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For 2,973 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: 1,806 out of 2973
  2. Mixed: 937 out of 2973
  3. Negative: 230 out of 2973
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  1. Operation Mincemeat
    Aside from the fact that Operation Mincemeat features not one but two former Mr. Darcys (one from the much-loved 1995 Pride and Prejudice mini-series, the other from Joe Wright’s similarly marvelous 2005 film adaptation), and works beautifully as a romance, it’s also a cracking espionage caper.
  2. Gallipoli
    Well acted and, within its limited terms, well made, Gallipoli represents a failure of nerve as well as design.
  3. My Week with Marilyn
    Williams locates a central truth, the contradictory allure of this utterly impossible woman - mercurial, vain, foolish, but also intelligent in some very primal way and achingly vulnerable.
  4. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
    There are scenes in the new movie that seem like stretching exercises at a retirement home; there are garrulous stretches, and even the title seems a few words too long. But once it gets going, Crystal Skull delivers smart, robust, familiar entertainment.
  5. Salt
    She's (Jolie) got what no other Hollywood woman even tries for, and which is embodied among recent international stars perhaps only by Hong Kong action star Michelle Yeoh: feminismo.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
    Mockingjay Part 2 is a worthy conclusion to a series that’s meant so much to so many, made stars of its younger players and allowed more-established performers to shamelessly ham it up.
  7. Everything Must Go
    Ferrell fits uncannily well into Carver country, and in this small but sturdy film, he challenges any assumption that he might be limited to comedy. Certainly this is the first time he's moved me to tears that weren't produced by hard laughter.
  8. Dirty Dancing
    If the ending of Eleanor Bergstein's script is too neat and inspirational, the rough energy of the film's song and dance does carry one along, past the whispered doubts of better judgment. [14 Sept 1987]
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  9. Made in Dagenham
    Engrossing and inspiring, despite being the kind of movie in which one of the first words you hear is cheeky.
  10. Beauty and the Beast
    There’s no need to worry that this version might crush the gentle charms of the 1991 picture: Even though Condon more or less faithfully follows that movie’s plot, this Beauty is its own resplendent creature.
  11. Beautiful Girls
    Beautiful Girls is always in touch with reality but never drowned in it. [19 February 1996, p.64]
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  12. X-Men: First Class
    Too bad that First Class torpedoes its lofty intentions with flights of idiocy so wrongheaded as to be almost endearing.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Buck and the Preacher
    Directed by and co-starring Sidney Poitier, it is at least competently made and has a few, fleeting moments of genuine fun.
  14. Oscar and Lucinda
    Its business is to turn sure-thing expectations into a game of chance, and provide us with that rarity--a genuinely eccentric yet deeply insinuating film.
  15. Alien: Covenant
    Alien: Covenant is reasonably entertaining. But it slips off course after that opening section, and the problem is caused by the very creatures we presumably came to see.
  16. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
    It’s simply a movie that makes you feel welcome.
  17. Deadpool
    Deadpool, intended as a spiky antidote to superhero oversaturation, ends up impaling only itself.
  18. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
    The movie is an act of loony generosity we shouldn’t refuse. This is ludicrous entertainment for frazzled times.
  19. The Courier
    The Courier is almost two films in one: the second half is much darker and more intense than the first, but the shift is so delicately abrupt that at first you barely register it. That’s part of the movie’s edgily engaging artistry; what begins as a shadowy spy adventure ends in a place of mournful resignation.
  20. Men
    Even if [Garland] offers no clear solutions to this crisis, he throws his full weight into exploring it. Just be warned that the path he cuts is a thorny one.
  21. Dick
    Sells out real satirical possibilities to its marketing potential as teen fluff. Everyone loses -- except Hedaya, who keeps faith with his character's nutsiness.
  22. Panic Room
    A fairly standard exercise in claustrophobic menace. It is also an exercise in style.
  23. Timecode
    This spectacle of strenuous improvising is more stunt than true experiment.
  24. Miss Americana
    With a more elegant, purposeful structure or at least more time to explore her toughest choices, Miss Americana might have given fans a satisfying portrait of the real Taylor Swift. As is, it’s more like a sketch. And that’s a shame. After an album as bright and vivid as Lover, I can’t imagine I was the only one hoping for more color.
  25. Wild Grass
    It's a cocktail-party movie with a Molotov-cocktail finish: a tribute to the 88-year-old auteur's artistry - and his con artistry as well.
  26. Dan in Real Life
    In a brief review in Time magazine this week, I gave Dan a gentleman's B-. Let me try to remember why. Because the pressure of keeping his ardor secret turns Dan pleasingly cranky.
  27. Get Him to the Greek
    Shaggily amusing but familiar and way-too-long.
  28. Ali
    A thoughtful epic is both a rarity and an oxymoron. But that's what Ali is, and you can't help being drawn sympathetically into its hero's struggle for mastery of himself and his era.
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  29. Crooklyn
    Our natural sympathy for the Carmichaels is sabotaged by crude and careless moviemaking.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A Fistful of Dollars
    Actor Eastwood, the sometime star of television's Rawhide, is certainly not paid by the word. In Fistful he hardly talks at all. Doesn't shave, either. Just drawls orders. Sometimes the bad guys drawl back. Just as tersely. Trouble is, after they stop talking, their lips keep moving. That's because the picture is dubbed. Like the villains, it was shot in Spain. Pity it wasn't buried there.
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