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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 2.2 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 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.
  2. Flowers
    The film is undercut by long metaphorical stretches that dampen their impact.
  3. Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
    It doubles down on gross-out sight gags that 13-year-old boys should find hilarious, if no one else.
  4. Spotlight
    Tautly directed by Tom McCarthy (The Visitor), the film hums as a tense shoe-leather procedural and a heartbreaking morality play that handles personal stories respectfully without losing sight of the bigger, more damning picture.
  5. The Peanuts Movie
    The film disappointingly ditches the cartoonist’s modest visual formula for a photorealistic 3-D playground courtesy of the animation studio behind "Ice Age."
  6. SPECTRE
    It’s possible that Skyfall created expectations that were too high for Spectre to match. But with all he’s done for the franchise, Craig deserves to go out with a bigger, smarter bang.
  7. Nasty Baby
    Subverting expected narratives may have been Silva’s aim all along; still, the turn isn’t just nasty, it’s confounding.
  8. Love
    The big draw should be 3-D, which enhances the visual intimacy, though only in shooting a male orgasm does Noé go gonzo with the format.
  9. Burnt
    Just when you think you know where Burnt is headed, there’s an underhanded twist about halfway in. And it’s almost enough to set the movie right.
  10. Our Brand Is Crisis
    The comedy here isn’t very funny and the drama isn’t very sharp.
  11. Jem and the Holograms
    As silly and sometimes nonsensical as it is, the movie is surprisingly sweet and well-intentioned.
  12. Rock the Kasbah
    Your enjoyment of all this will probably depend heavily on your willingness to let the words romp and Taliban coexist for approximately two hours. The movie itself is slight and sometimes outright offensive, though it’s also intermittently amusing and not entirely unself-aware.
  13. I Smile Back
    It’s 85 minutes of grim abyss-gazing with no hope of salvation. If Silverman’s going to bare her soul this nakedly, she deserves a better film to do it in.
  14. Suffragette
    It’s a shame that, despite some excellent performances, this urgent, well-intentioned film feels so conventional and stolid.
  15. Bone Tomahawk
    I doubt there’s a huge audience for a movie like Bone Tomahawk, but those who find it may turn it into a new cult classic.
  16. The Last Witch Hunter
    Seemingly every time there was an opportunity to do something fun, The Last Witch Hunter runs in the other direction, creating an unfortunately heavy-handed, humorless, self-serious tone for a story that should be allowed to be a little goofy.
  17. This Changes Everything
    Yet as Everything moves from nation to nation, the cohesion and potency of its message dissipates.
  18. Knock Knock
    Knock Knock is a pretty flimsy erotic thriller, but thanks to Reeves’ oaken obliviousness it’s also got a few moments of deliciously trashy fun.
  19. Crimson Peak
    Crimson Peak is a cobwebs-and-candelabras chamber piece that’s so preoccupied with being visually stunning it forgets to be scary.
    • 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.
  21. Goosebumps
    It’s a never-boring trip to a world, where stories and imagination are powerful tools, that just might inspire kids to do the scariest thing of all: pick up a book
  22. The Final Girls
    As horror comedies go, this one sadly winds up somewhere between Scary Movie 4 and 5.
  23. Truth
    For a movie about the importance of objectivity, Truth feels like a biased and sanctimonious op-ed column.
  24. Pan
    Hugh Jackman gives the movie a bit of twinkle as a pirate who breathes pixie dust to stay fresh and relevant. Maybe the people behind Pan should have snorted some.
  25. Beasts of No Nation
    Cary Fukunaga’s stark, beautifully shot drama was likely never meant to be a blockbuster; its brutal account of a child soldier in an unnamed African country is far too discomfiting for wider audiences. It absolutely does belong on a big screen, though, and more important, it just deserves to be seen.
  26. Room
    Room is more than the title of one of the year’s most powerful movies — it’s a state of mind that’s unbearably tense and as claustrophobic as a straitjacket
  27. Steve Jobs
    As sharp and slick as Steve Jobs is, it ends up feeling more interested in entertainment than enlightenment.
  28. Bridge of Spies
    Bridge of Spies is like Capra with a dash of le Carré.
  29. 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.
  30. He Named Me Malala
    Davis Guggenheim’s latest documentary is a forceful and exquisitely made piece of advocacy journalism.
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