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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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  1. Ghostbusters
    The new Ghostbusters isn’t a horror, exactly. It’s just misbegotten. It never lives.
  2. Life, Animated
    Owen is a hugely engaging screen presence.
  3. The Legend of Tarzan
    The new Tarzan film, The Legend of Tarzan, plays as if a dog ate part of the script.
  4. The BFG
    A labor of love that sometimes wears its love too laboriously, but a surfeit of rapture isn’t the worst thing in a movie.
  5. Independence Day: Resurgence
    This hodgepodge has been thrown together in so slovenly a way that it’s no surprise the studio didn’t show it to the press.
  6. Wiener-Dog
    I loved it, but you might not. Despite its often prostrating bleakness and an ending likely to inspire howls of outrage (Solondz’s world is not kind to children or pets), it might be the closest he’ll ever come to making an inspirational work.
  7. Finding Dory
    In the end, is Finding Dory better than Finding Nemo? It’s funnier and more intricate, but the tears it jerks have been jerked before. It’s not as original, not as deep.
  8. Genius
    Genius does a pretty good job of capturing the peculiar drama of the relationship between editors and writers, in this case some of the most revered in American letters.
  9. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
    I’d see a whole film about the adventures of Hader’s desperate-for-transcendence roadie. Unlike Popstar, it might actually go somewhere.
  10. Me Before You
    Clarke is so insistent on becoming the new adorkable life force that she’s excruciating to watch. The movie makes you admire all the more her restrained power in Game of Thrones, in which her eyebrows are largely stationary.
  11. X-Men: Apocalypse
    Watching Apocalypse, you don’t feel as if every character is being set up for his or her own spinoff. They complement one another. They need one another. The overflowing ensemble nature of the enterprise is the whole point.
  12. Maggie's Plan
    Maggie’s Plan doesn’t quite gel, but it’s very enjoyable, and it has a solid emotional core.
  13. The Nice Guys
    The Nice Guys has a nice feel: just slick enough to keep from falling apart, just brutal enough to keep from seeming inconsequential.
  14. Weiner
    Weiner is a tabula rasa documentary — one of the most provocative of its kind I’ve seen.
  15. Captain America: The First Avenger
    Until the computer-generated effects bog it down and mess up its rhythms, Captain America: The First Avenger, has a measured, classical pace and a lot of good, old-fashioned craftsmanship.
  16. Love & Friendship
    Only the generic title disappoints. Leo Rockas, who turned Lady Susan’s epistles into an Austen-esque novel, suggests Flirtation and Forbearance or Coquetry and Caution. But by any title this is a treat.
  17. Captain America: Civil War
    The best way to think of Captain America: Civil War is as a toy box in which the sheer quantity of toys partly makes up for the lack of anything new. But the big takeaway is worrisome. Marvel has created a universe teeming with superheroes who simply don’t have enough to do. They’re all suited up with nowhere to go.
  18. Keanu
    In my frequent role as “laugh accountant” for mainstream comedies, I’d estimate two-thirds of it works, and when it’s good it’s sooooo good — good enough to make you want to see Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key and director Peter Atencio and co-writer Alex Rubens do it again and go farther out.
  19. Elvis & Nixon
    A thoroughly charming comedy that bobs on a sea of incongruities.
  20. The Jungle Book
    The film is a triumph of technology and safe “family” storytelling. It’s dazzling — almost no one will dislike it.
  21. Everybody Wants Some!!
    If you’ve seen Linklater’s other films, you know that time for him isn’t just a factor, it’s a character, a player.
  22. Louder Than Bombs
    In truth, I’m not sure the movie jells — even the title, from an album by The Smiths, seems oblique. But I loved it anyway.
  23. Miles Ahead
    This is probably Cheadle’s most electrified performance since the one that made him a star, as the incorrigibly homicidal Mouse in "Devil in a Blue Dress."
  24. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
    There’s enough going on to keep you watching — and, as I said, to keep fanboys wowed by the scale of the production and pretension. But most people will leave feeling drained and depressed, wondering how a studio can get away with withholding so much.
  25. Midnight Special
    Nichols’s mythic aspirations are still a puzzle to me; I’m not sure he has connected all the dots in his psyche yet, or that he fully brings off his finale. But I love watching his movies.
  26. Krisha
    There’s an extended shot in Trey Edward Shults’s remarkable debut feature, Krisha, that’s a showstopper of bad vibes, a psycho-symphony that bumps the film to a different — more ominous — level of reality.
  27. 10 Cloverfield Lane
    10 Cloverfield Lane does what it needs to do: make you sit and squirm and want very badly to know. It has the appeal of suspense radio plays from the '30s and '40s and even a touch of Orson Welles’s most infamous Mercury Theater broadcast.
  28. The Brothers Grimsby
    Parts of The Brothers Grimsby are very funny.
  29. Creative Control
    Creative Control is the most elegant vision imaginable of a world in the process of losing its moorings.
  30. Zootopia
    What saves this big-budget cartoon behemoth is its modest, old-fashioned storytelling.
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