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For 4,844 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.7 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Days of Being Wild (re-release)
Lowest review score: 0 Oh, Ramona!
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,024 out of 4844
  2. Mixed: 1,310 out of 4844
  3. Negative: 510 out of 4844
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  1. Literally, Right Before Aaron
    Characters make a lot of absurdly dumb decisions in this movie.
  2. Heartstone
    Beautifully shot, touchingly performed and delivered with a thrillingly atmospheric sense of place, Heartstone lets us meditate on these themes during that long last summer, when childhood seems like it’s going to extend, agonizingly, forever, only for it to be snapped abruptly away like a shout on the wind.
  3. Last Flag Flying
    In its deeply affecting final moments, where Linklater beautifully folds the movie’s threads and themes, Last Flag Flying coalesces into a poignant portrait of honor, the bonds of brotherhood and coming to terms with mortality.
  4. American Made
    There’s no shortage of “Goodfellas” wannabes out there, but American Made is a serviceably entertaining one with consistent action and hearty chuckles along the way.
  5. Gerald's Game
    Gerald’s Game is a symphony of suspense and scares, spiked with just the right amount of gruesome gore.
  6. Realive
    Though undeniably watchable...Mateo Gil’s film fails to rise above the well-trodden genre film language nor does it meaningfully contribute to its central existential questions on mortality .
  7. The LEGO Ninjago Movie
    Ninjago is mildly entertaining, and kids should find it pleasurable enough, but it’s missing that special spark, the kind of joyful flicker that compels children to ask for the movie on DVD at Christmas
  8. Lucky
    Lucky is a film perfectly nuanced for Stanton but executed in its full potential by none other — it’s a sobering portrait dedicated to one of cinema’s greatest actors.
  9. Kingsman: The Golden Circle
    Vaughn’s film is overflowing with big set pieces, but all those epic action sequences amount to a running time clocking nearly two and a half hours – and not much else. Like fireworks, they’re awe-inspiring while you’re watching, but there’s little left to marvel at after the show’s over.
  10. Professor Marston & the Wonder Women
    Professor Marston And The Wonder Women tackles one of the most curious chapters of comic book history with an overly classy sheen.
  11. Victoria and Abdul
    Victoria & Abdul is a movie that flirts with exploring prejudice, cultural tension, power, and religion, but never really consummates the ideas. At best, it tries to humorously dismantle the absurdity of empires and royalty, but that’s about as subversive as it gets.
  12. Thelma
    Trier crafts a drama that is sublimely ambiguous, austere and also deeply sad and heartbreaking.
  13. Stronger
    Stronger feels genuine and certainly has the right intentions, but never converts to something truly enlivening.
  14. Roman J. Israel, Esq.
    Gilroy has fashioned a character study that has moments that are incredibly well written.... What’s extremely disappointing is that the screenplay’s through line is simply not that interesting.
  15. The Mountain Between Us
    The Mountain Between Us isn’t a bad movie, overall. The scenery’s gorgeous, the two leads are enormously appealing, and nothing about the dialogue or visual style particularly grates. This is an easy picture to watch… and to root for, in a way, because it’s so rarely overbearing. But it’s only ever mildly engaging.
  16. Molly's Game
    Sorkin’s swordsman-like pen continually keeps the picture engaging; his knack for one-liners and absurd dialogue detail remains finely attuned.
  17. Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
    Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down The White House couldn’t be more timely, yet those parallels never quite resonate.
  18. EX LIBRIS: The New York Public Library
    It’s a lovely, gracious, soul-satisfying thing.
  19. Strong Island
    This is cinematic intimacy in the best manner for the worst of all reasons.
  20. First They Killed My Father
    If not for Sareum’s charismatic performance the film might fold like a house of cards.
  21. Woodshock
    Filmmaking craft is not the issue here, it’s the timidity of the storytelling that sits in sharp contrast to the boldness of some of the visual and sonic experimentation.
  22. Brad's Status
    Brad’s Status rarely affords its titular character an opportunity to have a real conversation with anyone else his own age, so the movie becomes a monologue from someone you quickly realize you don’t really want to get to know anyway.
  23. Battle of the Sexes
    The conflicts are obviously real, but there is something about the tone that’s just off through most of the picture.
  24. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
    What immediately comes to the forefront is that McDonagh has choreographed an almost impossible feat of a brutally dark comedy that, thanks to both Rockwell and McDormand, elicits an emotional response you simply don’t see coming.
  25. Gaga: Five Foot Two
    “Five Foot Two” is mostly about a woman pushing forward with her career in pain, and we’re talking chronic literal pain.
  26. Lady Bird
    There are two things that make this movie stand apart: Metcalf and Gerwig.
  27. Free in Deed
    Mahaffy’s uncompromising approach, and the quality of its performances, make it a rare and valuable testament: to the terrible danger of believing in miracles, and to the cruelty of a world that might make such belief necessary.
  28. Rebel in the Rye
    The worst aspect of ‘Rebel’ is that Strong seems to have no vision as a filmmaker. The movie thinks it’s throwing in some wise words about the art of writing, but they are superficial at best.
  29. Nobody's Watching
    Despite some flat moments, Nobody’s Watching is consistently engrossing,
  30. It
    Even with these minor complaints, it’s hard to deny that It is anything but a triumph. The craftsmanship is impeccable, the performances incredibly strong..., and the fidelity to the source material, in spirit more than specificity, is admirable and appreciated. Had the story given even more time to breathe, it would have been one of the greatest Stephen King adaptations ever. As it stands, it’s simply a very good one.
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