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For 7,612 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 1.4 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: 5,115 out of 7612
  2. Mixed: 1,475 out of 7612
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7612
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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Sinners
    Sinners is all over the place yet somehow all of a piece. Its themes aren’t new, but the variations feel fresh.
  11. Misericordia
    The rhythm and plotting of Misericordia subverts expectations, not with story twists but with a tonal game of three-card monte.
  12. Drop
    The film may be a silly thing, with manic swings from intimate (and pretty rough) violence to abrupt comic relief. But Fahy and Sklenar provide the glue.
  13. Warfare
    It’s a specific sort of achievement, without the full dimension or larger resonance of a classic. That’s a lot to ask of any film, especially one that does so much so rigorously and well.
  14. The Amateur
    Just when movie theaters don’t need another one, The Amateur comes along to join the roster of 2025 releases that lack the knack, the juice and exciting reasons for theatergoers to theater-go.
  15. The Ballad of Wallis Island
    Contrivances come, and go, but The Ballad of Wallis Island rolls along, with just enough casual wit to buoy the story.
  16. Death of a Unicorn
    Writer and director Alex Sharfman’s splurchy dark comedy carves itself into halves, a clever first half followed by a more routine second one. Yet it’s a feature film debut signaling a filmmaker of actual wit. So you go with it — I did, anyway, most of it, more or less — even when its sense of tone and direction goes sideways.
  17. The Annihilation of Fish
    The movie’s a rom-com at heart, but there is no other one like it.
  18. Eephus
    Places come; places go. Every human being deals with loss differently. “Eephus” acknowledges that, but it’s a sweet, sidewinding paradox of a sports movie: sentimental in a quietly unsentimental and offhandedly comic fashion.
  19. Snow White
    Director Marc Webb moves it along, with a rock-solid lead, very well sung, courtesy of Rachel Zegler.
  20. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
    This is a poetic-realist vision with grace notes of wit and surrealism. It is a calm, visually assured statement of shared rage.
  21. Black Bag
    Black Bag may be modest, and frivolous, but it’s sharp-witted. Every performance feels right.
  22. Opus
    Opus has its moments. But even the surprises aren’t especially surprising.
  23. Novocaine
    By the end of Novocaine, it’s as if the filmmakers — who have talent, and who are now off and running in a commercial sense — forgot how their movie started: with Quaid and Midthunder getting the material and the screen time needed to hook an audience’s interest, before the jocular sadism commenced in earnest.
  24. Seven Veils
    It’s a lot. Seyfried, who has worked with writer-director Egoyan before on the super-ripe erotic drama “Chloe” (2009), finesses some zig-zaggy tonal swerves confidently and well. The writing, however, wobbles.
  25. Mickey 17
    Even a first-rate director can get a little lost in the tone management and narrative streamlining process.
  26. The Monkey
    While I hope Perkins doesn’t lean into jokey sadism as a dominant creative impulse — we have too many jokey sadists with movie deals as is — The Monkey asserts his stealth versatility as well as his confident technique.
  27. Rounding
    Rounding, named after the hospital rounds medical students conduct with their mentors, casts enough of an atmospheric spell in its tale of psychological demons haunting a young medical student to linger in your psyche a while.
  28. Captain America: Brave New World
    The movie wouldn’t feel human at all, really, if not for the convincing emotion bond established between Mackie and Carl Lumbly as Isaiah.
  29. Love Hurts
    It’s such a drag to see Ke Huy Quan undermined so persistently by the script and the role handing him his first lead in a movie.
  30. No Other Land
    It’s a riveting and humane experience pulled from the rubble of a never-ending war.
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