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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. Pan
    The most joyless revisionism since Disney's "The Lone Ranger.
  2. The Second Mother
    Muylaert's picture relates to many other South American domestic comedies pitting "the help" against the economic overlords, but this one has the grace to humanize everyone on screen. The results are both smart and curious.
  3. Hotel Transylvania 2
    The spookiest thing about Hotel Transylvania 2 is how much funnier, colorful and more original it is this second time around.
  4. The Green Inferno
    It's clear that Roth was trying to say something about the brave new world of social media-enabled social justice, and public shame as a tool for change, but the message is garbled. That it comes wrapped in a horror package that just isn't truly scary or suspenseful is the real shame though.
  5. 99 Homes
    At its best, 99 Homes finds Bahrani tightening the screws on his own style, going for speed, concision and an agitating rhythm where his previous films took their time. I hope he'll go on to make movies combining the vital aspects of all his work.
  6. Shanghai
    Cusack puts in work as Paul, an old-fashioned hero. But he seems miscast and can't quite modulate the levels of camp in his performance.
  7. Prophet's Prey
    The movie finds what solace it can in giving voice to those who escaped this church's grasp.
  8. Mississippi Grind
    Reynolds and Mendelsohn could not be more different actors, but in this pairing they are perfect.
  9. The Martian
    It's one of the most comforting science fiction films in years.
  10. The Walk
    I cannot say how I'd feel about The Walk if I'd never seen "Man on Wire," because I did see "Man on Wire," and I can't un-see it. I love it. I can only say The Walk struck me as an honorable good try of an also-ran, though with some lovely things to offer.
  11. Uncle John
    A fair amount of Uncle John puts us behind the wheel or alongside Ashton as he drives, preoccupied with his misdeeds, along country roads lined with cornfields. No dialogue needed; in these transitions, Ashton and his surroundings are enough.
  12. Goodnight Mommy
    Flashes of Goodnight Mommy are forceful and blackly funny.
  13. Sicario
    Sicario doesn't fall apart in its second half, exactly, but it does settle for less than it should.
  14. Stonewall
    Because Stonewall turns everyone into a sentimental or suffocating "type" instead of a dimensional character, the results are sheer noise.
  15. The New Girlfriend
    The actors are more than fine. Demoustier is the key, making her character's shifts in astonishment and perplexity honest and plausible.
  16. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
    It's a strong reminder of the times, then and now.
  17. The Intern
    Has its bright spots but is practically blinded by its own privileged perspective of life among the landed gentry of Brooklyn.
  18. Black Mass
    If anything, director Cooper is so intent on portraying Bulger as a man, not a monster, the man comes off a little softer than he was, probably.
  19. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
    Though Ball's workmanlike handling of the second in the trilogy, "The Scorch Trials," proves mainly that he can keep a franchise from running completely off the rails when the tracks have been laid perilously near a swamp of "dys-lit" cliches.
  20. Everest
    A fairly good, extremely grueling movie as far as it goes — tracks the true-life fortunes of a battered group of climbers to the highest place on Earth. Yet somehow it doesn't go far enough.
  21. Queen of Earth
    Perry may never make a movie for the masses, whoever they are. But his truest work burrows into weird, blackly comic places few other filmmakers would dare explore.
  22. A Walk in the Woods
    It's not a difficult picture to watch. All you want from A Walk in the Woods, honestly, is a chance to enjoy a couple of veteran actors. But the book's comic tone hasn't found a comfortable equivalent for the screen.
  23. We Are Your Friends
    Joseph's direction offers up an energetic take on the material, incorporating text visualization, quick-cutting montages, and creative uses of animation to bring the thumping electronic music to cinematic life.
  24. Grandma
    It's very slight, and very short (barely 75 minutes minus the end credits), but the material is just effective and affecting enough to make up for its own schematic quality. It's a matter of watching a series of actors, led by Tomlin, tag off on their respective scenes.
  25. Learning to Drive
    I wish Learning to Drive imagined a fuller, more dimensional inner life for Wendy, but Clarkson develops a push-pull rapport with Kingsley that fills in the blanks — or, rather, mitigates the script's on-the-nose tendencies.
  26. No Escape
    Unfortunately, No Escape can't stay 10 steps ahead of its misguided politics and overly dramatic storytelling and crumbles under its own preposterous climactic denouement.
  27. Digging for Fire
    The actors save it, periodically, from itself, simply by setting a natural tone and finding some truth in an extended sketch.
  28. Mistress America
    Mainly it's about fast and brittle talk, a lot of it peachy. The dialogue has one ear on the screwball '30s, the other on the way people actually speak when their minds are racing faster than their lives can carry them.
  29. Straight Outta Compton
    When the songs themselves take center stage the movie works. What remains in the wings constitutes another, fuller story.
  30. The Diary of a Teenage Girl
    Movies concerned with the life, the mind, the body and the dawning self-respect of a 15-year-old girl running every sort of risk — these are rare. The Diary of a Teenage Girl is one of them, and it's terrific.
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