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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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    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Fist of Fury
    It doesn’t quite work, but Lee’s fight choreography is so riveting it doesn’t matter.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Sterile Cuckoo
    There is all too little here to interest an adult, let alone any veteran of the nutty-girl vs. stodgy-boy chiche. [27 Oct 1969, p.68]
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  3. The Illusionist
    The ending dispels a lot of the magic, but the silent-movie palette is gorgeous, and the film is worth seeing for the inspired hamming of Paul Giamatti as Vienna's chief inspector, whose plummy tones made me sure I could hear the ghost of James Mason cackling.
  4. Office Space
    Office Space is so enjoyable that you wish it were even better...Once the scheme to bilk Initech is set in motion, the off-kilter humor flattens into a take-this-job-and-shove-it thing, and the ending seems pooped-out.
  5. Professor Marston & the Wonder Women
    What Professor Marston and the Wonder Women does, with a wink but refreshingly few snickers, is color in the life-giving fantasy that fueled the creation of the perennially embattled American icon.
  6. For Your Consideration
    Gooses you even in its barren patches and gets fresher and funnier as it goes along. It builds to a shriekingly funny (and scary) revelation and a dénouement so brilliant it's almost demonic.
  7. A Civil Action
    I'm all for films that don't flow from the usual Hollywood test tubes, but A Civil Action is basically the standard formula with a dash of downbeat.
  8. Richard Jewell
    I think Eastwood’s audience is going to eat this movie up, and maybe even turn it into a rallying cry. The legacy of the bombing of Olympic Centennial Park might end up suiting the bomber just fine.
  9. Heaven
    A great deal of energy is expended on metaphysical ruminations that become ever fuzzier. The film is intended as an allegory, but it works best as a jailbreak romance. In this movie, lowbrow trumps highbrow every time.
  10. The Bourne Identity
    All this is diverting but also borderline dull.
  11. American Animals
    The bigger problem is that stupidity just isn’t a very interesting subject.
  12. Leave the World Behind
    Unfortunately, the film doesn’t demonstrate any kind of interest in, or affection for, its characters. They’re cardboard cutouts, there to represent postures rather than evoke our sympathy or humanity or even curiosity.
  13. 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.
  14. Everybody Knows
    The mystery becomes popcorn-chompingly compelling, each new piece of information adding shading and dimension to the true shape of the family. Nobody is above suspicion or below empathy.
  15. The Wedding Banquet
    Even though we can foretell just about everything that will happen in The Wedding Banquet — every plot twist, every screwball complication — we don’t much mind, because the comedy is so brisk and good-natured.
  16. Hustle
    Hustle works, and it works beautifully, thanks to Sandler’s commitment.
  17. Thank You for Your Service
    Thank You for Your Service is a more critical film than most in this milieu, and it’s refreshingly honest about mental-health issues.
  18. The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
    The jokes might not be the funniest, the bits might not be the wittiest, but it’s all done with such verve and velocity that we might not notice.
  19. Avengers: Infinity War
    Flagrantly, bombastically extravagant, it plays its audience like a hundred million fiddles.
  20. Maps to the Stars
    Please don’t bore me by complaining that the characters are “unlikable.” The defense admits that the movie is indefensible. Just breathe in the aroma of decay and howl like a banshee.
  21. F1: The Movie
    This is Pitt’s movie, and like its star, it never opens itself up enough to truly take off.
  22. John Wick
    John Wick is a violent, violent, violent film, but its artful splatter is miles away from the brutality of "Taken" or the gleeful gore of "The Equalizer." It’s a beautiful coffee-table action movie.
  23. An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
    As a character study, it’s highly successful, but given the context it will be watched in — albeit not quite as oxygen-deprived and manic as Sundance — it feels a little too pat.
  24. The Way, Way Back
    The story doesn’t feel dramatized. It feels pitched.
  25. Chef
    A comfort movie about comfort food, Chef won’t knock your socks off, but it believes in itself — and for Favreau, that’s all that matters.
  26. Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
    It's probably easier for an ex-prosecutor known for macho threats to say he got caught screwing than for him to say he got screwed. But folks, he was reamed.
  27. Journey to the West
    Chow is at his best when juggling disparate elements – tragedy, slapstick, romance, melancholy, fantasy. Everything is big with him; he seems incapable of underplaying anything. The crazier his movies, the better. And Journey to the West might be the craziest thing he’s done yet. You may wonder, afterwards, if you dreamt it all.
  28. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
    The film remains too mannered for its own good; it’s unquestionably nice and well-intentioned, but lacking momentum.
  29. The Party's Just Beginning
    A brutal, meandering depiction of a quarter-life crisis, Gillan’s script is staunchly resistant of silver linings or “it gets better” messaging.
  30. Friends with Money
    Friends With Money doesn't quite snap into focus. It just floats along-an agreeable comedy of manners with actors you like to hang out with.
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