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For 3,665 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Always Be My Maybe
Lowest review score: 0 Love, Weddings & Other Disasters
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,235 out of 3665
  2. Mixed: 991 out of 3665
  3. Negative: 439 out of 3665
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  1. We Have Always Lived in the Castle
    The performances are buttressed by a production that subtly underscores the intentions of both the characters and the plot, from the costumes by Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh (“Love & Friendship”) to the score from Andrew Hewitt (“The Stanford Prison Experiment”), which coax the film along to where it’s going without ever being too obvious about it.
  2. Rocketman
    It’s all grand and fun and corny, a musical fantasy that reaches for the sky and gets there often enough to make it diverting but also frustrating.
  3. Bull
    A tough but affecting film ... The fact that this never comes across as maudlin is tribute to a director who knows her way through dark places, and a pair of actors who can create a quiet storm.
  4. The Dead Don't Die
    Take your seat and bask in the presence of the coolest characters actors working today, but don’t ask for more than a few chuckles. Don’t call it fan service – call it coolness oblige.
  5. The Sun Is Also a Star
    Russo-Young (“Before I Fall”) takes some considerable risks in her direction to make The Sun Is Also a Star look different from the typical romantic drama. But not all of these creative decisions pay off.
  6. Trial by Fire
    What’s most disingenuous about Trial by Fire is that it knowingly simplifies the institutionalized and ingrained biases that foster the very matter it’s trying to address.
  7. Pasolini
    With this determination to eschew simple explanations, to avoid being reductive about the cause and effect of an artist’s work and life, and to remain true to the cloudy circumstances surrounding Pasolini’s murder, comes a troubling directorial decision to turn the man’s death into a symbol — of what is unclear.
  8. The Professor and the Madman
    What a superficial and tedious motion picture, never quite bad enough to be campy, never remotely good enough to justify watching it instead of reading the book’s Wikipedia page.
  9. John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
    How are the action sequences? They’re fun until they feel familiar, and even then they’re still a trip because the long takes demand admiration for the sheer brute exertion at work.
  10. The Biggest Little Farm
    The Biggest Little Farm is a decent personal narrative film — even inspiring at times — but it could have provided a much-needed educational view and a deeper look at the importance of California’s essential agricultural life.
  11. XY Chelsea
    This is a very difficult personal narrative to try to digest and make sense of, but at least XY Chelsea makes for a start on this, even if it cannot approach anything definitive on her singular story.
  12. The Hustle
    The new film is ripe for big laughs with Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson as, respectively, the snobby British bombshell with sticky fingers and the rough-around-the-edges though equally cunning con artist, but neither actress is given rich enough material to bring the film’s most interesting ideas to the finish line.
  13. Poms
    Poms is strongest when basking in the infectious enthusiasm of its cast. Keaton and Weaver could have easily phoned in their performances, but they do look like they’re having fun together with their crew of Golden Girls.
  14. My Son
    In its modest, stripped-down way, it’s a worthy cousin to the genre stalwarts, anchored in the unvarnished power of Canet’s performance, and the no-nonsense approach to Christian Carion’s direction.
  15. Charlie Says
    A very strained attempt to understand the motivations of the women who killed for Charles Manson.
  16. Wine Country
    Wine Country shows that women in their 50s are in one of the best phases of their lives, a time to be celebrated, welcomed, and enjoyed with good friends and good wine.
  17. Low Tide
    McMullin’s feel for the setting greatly enhances the story, as does evocative camerawork from Andrew Ellmaker, making his own impressive feature debut. But McMullin’s inexperience as both a writer and director does sometimes hold him back.
  18. El Chicano
    For his part, Castillo makes the best of the clunky dialogue and cliché lines, but the story never lets his acting chops shine through.
  19. Yesterday
    Curtis’s twee, nudging, corny comedic voice is very much the main sensibility here, far more so than anything offered by director Danny Boyle or anyone else involved.
  20. See You Yesterday
    The content here is very of-the-moment, and the trappings of genre are used in an attempt to tell some harsh truths.
  21. Framing John DeLorean
    This ambitious approach is, unfortunately, more intriguing than effective.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Apocalypse Now: Final Cut
    The bottom line is that this is probably the most satisfying of the three versions, a visceral but surreal journey into madness that feels monumentally alive.
  23. Ask Dr. Ruth
    When Ask Dr. Ruth is over, you’ll believe a human being can be as special as any computer-generated effect.
  24. Meeting Gorbachev
    The real show here is Herzog and Gorbachev, two of the most interesting people in the world, getting to know each other, asking the big questions, fumbling through small talk, and becoming friends.
  25. Shadow
    A marvel of cinematic craftsmanship, Shadow acts curiously as both a return to form for Zhang Yimou and a perceptible departure. Not only are his characters more physically grounded, but his writing also seeks more ties to emotional reality even if the stories are still far from commonplace.
  26. Tolkien
    If you were trying to produce a parody of what a Tolkien biopic would look like, you’d get the exact same film.
    • TheWrap
      • Posted May 3, 2019
  27. Pokémon Detective Pikachu
    If you have waited your entire life to see this world brought to life, and to watch humans and Pokémon occupy the same space, then Detective Pikachu may well be everything you ever wanted. But for those of us who don’t know a Jigglypuff from a Charizard, this film scores low on wit, coherence and engagement.
  28. The Kill Team
    “The Kill Team” is both a tense moral thriller and a disheartening account of our country’s actions abroad.
  29. The Intruder
    The Intruder rings incredibly hollow.
  30. Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
    A fitting tribute to a woman worthy of one.
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