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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. Blood Father
    Mr. Gibson makes a persuasive derelict John Wayne with a loose, energetic performance, finely tuned comic timing and an amused, self-aware “Lethal Weapon” glint.
  2. Fatima
    If the movie, loosely based on two books by Fatima Elayoubi, tells a familiar story of immigrants struggling to make something of themselves in an alien culture (Fatima speaks some French but reads only Arabic), it does so in a tone that is kindhearted but clearheaded, and the performances are low-key and believable.
  3. Complete Unknown
    Complete Unknown is a curious hybrid, teetering between a thriller and a romance only to land in a nebulous spot that is neither.
  4. Don't Breathe
    It will probably please fans of this simple genre with its solid suspense, murky lighting and “gotcha!” scares.
  5. The Intervention
    Despite her script’s omissions...Ms. DuVall juggles the emotional dynamics with fluid editing and light comic touches. The skilled cast members must flesh out their characters, and the unselfconscious Ms. Lynskey, who invites the audience’s mockery and ends up with its sympathy, is the revelation.
  6. The Hollars
    Too much happens too quickly in The Hollars for the story to be credible, but the film has some likable qualities, among them the fun of seeing actors in unexpected roles.
  7. In Order of Disappearance
    Revenge is the theme and cheeky is the tone of In Order of Disappearance, a delicious Norwegian film full of icy landscapes and icier hearts.
  8. Is That You?
    A bittersweet and lovely little movie.
  9. Level Up
    Unlovely and uninvolving, Level Up is a running-man cocktail of brutality spiked with low-level humor.
  10. The Sea of Trees
    Mr. Van Sant has always had a sentimental streak — reaching some kind of apogee with “Restless,” in 2011 — but a better script might have replaced literalness with the emotional intelligence that the film badly needs.
  11. Southside with You
    Mr. Tanne has clearly made a close study of his real-life inspirations, yet his movie is soon hostage to the couple’s history. His characters feel on loan and, despite his actors, eventually make for dull company because too many lines and details serve the great-man-to-be story rather than the romance.
  12. Happy Hour
    If Happy Hour doesn’t quite deliver all it promises, that may only be because it promises quite a lot.
  13. Kate Plays Christine
    The film’s method of circling around its subject, then closing in at the end, feels coy and withholding, as if Mr. Greene reserved the few juiciest moments for last.
  14. Making a Killing: Guns, Greed, and the NRA
    Making a Killing generates a disgust that can’t be shaken.
  15. Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
    The internet is an elusive quarry. It’s a marvel and a menace, a banal fact of life and a force for incalculable change. But it’s also less the subject of this captivating, uneven film than an excuse for its director to add to his collection of memorable faces and voices.
  16. Spa Night
    The film is a contemplation of the loneliness, tension and anxiety of outsiders pursuing a piece of the American dream.
  17. The People vs. Fritz Bauer
    Mr. Kraume captures the glances and motions that lay bare a character’s thoughts. He’s fond of the gruff and curmudgeonly Bauer, yet sentimentality is scarce while the double-crossings are surprising and the dry humor is welcome.
  18. Imperium
    Nate’s journey is used primarily to show us the variations in extremist groups and how they might accomplish something drastic like set off a dirty bomb; his inner turmoil takes a back seat. The movie works just fine as a straightforward thriller, though.
  19. Ixcanul
    More than a fable about the clash of tradition and modernity, Ixcanul is finally a painful illustration of the ease with which those who have can prey on those who don’t.
  20. Kampai! For the Love of Sake
    [A] crisp if feather-light documentary.
  21. Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV
    This spinoff from the story of a magical kingdom besieged by an evil empire is too ludicrous for words.
  22. Spaceman
    The effort is commendable, but the execution is rocky.
  23. Ben-Hur
    Overseen by a director not known for his human touch and lacking a name star, except for Mr. Freeman, Ben-Hur feels like a film made on the cheap, although it looks costly.
  24. War Dogs
    [Todd Phillips] delivers an entertaining tale, especially when one or both men have to travel from their home base in Florida to overseas hot spots to correct their ineptitude.
  25. Kubo and the Two Strings
    The action is gorgeously fluid, the idiosyncratic 3-D visual conceits (including floating eyeballs undersea) are startling, and the story and its metaphors resolve in unexpected and moving ways.
  26. Morris from America
    There is plenty of drama in a teenager’s everyday life — no need to sensationalize — and Morris From America feels true to both the pleasures and the frustrations of its title character.
  27. A Tale of Love and Darkness
    There are many lovely and memorable moments in this film, which is in every way the opposite of a vanity project. If anything, Ms. Portman seems constrained by her own modesty, by a justified but nonetheless limiting reverence for her source material.
  28. Mohenjo Daro
    Mr. Roshan, an appealing dancer, works hard to twinkle his way into our affections and make Sarman something more than a cardboard hero. He can’t, but the effort is appreciated.
  29. When Two Worlds Collide
    The issues presented in When Two Worlds Collide are so crucial that it feels churlish to characterize it as a dutiful, and ultimately pedestrian, documentary. There is something evasive about it as well.
  30. Disorder
    Like its hero, Disorder has plenty of technique but not enough purpose.
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