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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. Alienated
    That’s one of the problems with Brian Ackley’s no budget sci-fi psychological thriller. No horror can compensate for the preceding 75 minutes of tedious, repetitious bickering. It’s about as thrilling as a couple’s therapy session with a married pair who hate each other and for good reason.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Krisha
    Krisha sucks you into its gradually worsening family dynamic with a confidence of style and a maturity of observation that is remarkable in a home-brewed Kickstarter movie. At times you laugh in horror. At other times you shrink from the screen. There are truths here.
  3. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
    If you appreciated the first movie’s sweetness, then you’ll likely be charmed enough. Otherwise, you’ll find the oof-to-opa! ratio hasn’t changed.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
    It plants a flag for a new corporate entertainment franchise and it will make international containerships of money, so does it matter that Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is joyless and incoherent? Probably not.
  5. Hello, My Name Is Doris
    Field next tries to touch our hearts with her pitifulness. Stay away, crazy woman! At times she seems about to turn into Glenn Close in “Fatal Attraction.”
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Creative Control
    You realize the movie isn’t nearly as clever as it looks.
  7. The Bronze
    Disappointingly, this scruffy indie doesn’t live up to its promise either, despite a few flashes of subversive inspiration.
  8. Remember
    Egoyan ekes out an engaging and meaningful potboiler.
  9. The Divergent Series: Allegiant
    This doesn’t even feel much like Tris’s story anymore, just generically overdigitized combat. The main thing she’s diverging from at this point is the tone that hooked us in the first place.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Eye in the Sky
    Its strength and limitation is that it’s a gimmick that works.
  11. Miracles from Heaven
    Riggen has no shame when it comes to jerking the tears — surging music, cute children, suffering children — and sometimes her manipulations work even on the hardest of hearts.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    In the Shadow of Women
    In the Shadow of Women, a portrait of a troubled French marriage, has the simplicity and subtle punch of a good short story.
  13. Embrace of the Serpent
    Though some of the concepts may be New Age boilerplate, the film’s images linger; especially that of the river, the snake devouring us all.
  14. Trapped
    Why do Parker and the other clinic owners and staff persevere despite constant harassment and potential assassination? Not for the money, certainly. Perhaps because no one else will.
  15. Talent Has Hunger
    An illuminating celebration of music and the art of teaching, comes at a time when both art and teaching are held in low esteem.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rams
    If you can adjust to its rhythms, which move according to the seasons and to long-held family grudges, you’ll find it quietly funny, sometimes quite sad, and ultimately rather profound. If you can’t, you’ll be left in the cold with the sheep.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Knight of Cups
    Lubezki is arguably this movie’s secret star, and he invests the movie’s Los Angeles settings with the strangeness and newness of a NASA rover traveling across Mars.
  18. The Wave
    It follows the lead of more recent Hollywood disaster movies like “2012” and “The Impossible.” It features just one family; everyone else is part of the scenery.
  19. The Boy and the Beast
    For answers, prepare to sit through two hours of complications, though you will probably figure it out before the spectacular ending.
  20. London Has Fallen
    For the sequel, London Has Fallen, Butler and director Babak Najafi (HBO’s “Banshee”) strike a tone that’s more consistent — consistently dumb.
  21. Zootopia
    Judy and Nick’s unlikely-buddies routine is amusing, but their exploits and interplay occasionally neglect the youngest demographic.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
    The movie plays like a global-political farce made by people who’ve never left the Upper West Side.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Triple 9
    There’s a reason the movie has been pushed off the back of the truck into late February. It’s damaged goods.
  24. Jack of the Red Hearts
    This is not “Rain Man”; it’s better.
  25. Eddie the Eagle
    Inspiring, or amusing? Appealingly, Eddie the Eagle invites both tags.
  26. A War
    May also be among the best war movies of all time.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Only Yesterday (1991)
    Takahata and his animators balance aspects of nostalgia and the present day, urban modernity and rural timelessness, love and regret with a visual and aural sensitivity that draws a viewer in from the first frames.
  28. Snowtime!
    Despite a few diverting moments and some ambitiously dramatic themes, this one is simply too uneventful and too populated by thinly sketched characters to keep its target audience engaged.
  29. The Club
    Enigmatic, atmospheric, and seductive, the film unfortunately sheds little light on subjects that have too long been hidden in the dark.
  30. Risen
    As played by Fiennes, who has the aquiline face and piercing eyes of Max Van Sydow, Clavius is no pushover. You believe his disbelief, so when it wavers, yours might as well.
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