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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. Mustang
    Ergüven's film, beautifully shot and beautifully performed, cuts its storybook tone with starker, more brutal truths. Anger - aimed at a conservative social order and those complicit in maintaining it - courses through this sad, striking tale.
  2. The Benefactor
    One of those what-were-they-thinking projects in which good talent is on very bad display.
  3. The Revenant
    The Revenant is exhilarating cinema.
  4. Joy
    Joy's entry into the world of entrepreneurship has the crazy trajectory of a rocket gone haywire, and Russell's movie is kind of haywire, too.
  5. The Hateful Eight
    An epic work of self-indulgence and smug riffing, stringing together tropes from TV and screen westerns and closed-room whodunits, The Hateful Eight announces itself with all the pomp and circumstance of a mid-century cinema spectacle.
  6. Carol
    Mara and Blanchett are each extraordinary, working in the most organic and soul-stirring ways.
  7. Youth
    Symphonic and cinematic, full of melancholy and hushed magic.
  8. The Suspect
    It's grown-up, deadly serious, and free of the ham-handed romantic subplots that mire so many films from the region in ick stew.
  9. Sisters
    It's a sweet, funny comedy starring two of the best and brightest in the game.
  10. Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
    The Force Awakens is half reboot, half remake, and all fun.
  11. Macbeth
    If Macbeth comes off at times like a Classics Illustrated comic-book adaptation (there is one, from 1955), it can also be quite moving, quite troubling, haunting, even.
  12. The Danish Girl
    It looks lovely in an art-directed way, and Eddie Redmayne, who won his Oscar earlier in the year for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, looks lovely, too.
  13. Chi-Raq
    In-your-face polemic, with nowhere to go once the point has been made. Repeatedly.
  14. Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
    Richly informative and fascinating.
  15. James White
    An accomplished and compelling film by writer/director Josh Mond, James White is also pretty much a bummer.
  16. Trumbo
    It's a period piece full of colorful characters, natty costumes, jaunty music.
  17. Victor Frankenstein
    A kind of mad coming-of-age yarn embellished with lightning bolts and monsters made of cadaverous flesh.
  18. Creed
    Creed is corny like the old Rocky films, but riveting like the old Rocky films, too.
  19. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
    If Mockingjay - Part 1 is quieter and less flashy than its predecessors, that doesn't make it less satisfying.
  20. Altered Minds
    A small, intimate micro-budget effort, Altered Minds boasts terrific production values, pitch-perfect performances, and an eerie soundscape of found noises that evoke the feel of a surreal nightmare.
  21. Tab Hunter Confidential
    It's refreshing to see an actor tell his own story with some real honesty. Overall, however, Tab Hunter Confidential is too much like every other Hollywood True Story out there.
  22. Brooklyn
    Brooklyn is that rare period drama that doesn't lose itself in its dogged re-creation of another time.
  23. Secret in Their Eyes
    Secret in Their Eyes is notable for its top-tier cast - Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman, and Chiwetel Ejiofor are the leads - and for its utter lack of credulity and good sense.
  24. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
    If Mockingjay - Part 1 was walkier and talkier than its forerunners, Part 2 is pretty much all action - and lesser for it.
  25. The Hallow
    Amid all the horror and the black ooze, there emerges a deeply touching story about the power of love.
  26. What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy
    What Our Fathers Did is a movie about historical and filial responsibility, about repudiation, about acceptance, about the pain we inherit, and the pain that continues to be doled out.
  27. Shelter
    Despite its terrific performances and its great use of locations, Shelter doesn't have enough substance to hold your attention or linger in the mind for long.
  28. Love the Coopers
    Watching people be miserable with each other for the movie's run-time does not always make for a pleasant experience.
  29. Spotlight
    Inspiring stuff, the stuff of Hollywood all the way back to Frank Capra and before: a story of scrappy underdogs, determined to get to the truth, and toppling the mighty in the process.
  30. Heart of a Dog
    Ghosts haunt Heart of a Dog - but so, too, does love.
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