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For 4,545 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: 2,928 out of 4545
  2. Mixed: 987 out of 4545
  3. Negative: 630 out of 4545
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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Wiener-Dog
    What happens to the film's title character — and the audience — shouldn't happen to a dog.
  5. The Shallows
    While this nailbiter sure as hell ain't swimming in the same classic waters as "Jaws," it gets the jolting job done.
  6. Free State of Jones
    Like the worst civics lesson, this movie bores away at you till your reactions are dulled.
  7. Les Cowboys
    Les Cowboys pulls in with no intention of letting you go. It's a workout worth taking.
  8. 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.
  9. The Neon Demon
    What I can't buy is that Refn has made a movie this lifeless and devoid of human interest.
  10. The Fits
    The Fits is more than a transporting film experience. It's cinema poetry in motion.
  11. Finding Dory
    If Finding Dory lacks the fresh surprise of its predecessor, it still brims with humor, heart and animation miracles.
  12. Central Intelligence
    Central Intelligence always takes the lazy way out. You go along for the ride because Hart and Johnson promise something they can't deliver: a movie as funny as they are.
  13. The Conjuring 2
    What makes The Conjuring 2 play deeper and darker than a warmed-over version of The Exorcist is director James Wan (Saw, Insidious, Furious 7). This Malaysian-born filmmaker can make his camera do terrifying tricks that are almost supernatural.
  14. De Palma
    Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow, filmmakers themselves and De Palma fans to the bone, haven't gathered a bunch of talking heads to debate De Palma's significance. They just put the man himself on camera, mic him up and let him rip. The result is heaven for movie lovers.
  15. Now You See Me 2
    If you fell for the 2013 original — and surprisingly, many did — then Now You See Me 2 has got your number. For the rest of us, however, this longer, louder sequel adds up to what one character calls "a sack of nada."
  16. Warcraft
    What's onscreen is a godawful mess, leaving the actors to suck wind while the film collapses around them. If you've never played the game, you might as well watch the movie stoned.
  17. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
    Cowabunga, the vigilante demi-gods on a half shell are back, and more inane and irritating than ever. Their antics make the 112 minutes it takes to watch this frenetic followup to 2014's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles a torturous mindfuck for any sentient being over the age of infancy.
  18. Me Before You
    It also doesn't grapple deeply enough with the core questions it raises, settling for telling a sob story that will go down easy at the box office. Still, you can't blame audiences too much for being seduced by two shining young stars in a movie romance that hits the spot, bitter and sweet.
  19. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
    Popstar mixes the hilarity with a surprising amount of heart. 4Real.
  20. Alice Through the Looking Glass
    The script by Linda Woolverton stays surface faithful to the characters created by Lewis Carroll, but the film has lost its soul.
  21. X-Men: Apocalypse
    Director Bryan Singer, who started the whole thing in high style with 2000's "X-Men," returns for a fourth time. Singer shows a lot of energy, but he and screenwriter Simon Kinberg (Fantastic Four, yuck) let the movie get way overcrowded.
  22. Weiner
    This spellbinder about a politician in free fall would be hilarious if it weren't so agonizingly true. OK, it's still pretty funny because Anthony Weiner — the subject of this documentary — can't stop shooting himself in the foot.
  23. The Angry Birds Movie
    There's no denying the movie's high spirits or its irresistible invitation to shake your sillies out.
  24. Maggie's Plan
    Without pushing or showing off, Miller creates a breezy comedy that pulls you up short. Buoyed by faultless actors who mesh beautifully, Maggie's Plan tickles you with laughs that can — suddenly or even days later — choke you up with emotion.
  25. The Nice Guys
    There are even times when Black seems to be letting Crowe and Gosling make the whole thing up as they go along. Not a bad thing.
  26. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
    Rogen and Byrne are crazy fun company.
  27. High-Rise
    Wheatley and screenwriter Amy Jump (his wife) have energized Ballard's parable of class warfare in the technology age with a daring approach that will touch a nerve or have you bolting for the exits.
  28. The Lobster
    The Lobster, with a score that samples everyone from Beethoven to Nick Cave, comes at you with images that burn and laughs that stick in the throat. Take the challenge of this movie — it'll keep you up nights.
  29. Love & Friendship
    I can't think of a more wickedly modern romantic comedy.
  30. Money Monster
    Foster's film doesn't doubt that money rules our lives. But it does wonder, provocatively, why we're dumb enough to let it.
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