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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 5.3 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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  1. Puzzle
    In Puzzle, Macdonald has finally found a movie that she doesn’t need to steal, because it belongs to her completely.
  2. Blaze
    An absorbing, illuminating film.
  3. The Dream Team
    A surprisingly amiable romp about a zany quartet of escaped mental patients four who flew out of the cuckoo's nest.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    An Innocent Man
    You'll cheer, you'll laugh, you'll bite your nails and feel your heart pounding right up there under your crewcut.
  5. Doc Hollywood
    The film has a message; it's another picture about finding your humanity. But in this case, it's pedaled so softly that it doesn't impose itself on you. Nothing about this movie does. And that, as much as anything, is what makes it so irresistible.
  6. Uncle Drew
    Its NBA all-star cast — well hidden under layers of makeup — has a winning chemistry making them easy to root for.
  7. Pope Francis - A Man of His Word
    In this stirring portrait, it’s possible to see evangelism not in hectoring words or holier-than-thou bromides, but in loving action. Who wouldn’t say amen to that?
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Hannah
    The veteran English actress, 72, a onetime femme fatale who has matured into a peerless performer, gives a first-rate lesson in the art of acting, as a woman crumbling under duress after her husband is incarcerated. And yet the Belgian-set drama, by Italian director Andrea Pallaoro, could also be called self-indulgent, plodding and minimalist, in a big way.
  9. Sonic the Hedgehog
    In the end, “Sonic” is quippy without being mean, and sweet without being sappy, making this a trip that’s well worth taking.
  10. Goldstone
    It is not a story of justice, but of a kind of standoff between good and evil. Initially, there seems precious little of the former.
  11. Paul, Apostle of Christ
    Clearly well timed with Lenten reflections on sacrifice, service, suffering and responsibility. But it offers an equally relevant — and inspiring — portrayal of principled steadfastness and spiritual integrity in the face of a petty, corrupt and tyrannical leader.
  12. Book Club
    It has brio, rueful humor and celebratory verve that is nearly impossible to resist.
  13. Whitney
    Although Whitney follows a familiar structure, Macdonald infuses it with artful editorial choices, marking the chapters of Houston’s life with brief but vivid montages of the times in which she lived.
  14. The Guardians
    This handsomely staged production plays like a soothingly thoughtful balm.
  15. Fast Color
    Pacing notwithstanding, Fast Color succeeds on the strength of its ideas.
  16. Internal Affairs
    These are mean streets, but they're sexy and mean. And the evil here is all the more compelling because it has its enticements. So does the film, and though you'd be kidding yourself to accept it as anything other than flirtatious posturing, the allure of the thing is nearly irresistible.
  17. Death Becomes Her
    More cosmetic than cosmic in its approach, it thrives on what it condemns and in its own weird, wonderfully savvy fashion, spanks the liposucked fannies of Hollywood. It's as irresistibly nasty as The War of the Roses and as cheerily Gothic as The Witches of Eastwick.
  18. Bad Times at the El Royale
    Not all of its surprises are pleasant ones, but there is a certain satisfaction in experiencing a yarn that is so obstinately un-anticipatable.
  19. Single White Female
    Schroeder's refusal to choose moral sides gives the psychological confrontation between the women the kind of weird, mutually accepted form of diseased codependency that Claus and Sunny von Bulow shared in his previous film, Reversal of Fortune. In Single White Female, Schroeder leaves the subtext unresolved, but manages to strike a very raw nerve.
  20. FernGully: The Last Rainforest
    An animated feature with political agenda -- a didactic cartoon. But that doesn't interfere with its being a whopping good time.
  21. The Gospel According to André
    At its best, The Gospel According to Andre gives viewers the rare chance to get to know someone who, until now, has mostly been known as that impeccably turned-out gentleman who seems to know everybody at the annual Costume Institute gala.
  22. Prick Up Your Ears
    Like Casablanca, Diva, Clockwork Orange and countless other quality-cult films, Prick Up Your Ears has an indefinable idiosyncrasy that makes you want to come back for more.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Red Rock West
    Director John Dahl and his brother Rick Dahl co-wrote the intelligent and off-handedly witty script; they're like the Coen brothers, but with a sense of fun and a coherent, entertaining story to tell.
  24. Sollers Point
    It transfixes, not with artifice or cheap sentiment, but with a strange alchemy of gloom and light.
  25. Terminator: Dark Fate
    Sarah Connor may have averted one dark version of the future, but another even darker destiny may be inevitable. Even so, the film suggests, hope — just like the hearts of people who buy tickets to sequels — springs eternal. In this case, it is not misplaced.
  26. Executive Decision
    Writers Jim and John Thomas and first-time director Stuart Baird have come up with a surprisingly deft variation on the airplane hijack genre, one that relies on subterfuge and suspense rather than explosives and body counts even though Steven Seagal is in it.
  27. Eating Animals
    Portman, a vegan, is the main tour guide to this challenging excursion to the world of slaughterhouses and CAFOs, which one commentator likens to petri dishes for antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
  28. Under the Tree
    This crafty sociological thriller, set amid the pristine townhouses and lawns of a quiet Reykjavik suburb, builds slowly but surely into a film that feels utterly of a piece with a much wider world.
  29. Diane
    In hewing so closely to life — in all its frailty and fellowship, its perseverance and mutual care — Jones has made something larger than life.
  30. The Cable Guy
    To watch Carrey leering with joy at the prospect of making respectable people guess dirty words, and Broderick trying to avoid the whole thing, is to enjoy their best comic synergy.
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