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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. Equity
    To the credit of this scrappy, admirably femcentric film, crisply directed by Meera Menon from a tightly wound script by Amy Fox (with Reiner and Thomas also doing double-duty as producers), Equity refuses to paint a rosy picture of women at the top.
  2. Jason Bourne
    Through it all, Damon keeps us glued to the war going on inside Bourne's head. It's a brilliantly implosive performance; he owns the role and the movie. It's a tense, twisty mindbender anchored by something no computer can generate: soul.
  3. Nerve
    There's a killer idea circling this tricked-up teen thriller, which is more than you can say for most summer movies. But the idea never lands because Nerve lacks the, well, nerve to follow through on its convictions.
  4. Indignation
    Indignation is one of the few adaptations of Roth's work to make it to the screen with its claws intact — Schamus reveals his gifts as a filmmaker who respect the words and the space between them in equal measure.
  5. Ice Age: Collision Course
    The fifth entry in the Ice Age series is a loud, lazy, laugh-starved cash grab that cynically exploits its target audience (I use the term advisedly) by serving them scraps and calling it yummy. Even two-year-olds can see through the hustle.
  6. Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
    Saunders and Lumley are all about keeping the party going. So grab your Bolly, darlings, and party on.
  7. Don't Think Twice
    It feels lived it, honest and painfully funny.
  8. Lights Out
    Predictable stuff, energized by some spiffy scare effects from cinematographer Marc Spicer who works wonders with underlighting. But the on/off tricks would grow tiring without actors who perform well beyond the call of fright-house duty.
  9. Star Trek Beyond
    Despite the futuristic tilt in the title, Star Trek Beyond works best when it boldly goes retro.
  10. Equals
    Equals is really about possibility in a world gone cold from insisting that things can't change. Sound like any place you know?
  11. Café Society
    Café Society isn't peak Allen, in the manner of such recent high points as "Midnight in Paris" (2011) and "Blue Jasmine" (2013), but the film — which could be helpfully subtitled Manhattan v Hollywood — feels lively, lived-in and fallibly human.
  12. The Infiltrator
    Sadly, Furman keeps shoving the movie into the box of clichés he thinks the audience wants. We don't, and you can tell that Cranston doesn't want it either.
  13. Ghostbusters
    The big surprise here is McKinnon, also an SNL MVP (her Hillary is already iconic). She's a live-wire whose every gesture, reaction and line-reading seems fresh and off-the-wall — a spontaneous eruption of hellfire hilarity.
  14. Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
    It's a bummer that the jokes don't land often enough, especially in the final third when the tone takes a turn for the tame. WTF!?!
  15. Captain Fantastic
    The film doesn't take sides, but it does fairly, subtly and movingly represent them. Captain Fantastic takes a piece out of you.
  16. The Secret Life of Pets
    An animated fluffball that does everything to drive you crazy and ends up by being totally irresistible.
  17. Life, Animated
    In no way does Owen's story claim to be a cure-all. Instead of false hope, it offers up possibility, the chance of a stimulus that might get past the blocks of developmental disorder. That's more than encouraging. Life, Animated is truly inspirational.
  18. Our Kind of Traitor
    No knock on McGregor and Harris — fine actors both — but they never hold us rapt the way the plot demands.
  19. The Legend of Tarzan
    It's a heavy thematic load for a single movie to handle — especially this one, which nearly collapses from its burden. But it's hard to fault director David Yates, who captained the last four Harry Potter movies, for having ambition.
  20. The Purge: Election Year
    You can be a pissed-off Tea Partier or an Occupy advocate and find something here to stoke your fat cat hatred; either way, catharsis is doled out not in a dusk-til-dawn homicidal free-for all but two harmless hours in a theater.
  21. The BFG
    For special effects alone, there's no problem: They're spectacular. And there's no faulting Mark Rylance, a newly-minted Oscar winner for Spielberg's Bridge of Spies, whose motion-capture performance as a 24-foot giant is both subtly nuanced and truly monumental.
  22. Independence Day: Resurgence
    Independence Day: Resurgence pretends there's fresh ground to cover. There isn't, but director Roland Emmerich makes a good show of faking it.
  23. Wiener-Dog
    What happens to the film's title character — and the audience — shouldn't happen to a dog.
  24. The Shallows
    While this nailbiter sure as hell ain't swimming in the same classic waters as "Jaws," it gets the jolting job done.
  25. Free State of Jones
    Like the worst civics lesson, this movie bores away at you till your reactions are dulled.
  26. Les Cowboys
    Les Cowboys pulls in with no intention of letting you go. It's a workout worth taking.
  27. Swiss Army Man
    There are times when this mindbending bromance actually achieves a twisted tenderness. There are also times when you'd like to ride Manny's farts to the nearest exit. It's your call.
  28. The Neon Demon
    What I can't buy is that Refn has made a movie this lifeless and devoid of human interest.
  29. The Fits
    The Fits is more than a transporting film experience. It's cinema poetry in motion.
  30. Finding Dory
    If Finding Dory lacks the fresh surprise of its predecessor, it still brims with humor, heart and animation miracles.
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