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For 1,506 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Tootsie
Lowest review score: 0 The King's Daughter
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,083 out of 1506
  2. Mixed: 244 out of 1506
  3. Negative: 179 out of 1506
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  1. 47 Meters Down: Uncaged
    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.
  2. The Kitchen
    Once the plot is set in motion, things begin to go haywire. Despite compelling work from the leads and excellent supporting work from character actors like Margo Martindale and Bill Camp, it all starts to feel choppy and forced and then just tonally off — way off.
  3. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
    Even if the material — a haunted scarecrow, a young woman’s vengeful ghost — can feel stale off the page, Øvredal’s filmmaking is fresh and vibrant.
  4. The Art of Racing in the Rain
    At a certain point, the experience of watching this all unfold through Enzo’s eyes becomes the alienating element. You’re not experiencing the big moments yourself, you’re just experiencing Enzo experiencing them, leaving you to wonder if the story and performances alone are anything special without the dog’s metaphors and poeticisms.
  5. The Red Sea Diving Resort
    The Red Sea Diving Resort is terribly overcooked, turning the real-life drama into a light caper like “Ocean’s 11,” adding cartoonish dialogue from hack superhero films and slathering the whole mess in white savior complex.
  6. Luce
    It’s a perfectly crafted cocktail of vision, talent and script that will leave your mind spinning for days.
  7. Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
    Usually, it’s pleasingly aware of its own silliness. But there are blind spots.
  8. Mike Wallace Is Here
    [An] absorbing new documentary.
  9. The Great Hack
    These are interesting and fraught times that deserve an unflinching look at the perils of data rights and online privacy, but The Great Hack is a reminder that documentaries are not always journalism.
  10. Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood
    Pitt, in particular, appears so utterly self-possessed. It’s a swaggering grade-A movie star performance in a movie that celebrates all that movie stars can accomplish — which, for Tarantino, is anything.
  11. David Crosby: Remember My Name
    Over the course of an hour and half, we learn a ton but never come much closer to understanding him. It’s as if he traveled back in time to flip us the bird just to mock us for trying.
  12. The Lion King
    Jon Favreau’s The Lion King, so abundant with realistic simulations of the natural world, is curiously lifeless.
  13. The Farewell
    The film is a heady, gentle and emotional journey, but Wang also packs the frame with layered conversation and funny background action. She makes the family dynamics feel universally familiar while also presenting an authentic portrait of China and Chinese families.
  14. Stuber
    The movie’s premise is one long Uber ad, but it’s a clever enough buddy comedy setup, and both Nanjiani and Bautista are good comic performers. So what’s missing here?
  15. Spider-Man: Far from Home
    The thing keeping this together is Holland. He is utterly endearing as a goofy, insecure now-16-year-old hero with a cracked cellphone and who often makes things worse, apologizing along the way.
  16. Maiden
    Maiden is simply magnificent storytelling and a must-see for all ages and genders.
  17. Annabelle Comes Home
    What makes Annabelle Comes Home rise above its well-trod narrative are the actresses and Dauberman’s sensitive attention to each of them.
  18. Yesterday
    For every laugh-out-loud moment in the smartly paced first half, there’s a sigh later as to what might have been.
  19. Midsommar
    Midsommar is a waking nightmare and I mean that in the best possible way.
  20. Child's Play
    It’s a winking, self-aware horror movie that will make you laugh even when things are drenched in blood.
  21. The Dead Don't Die
    While it’s a nice way to spend just short of two hours, it seems he could have sucked a little more out of those dusty old graves.
  22. Men in Black: International
    The plotting is clunky and haphazard. But when together, Thompson, Hemsworth and Nanjiani turn Men In Black: International into something funny and silly: a pleasant enough lark in formal wear.
  23. Toy Story 4
    Toy Story 4 is a blast and it’s great to be back with the gang.
  24. Shaft
    How jokes this offensive can make it to the screen in 2019 is beyond comprehension and a bit of a shame, considering that this has so much else going for it including a delightful late-game appearance by the original Shaft, Richard Roundtree, who looks fantastic, by the way.
  25. The Secret Life of Pets 2
    If the knock on “The Secret Life of Pets” was that it was a rip-off of “Toy Story,” then the second film better grounds itself in its own universe. Like its main three characters, it has learned to be comfortable in its own animated skin.
  26. The Last Black Man in San Francisco
    It’s all so handsomely shot and deliberately staged that you might at times worry that The Last Black Man in San Francisco is leaning more toward picturesque than profound. But when Talbot’s film rises to its rousing and sensitive climax, the fairy tale falls away and something authentically soulful emerges.
  27. Late Night
    It’s an admirably fun and light movie about more serious issues of representation and equality.
  28. Dark Phoenix
    Dark Phoenix is a whiff. The most suspenseful thing that happened had nothing to do with the movie at all, but the theater’s fire alarm that went off during a review screening during the epic climax.
  29. Godzilla: King of the Monsters
    Turn-your-brain-off summer fun, and doesn’t need to be anything more than that.
  30. Booksmart
    The insanely winning Booksmart boasts too many breakthroughs to count. There are the two leads, Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein, both of whom we’ve seen before but not like this. There is the director, Olivia Wilde, whose debut behind the camera is remarkably assured. And then there is the teen comedy genre, itself, which Booksmart has blown wide open.
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