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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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    • 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.
  4. 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.
  6. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  11. 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.
  13. Kung Fu Panda 3
    A story that builds toward Po training an army of his panda brethren fails to deliver exponentially greater fun.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Lady in the Van
    The Lady in the Van ultimately presents a number of facts that would seem to “solve” Mary Shepherd. I’d like to think Smith knows better than that. In her hands, the lady in the van remains complex and unknowable — a mystery to the end. And that, friends, is acting.
  15. Mojave
    In his second directorial effort, Mojave, Monahan has no such map to follow, and he wanders in a land of sophomoric pretentiousness and banal profundities.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Finest Hours
    It’s a movie made for the kind of audiences who feel that movies aren’t made for them anymore — you know who you are. If you go, you might want to bring a raincoat.
  17. Ip Man 3
    Returning director Wilson Yip commits to this tone too late, getting lost in tangential conflict and stunt casting — in this corner, Mike Tyson! — at the expense of the drama and even the action.
  18. Monster Hunt
    He (Hui) does not achieve the surreal grandeur of Hayao Miyazaki’s animated films, but he has enough imagination and talent to engage his audience on its own level.
  19. The 5th Wave
    It’s tough to stay focused on the provocative bits when soapy talk of teenage yearning and angst keep making us snicker.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Son of Saul
    On the whole it’s daring and committed, and in Röhrig’s tremendously focused performance, it honors all the saints we’ll never know. And that’s worth any risk.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    45 Years
    I emerged from the movie in a white-out haze of emotions, synapses overloaded, grateful beyond words to an actress who can convey so much with such subtlety of means.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mustang
    Mustang is a damning portrait of the lot of women in rural Turkish society, but its outrage and empathy spill over the sides of the movie to embrace the planet as a whole — anywhere a woman is condemned for all the thoughts others have about her.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Janis: Little Girl Blue
    I’d like to think of the singer watching this movie somewhere, nodding in thanks at what it gets right and howling with laughter at what it misses.
  24. Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art
    Crump has directed Troublemakers with assurance and energy. Perhaps too much so.
  25. Norm of the North
    Denounce the cynics who pander such pabulum as entertainment for children.
  26. Ride Along 2
    You’ll have to be satisfied with a modest assortment of energetically comic moments here, because the story sure isn’t a reason to catch this encore, and neither are who-asked-for-’em cast additions such as Ken Jeong.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
    A straight-up combat film. Not a very good combat film — it wallows in genre clichés and makes a hash of its action scenes — but one that does get you to empathize with its grunts, the “secret soldiers” of the title.
  28. Anomalisa
    It takes a few minutes to catch on, and it would be indiscrete to specify what it is, but once you figure out what’s really strange about it you have entered the solipsistic prison of a tormented mind.
  29. The Forest
    Zada gets credible performances from Dormer and Kinney, but their characters undergo such unlikely psychological contortions that these efforts are to no avail.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Revenant
    Iñárritu has his eye so firmly on the myths of America that he loses sight of the men who made them. But he’s hardly the first person to do that.
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