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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. King Arthur
    Fuqua deliberately downplays the fantastical in King Arthur, but the gritty faux realism wears itself out quickly. You've seen one lancing, you've seen them all.
  2. 44 Inch Chest
    It starts to feel less like a thriller than an actors’ workshop.
  3. Child's Play
    Unfortunately, Child’s Play is undone by a lack of tension even its best performances can’t conjure, and a familiar story that only skips lightly along the surface of gnarly ideas.
  4. Sinister 2
    Sinister 2 is far from perfect, but it has a nobility that’s rare in much modern horror cinema.
  5. Black Mass
    Johnny Depp makes a valiant stab at the part, but even with his hair thinned and lightened and his face hardened, Depp remains Depp: I never forgot I was watching a big star doing an impersonation. It’s as if the spirit of a psychopath like Bulger resists the camera. Or maybe the movie isn’t imaginative enough to penetrate his shell.
  6. To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You
    Chemistry is nothing to sniff at, but P.S. I Still Love You does come awfully close to arguing itself out of its central romance.
  7. The International
    It's good enough that you forget how much better Brian De Palma could do it. The rest is a slow road to nowhere, less clunky than "The Interpreter" but bogged down by its own cynicism.
  8. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
    Works only in spurts.
  9. Escobar: Paradise Lost
    Showing the allure and gradual corruption of power through the eyes of a third party — sort of a mixture of "The Great Gatsby" and "Scarface" — is a solid conceit. But Andrea Di Stefano’s underbaked film doesn’t quite know what to do with it.
  10. American Ultra
    American Ultra is undemanding late-summer studio fare — ultraforgettable. But I’ll remember the faces of Eisenberg and Stewart, who are easy to ridicule but, whatever the pundits say, very much movie stars.
  11. 1917
    The artifice of the aesthetic premise overwhelms any of the film’s other intentions.
  12. Kill Your Darlings
    Kill Your Darlings wants to be a young man’s movie, but it’s all “cinema du papa,” as the French New Wave used to call it. The philosophical disconnect is downright cosmic.
  13. Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
    In their move from 11-minute episodes on TV to 94 minutes, Tim and Eric have lost none of their hilarity or irreverence. But this time around, they somehow manage to be tedious, too.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Tomorrow Never Dies
    If more can't be found in Bond than this, I wouldn't object, in principle, to that tuxedo's being hung up in the closet for good.
  15. The Danish Girl
    What Hooper can’t manage is to put us inside his characters’ heads — where we should be in a story that makes every surface suspect.
  16. The Darjeeling Limited
    Hit and miss, but its tone of lyric melancholy is remarkably sustained.
  17. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
    If the narrative film only exists to give us the unsettling sliminess of Efron as Bundy, it won’t be a total waste. But it’s not much of a movie, either.
  18. Hail, Caesar!
    Their amalgamations can be feats of genius, like their stoner-gumshoe farrago "The Big Lebowski." Or they can pretty much lie there, like much of their new, star-packed comedy, Hail, Caesar!, which is nothing but movie fodder.
  19. 12 Strong
    The movie, based on the terrific book Horse Soldiers by Doug Stanton, is only so-so, but it moves at a fair clip and fills in a lot of details about the early successes of the Afghanistan war.
  20. Cavite
    It's not a particularly complex (or pleasant) film, but along the way you get a glimpse of the kinds of neighborhoods that give birth to anti-Western fanatics.
  21. Dreamgirls
    I know I'm going to bring down the room by saying I think it's just okay. Well, Jennifer Hudson is more than okay.
  22. Shooter
    This is the first big-studio action picture with some of the disgusted, bloody nihilism of the post-Vietnam era.
  23. Diablo
    By the time the film works up to its finale, what secrets it wants to reveal to us have become fairly obvious. But they still carry a dark charge; Diablo’s ultimate grisliness is impressive in its own way. And it might have worked, had the film not asked entirely too much of its young lead.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Ghosts of Mississippi
    The movie tries to turn boringness into a virtue. Every time Rob Reiner builds a little suspense, he goes off into a civics lesson, but he has nothing interesting to say.
  25. World War Z
    Without a character, he’s (Pitt) back to that soft, appraising, Robert Redford Jr. stare, his mouth half open as if he’s about to speak but plainly with nothing on his mind apart from, “This is what a movie star looks like without any lines.” The ghouls are having deeper thoughts.
  26. The House with a Clock in Its Walls
    The cast in House is exceedingly fancy, but they never seem to connect; Blanchett and Black are about as awkward a pairing as they sound on paper, engaged in two irreconcilable ways of going about their performances.
  27. Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
    The highest-gloss revenge porn imaginable. It’s hard to believe that so much visual elegance has been brought to bear on material so ugly, and yet the disjunction is intentional, and the film is all of a piece.
  28. Bubble
    Worth seeing, even if you're as ambivalent about it as I am. Its strength is in the way the drama creeps up on you.
  29. American Violet
    If you're in the mood for a liberal message movie in which the only surprise is no surprise, American Violet is the ticket.
  30. Nappily Ever After
    Unfortunately, instead of coming across as a warm throwback, Nappily Ever After is a romantic comedy saddled with a reductive understanding of black womanhood without enough cast chemistry or beauty to distract us.
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