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For 361 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 72% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 27% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 72
Highest review score: 100 Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Lowest review score: 0 Seventh Son
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 246 out of 361
  2. Mixed: 88 out of 361
  3. Negative: 27 out of 361
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Keanu
    Visceral action (including an opening sequence that masterfully sets the tone for the rest of the film); a sharply written and directed script; rich, dynamic characters; and, as promised, the world’s cutest cat (other than yours if you have one) combine to create a gut-busting, endearing, salty-sweet, and highly re-watchable comedy.
  2. Godzilla
    This could easily be ground zero for a whole new series of films, but if it remains a stand-alone single movie, Edwards told an entire story, and for the first time in as long as I can remember, it feels like Godzilla actually matters.
  3. Begin Again
    John Carney, who wrote and directed "Once," has made another great film that focuses on songwriters and the way their lives influence their work.
  4. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
    The film is frantic from start to finish, and I suspect it will wear some people down completely. I thought there was a point where it stopped being funny and started being exhausting, but my kids went positively ballistic for it.
  5. Veronica Mars
    As someone who enjoyed the show enormously while it was on the air, I am relieved to report that the film felt to me like it successfully recaptured the spirit of the show's first season.
  6. Bad Turn Worse
    Things escalate nicely over the course of the film, and there is a creeping sense of dread that is carefully calibrated.
  7. Lucy
    There are moments of real wonder and even beauty amidst the slam and the bang and the big bada boom, and while Lucy is a mixed bag, it's been mixed by a master, and it is delightfully, happily insane.
  8. Grand Piano
    The sheer sly joy of the filmmaking that is on display here is one of the reasons I go to movies.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Boxtrolls
    I can't remember the last time I saw a family animation so visually rich, tightly scripted and charmingly performed which was also built on a sound and progressive message.
  10. The Secret Life of Pets
    Like any comedy that throws 1000 jokes at you, some land and some don’t, but it’s the confident, cheerful energy of the humor that carries the day.
  11. Magic Mike XXL
    It is rowdy at heart, but smart about it, and it is one more reminder that Channing Tatum is really not like anyone else working in movies right now. It is also celebratory in the way that the first film was sad, concerned more with self-acceptance than running from something.
  12. Kingsman: The Secret Service
    This is a case of all the elements lining up and pushing a potentially good film into the great category because of just how well executed it is.
  13. SPECTRE
    They have tried, with this Daniel Craig run of films, to elevate the Bond movies so they are more than just acceptably silly spy movies, and one of the reasons SPECTRE is so frustrating is because it feels like the collapse of that ambition, and it is in one moment that you can see the entire thing burn to the ground.
  14. Ghostbusters
    The original Ghostbusters will always be a classic that means something special to me. The good news is, there’s a whole new generation that’s about to feel that way about this one. And more power to them.
  15. Trumbo
    Cranston has his moments and you have to laud his attention to detain in channeling Trumbo’s unique voice and mannerisms. Unfortunately, he’s so committed that his character borders on being a caricature.
  16. Tomorrowland
    Tomorrowland may be well-made, but whether you're talking about it thematically or dramatically, this is a profoundly mixed bag.
  17. Goosebumps
    There's not an ounce of fat on the film. It feels like it moves forward in every single scene, and while it's a little mechanical about how it follows three-act structure, it's almost charmingly old-fashioned about it.
  18. They Came Together
    There are probably funnier satires out there, but They Came Together is laser accurate in the way it skewers its targets.
  19. Standing Tall
    While Bercot's intentions are admirable, she and co-screenwriter Marcia Romano have conjured up too many moments that play out like thousands of courtroom scenes you've seen before.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Heli
    Heli executes its shocks with sleek, gasp-inducing effectiveness, but neither its politics, nor its shifts in physical perspective, ever surprise or disorientate us.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Humbling
    Pacino himself isn't exactly bad, but he's far from good, and it's difficult to see past the terrible role.
  22. Unbroken
    When it comes to this particular story, I find myself unconvinced in the end. Unbroken looks like the real thing, but evaporates upon closer scrutiny.
  23. I Smile Back
    No one who sees I Smile Back will question if Silverman was right for the role, they will simply question whether this was a story that needed to be told in the first place.
  24. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
    By focusing on a few key emotional arcs instead of making it about every shot being the BIGGEST THING OF ALL TIME, Jackson gives the battle a sense of urgency that builds and ebbs, builds and ebbs.
  25. Mr. Peabody & Sherman
    The film plays with some funny ideas about time travel, and like any good time travel movie, it flirts with paradox and what happens when you violate the rules of time and space. It doesn't really go far enough with those ideas, though, and the end result is too often timid instead of brash and silly.
  26. Run All Night
    Run All Night starts off on the wrong note and never recovers. It is entirely too serious and entirely too thin, and that combination turns what might have worked as a pulpy action romp into this po-faced, overly somber march from one unlikely plot point to another.
  27. Jurassic World
    Trevorrow seems to be genuinely enjoying what he's doing, and it's that sense of someone having fun behind the camera that ultimately won me over.
  28. Unfriended
    It's obvious that they're aiming for something more fun than genuinely haunting, and it helps that there is a good deal of humor used to punctuate the horror. It doesn't all land, but there's a fair amount of wit in something as simple as watching what someone types, deletes, then retypes.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The Voices
    Perhaps a little more successful when winking at genre expectations than when playing things straight, The Voices is funny, disturbing and whimsical.
  30. Dolphin Tale 2
    Its sweet nature combined with its strong messages about responsibility and empathy make it feel like something family audiences in particular should enjoy.
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