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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 Walk
    A narrative feature can do what the documentary couldn’t: re-create the tightrope act in full, glorious motion, rather than editing together surreptitiously snapped photos. These dizzying IMAX 3-D visuals truly are big-screen magic.
  2. Coming Home
    After a period of creative drought, Zhang’s homecoming is a cause for celebration.
  3. Pawn Sacrifice
    The movie, though, is not so good. If it came down to acting instead of chess, we might have lost the Cold War.
  4. Stonewall
    Roland Emmerich’s Stonewall reduces these events to a backdrop for caricatures that were already passé in William Friedkin’s “The Boys in the Band” (1970).
  5. Finders Keepers
    The film veers from farce to tragedy and relates a twisted variation on the American Dream.
  6. Hotel Transylvania 2
    For the haters out there, you could see where Sandler reprising his role as a cartoon Dracula in Hotel Transylvania 2 might just be the perfect metaphor: Yep, there he goes again, evilly sucking the lifeblood out of decent entertainment. Now come on, let’s grab the torches!
    • 51 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Intern
    The Intern is bizarrely retrograde, implying that every working woman only needs a cuddly Yoda daddy to make it in the world of business. It’s soft in the heart — and soft in the head.
  8. The Second Mother
    A kitchen, a guestroom, and swimming pool become battlegrounds. Though hardly revolutionary, “Mother” subverts conventions — both cinematic and social.
  9. Güeros
    Güeros is brutal, ironic, madcap, and grim. Shot by Damian Garcia in black-and-white with the pristine spontaneity of Godard’s cinematographer Raoul Coutard, it is “Bande à part” (1964) meets “Los Olvidados” (1950).
  10. Cooties
    Wilson has some fun lampooning ’80s action tropes, but he’s also just doing Dwight Schrute with a twang at times. McBrayer and Garcia barely get to play one-note characters, let alone ones that you’ll remember.
  11. Meet the Patels
    What Meet the Patels could use is a little more meat.
  12. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
    The movie may feel tonally consistent with the first, but it’s also overlong and thoroughly routine.
  13. Sleeping with Other People
    The movie grows easier to like in the later, straighter going, as it stops pushing so aggressively to be naughty and lets its characters try on some introspection.
  14. Everest
    Director Baltasar Kormákur (“2 Guns”) and his cast craft a lean narrative tone that humanizes the action without an excess of gloss.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Black Mass
    It’s a solid if not stellar crime drama, well put together, very well acted, and lacking only a genuine reason to exist.
  16. The Visit
    It’s vintage Shyamalan, with a twist.
  17. The Transporter Refueled
    Director and Team Besson member Camille Delamarre (“Brick Mansions”) speeds us from one action sequence to the next with a style that alternates between routine, clunky, and modestly inspired.
  18. The Great Man
    It takes a woman to make a great film about the all-male bastion of the French Foreign Legion. Claire Denis did so in her elliptical desert updating of Herman Melville’s “Billy Budd” in “Beau Travail” (1999), and her fellow French director Sarah Leonor nearly equals that feat in The Great Man.
  19. A Borrowed Identity
    More conventional in approach than Linklater’s 12-year filmmaking odyssey, “Identity” demonstrates its boldness not with stylistic originality but with political acuity.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Steve Jobs: Man in the Machine
    One of the director’s more superficial efforts; it’s watchable but glib.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Grandma
    It’s predictable in many places and acerbic in others, sentimental when you expect it and poignant when you don’t. But it stars Lily Tomlin, and that’s all you really need to know.
  22. A Walk in the Woods
    It consists of a series of episodic encounters, misadventures, and musings redeemed in part by the presence of two scenic wonders, the unspoiled 2,190-mile grandeur of the Appalachian Trail and the spectacular crapulousness of Nick Nolte.
  23. Meru
    Much of Meru is about that second attempt, filmed with such grandeur and intimacy that sometimes attempting to figure out how they made the incredible shots almost spoils them.
  24. Rosenwald
    Like her subject, Kempner’s film doesn’t try to be flashy or stylish. She adheres to the Ken Burns school of old footage, photos, period ads, newspaper stories and cartoons.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Digging for Fire
    The movie’s a comedy. And while it has its charms, Swanberg is tilling soil here that has been churned since humanity began, and he doesn’t come up with very much that’s new.
  26. Z for Zachariah
    Far from contrived, the triangle that “Zachariah” sketches among the last three folks on earth is all too human.
  27. We Come as Friends
    A fascination with serendipity, irony, and absurdity like that in Werner Herzog’s documentaries propels “Friends” into unexpected territory.
  28. War Room
    It’s only in the late going that the marital drama turns somewhat more authentic, helping to restore a bit of the audience’s, well, faith.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    We Are Your Friends
    It’s worth remembering that movies can have soul, too, if their filmmakers are willing to do the work to find it.
  30. No Escape
    No Escape is a tense but utterly predictable exercise in Western xenophobic paranoia and guilt.
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