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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. Maze Runner: The Death Cure
    The movie’s hero, Thomas (Dylan O’Brien), is low-key and likable, though it’s his best pal, Thomas Brodie-Sangster’s Newt, who gets the most dramatic moments. He’s charming to watch, but by this point, it’s futile to wish for a cure-all.
  2. 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.
  3. Naked Lunch
    The movie is way too colorful - cute, in a repulsive way, with its crawly special effects - and tame compared with its source.
  4. The Amateur
    If The Amateur is unremarkable, it’s also efficient and effective, and sometimes all you need is a movie that gets the job done.
  5. Vortex
    So much of Vortex is stirring, compelling, upsetting. But a greater share is merely numbing in its depressive showiness.
  6. The Darjeeling Limited
    Picaresque movies often feel longer than they are. For them to work, they need an interior spring with more thrust than Darjeeling's attempt at reconstituted brotherhood. The problem is in Anderson's approach, which is so supercool, it's chilly. Anderson has the attitude for comedy but not the aptitude.
  7. Scream 3
    Not so good is the absence of hip cross-references to the classic horror tropes.
  8. The Guilt Trip
    The Guilt Trip works because we all know and like a Joyce Brewster (or dozens of them).
  9. Chandni Chowk to China
    A decent sampler for Americans who've never seen a full-out Bollywood musical, since it goes heavy on the action scenes and light on the big dance numbers.
  10. The Help
    For every obvious turn The Help takes, there is Davis, the ideal counterweight.
  11. Definitely, Maybe
    Reynolds can't help looking rather shifty as he relates his story and Breslin, who was so wonderful in Little Miss Sunshine, is obliged to play a standard-issue wise child.
  12. Starship Troopers
    Maybe the filmmakers are so lost in their slambang visual effects that they don't give a hoot about the movie's scariest implications. [10 Nov 1997, p.102]
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  13. Anna and the King
    Cutting through the epic gesturings of Andy Tennant's direction, he (Yun-Fat Chow) provides reason enough to return one last time to this otherwise weary romance
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  14. The Mother
    The Mother would be more effective if she could wink at the audacity of the material instead of just playing it all straight. But then, Lopez can get away with things that other mere mortals can’t, and if you approach it in the right spirit, The Mother could be ridiculously good fun.
  15. The Finest Hours
    As Pine’s Webber navigates that seemingly helpless little boat, squinting into the driving snow and more than once nearly falling victim to the ocean’s mighty maw, he’s the movie’s finest special effect — not because he’s mindlessly brave, but because he lets us see how scared he is.
  16. Dante's Peak
    Writer Leslie Bohem and director Roger Donaldson brush briskly through the standard scientific and romantic blather. They know that in movies like this, complexity is the province of the special-effects people.
  17. Do the Right Thing
    To accept the film, though, one must first understand its point of view, and that is maddeningly difficult. All we know for certain is that Do the Right Thing is not naturalistic. [July 3, 1989]
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  18. Bruno
    The problem with shock comedy is that it works in its purest form only the first time. Where do you go after you've gone too far? No artist can get heads to swivel and stomachs to turn indefinitely.
  19. Fences
    In the end, it feels too much like a school assignment. Washington approaches the material with canonical reverence, but that isn’t the same as shaking it up and bringing it to life on-screen.
  20. Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
    When you’ve been charged with reviving one of the most obsessively beloved franchises in modern movies, is it better to defy expectations or to meet them? With Star Wars: The Force Awakens, J.J. Abrams splits the difference, and the movie suffers—in the end, it’s perfectly adequate, hitting every beat. But why settle for adequacy?
  21. Hail, Caesar!
    Hail, Caesar! doesn’t completely hang together. But Johansson in a mermaid’s tail? Really, why else make movies—or go to them?
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Seconds
    Seconds has moments, and that's too bad, in a way. But for its soft and flabby midsection, it might have been one of the trimmest shockers of the year.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Two-Minute Warning
    Most of these matters cancel each other out, but there is just enough energy remaining to make Two-Minute Warning an amusing time waster.
  24. Avatar: The Way of Water
    Avatar: The Way of Water is both more extravagant and dorkier than Avatar, which was pretty dorky to begin with.
  25. Sparkle
    Sparkle, while occasionally silly in a way that made a preview audience titter, is decent entertainment.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Trust
    Another fond sketch of losers from the down-scale version of Woody Allen.
  27. Crimes of the Future
    You might not call this picture a major achievement—it’s both elegant and rather silly—but you can’t fault it for lack of vision.
  28. Lone Survivor
    You may salute Lone Survivor for its desperate intensity; but the film remains pinned down by its military and political dilemma: between gung-ho and F—, no.
  29. A Knight's Tale
    The result is half Python, half Ivanhoe--and not as much fun as either.
  30. Bugonia
    The world isn’t pretty, and Lanthimos is sounding the alarm. If only he would tell us something we don’t already know.
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