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For 3,957 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 0.6 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: 2,217 out of 3957
  2. Mixed: 1,377 out of 3957
  3. Negative: 363 out of 3957
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Mudbound
    The biggest accomplishment of Mudbound is its restraint; it’s a lyrical lament that aims both for the heart and the mind. Rees, the indie darling of six years ago, is undoubtedly on her way to becoming a prominent filmmaker, with a new kind of American classic already under her belt.
  2. The Salesman
    All I can is that I didn’t draw too many breaths during the last half hour.
  3. I Am Not Your Negro
    Raoul Peck’s driving, free-form documentary I Am Not Your Negro is not a direct response to Donald Trump’s delighted recognition of the lone nonwhite face he saw at one of his rallies: “Look at my African-American over here!” But the movie feels, if anything, even timelier, which is to say, timeless.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A Dog's Purpose
    Filmed in the burnished glow that envelops all of Hallström’s American movies, A Dog’s Purpose recycles bits of every animal saga you can name, and practically dares you to make it through with a face of stone. Even a dog movie could use a higher purpose.
  5. Split
    My loathing of Split goes beyond its derivative ideas and second-hand parts.
  6. Live by Night
    Once Affleck’s Joe gets to Florida, Live by Night loses its pulse and you’re left with a lot of pale characters, secondhand plotting, and maybe second thoughts about the daffy idea of a liberal-humanist gang boss.
  7. The Founder
    Michael Keaton is sensational as Kroc.
  8. Paterson
    I’ve never seen a film that captures the inner world of an artist with such delicacy.
  9. Fences
    It’s not cinematic enough to make you forget you’re watching something conceived for another, more spatially constricted medium, but it’s too cinematic to capture the intensity, the concentration, of a great theatrical event.
  10. 20th Century Women
    20th Century Women is irreducible, too, although certain adjectives and adverbs do leap to mind: generous, reflective, absolutely delightful.
  11. Toni Erdmann
    The German comedy Toni Erdmann makes the best case imaginable for the importance of tone.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sing
    You’re either someone who didn't like American Idol at all or you’re someone who loved it and and believe the concept could only be improved upon with the addition of talking cartoon animals.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Why Him?
    Wealth does not confer decency and should not excuse noxious behavior, and it is not a replacement for a soul. But it is, apparently, the final answer to the question in the movie's title.
  14. Silence
    The movie is impressive.
  15. Passengers
    Only a corporate entity could deliver an ending like this one. But only humans could devise and enact the often delightful scenario that precedes it.
  16. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
    The movie didn’t rekindle the thrill of seeing, say, The Empire Strikes Back, but Rogue One will loom pretty large in the Star Wars galaxy — if only because there’s so little competition.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    All We Had
    Even in a rote story, with prosaic direction from Holmes, the lead performances ring true.
  18. La La Land
    The actors carry the music in their gait, their gestures, the rhythms of their speech, so that their singing and dancing is a small but exquisite step up from the way that they normally talk and walk. To rhapsodize about La La Land is to complete the experience. You want to sing its praises, literally.
  19. Jackie
    Jackie is a hard movie to love, but its brittleness might be its most admirable quality.
  20. Rules Don't Apply
    Beatty is trying to elevate the material while at the same time draining it of energy. The movie is so misbegotten that it’s almost poignant. But I hope Beatty has a few more left in him.
  21. Allied
    With Allied, Robert Zemeckis has fashioned a good old-fashioned World War II romantic espionage movie, but that wouldn’t matter a damn if the leads weren’t beautiful and didn’t look great in period clothes. They are and they do.
  22. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
    The movie might pass muster for kids weaned on the Harry Potter films — I shudder to think of the movies that pleased me when I was 7 or 8 — and uncritical critics. But you’d have to be desperate for another Potter fix to think this is magical entertainment. It’s thoroughly No-Maj.
  23. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
    The main problem with Lee’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is superficial, literally. Lee has opted for the rare 120-frames-per-second format, allegedly because he thought it would deepen our connection to the characters. He thought wrong.
  24. Loving
    It’s the damnedest thing how the longueurs of Loving have such a cumulative power. I was still crying as the credits ended.
  25. Arrival
    Why did Villeneuve and the screenwriter, Eric Heisserer, let the grade-B military melodrama run away with the story?
  26. Doctor Strange
    This is a rare case in which Marvel has freed a director’s imagination instead of straitjacketing it.
  27. Hacksaw Ridge
    Say what you will about Mad Mel Gibson, he’s a driven, febrile artist, and there isn’t a second in his war film Hacksaw Ridge — not even the ones that should register as clichés — that doesn’t burn with his peculiar intensity.
  28. The Handmaiden
    I still don’t know how a gore-meister like Park Chan-wook could have made the year’s most irresistible romance. Maybe it’s that he hates oppression — chauvinist, colonialist, Sadean — so deeply that in hoisting his old boys on their own petards, he has discovered the wellsprings of love.
  29. Inferno
    Tom Hanks takes his art down a peg with another paycheck performance as the dramatic cipher Robert Langdon in Inferno, Ron Howard’s mostly lame adaptation of Dan Brown’s wholly lame novel.
  30. Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
    The movie is lighter, more fun, and ultimately more satisfying than its weighty predecessor.
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