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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. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  12. Jack of the Red Hearts
    This is not “Rain Man”; it’s better.
  13. Eddie the Eagle
    Inspiring, or amusing? Appealingly, Eddie the Eagle invites both tags.
  14. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. The Club
    Enigmatic, atmospheric, and seductive, the film unfortunately sheds little light on subjects that have too long been hidden in the dark.
  18. 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.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Eisenstein in Guanajuato
    A lot of this is naughty, overproduced egghead fun, and the scenes between Eisenstein and Canedo simmer with sexual tension. But too much is never enough for Greenaway, and while the leading men give bravura performances, the supporting cast is weak — Lisa Owen as Mrs. Upton Sinclair is actively dreadful — and the film’s hyperactivity ultimately wears you down.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Race
    Race wants so badly to get every last bit of the big picture that it dashes past the little details that actually tell a story. Like an over-trained athlete who pulls a hamstring in the big race, the movie tries to do it all and comes up short.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Witch
    This startling, assured feature debut from New Hampshire-born, Brooklyn-based writer-director Robert Eggers has one foot in early American history and another in legend and fairy tale.
  22. Where to Invade Next
    Mastering subtlety, you won't be surprised to hear, remains on Moore’s to-do list.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words
    In its occasionally over-gentle way, the documentary testifies to the ego necessary to be a great star and to live a great life.
  24. How to Be Single
    Exhausting and seemingly endless.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Zoolander 2
    This needless sequel amps the silliness to DEFCON-4 levels of frantic surrealism and overstuffs the running time with famous faces. It’s a pop quiz instead of a movie, and it’ll be dated by tomorrow morning.
  26. Deadpool
    They even make the requisite cameo by Marvel founding father Stan Lee feel profanely inspired. Not your usual Marvel superhero scene? In this case, that’s a good thing.
  27. The Choice
    In the end, though, the film disappointingly, even lazily, shies away from being anything more than you’d expect.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dreams Rewired
    Dreams Rewired is scattered by necessity and intent, and it throws off enough sparks to set your brain reeling.
  29. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
    Writer-director Burr Steers delivers a screen mash-up that’s generally done in the right, warped spirit. It lampoons Austen cleverly enough at points, without winking any harder than needed.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hail, Caesar!
    There are the serious Coen brothers movies, like “No Country for Old Men” and, um, “A Serious Man,” and there are the not-so-serious ones. Hail, Caesar! is the opposite of their serious ones, and it is delightful.
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