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For 11,478 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 0 Dolittle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,014 out of 11478
  2. Mixed: 3,069 out of 11478
  3. Negative: 2,395 out of 11478
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Wicked: For Good
    Despite its packed agenda, the film can also feel meandering and directionless.
  2. Christy
    Christy, a biopic that plays by the rules, doesn’t do justice to an athlete who gloriously broke so many of them.
  3. Good Fortune
    All the world is a farce, Ansari seems to say, while suggesting that it can still be saved. But like a breezy sitcom episode, his big-screen creation doesn’t feel the need to offer solutions.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    After the Hunt
    The kind of statement that makes you feel like you’re watching a movie not about real people but about how eight years after #MeToo, we still haven’t figured out how to talk about it at all.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
    Kogonada gives us a bighearted sentimental “Journey,” and there will be audiences who will be there for it. But I hope for his next movie, he remembers he’s better at smaller favors.
  6. The Long Walk
    That existential paradox — are we all in this thing called life together, or is it every man for himself? — gives the film and its protagonists something meaty to chew on as it, and they, progress. But “The Long Walk” doesn’t dig into it in any deeply satisfying way.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
    If you have ever loved the Downton Abbey franchise, you will most likely enjoy this one while finding it pretty weak Darjeeling.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
    I regret to report that Spinal Tap has become Dad Rock.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tinā
    Directed and co-written by the Samoan filmmaker Miki Magasiva, the movie features a unique central character, a powerhouse star performance and some truly uplifting choral singing. Those are the good parts. The less good part is a script that pummels audiences with melodrama, manipulation and sentimental clichés until we all cry uncle.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Happy Gilmore 2
    Rather than aim for the flagstick, “Happy Gilmore 2” seems all too content to lay up in search of one gimme putt after another.
  11. Smurfs
    Smurfs may be all over the multiverse, but it doesn’t land anywhere worth writing home about.
  12. Heads of State
    As a blithely likable blunt instrument, Heads of State gets the job done, justifying its anesthetized mayhem with a sweet-natured message about the importance of friendship, international alliances and institutional continuity.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Unholy Trinity
    The Unholy Trinity is a reminder that they don’t make ’em like they used to — and maybe that’s a good thing. A pokey, low-budget Western enlivened by a couple of aging stars happily hamming it up, it’s the kind of B movie they used to program before the feature and after the cartoon in the old days.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Straw
    Straw has all the feels it wants and little of the art it needs. But there’s nothing to suggest Tyler Perry would have it any other way.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Henry Johnson
    Henry Johnson is unusual for Mamet in that it focuses on the prey. It’s also as close as a movie can get to a filmed play without including your dinner and a ride home.
  16. Rust
    Rust, Alec Baldwin and Joel Souza’s slow-moving, sepia-toned homage to the American western, is the kind of respectable if unremarkable genre exercise that would have come and gone without much notice were it not for the circumstances of its making.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A Working Man
    The latest collaboration between ever-reliable Brit of Few Words Jason Statham and writer-director David Ayer — who teamed up more fruitfully on last year’s “The Beekeeper,” a revenge flick as wonderfully unhinged as its title — seems to belong to a bygone, channel-surfing era.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Death of a Unicorn
    Perhaps an experienced director could have pulled it off, but Scharfman isn’t there yet, and the result is a tonally confused, gracelessly shot and edited misfire that squanders its premise on escalating suspense and ugly, unconvincing digital effects.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Magazine Dreams
    The movie stands as a statement of a gifted, troubled actor’s intense commitment to his craft. Beyond that, it is a punishment.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    There's Still Tomorrow
    It speaks to a cultural sisterhood that knows exactly what Paola Cortellesi is talking about. But some things get lost in translation, and this lovingly crafted work of neorealist cosplay is one of them.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cleaner
    Cleaner is a “Die Hard” knockoff with just enough fresh elements to make it watchable on a slow streaming night.
  22. You're Cordially Invited
    Destined to be forgotten in the wasteland that stretches between the actor’s best work and his worst, this dumb-but-not-dumb-enough, simultaneously heartwarming and disheartening film features layer upon layer of wedding-disaster clichés (complete with a trashed cake).
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Back in Action
    There’s just enough bite there to give the stars something to work with, and Diaz especially responds with the joy of the well-rested.
  24. Nightbitch
    It’s too bad that the premise hints at more of a horror twist than the movie actually delivers. Heller frequently interrupts a thin story with ambiguous dashes of magical realism that only serve to confuse.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Moana 2
    The songs aren’t the problem. Rather, it’s the muddled story, which takes way too long to give Moana — now a skilled wayfinder scouting new lands and new peoples to reconnect her long-isolated island tribe with the world — her mission.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Piano Lesson
    The Piano Lesson offers a spirited if uneven testimony to the playwright’s great gifts.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    We Live in Time
    In any event, Pugh uses her expressive eyes and ardent, intelligent sensibilities to paint a touching if underdeveloped portrait of an artist desperate to leave her mark before being rushed too soon from the show.
  28. Lonely Planet
    This lethargic romantic drama forces chemistry where there is none and, worse, sells out its aspirationally cool, intelligent female protagonist with an endgame that she — and the luminous Dern — hardly deserves.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Megalopolis
    Is “Megalopolis” the movie that Coppola has wanted to make for more than 40 years? Absolutely. Is it an unfashionable ode to optimism and the freedom to create, a vision as generous as it is crazy as it is overflowing with delirious invention? That, too.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    You Gotta Believe
    You Gotta Believe is an entry in the “heartwarming true story” genre, Little League subdivision, and it isn’t bad so much as resolutely average.
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