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  • 2% same as the average critic
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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. Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans
    Engrossingly intimate documentary.
  2. Toy Story 4
    Toy Story 4 doesn’t hit the emotional highs of the previous films. There are good jokes that work and heist setpieces that don’t. The ending is moving, though now you distrust any finality with this saga. It does feel a bit cheap, somehow.
  3. Touched With Fire
    Touched With Fire has something to say about a thorny, serious subject, but the light it shines doesn’t really illuminate anything new.
  4. Yosemite
    Franco gives one of his most subtle performances yet as a recovering-alcoholic father, and the three young newcomers’ performances are honest and affecting, capturing what it feels like to be adrift and on the verge of adolescence.
  5. Sully
    The reason why the movie works at all is Hanks.
  6. 10 Cloverfield Lane
    For a rookie director, Trachtenberg appears to be a real craftsman, even if what he’s crafting doesn’t add up to as much as you hope it will.
  7. Goat
    Schnetzer, whose stock is sure to soon rise, is a shape-shifter — you’d never look at this gay Irish 1980s activist in Pride and conclude that it was the same person — but in only a few roles so far, he’s shown an extraordinary ability to portray both vulnerability and the mask screwed on to hide it.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Lazer Team
    It’s the confidence and energy of the four leads that keep the comedy moving forward.
  9. Christine
    Shot in the goldenrod-and-avocado palette of the ’70s and dabbed with incongruous soft-rock lullabies, the movie itself is both painfully intimate and strangely opaque on the subject of mental illness, taking us deep inside Christine’s disintegration even as it never quite figures out what it wants to say about it.
  10. The Fundamentals of Caring
    Caring may be fundamental, but it never quite feels necessary.
  11. The Hollars
    Is The Hollars an original, breathtaking dramedy that says anything new about middle-class suburbia and family? No. But with a brisk runtime and a terrific cast, it’s a pleasant and bittersweet look at one family struggling to keep it together.
  12. The Intervention
    Tears are shed. Laughs are had. Some jokes land better than others. The script wobbles between heavy-handed and touching, but the result is a pleasantly nostalgic throwback that’s saved from its copy-cat tendencies by charismatic actors.
  13. Other People
    Somehow, almost miraculously, Shannon makes her character become stronger as she gets weaker. It’s a wonderful performance.
  14. Southside with You
    Southside doesn’t hang on epiphanies; instead, it delivers something more modest: a tender, unrushed love story.
  15. A Hologram for the King
    If it sounds like Hologram is basically about a middle-aged white guy getting his groove back in the Middle East, well, yes, it is that. But if you squint hard enough, it’s also a little bit more.
  16. Lion
    Where Saroo goes and what he finds there left me in tears, but you feel that a complicated true story has been airbrushed into a postmodern legend.
  17. The Meddler
    Her character, reportedly based on writer-director Lorene Scafaria’s own mother, isn’t drawn with any particular depth or nuance (and the broad New Yawk accent Sarandon tries on is about as authentically Brooklyn as a Sara Lee bagel).
  18. In a Valley of Violence
    Two key aspects elevate the whole experience above its modest trappings. First, the dark, beautiful musical score by composer Jeff Grace works excellently as a lush, hummable homage to Ennio Morricone, while still feeling very true to West’s horror movie roots. And second, in the film’s best performance, John Travolta appears as the frustrated father of Ransome’s bad boy.
  19. Holidays
    Some of the films are haunting, some of them more macabre, but all of them play with holiday symbolism in way that will make viewers rethink a lot of their favorite celebrations.
  20. Our Kind of Traitor
    The film, while gorgeously shot, is schematic and wholly implausible. But Skarsgård saves it; wild and funny and ferociously alive, he’s a crucial bolt of color in all that tasteful gray.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Suspicion
    A few bravura sequences aside, it’s fairly flat.
  22. Hush
    Flanagan’s taut direction reinforces his rep as an up-and-comer we will hopefully be hearing much more from.
  23. It
    It is essentially two movies. The better by far (and it’s very good) is the one that feels like a darker Stand by Me — a nostalgic coming-of-age story about seven likable outcasts riding around on their bikes and facing their fears together... Less successful are the sections that trot out Pennywise. The more we see of him, the less scary he becomes.
  24. Hacksaw Ridge
    Despite its promise, Hacksaw never really delves into the moral grays; it’s just black and white and red all over.
  25. Elle
    We get to watch another unforgettable and incomparable Huppert performance.
  26. Personal Shopper
    Stewart, who appears in nearly every scene, is intensely watchable, a coiled spring. But the movie is too fragmented and tonally strange to register as more than one of Maureen’s wispy, haunted apparitions.
  27. Blood Father
    A violent, grungy, Peckinpah-lite action thriller that’s worth checking out just to be reminded how powerful an actor Mel Gibson continues to be even—if the parts aren’t coming like they once were.
  28. Raw
    Raw is unsettling and repulsive and, believe it or not, occasionally funny. It’s got audacity and style, and it packs an undeniably wicked punch.
  29. Rules Don't Apply
    It turns out that Rules Don’t Apply is hardly about Hughes at all. Instead, it’s a small-scale, lovingly filmed study of the blossoming romance between two fictional show-business newbies.
  30. The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki
    It’s the quiet, simple moments between Olli and Raija that stick with you, whether he’s giving her a ride on the handlebars of his bicycle on their way to a country wedding or skipping stones across the smooth surface of a lake.
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