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For 6,911 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 8.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Fruitvale Station
Lowest review score: 0 The Fourth Kind
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,885 out of 6911
  2. Mixed: 2,801 out of 6911
  3. Negative: 1,225 out of 6911
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  1. Career Girls
    Career Girls reaches a little too often and unconvincingly for convenience... But Leigh remains one of the few film makers today to make movies that are solely character-driven, in which personal insight is its own reward. [8 Aug 1997, p.46]
    • New York Daily News
  2. Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened
    The film’s second act packs a bittersweet punch, along with the fact that the failed show is now much-respected. But all of that could have been tied up in a quicker epilogue. The chorus, so to speak, lacks a hook. Too bad, considering that, to quote a Sondheim song from the show, they “had a good thing going.”
  3. Tropic Thunder
    Although this ­satire of Hollywood inanity isn't the comic ­classic it could have been, Downey's gonzo performance is a must-see.
  4. Keanu
    Maybe Keanu would have been stronger in the hands of a more experienced director — they brought Peter Atencio over from their show — but Key and Peele know how to deliver the laughs and killer chemistry.
  5. The September Issue
    When it's all over, we still don't know who Wintour really is.
  6. War Dogs
    War Dogs may not reach "The Big Short" levels of resonance, but it clearly channels that Golden Globe-winning dramedy's newsreel aesthetic and lampooning of the Bush administration's policies.
  7. My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument
    Desplechin's film sustains its running time by continually revealing new aspects to its characters that reverse our initial judgments.
  8. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
    Riggs' original story is strong, but the characters in the movie feel empty.
  9. The Family Fang
    The Family Fang has a nasty little bite to it — and thank heavens for that.
  10. Game Night
    A lot of the jokes are surprising, and one gag...pays off terrifically. The two top stars are delightful, and a couple of cameos are nice surprises.
  11. 12 Strong
    Battle sequences on horseback are executed perfectly for maximum pulse quickening. It helps to have a few good men — with apologies to Army vets disgusted with the Marine reference — cast in the supporting roles.
  12. Miss Sloane
    Jessica Chastain plays Sloane, and she's the kind of Washington power-player who'd scare off half the cast of "Scandal" — towering heels, pulled-back hair and a taste for the kill.
  13. Pee-wee's Big Holiday
    If Pee-wee's Big Holiday is never really hilarious, neither is it ever dull. It floats along, offering goofy gags and relentlessly silly jokes that will have you LOLing — sometimes in spite of yourself.
  14. Despicable Me 3
    The film has to rush at the end, to wrap up all these different stories, and it still leaves one of them open-ended. It’s possible that they ran out of time. But it’s more likely that another sequel is already planned.
  15. American Assassin
    An international action thriller that starts slow but picks up speed and just outruns its own clichés to make for a gripping two-hour ride.
  16. Bridget Jones's Baby
    This somewhat predictable and trend-obsessed comedy about what happens when a woman of a certain age ends up expecting, and unsure of the parentage, is pregnant with comedy gold.
  17. Wonder
    Kids may not notice or care, but the movie, which advocates kindness, comes with an irony. It’s a film about embracing differences and seeing beyond appearances, but it rarely bucks convention or gets more than skin deep.
  18. The Company Men
    The Company Men recalls 1946's great post-World War II drama "The Best Years of Our Lives," and the reason isn't simply its trio of protagonists.
  19. Never Let Me Go
    A film more moving than most but not as devastating as it should be.
  20. Special Correspondents
    Some viewers may be surprised by how good Bana is doing comedy. Same with Farmiga, but that allows Gervais to leave some of the heavier lifting as far as acting to his co-stars. Gervais has again done a solid job writing and directing his own material.
  21. Made in Dagenham
    A slow, solid movie that, like Rita, sneaks up on you with its intelligence and pluck.
  22. The Sting
    But the look of a movie is not as important as how it feels. The Sting feels like a cold shower. One dashes into it primarily because of its superior cast.
  23. Observe and Report
    While it stops before sliding too far into the darkness,Observe and Report hits a lot of bull's-eyes by aiming for the gut, not easy belly laugh.
  24. Sunshine Cleaning
    Though this well-observed, wry drama is determined to be quirky, its most endearing quality, like that of its heroines, is a willingness to wallow in foul moods and come out the other side.
  25. Everything, Everything
    The twist ending both saves and hurts the film. The last few minutes are a bit clichéd, if not uplifting, but what gets Maddy there is heartbreaking and infuriating.
  26. 127 Hours
    Once Franco's on his own, everything is played across this terrific actor's deceptively goofy face.
  27. Hail, Caesar!
    Star-studded and stylish, this addition to the brothers’ acclaimed canon is a looker with laughs and, alas, dull stretches. It’s fun and entertaining — no more, no less, no exclamation point.
  28. Don't Think Twice
    Jack and Sam share a wonderful scene when performance and real life blur, which is the whole point of the movie.
  29. I Love You, Man
    The central love story, platonic though it may be, is entirely between the men. Their connection - and I’m determined to avoid the word “bromance” - saves this film from becoming just another Apatowian wanna-be.
  30. Tully
    It’s smart, funny and bursting with ideas about the joys and rigors of motherhood and reckoning with the past and the future. It’s too bad, then, that the final head-scratching stretch sinks what’s preceded.
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