirky gothic novel is too tonally erratic to be completely satisfying. But we do get two Kates for the price of one, in a sense, as this crazy quilt of a movie allows her to play both entertainingly vampy and vulnerable.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Queen of Katwe
    Lupita Nyong’o (“12 Years a Slave”) finally gets a movie role worthy of her status as an Oscar winner. She isn’t hidden behind pixels, as in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” or “The Jungle Book.” You can see her. She’s magnificent.
  28. Hieronymus Bosch, Touched by the Devil
    Of course what’s most interesting of all is the art. Huystee’s many closeups and slow pans over Bosch’s teeming backgrounds are transfixing, unsettling, and a rare privilege.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Magnificent Seven
    It ain’t Shakespeare, or even Kurosawa. But it’s an acceptable remake of a western that itself was an acceptable remake of one of the greatest movies ever made. Enjoyable, even, until the last act proves how dull an overextended gun battle can get.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
    It’s a long, jangling, melodious soak, rich with backstage incident and wall-to-wall hits.
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