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For 7,797 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 2.2 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 Monster
    Like "The Strangers," the result is a simple but skillfully told shocker.
  2. Almost Christmas
    In all, it’s a pleasant enough way to spend two quiet hours with the extended family, but Almost Christmas probably won’t be your next holiday tradition.
  3. 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.
  4. Moana
    Moana has a lot of the hallmarks of your classic Disney adventure — the goofy animal sidekicks, the feel-good messages — but its heroine is something new, a smart and fiery deviation from your standard European lovestruck princesses.
  5. Trolls
    Trolls doesn’t reach for the emotional resonance of DreamWorks’ more ambitious efforts; its lessons of loyalty and kindness are standard-issue, and tear ducts remain untapped. Still, the movie’s serotonin pumps like a fire hose. It’s almost impossible not to surrender to the bliss.
  6. Hacksaw Ridge
    Despite its promise, Hacksaw never really delves into the moral grays; it’s just black and white and red all over.
  7. By Sidney Lumet
    As an introduction to a first-class director who shouldn’t require any introduction at all, By Sidney Lumet is a thoughtful and thought-provoking treat.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Eagle Huntress
    The movie’s restrained second half stuns, ranking as one of the most magical stretches of nonfiction filmmaking in recent years.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Inferno
    Bourne it is not, but the twists come with enough regularity to keep the squishier parts of the plot from mucking up the works.
  10. Doctor Strange
    Doctor Strange is thrilling in the way a lot of other Marvel movies are. But what makes it unique is that it’s also heady in a way most Marvel movies don’t dare to be. It’s eye candy and brain candy.
  11. In a Valley of Violence
    Two key aspects elevate the whole experience above its modest trappings. First, the dark, beautiful musical score by composer Jeff Grace works excellently as a lush, hummable homage to Ennio Morricone, while still feeling very true to West’s horror movie roots. And second, in the film’s best performance, John Travolta appears as the frustrated father of Ransome’s bad boy.
  12. Ouija: Origin of Evil
    Effective horror relies on the actualization of some deep-seated cultural fear, but Ouija: Origin of Evil supplies only ineffective clichés and half-hearted attempts at franchise building.
  13. Moonlight
    Easily one of the most personal and most powerful films of the year.
  14. The Handmaiden
    So suspenseful, sexy, and surprising that it would be a shame to say any more.
  15. Keeping Up with the Joneses
    Between Zach Galifianakis, Isla Fisher, Jon Hamm, and Gal Gadot, Keeping Up with the Joneses has a stacked cast, but thanks to a tepid script from Michael LeSieur (You, Me and Dupree), they don’t actually get that much to do.
  16. Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
    Like its predecessor it’s an unremarkable placeholder until the next "Mission: Impossible" flick comes along.
  17. Certain Women
    It isn’t until the wonderful Gladstone comes along with her aching tomboy heartache and sad seeking eyes that the film finally burrows below the surface and finally hits a dramatic nerve. Unfortunately, by then, it’s too little too late.
  18. American Pastoral
    As hard as they work to add nuance, Connelly is trapped in mad-housewife hysteria, Fanning’s a brat, and McGregor never really rises above a strange, stunned blandness. It’s a noble effort, almost completely lost in translation; give it an American pass.
  19. Desierto
    A classed-up B-movie riff on "The Most Dangerous Game." Call it “Tex-Mexploitation.”
  20. Christine
    Shot in the goldenrod-and-avocado palette of the ’70s and dabbed with incongruous soft-rock lullabies, the movie itself is both painfully intimate and strangely opaque on the subject of mental illness, taking us deep inside Christine’s disintegration even as it never quite figures out what it wants to say about it.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Little Sister
    Timlin and Paulson create a believable rapport as the central siblings, though it’s Sheedy’s chemistry with the camera (and her character) that creates the film’s most dramatically satisfying moments.
  22. Kevin Hart: What Now?
    Hart’s exuberance make him a captivating performer — and his energetic delivery helps even the most mediocre jokes land.
  23. 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.
  24. The Accountant
    The whole thing’s ludicrous, down to the last loony twist, but it’s also a lot more fun than Batman v Superman.
  25. Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience
    Voyage of Time is a beautiful diversion, but almost entirely empty, even in its inquisitive big swings for profundity.
  26. Under the Shadow
    Under the Shadow is a skilled, chilling feature debut that might follow you around a while after seeing it.
  27. Mascots
    If you’re a Guest devotee, you’ll be in the stands cheering; otherwise, Mascots feels like a bit of a retread.
  28. The Birth of a Nation
    A big, unabashedly ambitious picture, heavy with the weight of history. But its best moments turn out to be the smaller human ones.
    • 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.
  30. 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.
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