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For 3,962 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 47% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Hell or High Water
Lowest review score: 0 Daddy's Home 2
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,221 out of 3962
  2. Mixed: 1,378 out of 3962
  3. Negative: 363 out of 3962
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  1. The Age of Adaline
    The Age of Adaline, for its part, delivers the twists and turns of its fantastical plot with elegance and confidence. Here, the weak romance threatens to bring everything down.
  2. Woman Walks Ahead
    The movie’s most exciting moment comes when Weldon realizes that she has been played — that in helping turn the tribes against the Dawes Act, she has won the battle and lost the war, since the U.S. would now have cause to attack. That’s the moment when Woman Walks Ahead should get really good but turns, instead, into a weeper.
  3. A Walk in the Woods
    The lax, lame A Walk in the Woods is a road movie without a road, a journey of self-discovery without discovery, and a tale of friendship without any chemistry.
  4. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
    The movie plays like a strenuous imitation of Steven Spielberg instead of the real deal.
  5. You're Cordially Invited
    You’re Cordially Invited might have been better off ditching the rom of it all entirely, but Stoller is good enough at this that even if the rest of his movie consists of two slightly discordant halves, both are pretty solid.
  6. Windtalkers
    Cage is the only reason to check out an otherwise mediocre movie.
  7. Mammoth
    In the flawless cast, Williams is the most affecting.
  8. See You When I See You
    See You When I See You grapples with serious subjects, and everybody involved surely meant well. That’s just not enough.
  9. Contraband
    The result is that rare Hollywood genre film that earns its intensity rather than forcing it upon you.
  10. Breathe
    It’s a plenty good story to tell, but even by the time the respirator takes its last gasp, I was ultimately unmoved.
  11. Death of a Unicorn
    There’s enough material for a rollicking 25-minute short in Death of a Unicorn, which unfortunately spreads its goods out over the stretch of a feature.
  12. Cesar Chavez
    The ultimate effect of this film, directed by actor Diego Luna, is curiously cold — it never transcends the hagiographic nature of its material, despite a talented cast and a compelling subject.
  13. The Kid
    It succeeds sporadically as a corrective anti-myth, but as a story about people, it fails to come to life.
  14. Love
    This is not a rich, novelistic tapestry of humanity; this is a solipsistic world, enclosed on all sides by the director’s ego. But the entrapment is vivid and poignant. Look past all the beautiful people fucking, and you realize that Love is sad in all the right ways.
  15. Jack the Giant Slayer
    It’s fast, rousing, and blessedly brief.
  16. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
    As a mogul, Besson doesn’t worry about pleasing his corporate masters. He and his visual effects supervisor, Scott Stokdyk, can expend all their energy on topping themselves and making each other laugh. The movie is like a wave that makes you want to yell, “Cowabunga!”
  17. Live From New York!
    It’s too cursory, too frivolous to make a case for the show’s importance as an American institution, even though it insists on it.
  18. Bird Box
    You don’t appreciate the art of a good genre contrivance until you see one pulled off poorly.
  19. Birthday Girl
    The film's Russians are all played by French and Australian actors. Too bad Butterworth didn't find a Russian to play the Brit. That would have made the inauthenticity complete.
  20. Le divorce
    It may be that Merchant Ivory need the armature of the past in order to create a sense of the present. Le Divorce is mustier than any of their movies set back in time.
  21. Quasi
    The flaws are part of the overall effect — spontaneous and human. The reason Broken Lizard seems to keep making cult movies is because when you watch them, you feel like you were there when they made it. Broken Lizard is all of us.
  22. Mamma Mia!
    Seyfried (of Big Love and Mean Girls) is a radiant object and can sing, but I'd like to forget the others--especially Brosnan, whose singing is the best imitation I've heard of a water buffalo.
  23. Think Like a Man
    It also helps that they've got actresses like Gabrielle Union and Taraji P. Henson doing the heavy lifting of trying to show real emotion while still keeping things light and on the comedy track.
  24. Snitch
    There’s a lot of cartoonish potential in Snitch, but director Ric Roman Waugh (who previously made the excellent prison drama "Felon," another exercise in somber desperation) seems intent on trying to sell the movie as a more serious enterprise. And amazingly, the gambit works.
  25. Project Power
    The trouble with trying to push at the boundaries of the superhero genre isn’t that we’re out of material, it’s that imaginations are so limited that a film that starts with a twist on a familiar premise nevertheless loops around to a standard showdown involving an incoherent blur of computer generated effects.
  26. Skyscraper
    Skyscraper is one of the stupidest movies I’ve seen since San Andreas, but I enjoyed it a great deal — more than San Andreas, certainly, as well as Rampage and Baywatch and most other Dwayne Johnson pictures.
  27. Trial by Fire
    The movie is painstakingly well made and murderously hard to sit through.
  28. God's Pocket
    Slattery adapted the book with Alex Metcalf and gets the tone just right. The film is damnably amusing.
  29. Irreversible
    Noé shoots his sequences in long, unbroken takes, and the unblinking horror that results is, I think, the opposite of exploitation. There has been so much lurid bloodletting in the movies that you might think nothing could faze us anymore. Think again.
  30. Risen
    Still, for a film that could have easily become bogged down in Sunday School reverence, or culture-war opportunism, Risen presents an intriguing, oblique approach to a Bible movie.
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