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For 9,306 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 46% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Mansfield Park
Lowest review score: 0 Speed 2: Cruise Control
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,162 out of 9306
  2. Mixed: 2,658 out of 9306
  3. Negative: 1,486 out of 9306
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  1. Hustle
    There’s a sweetness at the film’s core that never gets too sickly. The international angle feels right for a league that has never been more worldly. Most of all, there’s Sandler, who finds something very real in Stanley, something beaten down but still hopeful. The actor has reached a point in his career where he can summon gravitas without it feeling like a hustle.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Land Ho!
    You realize fairly early in the film that there will be no emotional payoff. Just an hour and a half of vacation photos in motion.
  3. Thank You for Your Service
    “Thank You” is flawed, with a structure and pacing that dull the viewing experience, even as the message drives through. It’s a great discussion starter, but not a great finished product.
  4. Europa Report
    Director Cordero manages the not-bad trick of generating suspense while keeping the overall tone cool and collected.
  5. Romántico
    A modest documentary, small in scope and ambition, but it achieves one of the higher callings of art in that it forces viewers to look at a something in a newer, deeper and more humane way.
  6. Walking and Talking
    I don't want to damn Holofcener's efforts with faint praise, but the best way to describe Walking and Talking is to say that it's pleasant and charming.
  7. The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
    Sometimes hilarious and pleasingly intense, “Day the Earth Blew Up” can also be kind of meh. But even when not as clever as its legacy demands, there’s enough of the old aesthetic and eclecticism to make us hope that this ain’t all, folks.
  8. The Willoughbys
    With a sense of eccentric macabre that recalls Roald Dahl and Charles Addams, The Willoughbys arrives on Netflix with a winning, eclectic energy that should have kids — like the animated moppets in the film — bouncing off the walls. In a good way, of course.
  9. Shanghai Ghetto
    Consisting mostly of talking-head interviews, the film isn't especially dynamic, but it brims with insightful, poignant memories from survivors.
  10. Avengers: Infinity War
    Over the last few years, the Avengers, together and separately, have spawned a number of good, very good, or reasonably entertaining movies. But with Avengers: Infinity War, the Marvel Comics franchise arrives at the stage of decadence. There’s just too much of it. A victim of its own success, there are just too many appealing characters here to stuff into one story.
  11. F1: The Movie
    Despite traversing such a familiar track, “F1” delivers something made expressly for the big screen experience. What keeps it from being purely the kind of “theme park” Martin Scorsese demeaned in his criticism of Marvel movies is the Pitt of it all; fortunately for “F1,” it’s always Sonny on the human side.
  12. John Wick
    Reeves’ skills are on glorious display in John Wick, an expertly made revenge drama in which he goes all headshot on lots and lots of bad guys, and it’s awesome.
  13. An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
    It’s giving away nothing to say that the answers here are a mix of good news and bad news.
  14. Sometimes I Think About Dying
    Sometimes I Think About Dying is a good calling card for Ridley, who proves that she’s not limited to playing spunky adventuresses from a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Rather, she has a compressed intensity that could be put to good use in a variety of roles.
  15. Chef
    Chef is the best thing he (Favreau) has ever done, as writer or director or actor. It's the sort of thing of beauty that filmmakers are ultimately remembered for.
  16. Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
    Spitzer was undone by his zipper, but as Client 9 makes clear, he was also undone by his refusal - or inability - to make nice with some of the state's most powerful characters.
  17. Detropia
    We are left to ponder whether this nightmare might be a harbinger of America's economic prospects. And that is a scary thought indeed.
  18. Missing Link
    It’s hardly a masterpiece — it’s a fairly simple tale, well-told, with a silly, derivative climax and rather disappointingly brief depiction of the Yeti culture. Yet it is blessedly devoid of the manic, ADD pace of many animated movies, with a winning trio of characters. As Commander McBragg might say, “Jolly good show!”
  19. Why We Fight
    A somber polemic that presents a convincing case against using war as an economic booster -- although, Jarecki argues, that is precisely what the United States has been doing under every president since Truman.
  20. Dream Horse
    Dream Horse is full of heart and interest. Throughout, Collette makes us believe in the human-animal connection between Jan and Dream Alliance, which is touching, mysterious and deep.
  21. Women Without Men
    Has compelling stretches, but the film's formal concerns overwhelm the storytelling.
  22. Down Terrace
    It's hard to decide what's worse about this feral clan residing in Brighton, England: their unspecified criminal enterprises, their penchant for bloody vengeance or their twisted family dynamic.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    On Golden Pond
    None of these issues are fully resolved, but just enough ... and that’s what makes On Golden Pond cinema gold.
  24. Twister
    It's hard to dislike a picture with flying cows and oil trucks.
  25. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
    It is not what could be fairly called a bad movie, but neither is it fine enough to be a good one, with its lineup of dull characters and a limp story that functions like a conveyor belt.
  26. Theeviravaathi: The Terrorist
    It's hard not to come away in awe of a director in complete control of every frame.
  27. Son of the Bride
    Manages to be affectionate without drawing too deeply from a well of sugar and schmaltz.
  28. The Black Balloon
    It's compassionate but unblinking.
  29. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
    Obviously a passion project, but Ejiofor keeps his film grounded in reality and avoids histrionics. And even though the plot is predictable from the get-go, the cast in uniformly good, and it’s hard not to be moved when William’s water-pumping invention carries the day. His story is one that’s worth telling.
  30. Timecrimes
    Overall, it's a nice melding of sci-fi and a crime story.
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