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For 3,961 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: 2,220 out of 3961
  2. Mixed: 1,378 out of 3961
  3. Negative: 363 out of 3961
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  1. Daughter from Danang
    This may sound like an Oprah episode, but the outcome is far from predictable and carries the force of a tragedy in which everyone, and no one, is to blame.
  2. Philomena
    The movie is overcalculating and occasionally coarse, but it has a gentle spirit. We should count its existence as a blessing.
  3. Jauja
    Jauja is a rapturously bizarre movie that resists knowledge. That’s its secret, intoxicating power; the less you understand, the more mesmerized you are.
  4. The Immigrant
    It’s richer than anything onscreen right now. It’s worth the pain.
  5. Detroit
    Bigelow and Boal don’t bring much moral complexity to Detroit. They don’t illuminate the psyches of the cops or suggest the fundamental feeling of weakness that drives people to violence. They don’t shed much light on Dismukes’s inaction or subsequent thoughts about what he didn’t do. What Bigelow does — incomparably — is put us in that room with those people at that moment.
  6. Logan
    The film is stunningly bleak and staggeringly violent. Major characters go down in showers of blood and gore. I’ve seen worse and so, probably, have you, but never from such an essentially wholesome corporate enterprise with a target audience so young and hopeful.
  7. 28 Years Later
    28 Years Later is choppy, muddled, strange, and not always convincing. But I’m not sure I’ll ever forget it.
  8. Monsoon Wedding
    Eminently disposable, but that's its charm. It stays with you just long enough to make you smile.
  9. Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe
    A 90-minute kid- and grown-up-friendly work of cartoon comedy that’s as consistently delightful and clever as the series always was.
  10. The Wife
    That’s what’s great about The Wife: Joe is no saint, and his philandering appears to be an open secret in the literary community, but it doesn’t mean Joan doesn’t love him. If she didn’t, none of this would be half as wrenching.
  11. How to Train Your Dragon 2
    Dragon 2 is at its best when it quiets down and dares to be intimate.
  12. The Disaster Artist
    The Disaster Artist is primarily a pedestal for the ultimate James Franco performance — it’s his "Lincoln." Whatever my queasiness about laughing at a head case, I couldn’t help myself from thrilling to Franco’s timing, his relish, his swan dive into an egotism that has no bottom.
  13. Broken Embraces
    This movie is utterly irresistible.
  14. Father Mother Sister Brother
    Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother finds the director in a minor key, which is sometimes his best key.
  15. Blue Caprice
    The movie substitutes milky, washed-out color and funereal music for insight. The murders are purposely un-fluid: When you see Mohammad or Malvo take a shot, you don’t see the impact of the bullet. When you see the victim struck, you don’t see the shooter.
  16. Maggie's Plan
    Maggie’s Plan doesn’t quite gel, but it’s very enjoyable, and it has a solid emotional core.
  17. Filipiñana
    Through heightened control of imagery and mood, attention to composition and texture and sound, Manuel turns this simple, languid setting into something far more sinister without ever betraying the beauty of what’s onscreen.
  18. Adventureland
    What makes the movie such an unexpectedly potent little number is that Adventureland comes to stand for Stagnationland; the real roller coaster (i.e., life) is just outside the park.
  19. Testament of Youth
    Should you ever be tempted to wax nostalgic for an age in which wars were fought according to the laws of cause and effect and for reasons that may confidently be labeled “rational,” pick up Vera Brittain’s World War I memoir Testament of Youth or steel yourself for James Kent’s mournful, very fine new film starring Alicia Vikander as Brittain.
  20. Like Someone in Love
    Like Someone in Love has rather simple, sentimental, melodramatic underpinnings, but the vantage changes everything. It opens up this world — and the next. It’s an enthralling journey.
  21. Lady Macbeth
    August Wilson knew that, which is why his plays resonate far beyond melodrama. So does Lady Macbeth. It eats into the mind with its vision of evil as a contagion that transforms victims into oppressors.
  22. Inside Man
    I found myself savoring a thriller (as well as a Spike Lee “joint”) that wasn't, for a change, in my face.
  23. Dolemite Is My Name
    Dolemite Is My Name has the glee of a John Waters movie in which it’s freaks-versus-squares, with freakishness the only healthy design for living.
  24. Guardians of the Galaxy
    The film seems content to be the class clown of the Marvel Universe, which is all well and good. But like most class clowns, sometimes you wish it would apply itself — because it seems capable of being so much more.
  25. We Are Little Zombies
    A rainbow-colored scream into the abyss, Nagahisa’s story of a quartet of orphaned tweens who start a chiptune rock band is as rigorous in its exploration of grief as it is stylistically exuberant, and one of the most exciting premieres at Sundance this year.
  26. A Prayer Before Dawn
    So there you have it. A Prayer Before Dawn: Fine entertainment. Fine teaching tool.
  27. In America
    Fortunately, there are more than enough moments when the heavy-handedness gives way to the sheer bliss of ordinary magic.
  28. Red Rocket
    It plays like a movie-length bout of aversion therapy aimed at our instinctive fondness for motor-mouthed strivers with Mikey’s every small victory creating more dread.
  29. 3:10 to Yuma
    As Ben Wade, gang leader and murderer, he gives an ironic performance, but Crowe’s irony is more intense than other actors’ obsession. He turns the idea of having so few emotions--of being beyond caring--into a bloody joke. He upstages everyone with his laughing eyes.
  30. Jane Eyre
    Wasikowska's Jane is as watchful as only a damaged soul can be, and, when challenged, frighteningly fast.
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