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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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  1. Knives Out
    The fun here — and there is a lot of it — is to be had simply in allowing an ensemble of game, generous-spirited actors to give their all in service to the fine art of misdirection and mayhem.
  2. Apollo 11
    It’s a more visceral trip than any moviegoer — even the armchair experts — has ever taken before.
  3. After the Wedding
    This sets up a mesmerizing double master class in acting — by Moore, to be sure, but also by Williams.
  4. Brittany Runs A Marathon
    An engaging, modestly amusing, sometimes laugh-out-loud hilarious comedy of manners in which the usual millennial excesses are skewered, from the invidious hellhole of social media to the mendacities of online dating.
  5. Clemency
    Clemency, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, isn’t really a death row drama in the same way that “Just Mercy” is. Rather, it’s a character study of a witness who, vicariously, is a stand-in for each of us.
  6. Honey Boy
    Well, surprise: Honey Boy, Shia LaBeouf’s startlingly forthright, cathartic and beautifully acted movie based on his confusing and chaotic life as a child actor, winds up demonstrating what can go right, when the right elements are in place.
  7. Monos
    The violent, beautiful and powerfully watchable movie Monos — Spanish for monkeys — takes its title from the code name used by a group of teenage guerrillas.
  8. Official Secrets
    Although Knightley’s Gun often seems to be a passive figure, buffeted by the machinations of those around her, the film’s honesty about the enormous personal costs of whistleblowing is a welcome relief from more romanticized heroics.
  9. The Brink
    Thank goodness, then, for The Brink, which is just the kind of lucid, observant, chillingly contradictory portrait Bannon deserves.
  10. David Crosby: Remember My Name
    Famously prickly, Crosby never gets really angry in “Remember My Name,” although at one point he yells at Eaton about the filmmaker not being able to set up a good shot (Crosby comes by the expertise honestly: His father, Floyd Crosby, was an Oscar-winning cinematographer).
  11. The King of Staten Island
    Perhaps the highest compliment one can pay Davidson, Apatow and their collaborators is that The King of Staten Island is probably the first movie in cinematic history to earn every single one of the audience’s tears at the sight of a disastrous back tattoo. May it be the last.
  12. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
    The good news isn’t just that Dead Reckoning lives up to its star’s notoriously high standards; it’s that it isn’t even over yet.
  13. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
    The Final Reckoning stays true to those core tenets, even if it too often feels baggy and redundant. It’s a nesting doll of life-and-death deadlines within life-and-death deadlines, with one wildly improbable stunt leading to another, even more wildly improbable stunt.
  14. Coming 2 America
    It’s not great cinema. It’s good at what it sets out to do. Which makes it great fun.
  15. Abominable
    The animated film takes a standard story and adds so much visual beauty that it exceeds expectations.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    By the Grace of God
    Ozon has said the American drama “Spotlight” inspired his sober, methodical approach. The similarities between the two films are obvious, but there’s a crucial difference: While the 2015 Oscar-winner focused on investigative journalists, By the Grace of God is primarily concerned with the victims.
  17. Piranhas
    Piranhas is no documentary, but it plays out with a deadpan style that is deeply unsettling.
  18. Dune: Part One
    There’s a lot going on here — a quasi-biblical space opera, part Lawrence of Arabia and part mobster movie — and spreading it out over two movies has allowed [Villaneuve] to take his time with the story and tell it richly, and without rushing
  19. Queen & Slim
    At its best, Queen & Slim isn’t just a crime drama but a nuanced portrayal of family, legacy and self-preservation — how they’re distorted by trauma and history, and how they thrive despite the near-constant threat of annihilation.
  20. For Sama
    For Sama is a before-and-after portrait, both literally and figuratively. What begins as a brash, bold, giddily optimistic love story devolves into something far darker, as viewers begin to question why al-Khateab is willing to endanger her child in the name of doomed principles.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Hau Chu
    Saint Frances
    A charming, nuanced story with plenty to say about making just that sort of superficial judgment and about what people are actually going through beneath their carefully crafted appearances.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Working Woman
    This story of workplace abuse and its fallout could just as well take place in New York, Istanbul, Mumbai — or any other city. Orna is Everywoman. Like many other women in her shoes, she emerges scarred, but stronger and wiser.
  23. Honeyland
    The film by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov is a strange and curious thing: part fly-on-the-wall anthropology, part ecological fable.
  24. Hesburgh
    This moving, illuminating slice of American life and social history serves as a stirring example that we should all do much better. And we can start right now.
  25. Blow the Man Down
    A clever slice of regional noir that carries a gale-force punch beneath its modest, soft-spoken trappings.
  26. Swallow
    Bennett claims her own form of autonomy with the movie itself, which could be read as an actress’s decision to stop hoping for good scripts to arrive over the transom and make her own luck.
  27. Always Be My Maybe
    A surprisingly sweet and sassy rom-com about childhood best friends.
  28. Meeting Gorbachev
    An engaging and touching valedictory to one of the most pivotal figures of the 20th century.
  29. Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
    If there’s one drawback to The Sound of My Voice, it’s that Ronstadt herself declined to sit down with the film’s directors, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman.
  30. Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
    Morrison, at 88, is as clear-eyed and sharp as ever. What’s most surprising about her interviews is not her candor, but her humor, revealed, as she speaks, in a way that makes you want to lean closer. (Her gifts as a storyteller are not just on the page.)
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