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For 1,951 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 63% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 34% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.8 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Gladiator
Lowest review score: 0 It's Pat: The Movie
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,401 out of 1951
  2. Mixed: 293 out of 1951
  3. Negative: 257 out of 1951
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  1. All the Money in the World
    If it occasionally feels a little too cinematic, with a few too many obstacles thrown in the way of Gail and her son, so be it. The film’s an impressive accomplishment, on several levels.
  2. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
    Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is reasonably clever and reasonably diverting.
  3. Call Me by Your Name
    Guadagnino has explored this territory before...and he’s a master at finding electricity in a glance, beauty in a beam of sunlight, an entire story in the whisper of one name.
  4. The Greatest Showman
    The Greatest Showman isn’t interested in tiny stories or character or nuance; it’s about being the biggest. In doing so, it becomes strangely small; like a magician’s rabbit, it quickly disappears.
  5. Darkest Hour
    Darkest Hour is a handsome, old-fashioned film, filled with stirring music, dusty light and thoughtful performances — with one whopper of a star turn at its core.
  6. Downsizing
    Perhaps Downsizing needed to be downsized a bit; as it is, it’s an intriguing concept that slips away.
  7. Ethel & Ernest
    Suggesting a matchup between Archie Bunker and Gracie Allen, Ethel & Ernest is a sweet British memoir/cartoon about an ordinary couple who survive the Blitz along with their growing son.
  8. The Shape of Water
    In other hands, this story could have been lurid and silly. Here, told through Hawkins’ ever-dancing eyes, it’s poetry; some performances don’t need words.
  9. Ferdinand
    The humor is broad and obvious (yes, Ferdinand winds up in a china shop, with predictable results), but there are a number of scenes that hit the mark.
  10. Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi
    Last Jedi is deep. It’s also rollicking. It’s right up there with the very first “Star Wars” in terms of its enjoyability factor. It’s a triumph.
  11. Wonder Wheel
    It’s just a bad movie; a flat melodrama in which some lovely camerawork and a ferocious central performance from Winslet can’t conceal the rote tiredness of it all.
  12. Thelma
    It’s chilly in Oslo, and in this movie; the better to sneak up on you quietly, like an unexpected shiver.
  13. Jane
    It’s most evocative as a memorable portrait of a woman, both in youth and late life, who always knew what she wanted — and who, in doing so, helped make the world a better place.
  14. The Man Who Invented Christmas
    It’s a pleasant Christmas-season offering; both mild (read: family-friendly) and sweet.
  15. Roman J. Israel, Esq.
    Roman J. Israel, Esq., isn’t as good as the performance at its center, but perhaps that’s inevitable.
  16. Coco
    It’s heart that’s overflowing with love, poignancy, humor, color and music.
  17. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
    McDormand, carrying the movie on blue-denimed shoulders, is a wonder. Every now and then, she lets us see the tiniest crack in Mildred’s anger, through which something flickering shines through.
  18. Last Flag Flying
    With its well-drawn characters (a Linklater trademark) and mood of quiet restraint, Last Flag Flying touches the heart at a deep level.
  19. Novitiate
    Novitiate is a fascinating, unblinking yet respectful look at a time and place — a women’s community where a visiting archbishop (Denis O’Hare) can act like he owns the place.
  20. Justice League
    Only the super-speedy Flash, played by Ezra Miller, lightens up the proceedings. Miller’s goofy eager-beaver take on the character, very reminiscent of Tom Holland’s Spider-Man, is the picture’s saving grace.
  21. Daddy's Home 2
    A colossal waste of time and the moviegoer’s dollars. That’s the bottom line of Daddy’s Home 2.
  22. Murder on the Orient Express
    A cheerily uneven but enjoyable adaptation of Agatha Christie’s blockbuster novel.
  23. Lady Bird
    Lady Bird is a joy, from its start...to its finish, when that ever-so-slightly older young woman takes a breath and looks out — hopefully, nervously, excitedly — into a limitless future.
  24. A Bad Moms Christmas
    A deeply uninspired sequel to last year’s surprise (and surprisingly sweet) hit “Bad Moms,” this movie was made in a hurry and it shows.
  25. Wonderstruck
    Todd Haynes’ Wonderstruck is one of those films that I wanted to like far more than I actually did.
  26. Blade of the Immortal
    Blade of the Immortal is a pretty good title for a samurai movie. I’ve got a better one: “10,000 Corpses.”
  27. Thor: Ragnarok
    The fun here is in the little moments the actors find, and in the way that Waititi, within the massive machine that is a studio superhero movie, brings out a looseness and playfulness in the performances.
  28. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
    It’s the kind of movie that you watch with two simultaneous emotions: fascination, and the desire to leave immediately. I’m glad, mostly, that I didn’t give in to the second, but I’m still pondering exactly how Lanthimos pulled off the first.
  29. All I See Is You
    Forster gets decent performances from Lively and Clarke, but the overall impression “All I See” leaves is of a picture that fails to live up to its filmmaker’s ambitions.
  30. Suburbicon
    The Coen brothers’ section, derived from a script they sent to Clooney in the late 1990s, is much more impactful, with Damon giving a performance that renders his character downright chilling and Jupe doing heart-rending work as a child emotionally buffeted by the grievously flawed behavior of the adults who are supposed to love and protect him.
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