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For 2,974 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Paterson
Lowest review score: 0 Life Itself
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,807 out of 2974
  2. Mixed: 937 out of 2974
  3. Negative: 230 out of 2974
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  1. 8 Women
    Seduction is more important than deduction in this chic display of star quality to the eighth power.
  2. The Amazing Spider-Man
    None of this is new to us, but Garfield and Webb make it feel convincingly fresh and exciting.
  3. On the Rocks
    There’s no tortured drama, no grand revelation. The movie is funny in the gentlest way, and how could it not be? Coppola’s script is built around Murray’s deadpan savoir faire, with Jones’ forthright radiance as a foil.
  4. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
    Burton has just allowed himself to be silly and have fun; Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is filled with low-stakes wisecracks and kindergarten-style one-liners, but the effect works. The movie carries you along on its wriggling magic carpet of mayhem—and features one sequence of creepy-elegant-funny cracked poetry that’s classic, old-school Burton.
  5. Kedi
    Delightful and visually splendid.
  6. Whiplash
    Directing with a cool, steady hand that renounces shaky-cam the way Fletcher would denounce rock ‘n roll, and getting strong performances from his two leads, Chazelle provides a potent metaphor for artistic ambition as both a religion and an addiction.
  7. Behind the Sun
    This movie is more emotionally remote than Salles' fine "Central Station." But it is starkly beautiful and says something potent to a world in which nations, like these families, engage in mindless blood feuds.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Plaza Suite
    All three skits are only mildly illuminating front-line communiqués from the sexual wars. But when Simon is writing them and Matthau reading them, substance seems almost beside the point.
  9. Dogma
    A tortured testament from a true believer.
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  10. Hercules
    Sixty years after Snow White, Hercules proves that Walt's art form is still sassy and snazzy.
  11. Big Night
    A movie that is both as real as food on the table and as hauntingly evanescent as its taste on one's tongue.
  12. The Avengers
    The Avengers doesn't aim for transcendence, only for the juggler's skill of keeping the balls smoothly airborne, and in 3-D too (converted after production). At that it succeeds.
  13. Crazy Rich Asians
    The two leads, Wu and Golding, are charming and genuine, and the supporting performers around them keep the whole mad story spinning—this thing is never boring.
  14. A Bronx Tale
    The central conflict, the struggle for Calogero's soul, is stated with a fable's starkness. But the tone of the film is musing, reflective, gently insinuating.
  15. Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
    Roadrunner is lively, comprehensive, moving and troubling, as well as suitably joyous, capturing everything about why viewers loved Bourdain, while also reminding us that even those very close to him couldn’t always fully understand him.
  16. Beverly Hills Cop
    Murphy exudes the kind of cheeky, cocky charm that has been missing from the screen since Cagney was a pup, snarling his way out of the ghetto. But as befits a manchild of the soft-spoken '80s, there is an insinuating sweetness about the heart that is always visible on the sleeve of Murphy's habitual sweatshirt.
  17. F1: The Movie
    It all boils down to the actor, and how good he is at vibing with universal aging-guy feelings, including the realization that your grandest achievements may be behind you. Brad Pitt, at 61, has finally aged into roles like these. And sometimes, as F1 proves, they’re the best thing that can happen to a guy.
  18. Equity
    You don’t need to be a woman working in finance to get a shivery thrill—and possibly a few chills—from watching Equity, a modestly scaled but perceptive drama about an investment banker who just happens to be a woman.
  19. A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
    The Merchant-Ivory attention to period detail often seems like the movie equivalent of good penmanship. But here it accrues a kind of ethical eloquence.
  20. My Beautiful Laundrette
    Fast, bold, harsh and primitive, like a prodigious student film with equal parts promise and threat.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Thunderball
    Though From Russia with Love remains the liveliest Bond opera to date, Thunderball is by all odds the most spectacular. Its script hasn't a morsel of genuine wit, but Bond fans, who are preconditioned to roll in the aisles when their hero merely asks a waiter to bring some beluga caviar and Dom Pérignon '55, will probably never notice.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Miracle on 34th Street
    Author-Director George Seaton has laced his sure-fire sentimentality with equally sure-fire wit and some cynical knowledge about how men of business and law might talk, look and act under these extravagant circumstances. The movie handles all its whimsy deftly and is consistently a smooth, agile job.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mary Poppins
    Though overlong and sometimes over-cute, Mary Poppins is the drollest Disney film in decades, a feat of prestidigitation with many more lifts than lapses.
  24. Edge of Tomorrow
    A furiously time-looping joy ride and the smartest action film of the early summer season.
  25. Onegin
    Handsome, well-acted, richly textured adaptation of Alexander Pushkin's novel.
  26. 3:10 to Yuma
    Who says remakes are always inferior to the original film? And who says the western is dead? Especially when a movie is as entertaining as this one, you begin to think this formerly beloved genre is due for a revival.
  27. Rio
    If you don't go in panting for a Pixar-level masterpiece, you should have a blast at this cartoon carnaval.
  28. Rosetta
    The purity of Dequenne's performance inspires awe.
  29. Man on the Moon
    Just gives us Andy, the pop postmodernist, and permits us to make what we will of him, which is a fascinating activity.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Truth
    Debuting director James Vanderbilt (who wrote Zodiac) has a great sense of forward motion and wrings suspense from an idea-driven story.
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