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For 7,797 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 7797
  2. Mixed: 2,079 out of 7797
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7797
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  1. The Girl on the Train
    [Taylor] deftly translates the bleak, raw-boned menace and tricky time signatures of Train’s intertwined plotlines, and draws remarkably vivid performances from his cast, particularly his two female leads.
  2. The Diplomat
    Directed by Holbrooke’s son, David, the film balances poignant political insight with a heartfelt narrative about a man trying to reckon with his absent father’s legacy.
  3. Viva
    Havana’s crumbling trapped-in-time beauty also plays a starring role, but it’s Medina who provides the movie’s raw, tender heart.
  4. Kubo and the Two Strings
    A visually stunning, richly imagined oasis in a sea of candy-colored safety, and one of the first truly original movies of the year so far.
  5. Bad Moms
    Beneath all of its hard-R partying, rebellious debauchery, and profanity, it taps into something very real and insidious in the zeitgeist. It’s one of the funniest movies of the year—and one of the most necessary.
  6. American Honey
    For the most part it succeeds, gorgeously — though it will probably make anyone over 30 feel either mildly outraged or wildly irrelevant.
  7. The Invitation
    Kusama ratchets the story’s tension masterfully, building to a final shot that’s as chilling as it is perfect.
  8. The Witness
    The powerful thrust of the film comes from its critique of the media.
  9. Sing Street
    It’s like a lost John Hughes movie with Irish brogues and cars that just happen to drive on the other side of the road. It’s also, sadly, exactly the kind of sweet little film that too often gets buried in a box office ruled by broader comedies and bloated superhero epics
  10. Indignation
    The dean was more of a cartoon in Roth’s book, but Letts lends him a slippery wit that, much like the movie, is surprisingly potent.
  11. Weiner
    If this soap opera wasn’t real, you’d never believe it.
  12. One False Move
    Part of what makes One False Move so engrossing is the way the characters keep revealing new, darker sides. The movie is about hidden American links — between city and country, cop and criminal, and the black and white subcultures of the rural South.
  13. Blade Runner 2049
    Even when its emotions risk running as cool as its palette, 2049 reaches for, and finds, something remarkable: the elevation of mainstream moviemaking to high art.
  14. The Handmaiden
    So suspenseful, sexy, and surprising that it would be a shame to say any more.
  15. Fireworks Wednesday (2006)
    Farhadi’s intrigue doesn’t feel like the stuff of a Hollywood thriller. It’s more realistic, more pedestrian than that – which gives it a real ring of low-key emotional truth.
  16. Babe: Pig in the City
    Don’t miss this astonishingly bleak, inventive, funny, sumptuously designed film.
  17. Everything Is Copy
    Copy celebrates a brilliant storyteller and her lacerating wit...but also recalls a woman who could be bossy, presumptuous, and sometimes mean. To the end, though, she was adored.
  18. Tickled
    David Farrier and Dylan Reeve’s documentary Tickled is so crazy that it feels like a hoax. Only it’s not. At least, I don’t think it is.
  19. I, Daniel Blake
    Loach’s film isn’t as stridently political as it probably sounds. These are just proud people who want to be treated with respect. There’s one slightly melodramatic turn near the end that felt off, but by then I was already three tissues deep.
  20. Paterson
    Even though Jarmuch has a distinct directorial style, it’s his style. It’s impossible to imitate. These days, I can’t think of a higher compliment.
  21. Arrival
    That’s the movie’s greatest feint, though: Ultimately, it’s far less interested in galactic destiny than the infinite, uncharted landscape of the human heart.
  22. Barry Lyndon
    To watch Ryan O’Neal’s performance as the upwardly mobile Barry, part victim and part cad, is to see Kubrick’s perverse genius with actors. He cast a dullard only to jolt us, by the end, with the revelation of the bastard within.
  23. Viva
    It takes skill — a certain sly, even perverse nimbleness of craft — to make an homage to schlock movies that treats them as works of art.
  24. Fences
    It’s as good as screen acting gets.
  25. 20th Century Women
    Plotwise, Women is a wisp; as a mood piece, though, it’s almost irresistibly rich.
  26. Frantz
    Every one in the film, down to the smallest characters on the fringes, is keeping secrets and spinning lies. And those lies beget more lies and more until the truth is a distant memory. It’s what can happen when life feels too overwhelming and unbearable to face.
  27. Jackie
    In its audacious strangeness, the movie manages to do something history hardly ever gets to: surprise us.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Blue Jay
    Instead of treating puppy love like child’s play, Blue Jay savors the fantasy of foundations built in adolescence, kindled while the heart is still young, and draws out the agonizing reality that romance ultimately fizzles out of necessity as we age and mature.
  29. Tower
    Tower allies itself with the heroes on the ground and the immeasurable courage they displayed, risking everything for the sake of strangers. That’s a story worth telling, one worth remembering, and what makes Tower a must-see.
  30. Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened
    A love letter to the theater—and a deeply poignant one at that—Lonny Price’s sentimental documentary Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened… is a bittersweet gem.
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