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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. Deadpool 2
    It’s in Deadpool’s DNA to channel the wild id of a 12-year-old boy — a very clever one who happens to love boobs, Enya, and blowing stuff up. Which is dizzy fun for a while, like eating Twinkies on a Gravitron. Eventually, though, it just wears you out.
  2. Dark Phoenix
    For what is being called a final installment, it all tends to feel both anticlimactic and a little grim in the end.
  3. Frozen II
    Frozen 2 makes a valiant effort to live up to its predecessor, but can’t escape its shadow.
  4. In the Fade
    In the Fade is a flawed filmgoing experience, but still a viscerally affecting one.
  5. Support the Girls
    To see a black female over 40 holding the center of a story about ordinary, unsung lives makes Support a low-key pleasure; one that transcends its own shaggy narrative.
  6. The Florida Project
    The story begins to feel more like a series of strung-together anecdotes: an intriguing project, incomplete.
  7. Wonderstruck
    Even a ravishingly shot finale — Queens has never looked so enchanting — can’t quite paper over the weak resolution of the plot’s central mystery.
  8. The Villainess
    The characters come to life when they fight, and seem half-dead when they talk.
  9. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
    A shiny-bright jukebox musical with a heart of gold and a plot of pure polyester, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again works hard to be the feel-giddy movie experience of the summer. And it mostly succeeds in its own glittery, aggressively winsome way.
  10. Top Gun
    Top Gun has always been more than just an action flick about a cocky young fighter pilot who feels the need for speed.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest
    This latest installment — the best of the Stephen King-derived series — offers some unexpected plot developments and surprisingly chilling gore. But fear not, it’s unlikely Urban Harvest will cause nightmares, due to its hilariously inept climax.
  12. White Boy Rick
    What sets it a notch or two above rote familiarity is its cast, featuring a charismatic, white trash-with-a-heart-of-gold turn from a mulletted Matthew McConaughey and a naturalistically low-key performance from newcomer Richie Merritt.
  13. Addams Family Values
    Wittier and more consistent than the first Addams Family movie. Paul Rudnick’s script offers sharp-edged variations on the topsy-turvy Addams worldview, and it’s much better at getting the Addamses out into the straight world, where they can really do some damage.
  14. Roman J. Israel, Esq.
    Roman J. Israel, Esq. doesn’t quite have the same frayed-wire electricity as "Nightcrawler," but what it does have on its side is Denzel Washington.
  15. Eddie Murphy: Raw
    Watching his deft, effortless character work chafe against the outermost boundaries of the stand-up format, you sense the transgressive energy of Richard Pryor filtered through leading-man charisma — albeit tinged with hostile paranoia.
  16. Benny & Joon
    Benny & Joon turns out to be a whimsical (and not very well paced) heart tugger in which two nice couples spend 98 ever-so-slightly flaky minutes figuring out that they’re perfect for each other.
  17. Professor Marston & the Wonder Women
    A tasteful, surprisingly sedate biopic slathered in the traditional signposts of heavy exposition, gold-toned cinematography, and note-perfect period detail.
  18. Wonder Woman 1984
    It takes some time to get to the major action set pieces (other than the prologue, which is gorgeous), but it’s too much of a pleasure to live in this well-realized place, populated by a quartet of capable and charismatic stars, to really care.
  19. No Time to Die
    The levity of the first half is soon sorely missed, and the run length alone — the movie clocks in at just under 165 minutes — dilutes the intended emotional resonance of the final scenes; Never Say Time might have been a truer title.
  20. Brad's Status
    Some of Status’s cringe comedy feels forced or simply wasted on soft targets.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    School Ties
    In illuminating how upper-class bigotry can encompass both the actively fascist and the politely passive, School Ties is actually one of the more realistic — and least insufferable — entries in the recent prep-school genre.
  22. Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult
    Naked Gun 33 1/3 has a sluggish, one-gag-at-a- time rhythm, and it aims at too many soft targets. Aside from the Oscar sequence, the movie’s big satirical coup is a send-up of prison-escape pictures (yawn).
  23. The Death of Stalin
    Despite the rich settings and crowded cast, the film can’t help feeling a little airless too: These players aren’t history’s masterminds, they’re wasps trapped in a jar, bumbling against the glass in sting-or-be-stung chaos.
  24. Our Souls at Night
    The real draw is seeing these two legends together again.
  25. Sicario: Day of the Soldado
    Day of the Soldado is our generation’s Rambo: First Blood, Part 2, a half-mad sequel transforming a traumatized political parable into a fantasy of all-American murder gods.
  26. The Object of Beauty
    A mild but charmingly off-kilter romantic comedy that gently satirizes love in an era of buy-now-pay-later brinkmanship.
  27. Gaga: Five Foot Two
    Five Foot Two is a strange work, slippery, out of focus.
  28. First Reformed
    First Reformed is a bleak, punishing movie and the furthest thing imaginable from an easy crowdpleaser. But Hawke juices it with an austere sense of grace.
  29. The Children Act
    Even the cast’s uniform excellence can’t quite crack Children’s outer carapace, or bring full life to Fiona’s emotional struggle as she’s forced to confront her own failings. Instead the story drifts iceberg-like toward its carefully muted conclusion, only a small part of its true scope visible above a beautiful, chilly surface.
  30. On Chesil Beach
    Director Dominic Cooke is mostly known for his Olivier Award-winning theater work, but Chesil never feels stagey or static. It’s beautifully shot, and he pulls lovely performances from both his leads.
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