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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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  1. Daddio
    Daddio is a classic two-hander, focusing entirely on the seesawing power dynamic between two very different individuals. As such, it’s at times theatrical and precious, a bit too on the nose with its metaphors and symbols and running themes. But boy, can it be fun to watch these two go at it.
  2. Bug
    Has the feverish compression of live theater and the moody expansiveness of film. The mix is insanely powerful.
  3. The King
    The King has enough in its coffers to keep you moderately engaged.
  4. Abigail
    It’s a cheap-thrill movie, and on that score it mostly delivers.
  5. Destroyer
    Kidman’s performance as this broken, obsessed woman is powerful. Breathless, rasping through her teeth, she conveys both vulnerability and intractability. She seems like she could drop dead at any second, and yet, we also sense that we’re watching someone who has already had to endure the worst life has to give her.
  6. Sleight
    The film lives and dies by Latimore’s performance, which is quiet and ever-shifting.
  7. On Chesil Beach
    Unfortunately McEwan, adapting his own work, and first-time director Dominic Cooke, have a hard time rendering the touchy, interior subject matter cinematic; a potentially promising story of an emotional and physical impasse is flattened so much as to be offensive.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Front Page
    Billy Wilder's remake of The Front Page is a refreshing refurbishment for our time. [23 Dec 1974, p.71]
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  9. The Rental
    Everything dissipates in such a spectacularly unsatisfying fashion that you might wonder if you dreamed the whole thing.
  10. The Interpreter
    Penn is terrific in his low-key doggedness.
  11. The Monkey
    The problem is that The Monkey has a hole at its center. It isn’t comedic enough to distract from the fact that the film traffics in rote archetypes, and it doesn’t quite pluck the heartstrings of its audience over the ragged inheritance from fathers to their sons either.
  12. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
    For all its calculation and manipulation, there's a very human movie somewhere within Marigold Hotel. You might just have to wade through a thousand clichés to get to it.
  13. Lucy
    An outlandishly entertaining mixture of high silliness and high style.
  14. The Devil Wears Prada
    A scantily clad revenge memoir.
  15. Apostle
    Apostle is ultimately an absorbing, horrifying movie that’s maybe not as smart as it wants to be. But it is a lot stranger, and more disturbing, than you might expect.
  16. Zoolander
    When he's playing a relatively normal guy ringed by eccentrics, as in "There's Something About Mary" and "Meet the Parents," Stiller can be flat-out funny. In Zoolander, he's just one nutso among many, and he cancels himself out.
  17. 2 Days in New York
    Delpy may be starting to channel Woody Allen's directorial skills, but Rock has fully appropriated the Woodman's barbed comic anger.
  18. Stop-Loss
    It’s ironic that Stop-Loss loses its momentum when the characters go on the road. Yet Rasuk--the star of "Raising Victor Vargas"--gives a stunning performance.
  19. How to Train Your Dragon
    All in all, this live-action adaptation works remarkably well — a rare feat.
  20. September 11
    An ungainly, intermittently harrowing omnibus filled with moments of piercing sorrow and rage.
  21. Runaway Jury
    The inevitable showdown between these two paragons is something of a fizzle; there's too much over/under-acting going on.
  22. Stolen
    Little turns out well in Rebecca Dreyfus's Stolen, a haunting and expansive documentary.
  23. Big Miracle
    The film bulldozes any genuine nuance or insight or even emotion in exchange for ready-made plot points and by-the-numbers catharsis.
  24. Margaret
    This is the first bad movie that has ever made me call for a sequel - to get it all right.
  25. Copshop
    It’s clever but not cute, savage but not depressing, and cartoonish but not asinine.
  26. Ice Age
    Marvelously funny.
  27. Stuck
    The film becomes an aria of agony--but with a rousingly yucko finish!
  28. Edmond
    Depressing, disgusting, and dated, Edmond is worth braving to experience America’s best-known serious playwright at his most gruesomely undiluted.
  29. The Wackness
    The movie feels autobiographical--emotionally authentic (with a fair amount of bitterness toward women) and somewhat unshaped.
    • New York Magazine (Vulture)
  30. Americana
    The movie is called Americana, not America, and while it treats characters as mixtures of what they were born into and what they chose for themselves, it suggests that there’s something kitschy about the very idea of national identity, whether it’s defined by what’s in your display case or the color of your eyes.
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