IndieWire's Scores

Select another publication »
For 5,164 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 59% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 38% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
Lowest review score: 0 Pixels
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,565 out of 5164
  2. Mixed: 1,333 out of 5164
  3. Negative: 266 out of 5164
5164 movie reviews
view
per page
  1. Ratchet & Clank
    So profoundly bad that it represents the worst of two entirely different mediums, Ratchet & Clank doesn't blur the line between movies and videogames so much as it flushes them both in a toilet and forces us to watch as they swirl together down the drain.
  2. Mother's Day
    Lifeless, ugly, and vaguely evil in its gross attempt to offer something for everyone, Mother's Day doesn't feel like a movie so much as it does a cinematic adaptation of Walmart.
  3. The Family Fang
    Striving to make deep statements about life, art and family bonds, it doesn't quite get there, but the effort is enough to leave a mark. Like the Fangs' own strange craft, the movie's own shortcomings speak to its themes.
  4. Captain America: Civil War
    The bigger these movies become, the smaller they feel. The more aggressively they reach for greatness, the more clearly they prove that its beyond their grasp. Marvel movies don't get much better than this. The trouble is, they don't want to.
  5. Special Correspondents
    Special Correspondents is more about smirking sideways than it is laughing out loud, but it doesn't provoke much of either — it's one thing for Gervais to subdue his usual bark, but his bite has never been softer.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Holidays
    Holidays is a fun romp with flashes of brilliance.
  7. The Meddler
    The charm of The Meddler isn't the kind that benefits from big pushes forward in narrative or massive plot movements, but it revels in heart-warming humor, vibrant characters and what's clearly a deep affection for its story.
  8. A Hologram for the King
    A Hologram For the King never congeals into a single, involving story.
  9. The Huntsman: Winter's War
    The film's narrative is both plodding and predictable, and after the third or fourth battle sequence that leans so heavily on loud, thudding noises and swirling leather topcoats that it's impossible to see who is actually hitting who (and, moreover, why), audiences may be in danger of remembering just which "reimagined" fairy tale they're watching on screen.
  10. Elvis & Nixon
    Told with the gravitas of a comedy sketch and the edginess of the funny pages, Elvis & Nixon at least has the good sense to appreciate that its namesakes were larger than life, each walled off from the world in their own way.
  11. King Cobra
    At heart, King Cobra compellingly traces the palpable tension between the performative nature of gay porn and the privacy of queer shame.
  12. Nina
    Saldana delivers her distractingly affected performance with greater conviction than most could muster under these circumstances, but no amount of ferocity can disguise the discrepancy between the 37-year-old actress (33 at the time of filming) and the 62-year-old woman she's playing.
  13. Sing Street
    Sing Street is a winsomely entertaining musical tribute to how passion can pave the way towards a better life.
  14. Wedding Doll
    The bittersweet and gently moving Wedding Doll sidesteps so many of the traps it sets for itself because writer-director Nitzan Gilady is less interested in the purity of his heroine than he is in what it reveals from within the people around her.
  15. The Jungle Book
    It’s a delightfully-executed technological wonder, which is exactly the expectation of the moment.
  16. The Measure of a Man
    Brizé ("Mademoiselle Chambon") is a humanist, not an economist, and his modest but moving new film is a welcome reminder that — for someone who can't afford to put food on the table or provide a proper education for their child— business is always personal.
  17. Hush
    Hush isn't as original as it looks. But when things go bump in the night and one person can't hear them, the possibilities are endless, and this movie exploits as many as it can before running out steam.
  18. Barbershop: The Next Cut
    Lee often seems unsure of whether he's directing a comedy or a civics lesson, and the film only finds its wings in the moments when he realizes that the two don't have to be mutually exclusive.
  19. Swiss Army Man
    This is pop art by way of lowbrow slapstick, with a premise that suggests "Cast Away" meets "Weekend at Bernie's," but really feels like a lunatic's idea of a big, broad studio comedy — or maybe a mad scientist's.
  20. The Invitation
    The Invitation maintains a unique intrigue that constantly defies expectations.
  21. The Boss
    Melissa McCarthy is hilarious in every scene of The Boss, but the movie rarely keeps up with her.
  22. Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe
    Wakefield's by-the-numbers approach to didactic storytelling relies on tons of random factoids positioned out of context to drive home his agenda.
  23. Standing Tall
    Bercot's solidly engaging if fairly routine social-realist drama mainly stands out as an actor's showcase.
  24. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
    Despite some clumsy moments, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 handily revives the first movie's appeal.
  25. I Saw the Light
    I Saw the Light doesn't just fail to illuminate Williams' complicated life and his prodigious talent; it can't even capture the dark corners of a man with more than enough to peer into.
  26. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
    Rather than focusing on a cataclysmic showdown between pop culture's most famous men in tights, Zack Snyder's flashy, cacophonous follow-up to 2013's "Man of Steel" is basically one long teaser for the next installment.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Boris Without Béatrice
    Côté often frames his protagonists in such precise compositions that the world they inhabit is inescapably artificial and symbolic, rather than dramatic.
  28. Don't Think Twice
    A delicately wrought ensemble piece with first-rate turns by Gillian Jacobs, Keegan-Michael Key, and Birbiglia himself, Don't Think Twice scrutinizes its playful setting and finds an ideal entry point for exploring creative desperation.
  29. Keanu
    Wildly entertaining in parts, Keanu overstays its welcome and just keeps going, showing the growing pains of sketch comedy drawn out to epic proportions.
  30. Everybody Wants Some!!
    Endlessly charming and sneakily wise, Everybody Wants Some!! epitomizes Linklater's unique ability to magnify human behavior with levity.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »