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For 7,599 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Car 54, Where Are You?
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,104 out of 7599
  2. Mixed: 1,473 out of 7599
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7599
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  1. Honey Don't!
    The character and Qualley’s performance is so beguiling that it would be a delight to watch Honey O’Donahue solve any manner of mysteries of the week, “Columbo”-style. It’s a shame, then, that the particular mystery at hand in Honey Don’t! is so convoluted and nonsensical.
  2. Highest 2 Lowest
    A model of conventional thriller suspense, the movie isn’t. A stimulating cry for “Black culture and artistic integrity,” in King’s words, and for the true value of a well-made commodity, whether it’s shoes or songs — that, the movie surely is.
  3. Weapons
    Some of Cregger’s swings between straight-up horror, missing children mystery and deliriously gory comedy may lead to mass audience whiplash. But it’s pretty gripping, fiercely well-acted and — paradoxically, given its devotion to pitch-black cold creeps — one of the bright lights of a generally disappointing movie summer.
  4. Together
    Even when Shanks hits the primary theme of his movie a little too insistently, the actors are vivid throughout. Brie, especially, is spectacularly effective in every emotional register, in the keys of D (Distress), E (Eh what’s going on with our suction-lips?) and C (Commitment is all).
  5. The Naked Gun
    It’s not bad. The reboot of The Naked Gun tosses off a few sharp and/or stupidly effective gags of the hit-and-run variety, nice and quick.
  6. The Fantastic Four: First Steps
    It’s not great superhero cinema — the verdict is out on whether that’s even possible in the Marvel Phase 6 stage of our lives — but good is good enough for “The Fantastic Four.”
  7. To a Land Unknown
    Fleifel’s film favors well-paced if slightly schematic prose, though the actors are more than good enough to keep you with these people every fraught minute.
  8. Eddington
    When Aster lays off the easy comic despair in favor of more ambiguous and dimensional feelings, interactions and moments, Eddington becomes the movie he wanted. His script has a million problems with clarity, coincidence and the nagging drag of a protagonist set up for a long, grisly comeuppance, yet Eddington is probably Aster’s strongest film visually.
  9. Superman
    It’s nicely packed and quite funny, when it isn’t giving into Gunn’s trademark air of merry depravity.
  10. Jurassic World Rebirth
    There are flashes and occasional whole sequences when Edwards’ directorial eye snaps into focus.
  11. Familiar Touch
    Without exposition dumps or pressurized contrivance, Friedland reveals facets of Ruth’s life, scene by scene, in the 85 minutes of screen time.
  12. F1: The Movie
    F1 is a pretty decent summer picture, and if it were half as crisp off the track as it is on the track, we’d really have something.
  13. The Gold Rush (1925)
    The funniest -- and almost the saddest -- silent comedy. [20 Apr 2001, p.C1]
    • Chicago Tribune
      • Posted Jun 25, 2025
  14. A Photographic Memory
    Without playing with anyone’s life, A Photographic Memory makes beautiful sense of the connections between mother and daughter, work and love and other mysteries.
  15. Materialists
    It may make true love look all too Hollywood-easy in the end, but en route it’s still a Celine Song film.
  16. How to Train Your Dragon
    The remake is just like the original, but there’s more of it. And less.
  17. The Life of Chuck
    After the persuasively strange first chapter’s over, “The Life of Chuck” is a duller kind of strange.
  18. The Phoenician Scheme
    A beautiful mixed bag, let’s say, all told. But I’ll see The Phoenician Scheme a second time sometime for Cera, who will surely return to the Anderson fold.
  19. Ballerina
    The new “John Wick” spinoff Ballerina is recommendable, -ish, primarily for the way Anjelica Huston, as the Russian mob boss, makes a meal out of a single-syllable word near the end, delivered after a pause so unerringly timed it’s almost too good for this world.
  20. Mountainhead
    Mountainhead is a talky movie and I tend to like talky movies. But at some point in the nearly two-hour running time, it just becomes boring.
  21. Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
    Piani did the right thing in casting Rutherford, whose physical embodiment of Agathe suggests a tall, gangly, striking woman trying not to be seen. The actress leans into the character’s unsettled, often sullen side, though not at the expense of the comic tropes.
  22. Lilo & Stitch
    The saving graces are Agudong and Kealoha. Their characters’ sibling relationship, fractious but loving, keeps at least five toes in the real world and in real feelings, thanks to the actors.
  23. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
    The climax of “Final Reckoning” is likewise impressive and scenic, but paced and edited less for the good of the overall movie and more for risk-verification purposes. That said, this franchise has class.
  24. Final Destination: Bloodlines
    Besides being super-duper gory, of course, the new movie is jaunty, good-looking and full of what you might call esprit de corpses.
  25. Friendship
    The teaming of Robinson and Rudd periodically gets Friendship in gear. But the film’s primary comic impulse equates to the sound of gears grinding, in an attempt to shift from second to third.
  26. Thunderbolts*
    It works, even when the material’s routine, because Pugh’s forceful yet subtle characterization of a heavy-hearted killing machine with an awful childhood feels like something’s at stake. She and the reliably witty Harbour work well together.
  27. The Legend of Ochi
    The movie is tightly packed with incident, maybe overpacked, but Saxon’s fairy tale is an intense, lived-in experience, its centuries-old folkloric atmosphere dotted with all the usual intrusive elements of progress.
  28. The Accountant 2
    Given its premise, you wouldn’t expect The Accountant 2 to go for quite so much buddy comedy, but life is full of surprises.
  29. Secret Mall Apartment
    It’s consistently, thoughtfully engaging. And, yes, often very funny in its open-hearted embrace of the DIY spirit, legal or otherwise.
  30. Sinners
    Sinners is all over the place yet somehow all of a piece. Its themes aren’t new, but the variations feel fresh.
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