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For 4,534 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 0.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 The Wolf of Wall Street
Lowest review score: 0 Joe Versus the Volcano
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,923 out of 4534
  2. Mixed: 982 out of 4534
  3. Negative: 629 out of 4534
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  1. A Bigger Splash
    Everything in this movie is so ripe and voluptuous that watching it doesn't seem enough, you want to take a bite out of it.
  2. Captain America: Civil War
    Kudos to the Russo brothers, Joe and Anthony, for directing the hostilities for maximum impact and without neglecting character. Their thundering epic is also smart, snappy, politically savvy and blessedly fast on its feet.
  3. Papa: Hemingway in Cuba
    As a movie, Papa improves every time it shuts up and allows action to define character.
  4. The Family Fang
    Kidman and Bateman make a potent team in a provocative film that questions the limits of art in a world that forgets to be human. The result is funny, touching and vital.
  5. Mother's Day
    Director Garry Marshall is a menace. He keeps killing holidays with all-star comedies in which a laugh would die of loneliness.
  6. Keanu
    Even when the laughs don't always snap, Key and Peele are ready with another one or a dozen that do. These dudes really are the cat's meow.
  7. A Hologram for the King
    There's no denying the ambition in A Hologram for the King, but a struggle does not add up to a satisfying movie — or even a reasonable facsimile of the beauty and terror Eggers evokes on the page.
  8. The Meddler
    The Meddler belongs to Sarandon, a famously no-bull actress who digs in deep, showing us how moms aren't one thing, they're all things. How else can they make you laugh from love and cry from crazy? The Meddler knows how. Listen up.
  9. Nina
    Onscreen, Nina barely scratches the surface much less draws blood. For the essence of a legend, listen to the real Simone sing "I Put a Spell on You." She sure as hell does. This movie emphatically does not.
  10. Elvis & Nixon
    It ain't fact, but it is damn entertaining fiction.
  11. The Huntsman: Winter's War
    Nothing can match seeing Theron and Blunt try to out-camp each other, providing the only glimmer of entertainment in a film dedicated to being ponderous. No one sings "Let It Go," but my advice to audiences is to do just that before mistakenly buying a ticket.
  12. Barbershop: The Next Cut
    Barbershop: The Next Cut is stagey, often simplistic and it talks too damn much. But, hell, the talk has flavor and snap and a real-world sense of a community in crisis. Not bad for an escapist romp.
  13. Green Room
    Green Room is way more than crass exploitation. It's a B movie with an art-house core.
  14. Sing Street
    Sing Street is the most romantic movie you'll find anywhere these days, brimming over with music, fun and the thrill of first love.
  15. The Jungle Book
    A visual marvel that cuts a direct path to the heart.
  16. Demolition
    When humor is served black, they call it dramedy. When it's done in this movie, I call it indigestible.
  17. The Boss
    The result this time is just as hit and miss. But when it hits, yowsa.
  18. Hardcore Henry
    It's all about the ride, the relentless wallop and whoosh. But, hey, sometimes that's all a cine-junkie needs for a fix.
  19. Miles Ahead
    Like "Born To Be Blue," Miles Ahead is allergic to all things biopic, especially the cheap psychology and the effort to tie up a complex life with a neat bow.
  20. Everybody Wants Some!!
    It'll slap on a smile on your face that won't quit.
  21. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
    What once bubbled up from a sincere love of Greek family has now congealed into the all-too-familiar Hollywood tale of milking a cash cow until cries for mercy.
  22. I Saw the Light
    Hiddleston is not what's wrong with this movie. But damn near everything else is.
  23. Born to be Blue
    Everything that makes Ethan Hawke an extraordinary actor — his energy, his empathy, his fearless, vanity-free eagerness to explore the deeper recesses of a character — is on view in Born to Be Blue.
  24. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
    Better than Man of Steel but below the high bar set by Nolan's Dark Knight, Dawn of Justice is still a colossus, the stuff that DC Comics dreams are made of for that kid in all of us who yearns to see Batman and Superman suit up and go in for the kill.
  25. My Golden Days
    Yes, it's in French with English subtitles. Don't worry. Nothing gets lost in translation as this coming-of-age tale brims over with humor, heartbreak and ravishing romance.
  26. The Divergent Series: Allegiant
    If only their stuff had a spark of life it might be forgivable, but Allegiant plods along like a franchise on its last legs. Who remembers where we left off last time in Insurgent? My point exactly — no one.
  27. Midnight Special
    Go with it. Let Nichols turn your head around. He sure as hell will. One caveat: Nichols drops you into the action, no backstory road map. What you see is what you get. Luckily, what you get is extraordinary.
  28. Hello, My Name Is Doris
    Even when the film fails her, Field never loses her focus.
  29. City of Gold
    In essence, City of Gold is a celebration of a critic who helped define a city by what it eats. And at a bargain price. So take notes, and dig in.
  30. Creative Control
    Creative Control goes its own playful, provocative way. For a film about technology's growing dehumanization, this stylized beauty is a frisky, formidable temptation.
  31. The Brothers Grimsby
    It's the strafing satire that's MIA.
  32. Eye in the Sky
    The suspense is killer as military minds in the US and the UK come together only to lock horns on a drone operation in Nairobi.
  33. 10 Cloverfield Lane
    10 Cloverfield Lane comes loaded with everything a psychological thriller needs to shatter your nerves — and then kicks it up a notch.
  34. London Has Fallen
    Make American movies great again. You can start by boycotting this one.
  35. Knight of Cups
    Must all films about alienation be themselves alienating? Take a walk on the beach and ponder that one. There's a line between artful and arty, and Malick has crossed it.
  36. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
    There's a lot going on here. Maybe too much. The filmmakers can't draw coherence out of chaos. But Fey does.
  37. Zootopia
    A tour through the byways of Zootopia is a bracing blend of color and richly detailed design.
  38. Gods of Egypt
    Some movies are so effing awful they're hilarious. Gods of Egypt falls short of that lofty goal. Not because it isn’t effing awful — it so is — but because it pretends to be in on the joke.
  39. Only Yesterday (1991)
    Only Yesterday comes from a quieter, less demonstrative place. As he did in his most recent and reportedly final film, "The Tale of the Princess Kaguya," Takahata has built Only Yesterday to go gently and to last. Mission accomplished.
  40. Eddie the Eagle
    The filmmakers don't trust us to understand what Eddie is feeling about the Olympics without blaring a musical message from Hall and Oates on the soundtrack, "you make my dreams come true."
  41. Triple 9
    Triple 9 is no "Reservoir Dogs," but it is a twisty, terrific ride.
  42. Risen
    So Risen joins the swelling ranks of faith-based films that pander to audiences instead of serving them.
  43. Race
    Race is at its best when it fills in the corners of a story we only thought we knew.
  44. The Witch
    A crafty calling card brimming with beauty and terror. Eggers pulls us into the supernatural with subtle cunning and meticulous attention to detail.
  45. Tumbledown
    Following his surprisingly subtle work in "Sleeping With Other People," Sudeikis again shows real skills as an actor.
  46. How to Be Single
    Though Wilson is always reason enough to see a movie, she’s stuck here in a fluffball that plays like warmed-over subplots from "Sex and the City."
  47. Where to Invade Next
    No laugh in this doc – and there are plenty – goes out without a sting in its tail.
  48. Zoolander 2
    Zoolander 2 sweats its silly ass off to please. The results are scattershot. But when it works — oh, baby. There's a bit with Justin Bieber and a selfie that, well, no spoilers.
  49. Deadpool
    This movie's junky feel is part of its charm. Sure it goes on too long and repetition dulls its initial cleverness. Still, Deadpool is party time for action junkies and Reynolds may just have found the role that makes his career.
  50. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
    Funny? Sometimes. Scary? Almost never. PP&Z spins merrily and menacingly along for about half an hour. Bad luck that the movie's running time is 107 minutes.
  51. Hail, Caesar!
    Hail, Caesar! is basically a day in the life of this studio cop, whose job is his religion. And Brolin, in a heart-and-soul performance, takes this crazy quilt of a movie about a man surrounded by nut jobs and plays it for real. He's just tremendous.
  52. The Finest Hours
    On the waves, The Finest Hours finally finds its sea legs and delivers an old-school adventure based on a heroic deliverance that deserves its day in the sun.
  53. The 5th Wave
    Despite the strong presence of Kick-Ass star Chloe Grace Moretz as Cassie, the movie is selling the same old YA yada yada yada that made phenoms of "Twilight" and "Divergent."
  54. Ride Along 2
    It's simply a retread of the first Ride Along, a 2014 box-office hit, and proof positive that a bigger budget doesn’t buy bigger laughs.
  55. 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
    Is there an audience for this? Sadly, yes. There’s nothing wrong with a movie that cheers American heroes. But this one does so by reducing everything else to cardboard.
  56. The Lady in the Van
    Look, it's fun to watch Shepherd hate on bratty children, classical music and liberal pieties. Smith's acid tongue makes any line sound better. But the subplot about a blackmailer (Jim Broadbent) who terrorizes Shepherd in the dead of night adds nothing, least of all a purpose.
  57. 45 Years
    A mesmerizer that will creep into your dreams whether you let it or not.
  58. Anomalisa
    Filtered through Kaufman's searching mind and soulful brilliance, the result is a masterpiece.
  59. Concussion
    The film goes slack when its screws most need to tighten. Luckily, Smith — flawless in accent and commitment to Omalu's worthy cause — grips you from first to last.
  60. The Revenant
    You could gripe about the excess of carnage and lack of philosophical substance. But surviving nature is Iñárritu's subject, and he delivers with magisterial brilliance.
  61. Joy
    The 25-year-old supernova (Lawrence) again proves she can do anything, moving from comic to tragic without missing a beat.
  62. The Hateful Eight
    At three hours, this Western whodunit can feel like too much of a good thing. But Tarantino writes like a flamethrower. His incendiary dialogue feels like profane poetry. And the dude thinks big.
  63. Son of Saul
    There's nothing trivial about this Hungarian masterwork from first-time director László Nemes. You don't merely witness horror, you feel it in your bones.
  64. Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
    The action, from lightsaber duels to X-wing dogfights with TIE Fighters, is explosive and buoyed by John Williams' exultant score. And the movie is also funny as hell. Abrams knows how to build a laugh and fill the emotional spaces between words.
  65. In the Heart of the Sea
    Only landlubbers would resist the rousing action of man versus leviathan. Sure it's old-school. So what. Howard puts heart, soul and every computerized whale trick in the book into crafting a seafaring adventure to rock your boat.
  66. The Big Short
    A hell of a hilarious time at the movies if you're up for laughs that stick in your throat.
  67. Hitchcock/Truffaut
    From "The 39 Steps" and "The Lodger" to "Rear Window," "Psycho" and all stops in between, this film gets us drunk on Hitchcock's movies again. My only problem with Hitchcock/Truffaut is that it's too short at 80 minutes. More please, and soon.
  68. Macbeth
    If you haven't seen Marion Cotillard play Lady Macbeth, you really haven't seen the role inhabited with the glorious fire and ice it needs to haunt your dreams.
  69. Youth
    Youth is superior cinema, ardent and artful. Sorrentino, an Oscar winner for The Great Beauty, fills every frame with ravishing images that evoke his idol, Fellini. Gloriously shot by Luca Bigazzi and scored by David Lang, the movie engulfs you like a dream.
  70. Chi-Raq
    Here's Spike Lee at his ballsiest. Who else would take Aristophanes' Lysistrata, set in ancient Greece, and prop it up in present-day Englewood, Chicago, where violence is so prevalent the locals call it Chi-Raq, a mash-up of "Chicago" and "Iraq."
  71. The Danish Girl
    What Hooper has crafted is a work of probing intelligence and passionate heart.
  72. Creed
    The good news is that Coogler puts his own stamp on it. You can feel this fine indie talent stretching his wings in the mainstream.
  73. The Night Before
    It's rowdy fun with a dash of sweetness.
  74. Secret in Their Eyes
    The Americanized version is miscast, misguided and misbegotten.
  75. Legend
    Helgeland's script is hit-and-miss, not on the Oscar-winning level of his L.A. Confidential. Still, Hardy is a show all by himself, an actor flying without a net and having a ball. You will too.
  76. Carol
    Haynes' commitment to outcasts, then and now, makes Carol a romantic spellbinder that cuts deep. It's one of the year's very best films.
  77. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
    The good news is that Mockingjay – Part 2, the big finale, has quit the ass-dragging in favor of what made the book a page-turner. There's the visual fireworks, for sure. But there's also the darkness of the theme.
  78. James White
    Some movies are so good and true and tough-to-the-core they should just sneak up on you. James White is one of them.
  79. The 33
    Inspiration is what The 33 is selling. And it's hard not to get caught up in the rescue. You forgive the movie its faults, or most of them, because its heart is firmly in the right place.
  80. By the Sea
    Writer-director Angelina Jolie's attempt to emulate European art cinema is a slow, sodden, stupefyingly dull take on a 1970s marriage gone bad.
  81. Trumbo
    Luckily, Trumbo has a powerhouse Bryan Cranston to light a fire under the moldier clichés in John McNamara's script.
  82. Spotlight
    This landmark film takes a clear-eyed look at the digital future and honors the one constant that journalism needs to stay alive and relevant: a fighting spirit.
  83. Brooklyn
    Brooklyn is easily the year's best and most beguiling love story. The surprise is that it also goes deeper, sadder and truer.
  84. SPECTRE
    Craig puts heat and heart into Spectre, as if he's taken Bond as far he can. The movie is a fever dream of all the Bond villains and all of Bond's efforts to see a life past them.
  85. Burnt
    A cheerless and unappetizing plate of piffle that deserves to be smashed against a wall or at least sent back to the kitchen.
  86. Our Brand Is Crisis
    Director David Gordon Green and screenwriter Peter Straughan sometimes stumble over this vast terrain of self-serving scoundrels (Trump trumps anything they can make up), but the laughs keep firing.
  87. I Smile Back
    Silverman, digging so deep into her character that we can feel her nerve endings, is like nothing we've seen before. She's fierce and unerring. No showing off; she just is. This is acting of the highest caliber.
  88. Suffragette
    What makes Suffragette a relevant rabble-rouser, besides Mulligan's fierce, affecting performance, is the way it won't bow to the kind of Hollywood formula that tsk-tsks about how bad it was then — only to wrap everything up with a comfy banner that says, "You've come a long way, baby."
  89. Rock the Kasbah
    Director Barry Levinson and screenwriter Mitch Glazer lucked out getting Bill Murray to play Richie Lanz, a loser who makes losing hilarious. Murray just kills it.
  90. Goosebumps
    Nonstop mayhem follows in a stampede of comic terrors ready made for Halloween. Sure it's exhausting. But Goosebumps, knowing its audience, lets it rip.
  91. Crimson Peak
    A ghost story in which superior camerawork, costumes and production design work together to put the audience in a trance. It's tough on actors not to get swallowed up in the scenery.
  92. Room
    Room deserves to be seen unspoiled. All you need to know is that the performances of Larson and Tremblay will blow you away.
  93. Truth
    Blanchett burns on a high flame, and Redford finds the wounded dignity in Rather.
  94. Beasts of No Nation
    It's the remarkable Attah, whose young face reflects a hellish journey, that makes this fierce movie a blazing, indelible achievement.
  95. Bridge of Spies
    Bridge of Spies may be a snooze to the ADD crowd allergic to historical drama, but it's dished out by experts.
  96. Pan
    Joe Wright's origin story of Peter and the lost boys has to be the dimmest, deadliest take ever on J.M. Barrie's Pan myth.
  97. Steve Jobs
    If you're going to interpret on film the searching mind of an indisputable genius, it helps not to make too many dumbass moves. On that basis, score a triumph for Steve Jobs, written, directed and acted to perfection, and so fresh and startling in conception and execution that it leaves you awed.
  98. Freeheld
    If Freeheld cuts corners to get its point across, Moore and Page never do. You'll be with them all the way.
  99. The Walk
    Ignore the tell and focus on the show, spectacular in every sense.
  100. The Martian
    This suspenseful survival tale, smartass to its core, slaps a smile on your face that you'll wear all the way home.
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