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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. Wonder Woman
    For the first time in a long time, I came out of a DC comic book movie feeling ready for a sequel. It feels right, at this actual historical moment, when men made of something less than steel are bumbling around trying to run things. Paging Paradise Island!
  2. Baywatch
    The movie is all preening and very few laughs, though Daddario and Efron have a few moments, and Johnson remains a supremely likable slab of movie star.
  3. Everything, Everything
    Aside from its leading lady, what Everything, Everything has going for it is its light, fantastical aesthetic, an unexpected sense of buoyancy and light.
  4. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
    A dirge of unfunny scatological material, techno-anxiety and child endangerment masquerading as familial bonding. Settle in for the "Long Haul," because this is one bumpy, miserable ride.
  5. Alien: Covenant
    It's a maddeningly uneven picture, with an action climax staged and executed with the air of a contractual agreement.
  6. The Wall
    The Wall may be fictional, but at its occasional, patient best it feels truthfully scary.
  7. Lowriders
    While Lowriders offers an interesting entree into this world, it's unfortunately too formulaic and predictable to leave much of an impact.
  8. The Lovers
    The Lovers is not about them as individual performers; it's about these actors working in tandem with each other, the script, the director and the other actors. The film works as a whole, not a sum of its parts.
  9. Snatched
    Snatched, more about victimhood than women running their own show, is funny here and there, but in ways that make the bulk of the formulaic material all the more frustrating.
  10. King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
    Optimism is nowhere to be found in Ritchie's movie itself. It is a grim and stupid thing, from one of the world's most successful mediocre filmmakers, and if Shakespeare's King Lear were blogging today, he'd supply the blurb quote: "Nothing will come of nothing."
  11. The Dinner
    The finished product feels tonally indistinct and plays as a bit of a grind.
  12. Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary
    This is a general-interest documentary, not one for the wonks or jazzbos. But the music, as we keep hearing from the cited experts, friends and admirers, covered so many different styles, Chasing Trane rides right past its own prescribed length of track.
  13. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
    This one's a step down from the original.
  14. Unforgettable
    It's a uniquely feminine kind of villainy that's transfixed us since classical Hollywood, and Di Novi and Heigl understand it implicitly in order to execute it perfectly.
  15. Sleight
    Sleight fuses superhero story with a tough coming-of-age tale, and it enlivens and elevates both genres into something new and different, while heralding the arrival of Latimore as a star.
  16. Graduation
    A beautifully spun and morally searching tale of interlocking compromises.
  17. Born in China
    The message stays firmly on spiritual questions about the circle of life, but doesn't educate or leave the audience with a call to action about how to personally act to protect these animals, and that feels like a missed opportunity.
  18. Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
    A vital and wily seriocomic odyssey. And Gere has never been better, more alive, on screen.
  19. The Lost City of Z
    This is a really good film. It just isn't the traditionally rousing one many will expect, and the trailers promise.
  20. Colossal
    This weird marriage of indie earnestness and matter-of-fact fantasy gives Colossal its moderately engaging distinction.
  21. The Fate of the Furious
    It's ridiculous but fun, as it careens from Havana to Berlin and icy, terrorist-ridden Russia played by Iceland, and a spit-ton of medium-grade digital effects. But the second hour gets to be a real drag, and not the racing kind.
  22. Smurfs: The Lost Village
    The jokes are sodden, relying on tired wordplay and sarcastic delivery to draw the faintest of laughs.
  23. Gifted
    This contrived mashup of "Proof" (earth-shaking algorithms), "Kramer vs. Kramer" (nerve-wracking custody battles) and "Little Man Tate" really isn't much.
  24. Going in Style
    Going in Style stays in the safe zone every second, nervous about risking any audience discomfort, as opposed to Brest's quietly nervy ode to old age and its discontents. Times change.
  25. The Boss Baby
    The Boss Baby is great fun for parents, but it remains to be seen if kids will get it at all.
  26. The Zookeeper's Wife
    The film's flaws in pacing and suspense are easily overlooked in the shadow of Chastain's moving performance, as well as the performances of those around her. Caro unspools an evergreen tale about the clarifying power of empathy to diffuse fear and hatred.
  27. Ghost in the Shell
    If you want a list of comics-derived spectacles less successful and worthy than this one, "Suicide Squad" heads the list. And that's the only list it'll ever head.
  28. Saban's Power Rangers
    Power Rangers maintains the essence of its origins in that it's rather pleasantly bonkers.
  29. Song to Song
    Frequently maddening in its reiteration and circularity, Song to Song nonetheless offers more of interest (along with the hooey) than I found in "Knight of Cups" or "Voyage of Time," his recent IMAX cosmos travelogue.
  30. CHIPS
    The jokes are dirty and wildly inappropriate, but are thoughtfully played.
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