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For 20,269 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: 9,377 out of 20269
  2. Mixed: 8,428 out of 20269
  3. Negative: 2,464 out of 20269
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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Drone
    [A] modest, proficient thriller.
  8. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. The Commune
    Tobias Lindholm’s screenplay sacrifices credibility for quirkiness.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. Wakefield
    The film, scrupulously faithful to its source, is decidedly literary, but not in an especially satisfying way.
  17. The Survivalist
    Impressively lean and rigidly controlled, “The Survivalist” achieves, at times, the primitive allure of a silent movie.
  18. 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.
  19. Afterimage
    This is an angry, vivid, passionate film.
  20. 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.
  21. Paint It Black
    It’s not an easy movie to embrace, but it lingers.
  22. 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.
  23. The Last Shaman
    How The Last Shaman came to be isn’t discussed in the film, but this documentary might be less disquieting if it had been.
  24. Whisky Galore!
    Gone is the original’s joyful sense of mischief; what’s left is an inoffensive piece of twaddle that never fully appreciates the ineluctable bond between community spirit and a drop of the hard stuff.
  25. Tracktown
    Fact and fiction blend nicely in Tracktown.
  26. The Wedding Plan
    In a complicated role, the excellent Ms. Koler exudes a kind of flighty confidence: For all her nuptial-related anxieties, Michal is completely comfortable with who she is.
  27. Hounds of Love
    It’s a tense, sharply assembled debut feature from Ben Young. Its main problem, though, is that it never answers a basic question: Why are we watching this?
  28. Folk Hero & Funny Guy
    Things meander along to the inevitable blowup scene and a too-easy ending in which all is forgiven and personal growth has occurred, though not for the viewing audience.
  29. The Wall
    The vein-popping mood is ultimately more exhausting than exciting.
  30. King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
    Arthur and Vortigern mix it up amid a lot of shenanigans, detours and filler, some bad, some good and all of it disposable.
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