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For 7,293 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: 4,350 out of 7293
  2. Mixed: 1,827 out of 7293
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7293
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  1. Miracle
    The climax, a 20-minute dramatization of the crucial contest, lacks both suspense and poetry -- essentially, we're left to watch a clumsy recreation of a game whose outcome we already know. That's a sort of resurrection, I suppose, but miraculous it assuredly ain't.
  2. Bon voyage
    The result is nothing if not a curiosity piece.
  3. The Night House
    It’s elegantly filmed and well constructed, building to a haunting climatic sequence that could sear your eyeballs.
  4. American Animals
    When Keoghan and Peters are onscreen, their performances are compelling enough, as is most of Layton’s narrative script – adding in the doc footage feels less revolutionary, and more like easy filler. It’s enough to feel, well, a bit robbed.
  5. Meet the Fokkens
    Despite the occasional stumble, the doc never falls, thanks to the sheer strength of its subjects' undaunted and indomitable character.
  6. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
    While it also boasts an array of dick jokes (of which there are many, and they are great), it also holds a magnifying glass up to the culture that we’ve all had a hand in creating.
  7. Take This Waltz
    At best, it shows how intense sexual attraction can be a form of temporary insanity.
  8. Everybody Knows
    As he transfers his talents to a European setting and Spanish-speaking cast, Farhadi loses none of his remarkable ability to observe close relationships collapsing under stress.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Wedding Banquet
    The Wedding Banquet’s endearing qualities largely outweigh its deficiencies.
  10. Bears
    Some of the most striking moments in Bears are during the film’s closing credits, when we see how alarmingly close the camera crew was to the animals. We’re reminded us that while the movie Bears is both sweet and humane, the real bears are neither.
  11. The Third Murder
    The film essentially disintegrates before your eyes, with Koreeda displaying little of the quiet elegance he’s built his entire career upon.
  12. Hustle
    There is something undeniably charming about the film in spite of itself, its familiar but pleasant narrative momentum and tense on-court action wrapped around a lovably scruffy lead performance from a man who knows how to turn it on when he wants to.
  13. Land Ho!
    Land Ho! is both loose (shot over 18 days, with an improv quality to the acting) and overcalculated in its series of encounters, small revelations and life-affirming beats. The movie is pleasant and mostly forgettable, except for the character of Mitch.
  14. Thank You for Your Service
    Not once does anyone question the war or their involvement in it. We can't depend on big answers from filmmakers, but to not ask big questions seems like a dereliction of duty.
  15. To Die Like a Man
    The title leaves no doubt about the ending but, thanks to Santos's unflinching performance and Rodrigues's continued audaciousness, the climax still takes us aback.
  16. Imperium
    In short, his film asks that an audience listen to a fair amount of ugly racism without offering much enlightenment or even entertainment in exchange. Words may build bridges but people have to cross them: Imperium remains safely outside the unexplored region.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Archangel
    Wonderfully theatrical in conceit and frequently beautiful to look at, Archangel is nevertheless choppy and listless in pace, and has little of the surrealist zing of the earlier film (Tales from the Gimli Hospital). [03 Sep 1990]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Last Mogul
    A good, breezy once-over-lightly on the life and times of a Hollywood titan, but not much more.
  19. The Willoughbys
    Parents might get more of a kick out of the voice-casting and darker corners of the story than school-aged children. But Vancouver’s BRON Animation studio provides a strong, often beguiling sense of tyke-hypnotizing flair to the visuals, and the zippy, synthy score by Wes Anderson favourite Mark Mothersbaugh should keep kids bouncing up and down, in a good way.
  20. Avengers: Infinity War
    Even by Marvel’s own standards of serviceable mediocrity, Infinity War fails.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Maps to the Stars
    The creepiest haunted Hollywood movie since "Mulholland Drive," David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars is working an even deeper graveyard groove than David Lynch did.
  22. Girl Model
    It is hard to know whether to applaud directors David Redmon and Ashley Sabin for exposing the underside of the fashion business – or demand they abandon their documentarian stance and rescue young Nadya on the spot.
  23. F1: The Movie
    Nothing is exactly new in F1, yet at the same time it is all immensely, rewardingly renewable – a true blue box of recycled cinematic trash, compacted into something irresistibly bright and shiny.
  24. John Wick
    John Wick is the most blatant attempt to establish a character’s name recognition since the Angelina Jolie actioneer "Salt."
  25. The Way, Way Back
    Like "Little Miss Sunshine," the movie stars Toni Collette and Steve Carell in a story about a dysfunctional family trip, though like "Adventureland," it’s really about a teenager finding acceptance at a local theme park.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Chef
    Chef is compelling, somewhat convincing and, according to many who know better than I, it’s largely on trend.
  27. Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
    When Spitzer resigned, they broke out champagne on the stock exchange trading floor. Shame on them.
  28. MS Slavic 7
    Campbell is tasked with carrying much of the film’s action and dialogue -- including two seemingly rambling but actually profound monologues delivered to unseen audiences in a nondescript bar -- and easily commands the screen.
  29. Missing Link
    A delightful and polished stop-motion adventure-comedy and droll comment on colonialism.
  30. Why We Fight
    The strength of this documentary lies in its balance, or at least the careful appearance of balance.
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