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For 4,534 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
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. Wonder
    Wonder is an emotional wipeout, that's for sure, but Chbosky handles it with such tenderness and delicacy, you won't hate yourself (too much) for giving in.
  2. Roman J. Israel, Esq.
    Washington digs so deep under the skin of this complex character that we almost breath with him. It's a great, award-caliber performance in a movie that can barely contain it.
  3. Mudbound
    The director and her cinematographer Rachel Morrison do wonders with the elements that batter the people of every race and social class in the Delta. But it's the storm raging inside these characters that rivets our attention and makes Mudbound a film that grabs you and won't let go.
  4. Justice League
    Justice League is a decent crowdpleaser, preferable in every way to the candy-assed cynicism of Suicide Squad. But sometimes shadows need to fall to show us what to be scared of. In the end, this all-star team-up is too afraid of the dark to work its way into our dreams.
  5. Thelma
    There's too much undeniably impressive filmmaking to dismiss Thelma; there's too much uncertain storytelling to actually recommend it. Trier undoubtedly has a great horror-movie character study in him. We can't wait to see it.
  6. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
    It's a renegade masterpiece that will get you good.
  7. Murder on the Orient Express
    Murder on the Orient Express offers audiences a deluxe journey to the past, but this pokey train goes off the rails about the time all the characters, except for Poirot, cease to matter.
  8. Last Flag Flying
    The compensation comes in watching these three marvelous actors have a go at it, which they do with piercing humor and heart.
  9. My Friend Dahmer
    A warped wonder of a movie that takes twisted to areas few have investigated.
  10. Lady Bird
    Just when you think there's nothing original or exciting left to mine from a coming-of-age story, along comes the totally irresistible Lady Bird – a reminder that no genre is played out when there's a new artist around to see it with fresh eyes.
  11. Novitiate
    Shot through with grit and grace, Novitiate is a potent provocation. It's also something special.
  12. Suburbicon
    Clooney is too talented and committed a filmmaker not to get in his licks. But with Suburbicon, he's made a movie that is tonally at war with itself.
  13. Thor: Ragnarok
    The whole movie is a grab-bag of insanity so off-the-chain hilarious that you stick with it even when the convoluted plot goes haywire.
  14. The Snowman
    Well, it's a little confusing. And slightly incoherent in terms of how it lays out the book's narrative about a serial killer who is targeting mothers and whose calling card is a snowman. And sort of not very good overall. It's bad.
  15. BPM (Beats Per Minute)
    At the end, with Sean's condition scarily deteriorating, the raw and riveting BPM musters the emotional power to floor you.
  16. Only the Brave
    The surprise MVP runner-up here is Connelly, despite her tendency to get kind of yell-y during key dramatic moments. Her lonely Amanda is a better written version of a typical long-suffering-spouse.
  17. Wonderstruck
    A film of extraordinary details that adds up to less than the sum of its parts. But, oh, it gives a lovely light.
  18. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
    Even the opaque hints can drive you cuckoo with frustration. Lanthimos does not coddle his audience. His M.O. is to shock, provoke and leave you talking to the voices inside your own head. The choice is yours.
  19. Breathe
    Does the script by William Nicholson sometimes hit the sentiment pedal too hard? It does. But look at the tale it's telling.
  20. Professor Marston & the Wonder Women
    Thanks to Professor Marston and his real-life Wonder Women, something close to a death blow was dealt to the demeaning, centuries-old image of the damsel in distress. It's a hell of an origin story.
  21. The Foreigner
    Campbell keeps the action cooking and the suspense on a high burner in this compulsively watchable conspiracy thriller, while The Foreigner proves again is that Chan is the Man – now and forever.
  22. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
    Your only mistake would be to not see it at all, and miss out on one of the unalloyed pleasures of the fall movie season.
  23. Walking Out
    If their contribution to the man-vs-nature genre isn't exactly top-tier, Walking Out still hits its marks in terms of father-son melodrama with an uncanny precision.
  24. Una
    In the case of Una, the play's the thing, with the stage production coming at you in a rush that doesn't allow the characters or the audience to take a breath. In this personal hell of Harrower's creation, there is no exit. The movie, however, keeps opening the door and letting the air in.
  25. Faces Places
    Sheer perfection – that's the phrase that springs to mind when describing the humanist miracle that is Faces Places, the year's best and most beguiling documentary.
  26. The Florida Project
    Willem Dafoe should be on top of Oscar's Best Supporting Actor list for his stellar work in The Florida Project, a film that's as hilarious and heartbreaking as it is unclassifiable.
  27. Brawl in Cell Block 99
    If many male stars of a certain age are destined to become late-act action heroes, we hope this is Vaughn's "Taken," and his particular set of skills will continue to involve dishing out such graceless, effective hurt.
  28. The Mountain Between Us
    And just when you think this movie cannot get more unendurable ... it does. And then some. You can see every twist telegraphed from miles away even in a driving blizzard. The Mountain Between Us is epic all right – an epic waste of talent and your time.
  29. Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
    What the film, based on books by Felt and John D. O'Connor, lacks in narrative drive it strives to make up for with psychological probing.
  30. Flatliners
    I'm dumbfounded by the idea of remaking a movie that was no damn good in the first place. Is it the possibility of making it better? The exact opposite happens with Flatliners.
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