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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. Walking and Talking
    Walking and Talking is saved from utter banality by a script dotted with occasional buoyant moments of tenderness and wit, as well as by the light touch of its attractive cast.
  2. I Am Heath Ledger
    What it does offer, however, is a touching celebration of his life — and it largely does so by using a collection of home videos Ledger recorded throughout his career.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Jailhouse Rock
    If you’re looking for cool, here’s Elvis Presley at his absolutely arctic.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Secret Life of Words
    Can a single scene save a movie? An hour and 20 minutes into The Secret Life of Words, Sarah Polley delivers a halting, evocative 10-minute monologue that finally unlocks the mystery behind her guarded character.
  5. Avengers: Infinity War
    What saves Infinity War from being just another bloated supergroup tour – and what will end up being the thing that blows fans’ minds to dust – is the film’s final stretch.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Maps to the Stars
    The goal here is cynical satire. The result, sadly, is just a yawn.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    True Confessions
    While True Confessions boasts big themes (redemption, reconciliation) and big names, the plot and performances are painfully subtle. It proffers too many details and not enough payoff.
  8. F1: The Movie
    For flash and rumble, F1 doesn't have an equal this summer. Roll down the windows and enjoy the ride.
  9. John Wick
    John Wick, is not only a return to badass form for the actor, it's also one of the most excitingly visceral action flicks I've seen in ages.
  10. The Way, Way Back
    There's something slightly formulaic and familiar about Nat Faxon and Jim Rash's coming-of-age film The Way, Way Back, but not enough to dampen its crowd-pleasing charm.
  11. Chef
    The first two thirds of Chef crackle with hunger-inducing imagery and laughter-provoking gags.
  12. Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
    Deepens the saga of New York's former governor and attorney general into the paradoxical morality play it really was. Spitzer, almost three years after he was caught soliciting escorts, comes off as chastened but still regal, like a hawkeyed Jewish Kennedy.
  13. Missing Link
    It all goes down easily if not exactly unforgettably; a wispy slice of hirsute whimsy.
  14. Why We Fight
    Jarecki is no glib ideologue thumbing his nose at power.
  15. Dream Horse
    A quirky bootstraps narrative of improbable small-town ambition and extremely regional accents designed not to rush its modest, affable charms.
  16. Women Without Men
    Stronger on beautiful imagery than on narrative flow.
  17. Anita
    The film itself feels a bit padded and clunky.
  18. Down Terrace
    A dark and hilarious thwomping of the whole miserablist British gangster genre.
  19. Twister
    And for a movie that stars acts of God, this work of mortals provides surprisingly little liftoff. The stuff that whips through the angry skies in Twister is the most exciting part of the spectacle. Essentially, we're turned on by debris.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    Avalon
    The movie is the visual equivalent of a stranger picking out highlights from his family album and providing brief descriptions of them. Everything that happens in Avalon, be it happiness or trauma, is infused with the same tone. The result is test-pattern emotion; everything’s on the same level. There’s no discrimination and, hence, no drama.
  21. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
    The movie is zippier than Tim Burton's oddly lifeless 2001 "Planet of the Apes" remake, but unlike good sci-fi, it doesn't signify anything, or really even try to.
  22. Son of the Bride
    Has an appealing modesty, but director Juan José Campanella works so hard to keep everything soft and winsome and charming that he cushions the understatement into blandness.
  23. The Black Balloon
    Toni Collette gives it the old "Little Miss Sunshine" try in The Black Balloon as an edge-of-kooky, very pregnant mama presiding over a chaotic household.
  24. Friends with Money
    There is also a manufactured symmetry, an every-gal's-got-issues roundness, an HBO sitcomitude to the movie that undercuts its own observational intelligence.
  25. Enola Holmes
    While the mystery might be elementary (my dear, notably absent, Watson), the storytelling is winkingly subversive, proclaiming that a new and welcome game is afoot.
  26. A Quiet Place: Day One
    As with the others in the series, this is not an upbeat picture, but it is effective and unsettling without being too gory.
  27. My Cousin Vinny
    My Cousin Vinny is the definition of obvious, and it’s way too long (do films like this really need an hour’s worth of setup?). But Pesci and Tomei make a first-rate team — they’re Punch and Judy gone Brooklyn.
  28. X2: X-Men United
    X2 sparkles with a lightness of spirit that was missing from ''X-Men.''
  29. Delirious
    It would be nice to see a sharp, funny, penetrating satire of the new, kicked-up culture of empty media fame, but Tom DiCillo's scattershot buddy movie Delirious isn't it.
  30. Paranormal Activity
    With its this-is-really-happening vibe, Paranormal Activity scrapes away 30 years of encrusted nightmare clichés. The fear is real, all right, because the fear is really in you.
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