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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. Masterminds
    Masterminds has been “coming soon” for so long it would put "Batman v Superman" to shame, but the end result is an entertaining comic thriller with physical showcases for many of Saturday Night Live’s best recent veterans.
  2. Amanda Knox
    What you end up with are portraits of individuals — people who are scared or angry or ambitious — all a part of a story that, from the start, ignored their humanity.
  3. 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.
  4. 13th
    13th is a titanic statement by a major American voice. Viewing — right now — should be mandatory.
  5. American Honey
    For the most part it succeeds, gorgeously — though it will probably make anyone over 30 feel either mildly outraged or wildly irrelevant.
  6. Denial
    Sadly, it’s hamstrung by a patchy script (by David Hare) and an oddly flat-footed performance by Rachel Weisz as Lipstadt.
  7. Deepwater Horizon
    What works almost disturbingly well is the way Berg calibrates his delivery of the disaster while still holding on to the human scale of it.
  8. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
    The film chooses style over substance, emphasizing how cool the children’s powers are without fleshing them out as full characters. To compete with Burton’s best, his heroic weirdos need a little more heart—and the monsters need sharper teeth.
  9. Goat
    Schnetzer, whose stock is sure to soon rise, is a shape-shifter — you’d never look at this gay Irish 1980s activist in Pride and conclude that it was the same person — but in only a few roles so far, he’s shown an extraordinary ability to portray both vulnerability and the mask screwed on to hide it.
  10. My Blind Brother
    Its tired indie trappings (arrested development, dull cynicism) turn the film into its own kind of marathon.
  11. The Magnificent Seven
    This Seven’s just silly, solid entertainment: multiplex fun by numbers.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Queen of Katwe
    Nyong’o’s gravitas is undercut by a script teeming with wooden platitudes, special lessons learned, and the overbaked dialogue of a Joan Crawford melodrama.
  13. Storks
    There’s a delightfully madcap pace to Storks, and most of the rapid-fire jokes land.
  14. Operation Avalanche
    The movie’s premise has trouble sustaining a feature-length running time, getting mired in repetitive jokes and a third-act swing into harder-core suspense that never really connects.
  15. Command and Control
    The pace of the drama is riveting, as it jumps back through the decades to place the accident in the context of the nuclear arms race.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Miss Stevens
    Though its heart beats with the same blood as something like "Lost in Translation," in which a daunting age gap inspires lasting platonic chemistry between two drifting souls, Miss Stevens feels fresh in its take on human vulnerability.
  17. Blair Witch
    Blair Witch is the Hollywoodication of a film that defied the industry, and it works because of the profound respect for the original that hides beneath camera work that’s too good and a cast that’s too attractive.
  18. Snowden
    It somehow manages to make a fascinating, utterly contemporary narrative feel like old news.
  19. The Disappointments Room
    There simply aren’t enough scares to build tension throughout.
  20. Ithaca
    In all, Hanks’ casting feels like a missed opportunity—much like the rest of Ithaca.
  21. London Road
    The result, alas, is totally bolloxed, as a Brit might say, by execution.
  22. Demon
    A so-so meditation on historical amnesia. It’s also so weighted down with mysticism and metaphor it forgets to quicken your pulse or whiten your knuckles.
  23. Other People
    Somehow, almost miraculously, Shannon makes her character become stronger as she gets weaker. It’s a wonderful performance.
  24. Transpecos
    Transpecos is a lean-and-mean atmospheric thriller that starts off tautly but ultimately slackens as it goes along.
  25. 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.
  26. Bridget Jones's Baby
    The script contains some genuinely uproarious laughs and is sharper than it needs to be, even if some of the jokes feel as old as Bridget’s condoms.
  27. Sully
    The reason why the movie works at all is Hanks.
    • 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.
  29. Yoga Hosers
    Unless you’re Kevin Smith, don’t expect Yoga Hosers to be funny or clever or well directed. It isn’t for you.
  30. 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.
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