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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. The Dark Horse
    Dark Horse falls into the formula of underprivileged kids challenging the elites at their own game. But the outcome is never certain.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Miles Ahead
    It’s all deeply felt and just as deeply unfocused, and that, more than the invented story line, betrays the movie’s subject.
  3. Criminal
    Kevin Costner should stop trying to be so nice. His best performances have been as baddies.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Jungle Book
    The chief attraction of the film is the ersatz India created by the pixel pushers at special effects houses WETA Digital and the Moving Picture Company.
  5. Barbershop: The Next Cut
    This time the not-so-idle talk is about taking a socially conscious stand against gang violence. And while some of this territory is covered too tritely and safely to have all the impact intended by director Malcolm D. Lee (“The Best Man Holiday”), the movie’s entreaties are compelling enough.
  6. The Invitation
    Kusama’s handling of point of view is diabolically shrewd. She maximizes the terror potential of the vapidly ostentatious modernist mansion without fetishizing it. She intensifies the monstrosity of some of the characters by making them all too human. And as for guessing the ending — good luck.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Demolition
    What keeps you interested in Demolition is accompanying Davis as he solves the mystery of himself. What keeps you checking your watch is that the character’s not terribly interesting to begin with.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    April and the Extraordinary World
    A delightfully deranged steampunk adventure.
  9. Born to be Blue
    For the next two decades, the end notes reveal, Baker made the best music of his career. The film does its job if it encourages people to give that music a listen.
  10. Hardcore Henry
    When the action is at its sharpest, such as with Henry’s mid-chase leap from a detonating truck onto the back of a motorcycle, it’s spectacular.
  11. The Boss
    The loosey-goosey fun might be a bit much at the finish, but it’s still a laugh watching McCarthy try to get back on her feet.
  12. I Saw the Light
    Tom Hiddleston puts in a performance as Williams that ranks with that of Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash in “I Walk the Line.” And Hiddleston gets to do it in a better movie.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Midnight Special
    The truth is that this is a mystery movie, and the mystery is trying to figure out exactly what the heck is going on here.
  14. Take Me to the River
    Despite outstanding performances, the characters lose subtlety as they grow more extreme, and their secrets when spelled out become anticlimactic. Maybe with a little more mystery, the evil would seem less banal.
  15. The Clan
    It’s a mordant if unwieldy thriller examining how evil not only becomes the norm, but a virtue.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Everybody Wants Some!!
    A nice long soak in the Proustian detritus of its era.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Marguerite
    Marguerite strives for ambiguity and settles for a muddle. It piles too much on its serving plate, and at 129 minutes it’s definitely overlong.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    City of Gold
    It is a film about Los Angeles, culture and coexistence, the American dream. It is the opposite of narrowcasting.
  19. 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.
  21. 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.
  23. 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.
  25. The Bronze
    Disappointingly, this scruffy indie doesn’t live up to its promise either, despite a few flashes of subversive inspiration.
  26. Remember
    Egoyan ekes out an engaging and meaningful potboiler.
  27. 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.
  29. 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.
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