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For 2,243 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 60% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 37% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Young Frankenstein
Lowest review score: 7 Reagan
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,591 out of 2243
  2. Mixed: 515 out of 2243
  3. Negative: 137 out of 2243
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    • 93 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Inside Llewyn Davis
    The Coens have created a film that is wholly original and highly entertaining.
  2. Super Dark Times
    Phillips simply tries to do too much.
  3. Atomic Blonde
    You won’t find much of this particularly new or enlightening. It’s a little surprising, considering how much thought Leitch (no relation, by the way) has put into the action sequences, how perfunctory and even lackadaisical the rest of the film is.
  4. Menashe
    The result is a sharp, moving dissection of personal identity and self-agency.
  5. The Emoji Movie
    The Emoji Movie’s most insidious trait is its surface-level innocuousness.
  6. Detroit
    It’s an overwhelming horror movie—maybe a little too overwhelming.
  7. The Dark Tower
    It’s so devoid of content and meaning that it’s easy to watch in spite of its terribleness.
  8. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
    Valerian wants to be weird and sexy but just won’t let itself.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 39 Critic Score
    The Gracefield Incident
    The thrills become rather predictable.
  10. Landline
    Hers is a humane vision that refuses to cast easy judgment on her deeply flawed characters, never excusing them for their unwise decisions, but understanding the inner anguish from which they arise.
  11. City of Ghosts
    You might have heard about ISIS using spiffy, Hollywood-style propaganda videos to attract new recruits, but City of Ghosts breaks down how nefarious and well-organized this operation is, as the members of RBSS point out the ways in which ISIS took clear production lessons from Hollywood to make their videos as attractive to impressionable youth as possible.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 89 Critic Score
    A Ghost Story
    A Ghost Story rewards viewers who are willing to engage with it, to accept its evolving premise and experience the expressionless specter’s afterlife as it reveals itself.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Kuso
    It’s probably a tautology to say that the patchwork surrealism of Kuso doesn’t hang together as a coherent experience.
  14. Brigsby Bear
    Brigsby Bear is so committed to its brand of self-congratulatory uplift that the filmmakers refuse to contemplate any of their material’s darker aspects.
  15. Person to Person
    While Person to Person has an appealing less-is-more stance, sometimes less is just less.
  16. False Confessions
    Isabelle Huppert walks on screen in Luc Bondy’s False Confessions intent, it seems, on reminding audiences that she can do anything, including turn a modern adaptation of outdated theater tropes into near-vital product.
  17. Endless Poetry
    It’s a rapturous, gorgeous movie about the sad joy of living, the product of a filmmaker who has spent his life wrestling with the human desire to shed banality and elude our mortality, but for all its intellectual ambitions and philosophical gravity, Endless Poetry never reads as stuffy or self-serious.
  18. Killing Ground
    It’s a really well-made genre movie, the product of a smart, obviously skilled filmmaker with a good sense of economy.
  19. Dunkirk
    It takes everything Nolan does well and everything he doesn’t, everything he fights against and everything he embraces, everything great and terrible about him, and streamlines it, focuses it, until it’s pure Nolan, straight into your veins. It’s the most Christopher Nolan film imaginable. It also might just be his best one.
  20. Wish Upon
    Wish Upon’s plotting is all too arbitrary to be earnestly enjoyable.
  21. Their Finest
    Their Finest is a joy to watch, if not for Scherfig’s direction than for Arterton’s leading performance, a mixture of affronted gumption, feminine stoicism and vulnerability that adds up to towering portraiture.
  22. Lady Macbeth
    Oldroyd...maintains such a rigorous distance from Katherine that she gradually seems less like a human being than like a mere carnival attraction.
  23. Despicable Me 3
    As much as I love to harp on Despicable Me 3’s lazy and cynical execution, this is a fairly inoffensive, zippy and colorful time-waster for the little ones.
  24. War for the Planet of the Apes
    What we’re left with in War for the Planet of the Apes is an absorbing, intelligent finale. The film builds to an ending that, although not particularly surprising, feels appropriate—even inevitable—considering all that’s come before.
  25. Genocidal Organ
    Throughout its near two-hour runtime, the film broaches many weighty subjects.... And to its credit, Genocidal Organ manages to juggle all of these hefty concepts rather capably.
  26. Inside Out
    Inside Out may be the best Pixar has released in a while, especially after a string of disappointing and underwhelming efforts, but what’s most cheering about the film—and most like Pixar’s celebrated classics—is that it’s so emotionally astute.
  27. A Touch of Sin
    Sadly, A Touch of Sin isn’t a movie that will have any trouble translating to other cultures. If anything, it’s upsetting how much Jia’s dark tale of murder, retribution and suicide echoes similar issues within America’s contentious class system.
  28. The House
    The film is a black hole that sucks comedy into its vortex, never to be seen again.
  29. The Little Hours
    Though the connective tissue keeping the film’s story together often requires its thin characters to improvise or otherwise overstretch themselves from sketch to sketch—emphasizing their relative shallowness as short story subjects—the medieval absurdity at the heart of the comedy always lands.
  30. The Skyjacker's Tale
    Despite the intriguing subject matter, this documentary can’t stay in the air.
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