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For 7,601 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: 5,106 out of 7601
  2. Mixed: 1,473 out of 7601
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7601
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  1. Princess Cyd
    The performances by Pinnick and Spence are clean, vivid and honestly felt, with a lot of the best work emerging nonverbally in the spaces between characters closing a gap.
  2. Thor: Ragnarok
    So it’s uneven, but the good stuff’s unusually lively and buoyant.
  3. A Bad Moms Christmas
    A movie can be unreasonably formulaic and still be reasonably diverting, and A Bad Moms Christmas is the proof.
  4. Wonderstruck
    The performances, including a sweetly sincere and easygoing turn from the deaf actress Simmonds, become the audience’s way into Wonderstruck.
  5. All I See Is You
    Refreshingly resistant to predictability.
  6. Thank You for Your Service
    While parts of Thank You for Your Service work well, overall, the film is inconsistent.
  7. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
    There’s nothing vague about the narrative of The Killing of a Sacred Deer. Its strangeness is crystal clear. It plays out in ways both sardonically funny and extremely cruel.
  8. Faces Places
    This movie, a diary of a freewheeling, far-flung installation art project, combines chance and intuition and a humane eye.
  9. Suburbicon
    Ultimately Suburbicon is woefully underwritten. Gardner and Maggie are mere sketches, a set of facial tics and accessories masquerading as real characters.
  10. The Snowman
    A jumbled nonsensical mess.
  11. Chavela
    More than a female singing cowboy, Vargas was ranchera incarnate, whether singing the material of drinking companion Jose Alfredo Jimenez or her own cathartic cries from the heart. The film is a fond but clear-eyed tribute.
  12. Only the Brave
    It’s stark, unadorned drama, and it feels real, reminding us that these are fine actors, giving their all.
  13. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
    All the performances are terrific, even when some of the scenes sputter or reiterate the grievances.
  14. Professor Marston & the Wonder Women
    It’s a lively and absorbing picture — intelligently sexy, tastefully salacious but serious enough to stick.
  15. The Foreigner
    Despite its literary origins, the film feels a bit like a writer tossed a few darts at a board labeled with aging action stars and various terrorist groups and just decided to make it work.
  16. Marshall
    A workmanlike but vividly acted courtroom drama.
  17. The Florida Project
    A dazzling mosaic, alert to the ebb and flow of human resilience in the face of everyday crises.
  18. The Mountain Between Us
    The Mountain Between Us falls flat, struggling to truly enthrall beyond a basic love story.
  19. Lucky
    Director John Carroll Lynch’s quietly assured directorial feature debut works from a simple, homey script by Logan Sparks and Drago Sumonja, and Lucky feels like the work of Stanton’s friends, which it is.
  20. Blade Runner 2049
    Every effect, each little detail in the “Blade Runner” sequel’s formidable arsenal, creates the texture of a wondrously hideous near future, full of holographic accessories, slave-labor replicants and, as one character puts it, products and services of “the fabulous new.”
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Pearl Jam: Let's Play Two
    As an affirmation of one famous fan’s dedication, “Let’s Play Two” works well enough. As a Pearl Jam documentary, not so much.
  22. American Made
    It’s fairly entertaining even when it doesn’t quite work, directed for maximum pace by Cruise’s “Edge of Tomorrow” cohort, director Doug Liman.
  23. Woodshock
    Now and then the Mulleavys capture a moment or glimmer of true mystery; more often, and certainly in dramatic terms, Woodshock feels like a movie that never stops buffering.
  24. Brad's Status
    When he finally learns to settle into the moment, to find contentment in the things he already experiences, it's a beautiful and quiet revelation, rendered with Mike White's singular sensitivity and gentle touch.
  25. Friend Request
    It's the highest praise to describe Friend Request as "a hoot" — the kind of midnight movie best seen with a large crowd laughing and screaming along, offering words of advice or encouragement to the naive characters on screen.
  26. Kingsman: The Golden Circle
    Kingsman: The Golden Circle offers everything — several bored Oscar winners, two scenes featuring death by meat grinder, Elton John mugging in close-up — except a good time.
  27. The LEGO Ninjago Movie
    Some aspects of the film are quite entertaining. Garmadon is a great character, especially as voiced by Theroux (his pronunciation of Lloyd as "Luh-Loyd" doesn't get old).
  28. Battle of the Sexes
    The performances of Holly Hunter and Ron Silver had something Stone’s and Carell’s lack: true drive and animal energy, a sense of athletic competitors who mean business even when they’re kidding, or saying they are.
  29. Stronger
    Stronger is a movie you need to see, no matter how much you think you don’t need to see it.
  30. Rat Film
    It’s one of the most imaginative and provocative documentaries on any topic I’ve seen this year.
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