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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. Presenting Princess Shaw
    Just when you were about to give up on the Internet as a swamp full of trolls, bullies, and liars, along comes a documentary like Ido Haar’s Presenting Princess Shaw.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Maggie's Plan
    This is the rare occasion when one of these brittle, neurotic social comedies serves as the vehicle for a woman’s sensibility rather than a man’s. In the process, Miller quietly but forcefully reinvents an entire movie genre.
  3. Time to Choose
    Efficient, cogently argued, and visually compelling documentary.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
    Genial, silly, and instantly forgettable, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is just another piece of product from the larger “Saturday Night Live” universe, a way for a former cast member to try to prove he’s capable of carrying a movie.
  5. Me Before You
    What’s somewhat unique about Jojo Moyes’s weepie, which the writer scripted from her 2012 bestseller, are the provocative dilemmas it explores to coax those tears.
  6. Dark Horse
    But when Dark Horse leaves the feel-good realm to show news footage of a failed miners’ strike, or to have the camera linger on the impoverished surroundings where Dream Alliance’s owners still dwell, it suggests that it will take more than a few fairy tale finishes for their reality to change.
  7. Chevalier
    Is it an allegory for contemporary Greece? Beats me. Like the films of Buñuel, it’s about the human condition, regarded with bemusement and acuity.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Weiner
    The movie’s a galvanizing, tragicomic work of 21st-century schadenfreude, marred only by a barely repressed giddiness on the part of the filmmakers.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Alice Through the Looking Glass
    To watch Alice Through the Looking Glass is to witness an army of smart, creative people dumbing themselves down into delivering what they think the market wants.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    X-Men: Apocalypse
    Point is, the property is running on bald tires, and, for all its ear-splitting racket and lavish effects, “Apocalypse” is the barest of retreads.
  11. Sunset Song
    Has its moments of grace, but too often resorts to conventions and a tone of high lugubriousness.
  12. A Monster with a Thousand Heads
    Plá’s comedy is black, but his moral position isn’t black and white.
  13. Hockney
    That we don’t hear more from Ruscha is one of the documentary’s flaws. Hockney, the subject, is like a great painting. Hockney, the documentary, is a pretty plain frame.
  14. The Lobster
    Another thing that might bug people is the acting. The roles are performed almost devoid of affect, something like the characters voiced by Tom Noonan in “Anomalisa.”
  15. The Angry Birds Movie
    What starts out as a lowbrow gag very typical of a pedestrian ’toon gradually balloons into absurdity that Mel Brooks would probably love. Here, at least, the Angry Birds fly.
  16. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
    One of the best things about the movie, aside from its screwily positive message, is the blithely freewheeling yet clever way that Rogen and company assemble the story’s puzzle pieces.
  17. No Home Movie
    The rest of the film consists mostly of Akerman talking with her mother, blithely and lovingly, about everyday ephemera and about the past (Natalia was a survivor of Auschwitz), both via Skype and at her mother’s genteel home in Brussels.
  18. I Don't Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman
    Akerman, though, is her own best spokesperson as she discusses her films at locations where they were shot.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Love & Friendship
    The performances are uniformly excellent, but pride of place goes to Bennett’s Sir James, an upper class twit of Pythonesque proportions. Rarely has a character this moronic been this happy.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Nice Guys
    For a movie predicated on slapstick forward momentum, we spend an awful lot of time driving backward.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mountains May Depart
    The movie sprawls, almost entirely in a good sense, and it lets the audience draw its own conclusions. None of them is likely to be rosy.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Bigger Splash
    The performances are expert.
  23. High-Rise
    Because it stoops to obvious editorializing (a voice-over of Margaret Thatcher on capitalism?), it never quite rises to the top.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Money Monster
    An acceptable time-waster for a slow day in a movie theater or a slow night on cable. But it never makes you mad as hell, so what’s the point?
  25. Too Late
    With Too Late, Hauck confirms that he’s a master of the film medium. What’s less convincing is why this film matters.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Men & Chicken
    As visually overstuffed as a hoarder’s apartment, the movie improves as it goes.
  27. The Meddler
    The Meddler is a disappointment after the talent Scafaria demonstrated in her 2012 feature debut “Seeking a Friend for the End of the World.”
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Captain America: Civil War
    They’ve built up a vast ensemble of character types, all of them played by better-than-average actors, and that they can mix and match the drama, comedy, or action as they see fit.
  29. Fireworks Wednesday (2006)
    Another complex and magnificently acted melodrama.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Keanu
    If you’re in the right mood and seeing it with the right crowd, Keanu can put you close to a giggle coma, even as you realize the material’s far beneath the talents of its stars. They’re Key and Peele, but the movie treats them like Abbott and Costello.
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