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For 3,960 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: 2,219 out of 3960
  2. Mixed: 1,378 out of 3960
  3. Negative: 363 out of 3960
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  1. The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
    It turns out to be absolutely delightful.
  2. Cop Car
    Cop Car does enough things so well for so long that to quibble with its finale feels churlish. This is a film very much worth seeing.
  3. Dark Places
    As a result, the mystery itself eventually becomes tiresome and shrug-worthy, even as the film breathlessly racks up the revelations. In the end, this twisty thriller just winds up twisting in the wind.
  4. The Gift
    It’s that rarest of psychological thrillers: one that actually lives up to the words “psychological thriller.”
  5. The Diary of a Teenage Girl
    The first thing to know about The Diary of a Teenage Girl is that young British actress Powley is staggeringly good in it.
  6. Shaun the Sheep Movie
    Shaun the Sheep might look like an exciting, no-nonsense tale for little kids — and it totally is, on one level — but beneath its pitch-perfect simplicity lies great wisdom and beauty.
  7. Fort Tilden
    The movie is broad and mean and for a while very funny, but even when it goes sour — when the world slaps them in the face for their sins — it doesn’t lose its momentum.
  8. Mistress America
    Mistress America is hit-and-miss. It’s not as burdened by blame as other Baumbach films — Gerwig leavens him. But it’s labored.
  9. Fantastic Four
    Given the level of talent involved both in front of and behind the camera, nobody should feel much joy — no anti-tentpole schadenfreude or blockbuster-busting righteousness — to discover that the latest Fantastic Four film is a catastrophe
  10. The Kindergarten Teacher
    Lapid’s thrilling use of the camera, the way his unbalanced frame and his imaginative staging work with the precision of his story, results in something new and genuinely unnerving.
  11. Best of Enemies
    Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville’s masterful Best of Enemies leaves you with an overwhelming sense of despair. It’s not just a great documentary, it’s a vital one.
  12. The End of the Tour
    At times the movie’s small canvas feels momentous. They’ve found the inner tensions in people’s presentations of themselves in a way that’s positively Wallace-like.
  13. Listen to Me Marlon
    Stevan Riley’s Listen to Me Marlon is the greatest, most searching documentary of an actor ever put on film, and it’s no coincidence that it’s about film’s greatest and most searching actor.
  14. Vacation
    Vacation is lazy, idiotic, and gross — and I laughed my ass off at it.
  15. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
    The best reason to see Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation is Rebecca Ferguson, a Swedish-born actress passing easily as a British spy named Ilsa.
  16. Unexpected
    Smulders’s performance makes Unexpected more than worthwhile.
  17. The Vatican Tapes
    A tired, unscary, incoherent mess.
  18. Southpaw
    I veered between being awed and appalled, though mostly the latter. The trouble with Gyllenhaal is that he shows little range, not from role to role but within roles.
  19. Phoenix
    A haunting, morbidly romantic melodrama with obvious links to "Vertigo," but from a reverse angle.
  20. Paper Towns
    The result isn’t an all-the-feels, drown-us-in-tears kind of experience, but something rooted in wisdom and clarity. It’s the rare movie that can sacrifice the clean lines of fantasy and melodrama for the messiness of ordinary life — that neither burnishes nor condemns the up-down turmoil of the teenage soul, but rather lets it be.
  21. Pixels
    A movie like Pixels should be stupid and energetic, not stupid and lifeless.
  22. A Hard Day
    It’s our sense of adventure that matters in the end. We must cultivate confusion and dare to be disoriented.
  23. The Look of Silence
    This small, grim documentary about Indonesia is actually a bigger and grimmer movie about all of us — our capacity for both breathtaking evil and, occasionally, profound bravery.
  24. The Stanford Prison Experiment
    It is remarkable, however, that The Stanford Prison Experiment works as well as it does, and for as long as it does. Crudup and the young cast (particularly Angarano) deserve much of the credit.
  25. Mr. Holmes
    Sherlock Holmes is totally cool again, which warms my dorky heart.
  26. Lila & Eve
    Lila & Eve is an awkward movie, though sometimes by design.
  27. Ant-Man
    Ant-Man isn’t much more than pleasant (Peyton Reed directs limply), but anything Marvel that doesn’t feel Marvel-ish makes me smile.
  28. Irrational Man
    Woody Allen’s philosophical thriller Irrational Man is irrationally entertaining. It shouldn’t work. It’s laughably plotted and sketchily written. Intellectually, it’s jejune — or at least high in jejunosity. But if you can manage to keep your eye-rolling in check, you might find yourself getting into it.
  29. Trainwreck
    If you’re an Amy Schumer, you’ll be ecstatic to see her strut her stuff on the big screen in the mostly (about four-fifths) delightful sex comedy Trainwreck — and maybe a tad disappointed when the playbook turns out not to be entirely hers.
  30. Cartel Land
    The even-tempered, exceedingly rational “El Doctor” seems more laudable than Eastwood and Bronson combined, especially in light of the Mexican government’s notorious ineptitude and corruption.
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