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For 20,312 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Short Cuts
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,400 out of 20312
  2. Mixed: 8,446 out of 20312
  3. Negative: 2,466 out of 20312
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  1. All Eyez on Me
    All Eyez on Me, a fictionalized film biography of Shakur, directed by Benny Boom and starring Demetrius Shipp Jr., is not only a clumsy and often bland account of his life and work, but it also gives little genuine insight into his thought, talent or personality.
  2. Score: A Film Music Documentary
    In 1993, the documentary “Visions of Light” won critical love for its overview of Hollywood’s classic cinematographers. Matt Schrader’s tidy and informative “Score” lavishes similar adoration on moviedom’s great composers.
  3. Lost in Paris
    Lost in Paris grows a bit tiresome at feature length, but it’s a winning divertissement.
  4. Kill Switch
    The plot, unlike its execution, is not terrible.
  5. Once Upon a Time in Venice
    The movie tries for propulsive Tarantino grit but ends up being just another annoying example of Hollywood’s addiction to stories in which graying white men bed beautiful young women and beat up men much more youthful and fit than they are.
  6. Rough Night
    It’s all blithely formulaic and would be more irritating if the performers — who include Zoë Kravitz and Illana Glazer — weren’t generally so appealing.
  7. Cars 3
    If you can roll with it, the movie is both breezy fun and a pain-free life lesson delivery vehicle
  8. Moka
    The movie’s climax has sufficient twists and turns for a conventional payoff. But the movie, adapted from a novel by Tatiana de Rosnay, is ultimately more concerned with the genuinely tragic dimensions of the story than its suspense angles.
  9. Miles
    It’s hard to root for a protagonist who is focused only on his own narrow needs and seems indifferent to the broader issues his tale raises.
  10. Moscow Never Sleeps
    Absent fathers and mothers, building bridges with children — Moscow Never Sleeps could easily have unfolded in a much darker register. That it doesn’t is both refreshing and deflating.
  11. The Hero
    This film belongs to its star.
  12. 11:55
    This first feature from Ari Issler and Ben Snyder (who both wrote the script with Mr. Almanzar, a military veteran) refuses to revel in violence.
  13. Megan Leavey
    If the conclusion doesn’t bring a tear to your eye, you’re way too cynical.
  14. Night School
    The result is a movie about large setbacks and small triumphs, and the grit that takes you from one to the other.
  15. It Comes at Night
    It Comes at Night is pretty terrifying to sit through, but it may be even scarier after it’s over, when you sift through what you’ve seen and try to piece together what it may have meant.
  16. Beatriz at Dinner
    This is neither a simple satire of privilege nor a mock-provocative comedy of diversity and its discontents. It’s about a clash of values, about unresolvable contradictions. Or to put it another way, about good and evil.
  17. Dawson City: Frozen Time
    Dawson City now enters that time line as an instantaneously recognizable masterpiece.
  18. My Cousin Rachel
    It’s all very pretty, but too often the movie’s beauty isn’t tethered to deep feeling or strong ideas, one reason you may often find your eyes and thoughts drifting away from the quietly escalating drama toward the vast green fields, the majestic horses and nice detail work.
  19. Camera Obscura
    Fortunately, Camera Obscura has decent actors to flesh out its dubious premise.... But their diligent efforts cannot raise the whole enterprise above a mere exercise.
  20. The Mummy
    The “Mummy” reboot from 1999, directed by Stephen Sommers and starring Brendan Fraser, was kind of fun. Monster movies frequently are. This one, directed by Alex Kurtzman and starring Tom Cruise, is an unholy mess.
  21. Ascent
    Ultimately, Ascent is a genuinely poetic portrait of a place, and various people’s relation to it.
  22. The Incomparable Rose Hartman
    Pushy, judgmental, tart-tongued and self-obsessed, the photographer at the heart of Otis Mass’s penetrating documentary, The Incomparable Rose Hartman, is, like her snapshots, a piece of work.
  23. Handsome Devil
    As in many a high school movie, it’s the seasoned teacher who brings the best out of his pupils, and here Mr. Scott draws the hidden potential not only from his students but also from the film.
  24. Vincent N Roxxy
    The cast members remain dedicated to their brooding roles as the script admirably reaches for emotions it only sometimes captures.
  25. Tatara Samurai
    Yoshinari Nishikori’s period action film Tatara Samurai does not skimp with its swordplay, but its narrative arc takes you to a resolution uncommon for its genre.
  26. The Exception
    The Exception is a diverting and occasionally exciting film, though it is rarely disturbing or thought-provoking in ways the material might require.
  27. Sami Blood
    While Sami Blood can sometimes seem didactic, Ms. Kernell, who has Sami heritage, richly conveys a sense of the time and place, with elegant shots that glide through the Nordic wilderness.
  28. From the Ashes
    Michael Bonfiglio, the film’s director, provides a concise overview of the issues.
  29. Past Life
    Past Life is a page-turner that transforms into a clarion call: always compelling, but slightly stifled by noble intentions.
  30. Churchill
    The movie’s ambition is the good news. The bad news is that it is a hash, choosing to jumble the historical record and frame a Churchill bout with depression against the D-Day invasion of France by Allied forces.
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