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For 1,456 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 61% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Inside Out
Lowest review score: 0 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 980 out of 1456
  2. Mixed: 341 out of 1456
  3. Negative: 135 out of 1456
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  1. Under the Shadow
    The Iranian filmmaker wisely uses the genre to work through themes of oppression, rebellion, and femininity without ever politicizing the film. This is prestige horror, the kind with tricks and treats that arrive with purpose and linger for years.
  2. Southside with You
    Southside with You is a rewarding bite-sized drama, rich with characters who we already know, but also don’t really know.
  3. Jane Got a Gun
    "Jane" eventually comes alive, even if Jane never truly does.
  4. Fifty Shades of Black
    Marlon Wayans is clearly getting off on the gags, but the lazy, hard humor, and elastic joke-making eventually has a numbing effect.
  5. Other People
    The performances are so strong in Other People that they just about make up for the weak storytelling. Maybe “weak” isn’t the best definition for writer/director Chris Kelly’s debut feature film, but its structure definitely pales in comparison to all the effort given on screen.
  6. Morris from America
    At points the film simply observes the smaller, more innocuous moments of a coming-of-age story; much of it is framed in intimate medium shots and close-ups, and there’s a distinct kinship between the numerous wayward souls in its world that carries it along.
  7. The Lure
    The Lure somehow manages to seamlessly assemble a film equal parts hilarious, affecting, and grisly while trading and warping aesthetics and tones by the scene.
  8. The Lovers and the Despot
    As both an utterly mad true story and as a document of the boundless reach of the cinema across borders and cultures and even ideologies, The Lovers and the Despot is wild, valuable viewing for all.
  9. Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
    If Lo and Behold is more just a collection of interviews on a series of themes than a cohesive piece of storytelling, it’s still a fascinating endeavor into how the Internet went from personal to unimaginably broad and how it could either continue to expand or perhaps even return to that infant phase again.
  10. Kate Plays Christine
    Much of Kate Plays Christine is more of a form exercise than it is a documentary portrait, which works to both the film’s benefit and detriment.
  11. Joshy
    Writer/director Josh Baena (Life After Beth) bookends Joshy with dark moments, and while the first works perfectly, the second threatens to unravel everything that comes before.
  12. The Intervention
    Despite its flaws, the film still manages to win you over, even if it never actually surprises you, making it quite an assured debut.
  13. The Fundamentals of Caring
    It’s true that few movies are this aw-shucks nice these days, and for a short while The Fundamentals of Caring finds ways of retaining that kindness without lapsing into platitudes.
  14. The Free World
    Animal shelter/prison facility parallels become too heavy-handed, and performances packed with emotion give way to on-the-lam clichés.
  15. Frank & Lola
    Frank and Lola is an electric modern noir that thrives from indelible characters and a palatable style.
  16. The Finest Hours
    The Finest Hours is exactly that. Fine, while embracing its studio aesthetic and morally true heroism.
  17. Indignation
    Indignation resonates at times with the tension of things said and unsaid, regretted and forgotten.
  18. Dark Night
    There are moments of true terror to be found among the silence and the encroaching existential dread in which the film deals most prominently.
  19. Goat
    Goat deals with masculinity, fraternities, and PTSD in equal doses, covering all of them with brutal precision and most importantly, success.
  20. Complete Unknown
    Something’s missing in Complete Unknown, and it’s a spiritual issue. The problem is that for this situation, the unlikely reunion, a natural approach restricts any and all sensationalism, which is why the ending neither bruises nor squeezes — it just lingers.
  21. Christine
    A subplot and a longer-than-necessary runtime threaten to undercut Hall’s performance, but in the end the movie succeeds as a solid investigation into the day-to-day life of one suffering from depression.
  22. Certain Women
    It’s an ode to this country’s oft-forgotten middle, where the struggle is, indeed, very real. As such, Certain Women is not always thrilling, but it’s certainly faithful.
  23. The Birth of a Nation
    The Birth of a Nation is one of the most confident writing and directorial debuts in recent memory.
  24. Miles Ahead
    In fits and starts, the film matches the fire of its lead performance. Miles Ahead is far from a traditional, boilerplate music biopic, for better and worse alike.
  25. The Lobster
    The Greek filmmaker builds a stunning world with The Lobster, and much of its success stems from the inherent mechanics and the less-is-more storytelling that drops empty spaces for the mind to paint.
  26. The 5th Wave
    Blakeson and screenwriters Susannah Grant, Akiva Goldsman, and Jeff Pinkner don’t seem to care much about telling the story. They’re just checking off the boxes.
  27. Dirty Grandpa
    If for one second you forget the diverging script, the weak direction, and Efron’s limitations, there’s something to be amused by with De Niro’s flagrantly foul-mouthed, horned-up grandfather figure.
  28. Mustang
    This is a film about sisters, yes, but also the identity we all must forge independent of our families, and the pain that comes with outgrowing the innocence that once defined our sibling bonds.
  29. 45 Years
    The execution of this story is almost uniformly perfect. Haigh’s script and direction are a clinic in careful and measured storytelling, favoring a delicate and devastating slow burn of a narrative over big dramatic moments and outbursts.
  30. Anomalisa
    Leave it to writer, director, and professional expectation-defier Charlie Kaufman to make existential angst so completely delightful.
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