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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. Pete's Dragon
    What Pete's Dragon lacks in original plot, it makes up for in heart
  2. Little Men
    Credit to Sachs and his co-screenwriter, Mauricio Zacharias, for creating a complex gentrification fight, along with cinematography by Óscar Durán and music by Dickon Hinchliffe that is both gritty and dreamy.
  3. Suicide Squad
    Fans will probably appreciate Suicide Squad for trying something different — and it gets bonus points for diversity — but the weaker characters and generally weak plot keep it from being one of the better comic book movies.
  4. Tallulah
    Tallulah is a sensitive and stirring look at motherhood.
  5. Bad Moms
    If you've birthed a tiny human or know someone who has, it's time to find a babysitter, call the girlfriends and get to Bad Moms — the raucous, sexy and crass comedy packed with loads of mother-funny jokes.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Equity
    The always strong Gunn does her best with the very familiar, quickly paced storyline.
  7. Nerve
    Nerve, a thriller set in a world of smartphone-obsessed teens, is clever, exciting, sweet and full of quick twists that never devolve from serving a well-built story.
  8. Jason Bourne
    Once the story drags Bourne out of retirement, it's just a bunch of fights and chase scenes, only occasionally interrupted by a few lines of dialogue.
  9. Ice Age: Collision Course
    Like the very asteroid that is hurtling toward Earth in the movie, Ice Age: Collision Course is chunky, clunky and bulky. Unlike the asteroid, the film seems to move at a glacial pace.
  10. Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
    As a full-length film this fashion industry over-the-top farce about two hot messes behaving badly — and boozily — is both too much and too little.
  11. 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.
  12. Lights Out
    While the central visual of the figure in the dark goes a long way to provide the essential scares, the success of the film is just as much about what the filmmakers do to develop the characters that the audience cares about.
  13. Star Trek Beyond
    It's not only filled with the usual special-effects eye candy, but smart, fan-focused writing.
  14. Café Society
    The rom-dram is wistful and wisecracking, boasts a polished ensemble and is such a period looker you wish you could time-travel to the Jazz Era.
  15. Ghostbusters
    The all-new, mostly female Ghostbusters reboot is in theaters, full of terrific special effects, icky green slime, a horribly haunted Manhattan and, yes, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. But the big laughs you’d expect from a "Bridesmaids" reunion of director Paul Feig and stars Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy never materialize.
  16. The Infiltrator
    The movie rises thanks to an ace in the hole: Bryan Cranston, whose stirring star turn hooks us completely.
  17. Captain Fantastic
    Gorgeously photographed, and as loosey-goosey as its hero, Captain Fantastic takes some unexpected turns. Is Ben eccentric or irresponsible? Is he raising free-thinking iconoclasts — or training a new generation of Unabombers?
  18. Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
    As dumb as "Mike and Dave" can get, it's a surprisingly fun summer comedy and icing on the (wedding) cake for fans of the raunchiest of humor.
  19. Our Kind of Traitor
    Generally, one expects political thrillers to offer a little more suspense or excitement, so when this is such a deathly dull affair, you wonder what you might be missing.
  20. The Secret Life of Pets
    Here's something dog people and cat people can agree on: The Secret Life of Pets is hilarious, sweet and as fun for parents as the brats they take with them to the movies.
  21. The Purge: Election Year
    After three disturbingly violent films, this may be a concept that deserves to be purged.
  22. The Legend of Tarzan
    Alexander Skarsgard is more abs than actor as the ape man, and Margot Robbie's Jane looks about as 19th-Century as an Aussie surfer girl. Together, they produce all the real-life passion of an Abercrombie & Fitch ad.
  23. The BFG
    Fun and likable, occasionally even delightful.
  24. Independence Day: Resurgence
    While the first "Independence Day" was genuinely big, dumb fun, its sequel only manages to be a bigger, dumber bore.
  25. Free State of Jones
    The film gets predictable and loses its firm grip a third of the way in. Too bad, since the film directed and co-written by Gary Ross (“The Hunger Games,” “Seabiscuit”) gets off to a bang-up beginning.
  26. The Shallows
    Despite the genre and setting, this is still very much a performance piece, and Lively is more than just a pretty face and bikini bod. She has to do a lot with very little to work with other than a scene-stealing seagull.
  27. Breaking a Monster
    Meyers leaves little editorializing in the film, though it seems unusually sympathetic to the band’s manager, Alan Sacks, who often treats the unseasoned musicians like employees instead of kids.
  28. The Neon Demon
    Presumed to be Nicolas Refn's foray into the horror genre, but apparently, no one bothered to tell the filmmaker that.
  29. Swiss Army Man
    Swiss Army Man's greatest challenge is to its audience. Just, exactly, how much will we sit still for? Endless scenes of Dano in role-playing drag, sporting a rag-mop wig and giving dating tips to a corpse? Frequent closeups of Radcliffe's furry flatulent buttocks?
  30. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
    The best thing the director has going for this one is the talented young actor playing Ricky Baker, as he constantly tries to emulate his tough "gangsta" heroes like Tupac Shakur. (He even names his dog "Tupac.")
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