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For 543 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 38% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 60% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Past Lives
Lowest review score: 10 The Emoji Movie
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 247 out of 543
  2. Mixed: 240 out of 543
  3. Negative: 56 out of 543
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  1. Dunkirk
    Dunkirk would have been even better, though, if any of the characters seemed as fully realized as the aerial and naval warfare. Without that, it works best as pure sensory experience; incredible visuals, intense battles. In the rare quiet moments, we’re invited to observe an unusual instrument featured in Hans Zimmer’s score: The ticking of a clock, a reminder that while Nolan can change the march of time, his heroes cannot.
  2. War for the Planet of the Apes
    This movie takes big risks, and many of them pay off. War for the Planet of the Apes proves that big movies aren’t incompatible with big ideas.
  3. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
    The latest from the French filmmaker is a dazzling feast of spectacular visuals and exhilarating set pieces. It’s Besson’s most ambitious film to date, and the most original big-budget adventure you’ll see on screen this season. But such ambition doesn’t always come without flaws.
  4. Inside Out
    It is, from start to finish, one of Pixar’s best films.
  5. Spider-Man: Homecoming
    Spider-Man: Homecoming is a return to form, featuring an incredibly likable cast, a compelling and complicated villain, and a irrepressibly charming Spider-Man. Welcome home, Peter.
  6. Transformers: The Last Knight
    The Last Knight is not, in any conventional sense, entertaining or good, although parts of it are spectacular.
  7. Cars 3
    While this movie may not reach the heights of Pixar’s finest achievements, it certainly stands as not only the best Cars, but the most mature one as well.
  8. It Comes at Night
    It may unfortunately ring hollow for some, but for those who acutely empathize with the ravages of grief, Shults has delivered a film more horrific than any boogeyman or ghoul in recent memory.
  9. The Mummy
    The nonsensical story would matter less if The Mummy would get out of Cruise’s way and let him do what he does best. Instead, it buries him beneath punishing dialogue scenes and surrounds him with unconvincing and unoriginal special effects.
  10. Wonder Woman
    Wonder Woman is exciting, romantic, funny — and my favorite DC Extended Universe movie to date. With her courage and strength, Diana sets an example for everyone she meets, and she holds fast to her ideals even under great pressure. With any luck, she’ll provide similar inspiration to the directors of the DC Extended Universe in the years ahead.
  11. Baywatch
    Baywatch’s comedy (credited to six different writers) is second-rate and its action is even worse, with special effects that rank among the absolute worst I’ve seen in a big summer movie in many years.
  12. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
    Dead Men Tell No Tales is the sort of sequel that’s so bad it makes you retroactively wonder why you liked the original film so much in the first place.
  13. Alien: Covenant
    The reason to look past the movie’s issues is Fassbender.
  14. King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
    A bloated action movie with occasional breaks in the monotony. It’s Perfectly Fine™; entirely competent but unexceptional in just about every way.
  15. The Circle
    Despite a rapidly escalating plot, The Circle lacks any momentum, a problem that’s only made worse by woefully underdeveloped characters delivering painfully earnest and stilted dialogue.
  16. The Trip to Spain
    The film deepens the melancholic, existential notes from end of The Trip to Italy, and continues to evolve with its characters emotionally.
  17. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
    The characters and their relationships are strong and the dialogue is sharp, but the whole thing feels like a minor installment in an ongoing series.
  18. Furious 7
    Even though Walker is still present, his absence is already felt. It is strange to watch a movie that is this much fun and this sad all at the same time.
  19. The Fate of the Furious
    There’s certainly a lot to enjoy in The Fate of the Furious, but even the strongest moments are less spectacular this time around.
  20. The Lost City of Z
    Its unhurried pacing, complex themes, and magnificent visuals that must be seen on a big screen make it feel like an artifact from an era of big-budget filmmaking that has been rendered essentially extinct by the franchisification of Hollywood.
  21. The Discovery
    Conceptually, it’s an ambitious undertaking; but as fascinating and perplexing as it all is, I’m not sure McDowell’s film really achieves its goals.
  22. Ghost in the Shell
    The biggest problem is that Ghost in the Shell has nothing smart or interesting to say — it just thinks it does.
  23. The Boss Baby
    McGrath and screenwriter Michael McCullers are too preoccupied piling on chase and action scenes to exploit their title’s potential to its fullest.
  24. Life
    Life jolts audiences with relentless ferocity, but it’s not interesting.
  25. Saban's Power Rangers
    Power Rangers is fun when it leans into the original series’ campy sensibility.
  26. Win It All
    Win It All is appropriately unfussy, letting the characters and performances speak for themselves. Johnson takes a played-out character type and transforms him into someone who is actually endearing and likable.
  27. Small Crimes
    Director Evan Katz’s follow-up to 2013’s Cheap Thrills is a lean, mean neo-noir that addresses an age-old question: Do people ever really change?
  28. Gemini
    In this current era of spoiler-driven pop culture, films like Gemini, which place a higher premium on storytelling, performances, and character-building than on the “big twist” at the end, feel like an act of beautiful rebellion.
  29. Porto
    Between the haphazard zooms and the odd editing meant to evoke the way we re-stitch fragments of memory in hindsight, Porto reads like a short student film pointlessly extended to feature length.
  30. T2 Trainspotting
    This derivative sequel might please devoted fans looking for a quick fix of nostalgia, but with nothing new to say, it seems not even Boyle and his cast are sure why T2 Trainspotting exists.
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