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For 6,377 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Pain and Glory
Lowest review score: 0 Surf Nazis Must Die
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,478 out of 6377
  2. Mixed: 3,424 out of 6377
  3. Negative: 475 out of 6377
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  1. Predator: Badlands
    It cleverly pulls at the supposed laws of the series in a way that makes it more interesting without diluting the fearsome nature of the title character. Trachtenberg is making the franchise richer with every instalment. And if the film’s final shot is any reliable indication, he’s far from finished.
  2. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
    It’s the visuals, though, that really soar. With master cinematographer Roger Deakins again lending his eye as consultant, the camera weaves in and out among photo-real flora and fire-breathing fauna.
  3. Shadow Dancer
    There’s slow-burning, and then there’s simply slow; the difference between the two has never been so apparent.
  4. Emma.
    If this energetic, fitfully funny version introduces the story to a new generation, heck, bring on a new ‘Sense and Sensibility’ too.
  5. Collapse
    While this totally impartial approach is admirable, it also robs Collapse of any invested sensibility. Smith has given this bull a stage on which to rage, but why the filmmaker has bothered to mount the platform in the first place is, frustratingly, anybody’s guess.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Damage
    A dull affair.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    No Man of Her Own
    Lightly brushing at least three separate genres, this good-natured yarn (from a story by Edmund Goulding and Benjamin Glazer) eschews conflict at every turn.
  8. Warrior
    Yet it still works like gangbusters - tears will be stifled by the end of the sibling vs. sibling finale - and most of the credit should go to Hardy, Nolte and Edgerton.
  9. Far from the Madding Crowd
    Director Thomas Vinterberg (The Celebration) has always enjoyed thumbing his nose at stuffy cinematic conventions, and while he’s obviously enchanted by Hardy’s text, his movie is fun because he’s keen not to give it too much respect.
  10. Sleepwalk with Me
    It's a comedy about the unchecked id; indeed, there's sleepwalking in it. But will those grunting strolls happen through a second-story window or on the highway? You're left cringing, and that puts Birbiglia in excellent company, alone though he might be in bed.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tales from the Gimli Hospital
    There are moments of jaw-dropping inspiration, and many that are just impenetrably odd. But this is immensely winning for the rawness alone.
  12. No One Knows About Persian Cats
    These artists are risking everything by playing Western-influenced music; that Ghobadi cheapens and cheeses up their subversion with Hollywood tricks makes for a seriously bitter irony.
  13. Where the Wild Things Are
    The true soulfulness of Sendak’s parable never emerges.
  14. All My Friends Hate Me
    This enjoyably mean-spirited black comedy set in a grand country house will have you wondering who your real friends are – and what they really think of you.
  15. Ingrid Goes West
    For all its timeliness, the movie works best when it’s echoing the 15-year-old The Rules of Attraction, upping the vapidity of Ingrid’s prey.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In Search of Beethoven
    The results do justice to a complex genius whose impact can scarcely be overstated.
  17. Revoir Paris
    It’s a sensitive, careful film with real emotional intelligence, but no less gripping for swerving dramatic fireworks in favour of quieter, more observational moments.
  18. RBG
    Finding reciprocity—in the eyes of the law, your partner, your colleagues—is the essence of this documentary, one that comes at a moment that desperately lacks it.
  19. Billie
    The two parallel stories never quite gel, more often pulling focus from each other just a major revelation seems to be in the offing.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Tenant
    Everything except the dubbing of the French supporting cast is a model of craftsmanship, but as the plot escalates into increasingly arbitrary excesses of fantasy and heads for the predictable pay-off, the movie looks more and more like a potboiler.
  21. Lourdes
    Sly and suggestive, Lourdes is a cosmic black comedy that bumps up against the metaphysical.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Testament
    A gentle, loving, noble, angry and heartrending film.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Mighty Quinn
    As if the plot weren't perfunctory enough (bags of Yankee dollars, corruption in high places, CIA asassins), we take extended breaks from it to contemplate Quinn's gradual recovery of his roots, culminating in the grateful islanders serenading him with a reggae version of the title song.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Manhattan Murder Mystery
    As light and brazenly generic as Allen's early work. As a result, it is both unusually insubstantial, and, at least in the second half, extremely funny.
  25. Don't Breathe
    For 
the most part, you’re in the hands of a capable lunatic who has a tale to tell.
  26. Neshoba
    Interviewing residents from across the spectrum, Neshoba reopens the debate: How was this allowed to happen? How do we move forward? Some questions, this compelling movie reminds us, still require answers.
  27. Molly's Game
    A sharply judged edit stitches together three separate timelines, shaping Molly as a complex and razor-sharp character in a world dominated by entitled mansplainers. Forget Rounders—here’s a poker movie to go all-in on.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
    Kirk & Co return to present-day San Francisco to save the whales in the most enjoyable film of the series so far, also returning to the simplistic morality-play format that gave the original TV series its strength.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    You're a Big Boy Now
    Very much of its time (i.e influenced by Godard, Dick Lester and the whole dropout thing), it now looks archly dated rather than spontaneous. But Coppola's style had healthy roots in the screwball comedies of the '30s, and the glorious performances litter the film with moments to treasure.
  30. Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger
    This is still one of his (Berlinger) most ambitious films, vibrating with the same municipal unease as "Chinatown."
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