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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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    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mistress America
    What it feels like, mostly, is a Whit Stillman movie made by someone other than Whit Stillman.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Diary of a Teenage Girl
    The heroine’s voice-overs, delivered into the microphone of a Bell & Howell tape recorder in Minnie’s bedroom, are the movie’s motor. They’re proud and insecure, profanely comic, dripping with adolescent wisdom and self-absorption.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Listen to Me Marlon
    The result is something that feels fresh, even revelatory — a work of elegiac bio-doc impressionism. Listen to Me Marlon gets under the skin of the most mysterious performer of the 20th century and forces us to recalibrate all our feelings about him.
  4. Fantastic Four
    Ultimately, what Fantastic Four delivers is change for change’s sake, rather than change for the better.
  5. Straight Outta Compton
    F. Gary Gray’s Straight Outta Compton starts out strong, peaks quickly, and then gets tangled in complications and compromise and falls apart.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
    A celebration of a time when secret agents dressed impeccably, bantered with style, and had exceptionally cool toys. That the movie is almost instantly forgettable is part of the pleasure.
  7. Alléluia
    Religious allusions aside, Alleluia is like “Psycho” combined with “Bonnie and Clyde,” with Norman and Norma Bates as the conjoined criminal couple on the run.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dark Places
    Grim, ridiculous, and dull.
  9. Samba
    Unfortunately, the material flounders from the broadly farcical to the bombastically melodramatic. Race and ethnicity aren’t so much the problem as gender is. Despite Gainsbourg’s efforts, her character becomes a caricature.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Phoenix
    It is first and foremost a moral tale, and an overpowering one.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The End of the Tour
    Just because David Foster Wallace would almost certainly have hated The End of the Tour doesn’t mean that it’s not a worthwhile movie. And in fact James Ponsoldt’s dramatic adaptation of Rolling Stone journalist David Lipsky’s memoir about his 1996 road trip with Wallace is pretty excellent: heartfelt, probing, funny, above all touching.
  12. The Gift
    In addition to directing outstanding performances, Edgerton also suggests psychological processes by means of space, architecture, and décor, exploiting the walls, doorways, windows, and mirrors of the new house to indicate the status of a relationship or self-image.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ricki and the Flash
    Because Demme genuinely likes people and is interested in them, Ricki and the Flash feels like “Stella Dallas” as remade by Jean Renoir — it’s a humanist suburban fable.
  14. Shaun the Sheep Movie
    Like a great silent movie, it creates its pathos and comedy out of the concrete objects being animated, building elaborate gags involving everyday items transformed into Rube Goldberg devices that sometimes entrap the characters, or, when properly manipulated by them, provide a means of achieving their goals.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll
    There is a surprise waiting in Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten, a labor of love that Pirozzi painstakingly assembled over a span of close to a decade, although the story it tells holds no mystery.
  16. A LEGO Brickumentary
    A wide-ranging new survey of the toy’s global subculture and appeal.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Look of Silence
    Over and over in The Look of Silence, we hear people tell the filmmakers, “The past is past.” The wound is healed, they say, and if you don’t want trouble, don’t reopen it. The movie itself proves otherwise.
  18. Irrational Man
    In the end, this feeble effort remains tainted, however unfairly, by the creator’s personal life. Maybe Allen should have titled it “Rationalizing Man.”
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
    Rogue Nation unfolds with fluid, twisty, old-school pleasure — you settle into it like a favorite chair.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Vacation
    What’s interesting about Vacation is that it holds on to the original’s acrid cynicism for the first 40 minutes or so before turning predictable and bland. There are some real, nasty laughs to be had here, but they’re front-loaded.
  21. Paper Towns
    Will miracles never cease? Alas, they do. Pausing pregnantly between clauses to add to their trite profundity, Quentin recites the moral of the story, and it’s as phony as the towns of the title.
  22. Do I Sound Gay?
    David Sedaris contributes a story about talking to a hotel clerk over the phone, which doesn’t add much to the discussion but is very funny.
  23. 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets
    Though the outcome is a matter of public record, it still unfolds like a suspenseful tragedy. Suffice it to say that the wheels of justice turn slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.
  24. Pixels
    Pixels may feel flatter to kids of the ’80s than it does to moviegoers too young to have known Pac-Man from Ant-Man.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Southpaw
    This is a genre with especially sturdy bones, and when Southpaw connects, which is more often than you might expect, you feel it down to your toes.
  26. Jimmy's Hall
    The film is slow going with its mix of stilted political discourse and restless village folk just looking to celebrate life and dance. At times, it’s like “Footloose” gone didactic.
  27. Charlie's Country
    This walkabout ends less dramatically and not as tragically as the one in Roeg’s film, but perhaps with a greater poignancy. And Gulpilil, four decades of hard living later, is as magnificent as ever.
  28. Tangerine
    Subtlety and irony are not among the film’s virtues.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Revenge of the Mekons
    Normally I’d recommend a rock ’n’ roll documentary to the band’s fans, but since the cult of the Mekons is infinitesimally small, if fanatically devoted, I have no problem recommending Revenge of the Mekons to everyone who hasn’t heard of the group. All 99.9 percent of you.
  30. Boulevard
    In Dito Montiel’s treacly, programmatic film, Williams succumbs to a recurring neediness, earnestness, and sentimentality.
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