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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. Dark Night
    It’s also a haunting, thought-provoking piece of work, made infinitely more powerful by all the things it chooses not to show.
  2. Author: The JT LeRoy Story
    Even when the film fails to ask so many of the questions its narrative begs, Author is still a tricky, fascinating look at the strange nexus of art, artifice, and the intoxicating cult of celebrity.
  3. Morris from America
    The definition of a crowd-pleaser.
  4. Under the Shadow
    Under the Shadow is a skilled, chilling feature debut that might follow you around a while after seeing it.
  5. Creative Control
    Creative Control is a much more modest film (both visually and thematically) than something like Her or Ex Machina, but it never feels hamstrung by its limitations. If you go with its future-shock flow, it will cast a spell that feels like something between a dream and a nightmare.
  6. The Light Between Oceans
    The whole thing is feverishly earnest and more than a little manipulative, but it’s also possibly the prettiest two hours of emotional ­masochism so far this year.
  7. Juice
    The film is an inflammatory morality play shot through with rage and despair.
  8. House Party
    The movie is slick and cartoonish but also extremely clever, and its unabashed conventionality is exactly what’s fun about it.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    White Girl
    Somewhere between Catherine Hardwicke’s "Thirteen" and Harmony Korine’s "Spring Breakers" lies the rebellious mood of Elizabeth Wood’s White Girl, a Sundance firecracker that easily finds its place among the cinematic canon of great dramas cut from the good-girl-gone-bad cloth.
  10. John Wick: Chapter 2
    The idea of a secret world of professional killers adhering to a set of civilized conventions may sound absurd, but it’s what makes the Wickverse more intriguing and far richer than the usual numbskull orgy of cinematic nihilism.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Barney Thomson
    Ultimately, Barney Thomson’s roots are exposed too easily, and the question of “where’d they get that from?” often trumps our curiosity of where the film at hand is going, and that’s a problem.
  12. Don't Think Twice
    Don’t Think Twice isn’t all envy and self-doubt; Birbiglia has also crafted a love letter to improv, capturing the tempestuous and unforgiving art form in a way that only an insider could.
  13. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
    Much like the entries of the original trilogy, at its heart, Dial is a rip-roaring adventure that borrows more from the cinematic language of golden age swashbucklers than modern blockbusters.
  14. The Infiltrator
    The Infiltrator may not be as innovative as "Breaking Bad," but it sure is fun to watch Cranston at his best again, masterfully walking the tightrope between good and bad.
  15. Life
    If you lower your sights a few pegs and go in looking for a solid, tight B-movie that builds right until the final shot, there’s a lot to like.
  16. Don't Breathe
    Thought-provoking but rather lacking in the second-by-second scares genre fans tend to expect.
  17. The Wailing
    Despite its epic length, The Wailing never bores as Na slathers his tale with generous supplies of atmosphere and awfulness.
  18. Nocturnal Animals
    The movie’s lofty narrative ambitions never quite catch up with its aesthetics, but it’s still a fantastic beast of a film, intoxicating and strange.
  19. Gleason
    The result is a candid testament to not only Gleason himself but the many people who love him.
  20. The Grinch
    Kids could still watch the peerless 1966 original, though their blooming little cortexes will probably respond to the shiny-bright novelty here — and be newly spellbound by a tale almost as old as color television, but still evergreen.
  21. Ralph Breaks the Internet
    Ambitious, beautifully animated, and clever to a fault, Ralph Breaks the Internet breaks free of the pitfalls of most sequels by never forgoing heart for the sake of bigger franchise pyrotechnics.
  22. Train to Busan
    The result is first-class throughout.
  23. The Commune
    The movie may feel minor next to Vinterberg’s more serious work, but it’s more personal, too: A messy, tender window into the world that shaped him.
  24. Una
    Una’s raw, deeply dis­comfiting dance between obsession and exploitation isn’t easy to watch by any metric; they make it hard to look away.
  25. A United Kingdom
    It’s their quiet devotion and enduring dignity that give A United Kingdom not just a romantic center, but its soul.
  26. The Girl with All the Gifts
    It’s a film for people who thought they never needed to sit through another zombie flick.
  27. A Man Called Ove
    Holm’s adaptation is a darkly funny, tragic, and ultimately heartwarming tearjerker about the life of one lonely but extraordinary man.
  28. Hidden Figures
    Charged with streamlining Figures’ knotty real-life histories, director Theodore Melfi (St. Vincent) tends to paint too much in the broad, amiable strokes of a triumph-of-the-week TV movie. But even his earthbound execution can’t dim the sheer magnetic pull of an extraordinary story.
  29. Darkest Hour
    I don’t think we’ll ever see anyone else do Churchill this well again unless the man himself comes back from the dead.
  30. Free Fire
    If you’ve always believed that the climactic Mexican standoff in "Reservoir Dogs" should have been the whole movie, then you’ll love Free Fire.
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