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For 4,176 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 70% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 27% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Hell or High Water
Lowest review score: 0 The Mangler
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,145 out of 4176
  2. Mixed: 682 out of 4176
  3. Negative: 349 out of 4176
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  1. Zootopia
    Apart from its anthropomorphic, allegorical angle, Zootopia is also a tale of female empowerment and a classic noir, too.
  2. London Has Fallen
    An impossibly enjoyable live-action cartoon that plays on our real-life anxieties about vengeful cadres of foreign radicals blowing up people - and places.
  3. King Georges
    The relationship between the young American and the old Frenchman is as rich as one of Perrier's sauces: the pupil and the teacher, the son and the father, the keen protégé and the stubborn classicist.
  4. Boy and the World
    Emotionally engaging and unhampered by dialogue, Boy & the World will appeal to children with its deceptively simple story and its visual splendor.
  5. Eddie the Eagle
    A triumphant, feel-good, laugh-out-loud, sports biopic.
  6. Triple 9
    Most parties concerned maintain their grim countenances, their characters struggling to find the sweet spot between honor and greed, between doing the right thing and doing the absolute worst.
  7. Only Yesterday (1991)
    It's transformative.
  8. A War
    Lindholm's mastery of film form is matched by his willingness to engage with some of the most intractable moral quandaries that haunt contemporary life.
  9. Risen
    While it descends too often into the melodramatic, it's a solid, smart picture and a welcome addition to the genre.
  10. The Club
    We can't but enjoy the movie and its oddball characters - which makes us somehow complicit in their crimes.
  11. The Witch
    The Witch is a stressful movie to watch, and that's meant as the highest praise.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Tumbledown
    Tumbledown comes up light in the categories that matter most, miring a capable cast in a forced cable-knit folksiness familiar to anyone who has ever watched anything set in New England.
  13. Race
    The film delivers what it promises - an education and a thrill.
  14. Deadpool
    Deadpool is, on the whole, a big bowl of fun filled with great stunts, gory fight scenes, and sexy poses.
  15. Where to Invade Next
    It's not a critique but a rather graceful, witty, and stylish film that offers possible solutions to the problems Moore believes plague the United States.
  16. Zoolander 2
    For every laugh that Zoolander 2 elicits, there's a pang that all this was funnier the first time around.
  17. How to Be Single
    The execution may not be there, but at least it has good intentions. Then again, you know what they say about the road to hell.
  18. The Choice
    If you're looking for a reason to watch pretty people and cry, then, by all means, head to the theater. But it pales in comparison to other Sparks works, especially when it gets into medical-ethics territory.
  19. Hail, Caesar!
    A goofy conflation of Coenian elements: the numbskull huggermugger of "The Big Lebowski", the La La Land surrealness of "Barton Fink", the Old Testament overlay of "A Serious Man."
  20. Anesthesia
    The irony of Anesthesia is that, while it uses interconnectivity as a storytelling mechanism, the characters do not really connect.
  21. The Lady in the Van
    Try not to let the film's overbearingly jaunty score get in the way. The Lady in the Van is quite a feat.
  22. Kung Fu Panda 3
    It's easy to mistake the simplicity of plot and theme here for simple-mindedness - this isn't Pynchon or Proust. Kung Fu Panda 3 has the economy of a Zen koan, not to mention its inner harmony and wisdom.
  23. The Abandoned
    Despite its formulaic structure, The Abandoned has a lot going for it. It eschews cheap scares, bloodletting, and gore. Instead, it works the audience with good, old-fashioned suspense. And it has heart.
  24. Lamb
    Partridge portrays David with immaculate timing and meticulous attention to detail. We feel for the character's pain, but never quite trust him.
  25. Mojave
    It would better to call it Two Actors in Search of a Story.
  26. Dirty Grandpa
    Characters are introduced as archetypes to serve as jokes and little more.
  27. Ip Man 3
    For all its grand promises, Ip Man 3 teeters uneasily among B-movie clichés.
  28. Son of Saul
    Offers a crushing view of humanity at its most desperate, and a view of one man's fevered efforts to find grace and dignity amid the horror.
  29. 45 Years
    45 Years is a study in economy, in the beautiful symmetry of word and image and music.
  30. 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
    13 Hours, by its very subject matter, can't help but tap into the confluent veins of politics and patriotism.
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