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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. Nerve
    This is a film about young people with a youthful energy and sense of fun that’s refreshing, especially in the summer of movies we’ve had so far. The tone and relatively low stakes allows Nerve to be shallow, divertive escapism—kind of like Snapchat.
  2. Jason Bourne
    Director Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips, United 93) has always had a taste for the topical and political, and his third Bourne outing augments the usual truth-and-justice talking points with a strenuously current nod to digital privacy issues via a Zuckerberg-like social-media mogul (Riz Ahmed). If anything, he underplays those assets, shorting deeper story development for exotic zip codes, bang-up fisticuffs, and adrenalized chase scenes.
  3. 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.
  4. Lights Out
    This movie purposely inspires viewers to think about serious topics, and then disregards the consequences of doing so, undermining the whole enterprise. The final physical sensation is not terror or relief, but disgust.
  5. Ice Age: Collision Course
    The Ice Age series was never great cinema, but there’s always been a sense of heart under all the wisecracks and zany antics. Collision Course abandons that in favor of already stale pop culture references and laughless jokes.
  6. Star Trek Beyond
    Beyond is more fun than deep. It’s lightweight, zero-gravity Trek that is, for the most part, devoid of the sort of Big Ideas and knotty existential questions that creator Gene Roddenberry specialized in.
  7. Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
    Ultimately though, it’s all secondary to Saunders and Lumley’s riotous chemistry together.
  8. Equals
    Director Drake Doremus carefully constructs an us-against-the-world romance for Silas and Nia (an idea he pulled off beautifully in the underrated 2011 drama "Like Crazy," starring Felicity Jones and the late Anton Yelchin) and provides them with a rogue band of fellow thought rebels, including Guy Pearce and Jacki Weaver.
  9. 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.
  10. Ghostbusters
    With a cast as daring and quick as this one, Ghostbusters is too mild and plays it too safe.
  11. Men Go to Battle
    The shaggy, semi-focused but assuredly offbeat debut film from Zachary Treitz (co-written with House of Cards actress Kate Lyn Sheil) blends the Civil War with Mumblecore for one of the year’s most authentic trips in the way-back machine.
  12. Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
    Efron and Devine are an endearingly loony duo, and as much as Plaza and Kendrick never quite sell their vixen shtick, the supporting cast is wickedly stacked. It’s like riding a roller coaster fueled by Red Bull and grain alcohol: kind of gross but pretty fun, too.
  13. Cell
    While it’s nice to see Cusack and costar Samuel L. Jackson downplay rather than go big, Cell has a been-there-done-that quality that winds up feeling a bit disappointing.
  14. The Secret Life of Pets
    Like a dog that endlessly chases its tail in circles, Pets is amusing for a while, then it just tires itself out.
  15. Captain Fantastic
    It’s a testament to writer-director Matt Ross, who is probably best known as an actor on shows like Big Love and Silicon Valley, that Captain skirts cliché as well as it does; his indictments of both contemporary emptiness and misguided idealism feel earned, even if it all ties up a little too Sundance-tidy in the end.
  16. Fathers and Daughters
    Fathers and Daughters’ predictable plot keeps it from ever becoming a truly enjoyable tearjerker.
  17. Our Little Sister
    Despite fine intentions and four lovely performances from the female leads, Our Little Sister is simply too light to be felt. It floats away in the wind—and the memory — like a paper umbrella.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Zero Days
    A sense of duty and morals doesn’t render Gibney infallible as a storyteller, however, as even passion for justice sometimes breeds overindulgence when you’re drunk with power and a camera.
  19. Life, Animated
    The Suskinds’ humongous hearts are obviously in the right place and their openness is to be admired and encouraged — even if a book, more than a movie, remains the better venue to fairly and honestly tell Owen’s extraordinary story.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Microbe and Gasoline
    By the end of Microbe & Gasoline, we feel a little closer to the boy who made the man behind the camera as a result.
  21. The Purge: Election Year
    If, on the other hand, it’s sleazy kicks you’re after, you’ll be in exploitation heaven. Because writer-director James DeMonaco’s third chapter in the thrill-kill vigilante franchise is the best and pulpiest Purge yet.
  22. The Legend of Tarzan
    You just wish — after two solid but oddly joyless hours — that Legend strained less to hit its marks, and swung a little more.
  23. Independence Day: Resurgence
    Disposable and shockingly inept.
  24. The Fundamentals of Caring
    Caring may be fundamental, but it never quite feels necessary.
  25. Swiss Army Man
    A hot, strange mess that never quite comes together the way it should.
  26. The Neon Demon
    The dialogue, most of which is stilted philosophy about femininity and beauty, sounds like something your freshman-year roommate said and you learned to ignore.
  27. The BFG
    Parents looking for a 21st-century E.T. to share with their kids are bound to be a bit disappointed even as their eyes are dazzled.
  28. Wiener-Dog
    In Wiener-Dog, Solondz just keeps telling the same dark joke over and over again—and it just keeps getting less and less funny. It’s a dog.
  29. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
    The film is maddeningly uneven. Just as it starts to settle into an inspired groove, it uncorks a couple of gags that fall lethally flat, making for half of a great comedy.
  30. Our Kind of Traitor
    The film, while gorgeously shot, is schematic and wholly implausible. But Skarsgård saves it; wild and funny and ferociously alive, he’s a crucial bolt of color in all that tasteful gray.
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