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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 4% same as the average critic
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On average, this publication grades 7.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Hooligan Sparrow
Lowest review score: 0 Followers
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,708 out of 11162
  2. Mixed: 4,553 out of 11162
  3. Negative: 1,901 out of 11162
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  1. Logan Lucky
    It’s a relief to watch a commercial movie from a director who trusts you to figure out plot points along the way.
  2. Whitney: Can I Be Me
    The film doesn’t use enough of Houston’s music.
  3. The Hitman's Bodyguard
    It’s exactly the movie it promises to be, but more so. It’s wilder, more hilarious, more giddily irresponsible — it’s the hard R action comedy that kids sneaking into it might imagine it’s going to be, minus Seventies- and Eighties-style nudity.
  4. Nocturama
    The film mesmerizes and alienates equally.
  5. In Pursuit of Silence
    Shen overplays his hand.
  6. Nowhere to Hide
    Both Sharif and Ahmed make sure audiences leave Nowhere to Hide well aware that Iraq remains a war zone — one where innocent people remain caught in the crossfire.
  7. Ripped
    Much of the humor in Ripped fails to inspire more than a mild chuckle at best, in part because Epstein’s deliberate pacing sucks the air out of countless scenes.
  8. Food Evolution
    Kennedy unabashedly admires scientists, and Food Evolution is his rallying cry to make advocacy as important as lab work.
  9. Good Fortune
    No doubt, these talking-head assertions about DeJoria’s charitable attitude toward work and life...are true. Alas, they’re delivered in a celebratory one-note package that feels like something cooked up by a publicity team.
  10. Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press
    There’s no self-reflexive media criticism in Nobody Speak, only the simple plea for Americans to resolutely support journalism, in both principle and practice.
  11. Paulina
    The film is ultimately frustrating for the unending opacity of Paulina’s psychology.
  12. All the Rage (Saved by Sarno)
    Celebrity testimonials drown out the scientists, and Galinsky’s haphazard exploration of his own back pain is a major distraction.
  13. The Nile Hilton Incident
    The Nile Hilton Incident, despite a stylish, seedy coating, fails to even come close to the canon of greats that have influenced it.
  14. After Love
    I walked away from After Love feeling like I knew precious little about these characters. Lafosse gets so many critical things right about this decaying relationship that, at first, I did not wonder too much about the lack of specificity or detail about them as people. But later, it gnawed at me.
  15. The Trip to Spain
    It is at once a desperate echo of long-gone glories and a glory itself.
  16. Ingrid Goes West
    It is entertaining, and often touching, even if it pulls back right when it should be going totally nuts.
  17. The Only Living Boy in New York
    The boy is but a shell; it’s the men and women around him who truly come to life in this chaotic, awkward, and sporadically moving film.
  18. The Glass Castle
    Destin Daniel Cretton’s adaptation of Walls’s book of the same name just often enough bursts to raucous life.
  19. Machines
    Machines proves both uncompromising and unforgettable.
  20. The Dark Tower
    Outside of its actors, the film is unremarkable.
  21. It's Not Yet Dark
    It’s Not Yet Dark is an uplifting portrait of a debilitated man driven to excel by a relentless desire to live life and love those who surround him.
  22. Fun Mom Dinner
    A perfectly enjoyable way to spend 81 minutes.
  23. Wind River
    Sheridan’s feel for psychology and setting are in fine evidence here. Wind River’s landscapes are forbidding and beautiful.
  24. Brave New Jersey
    Lambert aims for gentle, Lake Wobegon–ish nostalgia, but the jokes never land, the undifferentiated small town confers no sense of location, and its eccentrics aren’t particularly weird.
  25. Chronically Metropolitan
    Director Xavier Manrique’s film fails to drum up more than clichés about rich-people problems.
  26. Detroit
    Bigelow has crafted a portrait of the 1967 Detroit uprising that manages to be both history lesson and incendiary device, even if it sometimes sputters.
  27. Icarus
    A real-life absurdist thriller that, in its electric coverage of one Russian scandal, can’t help but illuminate another ongoing one.
  28. 4 Days in France
    Reybaud’s film similarly serves as a tonic lesson in physical specifics, each location populated with richly idiosyncratic conversation partners.
  29. Columbus
    An outwardly chilly, resolutely static film that nevertheless finds poignancy in the most surprising places, Kogonada’s directorial debut does a couple of important things so well that I can’t help but forgive the things it doesn’t.
  30. The Emoji Movie
    The film is boldly bad, yes, but also boldly boring.
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