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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. My Brother the Devil
    Even those who aren’t well-versed in the-’hood-always-wins dramas can see what’s coming. So it’s to newcomer Sally El Hosaini’s credit that she embeds a tangible, lived-in sense of the region’s diaspora community and urban criminal underbelly (wagwan, near-indecipherable East End patois!) that’s leagues away from anthropological fetishizing.
  2. Violeta Went to Heaven
    A rare Chilean film that doesn’t mention either the Allende or Pinochet regimes, Violeta Went to Heaven is a love letter to a lost 20th-century goddess. It’s hard to resist her.
  3. The Runaways
    There's lots of volume in these tunes--the soundtrack is killer--and at least everyone gets their rocks off.
  4. The Idea of You
    It’s not quite Roman Holiday, but it’s got a charm of its own.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    How to Make Money Selling Drugs
    The question posed by the title of Matthew Cooke’s documentary seems to have a simple answer: Sell drugs. Lots of them. But this dope dealers’ DIY manifesto isn’t quite the illustrated instruction manual it sardonically promises to be, as Cooke talks to many a former pusher, from legendary kingpin “Freeway” Rick Ross to small-timer 50 Cent.
  6. Murder by Decree
    Not entirely successful, but still an imaginative and ambitious attempt to combine historical speculation, conspiracy thriller, and the world of Conan Doyle.
  7. Centro Histórico
    The extreme variance of style and scrutability makes for wildly disorienting viewing.
  8. Enzo Avitabile Music Life
    The scenes of the film’s exuberant, frizzy-haired protagonist wandering Naples and revisiting old haunts, however, seem much more unfocused—a ramshackle search for insights into the man’s art and life that rarely come. The instruments are in tune, but the rhythm is off.
  9. Wild
    Unfortunately for us, Dern — only seen in flashback — isn’t the main character.
  10. Late Night
    The most radical observation Late Night makes concerns the extreme maleness of showbiz that turns women into rivals. But the film brushes over this insight and ultimately falls short of even its more modest intentions.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Medium Cool
    A fascinating though not wholly successful fusion of cinéma-vérité and political radicalism.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Underground
    Played as broad, noisy black farce, the film is about the deception of politics and heroism, dog-eat-dog morals and the propensity for violence, but one can't help thinking that behind the sometimes sensational apocalyptic imagery, there's less here than meets the eye.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Nanking
    The first-person recollections of Nanking’s survivors are as uncommonly wrenching as their captors were brutally thorough.
  14. Out of the Blue (1980)
    Hopper keeps things light and off-the-cuff, allowing his performers free rein - sometimes too much, as in the case of the screechy and shrill Farrell - to explore grim territory without falling into heavy-handedness.
  15. Ready or Not
    As games go, this one’s a little too easy to outfox, but it’s worth playing if you need a quick diversion, or if the chess moves of The Favourite felt overly vicious—Ready or Not is pure checkers.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Fear of a Black Hat
    While individual interviews, pop-video parodies and album titles hit the mark, the film as a whole is insufficiently clear-cut in its satire of the bands' dubious antics and attitudes.
  17. The Myth of the American Sleepover
    Swaddled with a lacquer of nostalgia that passes for cultural insight, this one-night-in-sweatpants drama will make you yearn for a moratorium on teen movies-at least ones so aggressively dewy-eyed.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
    The mix of comedy, '90s sensibility, and swashbuckling action is more hit than miss, even if the overall effect is rather slapdash. Spirited, irreverent stuff, but not for those who like their myths kept sacred.
  19. Transformers: The Last Knight
    Clangorous and nonsensical, the fifth installment of the toys-to-world-saviors franchise still has a spark of grandeur that could only come from one director.
  20. Eileen
    Eileen feels like a less-than-daring portrait of obsession.
  21. The Split
    Flemyng's direction is efficient if lacking in real flair, but Burnett Guffey's crisp camera-work, the taut plotting, and the generally high standard of the performances make for a pleasing, if undemanding modern noir thriller in the tradition of The Killing and The Asphalt Jungle.
  22. Deadpool & Wolverine
    Still, cumbersome plotting aside, there’s enough gory mayhem and genuine zingers to make Deadpool & Wolverine a fun ride in a packed and up-for-it cinema.
  23. Bad Times at the El Royale
    As with his first directorial effort, the ace meta-horror The Cabin in the Woods, Goddard has a blast toying with genre expectations, although here the payoff is a lot less satisfying.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    My Old Ass
    Don’t expect too many boundaries to be pushed – that’s not Park’s intention here – but settle in for plenty of big laughs and relatable truths.
  25. In Another Country
    No exchanges flare into true weirdness; rather, the mood is lingering and tentative. Undoubtedly, this is the movie's intent, but it's a fairly banal comment on foreign estrangement (or love) that could have used some roughing up.
  26. Minions: The Rise of Gru
    Short on plot, long on silliness, the return of the little yellow troublemakers is a fun but fleeting helium high.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Way of the Dragon
    The film has the roughness you might expect in a first directorial effort, and also a perhaps unexpected leaning towards comedy. Lee makes great play on his character as the country boy without weapons confronting the denizens of the technologically-powerful West and winning hands down.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Starbuck
    What could have been one long, smutty joke ends up turning into a moving slice of midlife.
  29. Upstream Color
    No one is going to explain any of this for you — and the slightly snobby implication of Upstream Color is that explanations are for suckers.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    American: The Bill Hicks Story
    Hicks is undoubtedly missed, but this attempt to commune with this social critic's spirit falls frustratingly short of his brilliance.
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