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For 20,312 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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. Dean
    If Mr. Martin’s take on grief is facile, the movie overall is a pleasant trip, and Dean’s doodles — by Mr. Martin himself — are a treat.
  2. Radio Dreams
    The movie’s tree-falling-in-the-forest-with-no-one-to-hear-it denouement is an apt but not entirely hopeless metaphor for the condition of its characters.
  3. Letters from Baghdad
    There’s much historical material here that’s of high interest, and Ms. Swinton’s performance of Bell’s letters convey Bell’s skills as a writer, but the movie is ultimately too conceptually labored for its own good — or that of its subject.
  4. Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
    The best animated movies for children are sublime. This one generally settles for noisy, though it throws in a positive message at the end.
  5. Band Aid
    Both leads are excellent together, and the movie is good at showing how Anna and Ben push each other’s buttons.
  6. Wonder Woman
    Its earnest insouciance recalls the “Superman” movies of the ’70s and ’80s more than the mock-Wagnerian spectacles of our own day, and like those predigital Man of Steel adventures, it gestures knowingly but reverently back to the jaunty, truth-and-justice spirit of an even older Hollywood tradition.
  7. Long Strange Trip
    It’s surprising there has never really been an extended cinematic exploration of the band. Long Strange Trip, ambitiously assembled and elegantly directed by Amir Bar-Lev, fills that void.
  8. The Women's Balcony
    The entire cast is solid, but the women, especially Ms. Hagoel, bring depth to their comedic and dramatic turns.
  9. Berlin Syndrome
    Her insistent imagery and sometimes oblique narrative approach don’t always deliver the dividends sought. But the movie identifies Ms. Shortland as a talent to watch.
  10. Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower
    Amid the fight, there’s a sense of hope as we watch one tough kid turning into one tough man. With luck, that will lead to a sequel.
  11. Hermia & Helena
    The film belongs to Ms. Muñoz. She’s the kind of performer (like Setsuko Hara, the Japanese actress to whom the film is dedicated) you can’t take your eyes off, even when she doesn’t seem to be up to much of anything.
  12. War Machine
    After a sluggish and chaotic start, War Machine finds its groove and becomes its own thing: a mordant, cleareyed critique of American war-making that is all the more devastating for being affectionately drawn.
  13. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
    Its pleasures are so meager, its delight in its own inventions so forced and false, that it becomes almost the perfect opposite of entertainment.
  14. Buena Vista Social Club: Adios
    It’s not as poetic or immediately enjoyable as the first film. But it is tougher and more analytical, with real challenges embedded in its pleasures.
  15. Drone
    [A] modest, proficient thriller.
  16. Baywatch
    Like its source material, Baywatch is sleazy and wholesome, silly and earnest, dumb as a box of sand and slyly self-aware. It’s soft-serve ice cream. Crinkle-cut fries. A hot car and a skin rash. Tacky and phony and nasty and also kind of fun.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan
    The film is both a comeback story and, more profoundly, a coming to terms with aging.
  18. Icaros: A Vision
    You may find this sparse film maddeningly elusive, but chances are you’ll come out of it with your head spinning, in a good way.
  19. Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS
    A mostly impressive array of experts (including, in the movie’s one unfortunate off note, Michael T. Flynn, who was forced to resign as national security adviser) adds to the merciless clarity of this tragic picture.
  20. The Commune
    Tobias Lindholm’s screenplay sacrifices credibility for quirkiness.
  21. The Woman Who Left
    The film makes uncompromising demands on your attention and your empathy. But it is also illuminating and, in its downbeat, deliberate way, exhilarating.
  22. Everything, Everything
    With a pair of irresistible leads and a straightforward love-overcomes-adversity story, Everything, Everything scores a direct hit on the teenage-girl market. Others might find it pretty enjoyable as well.
  23. Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
    It’s a kind of stealth home movie: a portrait of two generations of an immigrant family in the United States.
  24. Wakefield
    The film, scrupulously faithful to its source, is decidedly literary, but not in an especially satisfying way.
  25. The Survivalist
    Impressively lean and rigidly controlled, “The Survivalist” achieves, at times, the primitive allure of a silent movie.
  26. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
    Unfortunately, the fresh blood has been saddled with a tired story, the family road trip that goes outlandishly awry, and the result is another forgettable film.
  27. Afterimage
    This is an angry, vivid, passionate film.
  28. Legion of Brothers
    You’ll have to wade through several topics to get to the heart of Legion of Brothers, but once you’re there, some intense stories make the effort worthwhile.
  29. Paint It Black
    It’s not an easy movie to embrace, but it lingers.
  30. Alien: Covenant
    The fact that you know more or less exactly what’s coming doesn’t diminish the creepiness, or lessen the jolt when the thing you’re dreading arrives.
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