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For 7,798 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 68% higher than the average critic
  • 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. Freeheld
    For all its clumsiness, the story resonates—and the photos that run over the final credits are a poignant reminder of the real life, not just the political legacy, that Laurel left behind.
  2. The Perfect Guy
    For all its third act nuttiness, The Perfect Guy really should have gone way crazier.
  3. War Room
    War Room is a gold-plated piece of Bible thumping that’s resonating with the same audience that watches Jimmy Stewart get touched by an angel every December in "It’s a Wonderful Life" — and cry next to Christmas trees, despite that film’s many hackneyed religious devices.
  4. Bad Boys for Life
    Banter and bullets is the action-movie MO, and the duo at the center of it hardly seem to have to stretch to spread their bickering charm on thick. By the shock-and-awe climax, though — when everything but the goatee pretty much goes up in flames — other things have worn thin.
  5. Mr. Right
    The ludicrous action-flick plot slows to a crawl whenever Kendrick and Rockwell aren’t on screen.
  6. Risen
    Risen is more entertaining than Bible-adjacent stories are usually allowed to be.
  7. This Changes Everything
    Yet as Everything moves from nation to nation, the cohesion and potency of its message dissipates.
  8. Cars 3
    Fee steers Cars 3 like the sleek piece of movie machinery it is—a standard ride with a half-full tank, a gorgeous paint job, and not much at all under the hood.
  9. Flowers
    The film is undercut by long metaphorical stretches that dampen their impact.
  10. The Man Who Knew Infinity
    Unfortunately, the film is nowhere near as innovative as its subject.
  11. Elstree 1976
    There are some stretches of the film that are frankly a bit boring and wouldn’t be missed if they were cut.
  12. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
    There might not be a more gorgeous-looking movie this year than Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.
  13. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
    Dumbledore feels like an improvement, at least, on the joyless, enervating slog of 2018's Crimes of Grindelwald; it's nimbler and sweeter and more cohesive in its storyline. And the cast, less trapped in a fug of half-formed symbolism and subplots, are allowed realer and more romantic stakes.
  14. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
    What work better in the movie are mostly smaller moments: the jokes that land, the rapport between the reporters, and all the weirdly ordinary ways people manage to find a new normal, even in the most WTF circumstances.
  15. Monster Hunt
    The plot is even more nonsensical than it sounds, but the monsters’ high-energy antics and the humans’ martial-arts skills make for a delightfully bizarre adventure romp.
  16. Keanu
    Even if it can’t compete with the best highlights from their TV show, Keanu is a solid first step into movie stardom for both Key and Peele.
  17. War Dogs
    A lot of what makes War Dogs work comes down to Hill, who is operating at maximum density here physically (he reportedly gained weight specifically for the role) but whose unhinged charisma also anchors the movie.
  18. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
    For a film that invites so much self-aware chortling over franchise in-jokery, you feel Spider-Verse has missed something essential from its own screen history.
  19. Early Man
    What comedy there is comes from Tom Hiddleston’s Lord Nooth — a miser with a head like a soft-boiled egg. But the laughs are mild at best. At least there’s director Nick Park’s playful Silly Putty visual imagination to take your mind off just how thin the story is.
  20. Kevin Hart: What Now?
    Hart’s exuberance make him a captivating performer — and his energetic delivery helps even the most mediocre jokes land.
  21. Pee-wee's Big Holiday
    A lot of us have really missed Pee-wee, and seeing him go through his fun-house morning regimen at the outset of the film is a giddy treat. It’s like catching up with an old friend. But nostalgia gets you only so far.
  22. Forsaken
    Donald spits hot fire and brimstone, but Kiefer remains as bland an avenging angel of action as ever.
  23. JeruZalem
    The niftily claustrophobic use of actual Jerusalem locations offers a nice holiday from the more familiar backdrops favored by the POV genre.
  24. Desierto
    A classed-up B-movie riff on "The Most Dangerous Game." Call it “Tex-Mexploitation.”
  25. Frank & Lola
    Shannon’s intensity is the best thing Frank & Lola has going for it. And it’s almost enough to make it work.
  26. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
    The film is maddeningly uneven. Just as it starts to settle into an inspired groove, it uncorks a couple of gags that fall lethally flat, making for half of a great comedy.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Equity
    Unfortunately, Equity sometimes buckles under the weight of its self-imposed, gendered duty. In attempting to say so much about women vs. women in a cutthroat industry, it paints itself almost too seriously.
  28. Ava's Possessions
    Krause’s deadpan wit, coupled with the inspired scenes at Spirit Possessions Anoymous, make Ava’s Possessions a fun, fresh take on a genre staple.
  29. F9: The Fast Saga
    F9 sure sounds like a lot of fun. Why is it only a little fun?
    • 68 Metascore
    • 67 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bopha!
    There’s sorrow here to fill a thousand Hollywood movies—and in the end, it swamps the boundaries of movie convention.
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