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For 7,798 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 13th
Lowest review score: 0 Wide Awake
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,958 out of 7798
  2. Mixed: 2,080 out of 7798
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7798
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  1. Deadpool
    It doesn’t have the most adrenalized action sequences or the deepest origin story. What it has is the balls to mess with the formula and have some naughty, hard-R fun. It’s a superhero film for the wiseasses shooting spitballs in the back of the school bus.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Inferno
    Bourne it is not, but the twists come with enough regularity to keep the squishier parts of the plot from mucking up the works.
  3. The Night Before
    In its own druggy, dick-pic way, it’s also a pretty endearing tribute to male friendship — hammy and crude and more baked than a fruitcake, but with a sweetly squishy holiday heart at its center.
  4. Shazam!
    Shazam! is basically two movies in one. One with Levi and his wiseass foster brother (a fresh Jack Dylan Grazer), the other with Strong and all his snarling, computer-generated gobbledygook. And they both have the other in a headlock, wrestling for the soul of the story. I loved one, yawned through the other.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Trash
    The child actors are all charming and refreshingly un-child-actory, and Martin Sheen is good as gruff, hard-drinking priest.
  6. Thor: Ragnarok
    Ragnarok is basically a Joke Delivery System — and on that score, it works. The movie is fun.
  7. Ex Machina
    Ex Machina is beautiful and ominous and features another delicately nuanced performance from Isaac, who’s quickly making a habit of them. But in the end, for all of Garland’s ambition, his reach winds up exceeding his grasp. The film is as synthetic as Ava.
  8. Avengers: Infinity War
    What saves Infinity War from being just another bloated supergroup tour – and what will end up being the thing that blows fans’ minds to dust – is the film’s final stretch.
  9. Captain Marvel
    Captain Marvel only figures itself out toward the end, when a couple twists I won’t spoil sharpen the spanning saga into a motley-crew errand of mercy.
  10. Zootopia
    Zootopia delivers the genre’s requisite barrage of quick-hit puns and pop culture riffs.
  11. Son of a Gun
    Son of a Gun becomes a somewhat predictable but excitingly twisty heist film involving a double-dealing Russian heavy, a desperate femme fatale, and a fortune in gold bars. It has just enough muscle and style to make the familiar feel fresh.
  12. Time Out of Mind
    The film’s not entirely effective as drama. The pacing and sparse plot keep it from being truly immersive, and it’s not exactly a film designed to spur social change, either. Instead, it’s worth watching for Gere alone.
  13. If You Don't, I Will
    A quiet, intermittently poignant portrait of two people who've lost each other and aren't sure they want to find their way back.
  14. Unfriended
    Though not particularly ground-breaking — last year’s Elijah Wood-starring Open Windows pulled the same trick, and much more ambitiously — we’re still going to “like” the result.
  15. The Visit
    This is the first Shyamalan movie in a long time that viewers may be tempted to re-visit just to see how he pulls off his magic trick.
  16. The Revenant
    Gorgeously shot by cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, Iñárritu’s savage endurance test of a film almost works better as a series of stunning images and surreal sequences than as an emotionally satisfying story.
  17. The Greatest Showman
    The movie never quite stops feeling like Moulin Rouge! written in extra-large block font, or Broadway projected straight onto a big screen, which certainly isn’t bad news if that’s exactly what you love.
  18. The Purge: Election Year
    If, on the other hand, it’s sleazy kicks you’re after, you’ll be in exploitation heaven. Because writer-director James DeMonaco’s third chapter in the thrill-kill vigilante franchise is the best and pulpiest Purge yet.
  19. Ghost in the Shell
    If there’s anything Sander’s ravishing set pieces fail to sufficiently color in, it’s the movie’s emotional stakes.
  20. All the Wilderness
    Yes, writer-director Michael Johnson cranks the Malick meter up to 11 in this sensitive coming-of-age drama.
  21. The Bronze
    The Bronze has a loony Napoleon Dynamite–meets–Talladega Nights-on-the-balance-beam charm. Hope may be a giant jackass, but she’s America’s jackass.
  22. James White
    In the best scene, which comes late in the film, James holds his dying mother and shares a vision of their future that they both know she’ll never get to see.
  23. Meru
    Meru the film, then, might be the anti-Everest. There are no expensive special effects, but there is a lot of authentic climbing footage.
  24. People Places Things
    Even though there’s not a lot to Jim Strouse’s new relationship comedy, it has a real warmth and charm thanks to the undeniable appeal of comedian Jemaine Clement.
  25. 1971
    Now, in Johanna Hamilton’s fiery truth-to-power documentary, those gray-haired agitators finally step out of the shadows to explain what they did and why they did it (with the help of some slightly hokey dramatic reenactments). Their message—namely, Who will watch the watchmen? — remains as important today as it was 44 years ago.
  26. Steve Jobs
    As sharp and slick as Steve Jobs is, it ends up feeling more interested in entertainment than enlightenment.
  27. Queen of Earth
    The result is chilling and beautifully composed, a stylish study of disintegration that is easier to admire than enjoy.
  28. Man from Reno
    None of it would work without the two leads: As the author on the run, Ayako Fujitani conjures a rare mix of demureness and daring. And as the sleuthing lawman, Pepe Serna uses his cement-mixer voice and boxer’s mug to convey a real bloodhound determination.
  29. Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
    Efron and Devine are an endearingly loony duo, and as much as Plaza and Kendrick never quite sell their vixen shtick, the supporting cast is wickedly stacked. It’s like riding a roller coaster fueled by Red Bull and grain alcohol: kind of gross but pretty fun, too.
  30. The Danish Girl
    It feels like a movie that’s been lovingly crafted and put under glass in a museum. And I kept waiting for it to move me more than it did.
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