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For 20,313 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: 9,401 out of 20313
  2. Mixed: 8,446 out of 20313
  3. Negative: 2,466 out of 20313
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  1. Naked Opera
    Mr. Rollinger, a protagonist of a curiously circumscribed life, proves to have an opaque appeal.
  2. Gringo Trails
    The only urgent message in Gringo Trails would seem to be the screamingly obvious one: Visitors should behave themselves.
  3. Felony
    the Australian drama Felony proves only that skilled actors and slick photography can tart up even the most problematic script.
  4. The Man on Her Mind
    It is Ms. McAllister who is the brightest light amid the talky, often sentimental exchanges. She lends charm and conviction to a character who might otherwise have proved insufferable.
  5. The Rule
    The Rule, by the married filmmakers Marylou and Jerome Bongiorno, doesn’t show us enough detail about how they’re applied to distinguish St. Benedict’s from countless other parochial schools, private institutions and military academies.
  6. Archaeology of a Woman
    Burdened by a ludicrous script and messy direction, Ms. Kirkland — a headstrong veteran performer who is nothing if not game — has proved that she can play this kind of role in her sleep. If only the movie around it were worthy of her efforts.
  7. Dirty Grandpa
    The screenplay, by John M. Phillips, is the written equivalent of a toddler discovering curse words. Yet some riffs draw chuckles.
  8. Hungry Hearts
    The film’s initial naturalism is warped by overheated film technique and a dead-ending screenplay.
  9. The Pirates
    Neither the action nor the comedy in this action comedy is consistently strong.
  10. Finding Fanny
    Ms. Kapadia, now 57 and a Bollywood star since she made a splash in “Bobby,” at 16, inhabits and enhances her role. So, too, does the younger star Deepika Padukone, who plays her widowed daughter-in-law with an uncloying sweetness. But the men flounder.
  11. The Frontier
    The film means well but feels generic, strained and claustrophobic (despite several scenes at a deserted beach), with tight close-ups and sudden confrontations.
  12. All You Need Is Love
    Only during a brief scene of a man catching a fish outside his flooded house does the movie seem interested in anything more than raising awareness.
  13. Extraterrestrial
    Underlying this overlong and overheated enterprise is a surfeit of ambition. Maybe too much.
  14. Henry & Me
    The animated tale Henry & Me aims to inspire sick children, but it also aims to promote the Yankees and the team’s mythology. The two goals don’t mesh very well.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
    The Scorch Trials adds nothing new to the unkillable dystopian genre, but it’s at least less ponderous than its predecessor. The many chases and ludicrous narrow escapes offer respectable doses of adrenaline.
  16. The Houses October Built
    If you’re relatively easily scared or are in a theater full of people who are, the film might be good for a few screams. But only if you’re the patient sort. It takes almost an hour to get to the good stuff.
  17. It Was You Charlie
    The film is at once overly eccentric and underdeveloped. It starts as an exercise in bleak absurdism and ends as a Frank Capra Christmas special, with little originality in between.
  18. Catch Hell
    A certain curiosity value arises out of Mr. Phillippe’s coincidental occupation here as a professional actor and a director.
  19. Eternity: The Movie
    There’s much more dead air than laughs, despite a certain anything-goes enthusiasm from the leads.
  20. Bang Bang!
    It’s all high-end flash, but less romantic than wearying.
  21. Jem and the Holograms
    There are a few sweet moments early in Jem and the Holograms.... But then the movie’s lumbering, overstuffed, unfocused plot shows up, and whatever high hopes we might have had for this latest exploitation of 1980s nostalgia are slowly ground away.
  22. 23 Blast
    Although the film has moments when it’s serious about exploring the challenges that someone in Travis’s situation faces, it ultimately prefers to be just another football movie with a hokey big-game ending.
  23. Viktor
    In a way, the occasionally lugubrious undertones and casual cruelties suit the setting, but the tragic heft Mr. Martinez seems to be pushing for doesn’t materialize.
  24. Justice League
    The story is a confusion of noise, visual clutter and murderous digital gnats, but every so often a glimmer of life flickers through.
  25. Aquaman
    It’s just two and a half years of — sorry, two and a half hours — of oceanic screen savers and hair that won’t stop undulating so we know when we’re underwater.
  26. Blood Ransom
    It’s all very solemn, convoluted and a bit bloody, but not engrossing, despite impressive cinematography by Jasmin Kuhn and Mr. dela Torre and the best efforts of a hard-working cast.
  27. Hit by Lightning
    Even with a few late twists, concept exceeds execution.
  28. On Any Sunday: The Next Chapter
    Motorbikes careening round corners just millimeters off the track still quicken the pulse, but “The Next Chapter” also demonstrates the padding that documentaries in general have picked up in recent years.
  29. The Lookalike
    Nonstop scheming and some grimy New Orleans locations prevent The Lookalike from being boring. But the movie, instead of embracing its budgetary limitations, gives off a distracting sense of trying to punch above its weight class.
  30. Before I Disappear
    Throughout the movie, you have the feeling of being dragged along on an impromptu journey by a filmmaker who is traveling without the benefit of a GPS device.
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