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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 3.1 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. Money Monster
    Foster, recovering nicely from her last directorial outing in the surprisingly unfunny "The Beaver," proves her smarts by managing to balance these different strands of humour while keeping the action ticking along.
  2. The Meddler
    It’s a sitcom-y, Sarandon-wrapped Mother’s Day valentine.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Disorder
    Beautifully shot, the film is at its best when it’s unclear whether Vincent is intensely paranoid or highly perceptive.
  4. Captain America: Civil War
    In nearly every way Civil War represents the dizzying heights of the genre.
  5. Mother's Day
    Mother’s Day is a concocted market-driven holiday, and so is this M&M’s-obsessed movie – candy for the sweet-toothed among us.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Ratchet & Clank
    The film makes up for any shortcomings with witty writing and vivid, brightly coloured set pieces. Children will be entertained, and parents won’t regret tagging along.
  7. Green Room
    It’s a delightfully cruel work of high tension, perfect in just how quickly and easily it gets under your skin.
  8. Precious Cargo
    A rip-off and a rerun.
  9. Viva
    An unlikely Irish-Cuban co-production, Viva is, like its central subject, beautiful to look at but ultimately lacking depth.
  10. Keanu
    The plot is threadbare, but cutely disarming in its own way.
  11. Body
    Just because Body could be made doesn’t mean it needed to be.
  12. A Hologram for the King
    This time, Tykwer somehow manages to turn Eggers’s attempt at an era-defining story into a weird little cross-cultural comedy with romantic overtones while remaining largely faithful to the original plot and dialogue. Here, globalization’s economic devastation is just a nice backdrop for some amusing – and, thankfully, inoffensive – observation of one American abroad.
  13. The Huntsman: Winter's War
    Unlike the smarter "Maleficent," a revisionist Sleeping Beauty created by the same producers, what The Huntsman series lacks is any intriguing psychology.
  14. Hello, My Name Is Doris
    A sharp dramedy focusing on the romantic stirrings of a lonely office worker, played with considerable wit and verve by the 69-year-old Sally Field.
  15. The First Monday in May
    Perhaps if Rossi had begun where he ends, with the bold assertion that this project is not about raising money for art but about using celebs to sell magazines, The First Monday in May might prove as enlightening as it is titillating. What does Rihanna get paid? We don’t know because, as a staffer names the actual sum, the filmmaker bleeps the words.
  16. Sing Street
    As he did with "Once," Carney with the somewhat autobiographical Sing Street mixes hardscrabble realism with highly charged romanticism, filmed on a low budget with mostly unknown talent.
  17. The Measure of a Man
    The Measure of a Man is about one of those everyday people who lose their livelihood and are at risk of losing everything else, and on this small scale and rather ordinary canvas the human drama is keenly felt.
  18. Miles Ahead
    What hurts Miles Ahead, though, is a lack of imagination.
  19. The Dark Horse
    The cinematography is evocative – rainy, rich, gritty and raw, for this inspiring but not always pretty story – and Curtis is 100-per-cent watchable as a puffy, mumbling shuffler whose chess lessons double as life strategies.
  20. Criminal
    The disappointment here is that an intriguing psychological premise about a personality swap is never used to do anything more than provide the juice for a run-of-the-mill action movie.
  21. Barbershop: The Next Cut
    While the film is well meaning and the joshing crew at Calvin’s Barbershop is a hoot, the Malcolm D. Lee-directed comedy is plagued by relentless mawkishness, indifferent storytelling, willful naiveté and clunky seriousness.
  22. The Jungle Book
    Director Jon Favreau (Iron Man) is highly adept at having his cake and eating it, too, throughout the film, wowing audiences with effects and amusing them with talking animals, all the while insisting The Jungle Book is a difficult story about a human whose presence threatens to disrupt the jungle’s peace.
  23. I Saw the Light
    Perhaps a better name for Marc Abraham’s well-crafted biopic would be His Cheatin’ Heart, for this motion picture concentrates on the marital distress between a philandering Williams and his flat-singing wife (played with vibrancy by Elizabeth Olsen).
  24. The Pearl Button
    This haunting Chilean documentary is more poetry than journalism as filmmaker Patricio Guzman compares the fate of the indigenous people of Patagonia with that of the disappeared of the Pinochet regime.
  25. Demolition
    The trouble here is that neither Bryan Sipe, who wrote this highly original script, nor Vallée, remain true to the bitter whimsy with which they began.
  26. Francofonia
    “Who would we be without museums?” Aleksandr Sokurov wonders as he narrates this challenging philosophical essay, and sifts materials back, forth and around in the Louvre’s history.
  27. Hardcore Henry
    Is it much of a movie? Not really. It’s more of an experience – a passive sort of virtual reality – that uses a bare-bones narrative as a vehicle for a big-time body count.
  28. The Boss
    A lazy Melissa McCarthy vehicle that relies on relentless potty-mouth moments.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Brainwashing of My Dad
    The film’s examination feels shallow.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    City of Gold
    Gold is important because Gold is a great writer. No further argument necessary.
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