The Associated Press' Scores
- Movies
For 1,491 reviews, this publication has graded:
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54% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
| Highest review score: | Tootsie | |
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| Lowest review score: | The King's Daughter |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,074 out of 1491
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Mixed: 240 out of 1491
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Negative: 177 out of 1491
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Jocelyn Noveck
The film is a wonderful collaboration between [Byrne] and writer-director Bronstein, who drew inspiration from her own experiences with motherhood. It also has given Byrne, an actor of effortless appeal in lighter films, a chance to display versatility and grit in surely the toughest dramatic role of her career.- The Associated Press
- Posted Oct 8, 2025
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Mark Kennedy
As it races to its cool supernatural climax — and then a coda that connects it to the first film — “The Craft: Legacy” is firing on all cylinders, looking back respectfully but also showing how the same story in different hands can soar.- The Associated Press
- Posted Oct 27, 2020
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Jake Coyle
Though it may be a chaotic shamble, Chazelle’s film makes this one point brilliantly clear: Cinema will be tamed for only so long; the parade will go on.- The Associated Press
- Posted Dec 20, 2022
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Jake Coyle
Baltimorons is one of those little movies you might stumble across and be surprised that it hooks you. It does so despite — or more likely because — of its complete lack of flashiness or any self-evident attempt to “hook you.” Instead, it manages that simply with low-key charm and a warm, unpretentious humanity.- The Associated Press
- Posted Sep 3, 2025
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Mark Kennedy
After a bit of a slow start, “Moonfall” gets absolutely trippy in the last third as it details a mind-blowing alternative history to mankind that spans millennia and distant planets and backs it all up with gorgeous, massive special effects. Logic is abandoned altogether but few will care.- The Associated Press
- Posted Feb 3, 2022
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Lindsey Bahr
Huppert seems to be enjoying herself fully leaning into Greta’s insanity, so perhaps this one can get a pass. She helps elevate the film from its self-consciously B-movie roots to be something that’s actually pretty good.- The Associated Press
- Posted Feb 27, 2019
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Jake Coyle
What it certainly is, though, is a very solid comic book movie. It’s a little surface over substance, and the time capsule feeling is pervasive. This is an earnest-enough superhero movie where even the angry mob protesting the superheroes turns quiet and pensive.- The Associated Press
- Posted Jul 22, 2025
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Jake Coyle
Where Haynes excels is in teasing out the personal and professional connections that mingle throughout.- The Associated Press
- Posted Nov 21, 2019
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Jake Coyle
Burton’s Dumbo, while inevitably lacking much of the magic of the original, has charms and melancholies of its own, starting, naturally, with the elephant in the room. Of all the CGI make-overs, this Dumbo is the most textured, sweetest and most soulful of creatures.- The Associated Press
- Posted Mar 26, 2019
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Lindsey Bahr
Air coasts quite well on its compelling, funny and self-aware script (which even allows room for an amusing disagreement about who exactly came up with the name Air Jordan) and charismatic movie stars.- The Associated Press
- Posted Apr 5, 2023
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Lindsey Bahr
Is it all a little much? Of course, but that’s kind of the point of Maria.- The Associated Press
- Posted Nov 27, 2024
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Lindsey Bahr
Eisenberg, who has already proven himself to be a talented, unsparing writer, shows promise as a director. He has not made a flashy art film, but it’s a smart, biting and occasionally sweet character piece about unlikable characters that you still may want to root for, because, though it may be hard to admit, they’re not so different from us.- The Associated Press
- Posted Jan 18, 2023
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Lindsey Bahr
The themes are obvious and a bit old fashioned and the trajectory is too. But that’s not a ding: It’s just a neatly constructed story that stays true to its genre and time. And hopefully, it’s not the last time Morgan and del Toro revive a hidden gem.- The Associated Press
- Posted Dec 15, 2021
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Jake Coyle
While Destroyer can be overwrought and mechanical, it’s an often gripping, well-crafted crime drama with distinction of its own in the genre, an almost always male-dominated one.- The Associated Press
- Posted Jan 3, 2019
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Lindsey Bahr
El Conde might stretch its gimmicky premise a little past its welcome, but it is an intoxicating, overwhelming and gruesome cinematic experience nonetheless, which would make a fitting double feature with last year’s great historical legal thriller “Argentina 1985.”- The Associated Press
- Posted Sep 6, 2023
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Jake Coyle
Unsane, a pulpy psychological thriller, is an exercise in both genre and technology. It’s a B-movie iMovie. And it’s 98 minutes of proof that the laborious apparatus of filmmaking can be not only light on its feet, but fit snuggly inside your pocket.- The Associated Press
- Posted Mar 21, 2018
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Jake Coyle
Good Boys mines that gulf between childhood and adolescence like few films have before.- The Associated Press
- Posted Aug 15, 2019
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Jocelyn Noveck
Ultimately it all rides on Robbie, who, along with her blond, color-dipped pigtails, brings an appealing blend of looniness and grit to the role, and a hint of something sadder and darker. Still, one gets the sense the filmmakers weren’t quite sure how far to go with the feminism thing. When she says sadly that “a harlequin’s nothing without a master,” you don’t immediately get the sense that this is a post #MeToo Harley Quinn.- The Associated Press
- Posted Feb 6, 2020
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Jake Coyle
Blinded by the Light isn’t a new tune, but it’s sung with an infectious passion and it captures something sincere about the globe-spanning, life-changing influence of great pop music.- The Associated Press
- Posted Aug 15, 2019
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While no movie can serve as the perfect replica of a transformative live music experience, Billie Eilish — Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D) works an immersive magic.- The Associated Press
- Posted May 13, 2026
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Jake Coyle
For a long, sun-addled stretch, Lorcan Finnegan’s beach-set “The Surfer” simmers as a deliciously punishing nightmare, driving Nicolas Cage into his most natural state: a boil.- The Associated Press
- Posted May 1, 2025
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Lindsey Bahr
McAdams and Weisz are on fire in Disobedience showing sides to their talents that we’ve never seen before in this truly unique film. Disobedience might not look like it’s for everyone on the surface, but its specificity is what makes it worthy and, almost, great.- The Associated Press
- Posted Apr 25, 2018
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Jocelyn Noveck
Let’s offer up some praise for this sequel-to-a-movie-based-on-a-smartphone-game, for finding a way to actually improve on the 2016 original in a way that’s clever but not snarky, sweet but not syrupy.- The Associated Press
- Posted Aug 15, 2019
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Mark Kennedy
With a foot in the past, one in the future and one on the gas, Fast X is pure popcorn lunacy. Was that too many feet? Oh, excuse us, you wanted logic?- The Associated Press
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Mark Kennedy
Jones is truly marvelous in the role, showing Ginsburg’s burning desire to change societal unfairness and also, more intimately, coming to terms with her own daughter’s rebelliousness.- The Associated Press
- Posted Dec 26, 2018
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Mark Kennedy
Roberts has clearly been given a bigger budget and it shows in the nicely realized submerged city the poor young women must navigate. He’s saddled with a terrible film title — 47 meters was the depth of the ocean floor in the first film — but none of that matters once the air tanks and masks go on.- The Associated Press
- Posted Aug 14, 2019
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It is massive, but nothing could exactly recreate the decibel-bursting exhilaration of a live music performance, particularly one at this scale. But in this format, Swift gets as close as possible — and for her, being an exception to the rule is par for the course.- The Associated Press
- Posted Oct 12, 2023
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Lindsey Bahr
Apparently even death is no respite from earthly puzzles like the love triangle. Sure it’s messy and confusing for those involved but it’s also one of the great storytelling setups for a screwball comedy. And this particular film, imaginative and shrewdly whimsical with an utterly charming cast, delivers on the promise. Lucky us.- The Associated Press
- Posted Nov 24, 2025
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Mark Kennedy
Hemsworth is re-joined here by Marvel Comic Universe–screenwriter Joe Russo and stunt-specialist-turned-director Sam Hargrave, but their ace-in-the-hole is cinematographer Newton Thomas Sigel. He creates impossibly long single takes of complicated fighting or driving scenes that put the viewer directly into the action like few other thrillers.- The Associated Press
- Posted Jun 15, 2023
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Jake Coyle
You Won’t Be Alone enchants in its novel perspective and in its sharp-shifting protagonist’s unquenchable curiosity. The witch, once so set in stereotype, has never felt so enthrallingly elastic.- The Associated Press
- Posted Mar 31, 2022
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