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For 6,576 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 54% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 London Road
Lowest review score: 0 Melania
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,493 out of 6576
  2. Mixed: 3,764 out of 6576
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6576
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  1. The Secret Life of Pets
    It’s not ground-breaking, but there are laughs, and it is a good audience movie.
  2. Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
    Plaza has found her Ron Burgundy: the vessel of a true imbecile in which to pour her strange genius.
  3. From Afar
    [A] terrifically stylish work.
  4. The Mafia Only Kills in Summer
    It’s a winning and likable film.
  5. Queen of Earth
    It’s a one-note drama of simmering resentment. That note is sustained with impressive conviction.
  6. Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
    Reasonably good fun.
  7. The Legend of Tarzan
    The Legend of Tarzan ends up being a garbled, clunky production that tries to please everyone and ends up pleasing no one.
  8. The Call Up
    If it’s far from bleeding edge – within days, it’ll look as dated as Tron and The Lawnmower Man do today – it’s a modest upgrade on all those killer-website movies that popped up a decade ago, keeping us at least semi-interested as to who stands and falls.
  9. The Fundamentals of Caring
    Inevitably, perhaps, it pulls its punches, and soft-pedals on any authentic misery that its scenarios might evoke. But its essential amiability and decency comes through.
  10. The Shallows
    What could have been mere summertime chum is actually one of the more cleverly constructed B-movies in quite some time.
  11. Independence Day: Resurgence
    Joyless and tedious, a reboot quite without the first film’s audacity and fun... It’s a movie that is going through the intergalactic motions.
  12. Septembers of Shiraz
    This lifeless, by-the-numbers production is an excruciating exercise in cliche and tedium. Its sole joy is in trying to figure out which of its leads is overacting most.
  13. Microbe and Gasoline
    If this film were a person, you’d want to give it a big hug, as you would a gawky teenager, and reassure it that it will be tough out there, that not everyone is going to get its idiosyncratic charms, but that’s OK because it’s awesome just the way it is.
  14. Our Kind of Traitor
    Director Susanna White favours a generic spy-movie look: those chilly blue filters surely need resting now. Yet she works smartly with her actors: while Skarsgård wolfs down great handfuls of scenery, McGregor effectuates a thoughtful transformation from ineffectual tourist to man in the field.
  15. Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
    Eat That Question does a good job of giving us just a taste of nearly every era in Zappa’s multifaceted career.
  16. Life, Animated
    It’s a beguiling mix of animated storytelling and narration that doesn’t flinch from exploring the emotional highs and lows that accompany a life with autism.
  17. Central Intelligence
    The result, while instantly forgettable, is a fundamentally pleasurable experience.
  18. In a Valley of Violence
    As the violence escalates, an absurdist dose of humor is added to the mix, injecting the film with a distinctly modern sensibility that is welcome and does not let up.
  19. Department Q: The Absent One
    An awful number of cliches are being ticked off here (the Fincher-esque lighting, the dogged and socially inept cop), but it’s a diverting potboiler for crime drama completists.
  20. Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made
    The will-they-won’t-they dynamic of the film grips you and it’s almost impossible not to root for Strompolos and Zala, especially when things on set get hairy.
  21. Finding Dory
    The problem with Finding Dory is it doesn’t know when enough is enough. Its believe-in-yourself message is pounded with the subtlety of a hammerhead shark and the final action sequence is really too far-fetched to fathom.
  22. King Jack
    For me, King Jack relies too much on violence for its dramatic voltage, but it’s a well-acted movie with heart – and it doesn’t outstay its welcome.
  23. Diary of a Chambermaid
    Léa Seydoux, in all her haughty and sullen sexiness, dominates this well-crafted piece of suspenseful if curiously pointless hokum from French director Benoît Jacquot; it leads its audience up an elegantly tended garden path to nowhere in particular.
  24. Last Cab to Darwin
    Caton is a perfect fit; he is touching, tender and a little bedraggled, emoting with a worn-out visage that looks like the 71-year-old has been marinated in beer and left in the sun to dry.
  25. Brahman Naman
    Q’s morality tale isn’t without laughs. The quizzers are adept at alluding to and meshing together the greats of English literature with crude dick jokes.
  26. Breaking a Monster
    It’s a charming and engaging mix – the antithesis of Metallica’s ego overload, and just as watchable.
  27. The President
    The President is a striking movie - and a bold and challenging change of directorial pace from Mohsen Makhmalbaf.
  28. The Do-Over
    Despite an idiocy metastasized into the marrow of its script impervious to any radiation, there is, as with many of Sandler’s productions, at least something of an upbeat quality to its reprehensibility.
  29. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
    There are laughs found in almost every scene, though not many big ones. There’s also the problem that no amount of parody can top the real thing.
  30. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
    It’s soon clear that OOTS follows the model of Bay’s Transformers sequels. Longer, louder and boasting even more hardware, it does everything to generate the illusion of bleeding-edge bang-per-buck, while cribbing shamelessly from 1991’s Secret of the Ooze.
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