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For 7,291 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 3 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: 4,349 out of 7291
  2. Mixed: 1,826 out of 7291
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7291
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  1. Creed
    For the first time in the series, Stallone did not write the script, yet director Ryan Coogler and his co-writer Aaron Covington aren’t exactly brimming over with fresh ideas: Worn thin with repetition, the sentimental old premise muffles suspense and dampens emotion.
  2. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
    It is almost criminal, though, that the end of this otherwise game-changing franchise full of bloodthirsty and complex women concludes on a painfully trite note – the strides made by all four films are undercut by Part 2’s underwhelming and hokey epilogue.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The 33
    As millions watching the eventual rescue understood, the strength of those miners and the unlikely hope of their families, was utterly captivating. Their survival moved me deeply then and, with The 33, it still does now.
  4. Spotlight
    Spotlight is not about fiery performances or thrilling set-pieces – it’s simply a tight and captivating look at professionals who excel at their jobs, and who legitimately care about making a difference. Sometimes, that’s more than enough.
  5. Miss You Already
    In a big, engrossing performance that is the film’s chief delight, the reliable Australian actress Toni Collette plays Milly.
  6. The Peanuts Movie
    The Peanuts Movie is a sloppy mash-up of disconnected vignettes and rehashed jokes, all lazily reverse-engineered from the premise that a Peanuts movie is a thing that people will like and will happily pay to see.
  7. SPECTRE
    A Bond movie is all about delivering on expectations: to enjoy it you have to be pleased rather than frustrated by its predictability. In that regard, Spectre, Daniel Craig’s fourth outing as Bond and the second directed by Sam Mendes, can be deemed a solid success: not as darkly stylish as "Skyfall" but not as stupidly grim as "Quantum of Solace" either.
  8. Son of Saul
    Unusual for a Holocaust drama, the film offers no false hope of rescue or resurrection, but does insist that our bearing witness matters.
  9. The Last Witch Hunter
    The Last Witch Hunter is redeemed through complex visual-effects work that aptly illuminates Goodman’s netherworld. Further, Diesel’s stolid performance is balanced through the supporting star power of Caine – even with criminally limited scenes – and Rose Leslie’s “dream walker,” whose earnestness makes even the world of a macho witch hunter seem entirely plausible.
  10. Room
    Room is a film of tiny little miracles.
  11. Northern Soul
    It thrills because Constantine, a noted British photographer, shows instead of tells.
  12. The Keeping Room
    While the gender-based farmhouse siege is suspenseful and bloody, director Daniel Barber weighs in too heavily with extended silences that slow down the goings-on of a film that has darkly lit tension, lovely scenery and fiercely presented ideas on feminism.
  13. The Assassin
    Every scene is perfectly framed, every symbol lovingly shot, but the story and the characters remain opaque.
  14. Truth
    Condescending, self-righteous and sloppy, Truth is simply a bad film for which there are no excuses.
  15. Victoria
    With no cutaways, the film’s story and the momentum of the unlikely robbers seems as unstoppable as the camera. The characters are confused, adrenalinized and breathless, as are you. Because the deal feels real.
  16. Suffragette
    Some will criticize the director’s choice to recount a collective struggle through just one individual, but Mulligan’s performance, coupled with a solid script by Abi Morgan, shows us just how much is at stake when a woman decides to wage war.
  17. Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
    The film, as entertaining as it is, doesn’t exactly further a genre that has been stale since the success of 2013 rom-zom-com Warm Bodies.... What’s promising about Scouts Guide, though, are its unlikely heroes.
  18. Burnt
    Although rich in cast, the bad-boy-chef dramedy Burnt is unremarkable otherwise.
  19. Our Brand Is Crisis
    It’s the kind of film that can’t even bother to commit to its own cynicism, which makes it the most deeply cynical kind of film there is.
  20. Heart of a Dog
    The wide swerve of Anderson’s associations, their “hypnotic splattered mist,” don’t make for an easy film. But it is a very good one and only the hardest heart will leave the theatre unmoved.
  21. Rock the Kasbah
    Baby it’s a wild film, but not Murray’s best and not Levinson’s either.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Crimson Peak
    Guillermo del Toro’s latest dive into the darkness is a sumptuous, beautifully constructed tale that feels both archaic and inviting.
  23. Bridge of Spies
    The ever-reliable Hanks sympathetically personifies all in America that is worth fighting for, while his British colleague’s surprisingly comic version of Rudolf Abel portrays the Russian spy as a man quietly steadfast in his loyalty to a different cause.
  24. Pan
    In fashioning a creation myth for Peter Pan, director Joe Wright and writer Jason Fuchs have produced such a thin story that they reduce, rather than amplify, J.M. Barrie’s famous characters.
  25. Listen to Me Marlon
    Listen to Me Marlon is an offer so intimate that no film fan should refuse.
  26. The Stanford Prison Experiment
    The acting is uniformly strong and the camera work is winningly claustrophobic, but the film is one note.
  27. The Green Inferno
    The Green Inferno offers up extreme gore, unlikable characters and seriously confused themes (is it a pro-environment film, an ode to imperialism, a satire of social-justice warriors or a poorly sketched combination of all three?).
    • 44 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Hotel Transylvania 2
    Hotel Transylvania 2 is what you might call frivolously scary: scary by mistake, or scary for no reason.
  29. Mission to Lars
    We’re not sure what sister and brother ultimately learned about their much different sibling, and one is left with the feeling the trip was more in service of the film’s narrative than a dream-fulfilling jaunt for Tom.
  30. Coming Home
    In the end, the family drama rolls on as the political metaphor wears thin so that the second half of the film is less striking and less interesting than the first.
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