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For 7,299 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Red Turtle
Lowest review score: 0 The Mod Squad
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,355 out of 7299
  2. Mixed: 1,828 out of 7299
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7299
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  1. Take This Waltz
    At best, it shows how intense sexual attraction can be a form of temporary insanity.
  2. You're Next
    Character development and plotting are rudimentary, though the tongue-in-cheek never gets dislodged while the body count rises.
  3. The Jane Austen Book Club
    The novels remain a witty portrait of life; this flick is just a study in preciousness.
  4. Mr. Peabody & Sherman
    Parents will get the historical jokes but are unlikely to be amused; kids won’t get them, but might laugh anyway.
  5. Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
    The film is never as powerful or convincing as it should be.
  6. Strangerland
    Eerie and unpredictable, Strangerland holds attention, even if traditional suspense tricks are avoided like they were dingos at the daycare.
  7. The Grandmaster
    There are sequences in Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai’s new film, The Grandmaster, that are as gorgeous as anything you’ll see on a screen this year, or perhaps this decade.
  8. Bel Canto
    Watanabe and Moore acquit themselves well (although the latter’s lip-syncing is questionable), but Bel Canto falls short of the operatic notes Weitz attempts to hit.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Dancer
    While there’s plenty of footage of Polunin executing multiple pirouettes and twisting acrobatically through the air, real ballet fans will lament the lack of evidence of emotion and artistry in his dancing.
  10. Fake Blood
    For all its tense entertainment, Fake Blood's production values and acting levels aren't high – getting what you pay for being just another ice-pick-to-the-eye reality faced by indie filmmakers.
  11. A Walk on the Moon
    Standing back a step from A Walk on the Moon's dippy charms, the movie delivers less than it initially promises.
  12. Doctor Sleep
    Ewan McGregor does a solid job as Danny, still shining (i.e. reading minds and performing other freaky feats of the head) after all these years, and Rebecca Ferguson is having a great deal of fun as his new nemesis, driving across the country sucking souls and finding new and inventive ways of wearing chapeaus.
  13. The Ladykillers
    The overstuffed farce remains, but the caustic leanness and meanness of the original are gone with the Mississippi wind. That leaves us to settle for occasionally funny moments in an otherwise uneven picture.
  14. Greyhound
    But Schneider, whose only other directing credit is the extremely low-key 2009 family drama "Get Low," finds a way to portray the nautical action with clarity and precision. You might not know what Krause and his crew are saying at all times, but you definitely know what they’re witnessing.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Kubo and the Two Strings
    The characters feel underdeveloped, to the point where it’s sometimes difficult to remain invested in their triumphs and failures.
  16. The Life Ahead
    Ultimately, Ponti’s film survives on the one surprise that’s not much of a surprise at all: the power and majesty of his lead actress. And how did the director score such a casting coup? You’d have to ask his mother ... Sophia Loren.
  17. The Hunt
    While The Hunt strives mightily to provoke outrage, get the blood boiling, pluck the heartstrings and open the tear ducts, it never quite succeeds – a function of a narrative whose failures of credibility, finally, prevent a viewer from wholeheartedly embracing what director Thomas Vinterberg wants us to feel.
  18. Valentin
    A well-cast drama that switches between sweetness and menace, the film goes down easily, thanks to a talented cast.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Aida's Secrets
    The debut doc is an ambitious attempt to get to the root of a tangled family tree, but the directors' close relationship to Izak (he's their uncle) means they sometimes pay so much attention to the genealogical minutiae that a viewer checks in and out to clear her head.
  20. Riding Giants
    Too long by about 20 minutes, and arguably too obsessed with the lineage of names only of interest to other surfers, this is a vicarious kick.
  21. Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood
    In its thin conception, shaggy form and muddy execution – and in its glee in coasting on a perceived aura of cool whiz-pow-bang energy – the film is as much a comic-book movie as they come.
  22. The Broken Hearts Gallery
    But viewed from another, more cynical angle, The Broken Hearts Gallery reveals itself as just another lightweight Saturday-night diversion – zippy and heartfelt, certainly, but hardly reinventing or even seasonally rotating the rom-com wheel.
  23. The Cave
    Though The Cave really, really tries to be scary from as many directions as possible, it fails to hold much in reserve and never manages to build suspense.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Blackfish
    As more than one orca expert points out in the film, when you take a creature born to roam thousands of miles of open water and stick it in a pool to do tricks, there’s going to be some behavioural blowback. In Tilikum’s case, it’s actually described as a form of induced “psychosis.”
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Professor Marston & the Wonder Women
    Because like the Wonder Woman mythos itself, there's almost too much ground to cover in just a single installment.
  26. Snakes on a Plane
    There is also a capable, wisecracking stewardess (Julianna Margulies) and, what a surprise, a steward who appears to be doing a Paul Lynde impersonation.
  27. The Ring
    It's a workmanlike, passably engrossing horror flick that copies well from the Japanese original. When it's good, it's not original, and when it's original, it's not so good.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Visitor
    The actor - like everyone else in this tedious yet affecting film - rises well above his soft-headed, solipsistic material, turning in a performance of nuanced delicacy.
  29. Scream 2
    Ultimately, the viewing experience is like watching a snake swallow its own tail -- that once-menacing serpent is now a clown act, all yuks and no venom.
  30. The Mustang
    The strong cast keep their heads down and offer all the obligatory rhythms – if you hire Bruce Dern as a crabby horse-trainer, you are going to get exactly what you paid for – and the film eagerly embraces the purely filthy dullness of prison life.
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