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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. Look Into My Eyes
    The film stirs the soul less by the magic of ghosts than by the power of human connection.
  2. To a Land Unknown
    Candid, pitiless and deeply humanistic, Fleifel’s portrait feels simultaneously timeless and urgently new.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Piece By Piece
    The movie serves as product placement for a brand of toys but also as a form of creative brick-olage, one that reflects a modern music producer’s ability to weave small units of musical noise into an epic canvas that gets the whole world up offa that thing.
  4. Heretic
    Written and directed by “A Quiet Place” scribes Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, “Heretic” builds suspense through ideas and argument, allowing both sides to score points when it comes to organized religion.
  5. Hollywoodgate
    Hollywoodgate is a fascinatingly — and sometimes frustratingly — oblique portrait of a country and its people in the tragic grip of extremism.
  6. F1: The Movie
    There’s no better time for a throwback than summer, and “F1 the Movie” is here to send audiences to a blissful era before constant cape slop, when the movies were loud, their stars were hot and the male main-character energy was flowing with exhilarating abandon.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Babygirl
    The more interesting drama of Babygirl is watching Romy and Samuel try to figure out what they can get away with under the watchful eyes of her family, her human resources department, her ambitious office underling Esme (a terrific Sophie Wilde) and, more importantly, with each other.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Black Bag
    Black Bag is a movie about pros made by a pro, and either you’re up to the challenge or you’re not.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Complete Unknown
    A Complete Unknown just tells the story. But maybe that’s enough for a fresh generation to feel the joy of his apostasy at a moment when the world seems once more poised on a precipice of chicanery, treachery and disaster. If so, well, how does it feel?
  10. Transformers One
    It’s not hard to imagine “Transformers One” connecting with preteens whose pubescent bodies can be as unwieldy as Orion’s first, clumsy transformation, with wheels where he expects legs and arms where he expects wheels.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story
    Whatever your familiarity with [Liza's] indelible performances, the amount of deep cuts and candid behind-the-scenes material is an archivist’s dream.
  12. Pavements
    Once Perry brings his magnum opus to its many climactic conclusions, the bait-and-switchy gamesmanship and sheer swing of his conceit have become irresistibly contagious, and viewers can’t help but be moved.
  13. The Last Showgirl
    Anderson is radiant playing this daffy optimist who rambles in breathy clips about past glories, as if the world around her hasn’t moved on since the days of Siegfried & Roy.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Friend
    The Friend is a better dog movie than it is a people movie, but it’s such a wonderful dog movie that you may not mind that the people are merely fine.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
    The bones of this memory play are familiar, but Davidtz is a natural filmmaker, and the sense of a tattered but privileged world teetering on extinction is visualized with fresh and evocative details.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    September 5
    September 5 is an exciting, well-made, thought-provoking movie. Sadly, it couldn’t matter less to where we are now.
  17. The Order
    [Kurzel] delivers another warning in the form of a timely American crime story — one that, arriving in theaters a month after the U.S. election, many will deem too late.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Saturday Night
    Saturday Night is as entertaining as a movie can be that has no genuine point beyond nostalgia.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Relay
    Until it goes kerblooey in the last 15 minutes, “Relay” is the very model of a modern genre thriller: Taut, tight, squeezing the maximum of suspense and character detail from the minimum of gestures.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Dog Man
    Screenwriter-director Peter Hastings — who also voices Dog Man’s barks, woofs, howls and assorted canine musings — has shoehorned a streaming season’s worth of plot into this sub-90-minute enterprise, and its caffeinated tempo makes “Moana 2” feel like a Terrence Malick joint.
  21. Heart Eyes
    As the tropes pile up faster than tears in a Nicholas Sparks novel, so do the bodies, dispatched in increasingly inventive and grisly ways.
  22. How to Train Your Dragon
    Dragon imparts these pearls of wisdom with verve and delight, in a telling that is as visually impressive as it is emotionally stirring.
  23. The Bad Guys 2
    It’s a larky bunch of malarkey, laced with just enough moral complexity — washed down with car chases and capers — to set your own tush a-twitching.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sister Midnight
    Startling, dreamlike, frustrating, funny — Karan Kandhari’s debut feature, “Sister Midnight,” is an absolute original.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    28 Years Later
    When Fiennes appears, 28 Years Later becomes even more clearly a meditation on what comes after humanity’s downfall — what memories we save and who we choose to love and remember. There’s still enough flesh-rending and severed body parts to sate the average horror fan.
  26. Warfare
    Warfare is a process movie: It’s less interested in character development and “narrative” than in simply plunging viewers into an environment and giving us a sense of what life is like within it.
  27. Girls Town
    Scrupulously unpreachy, it resists all attempts to distill a moral or message, seeking truth in the honesty of its characters and their process of self-discovery.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Fight or Flight
    Helmed by James Madigan, a second-unit director moving up to the big chair, from a screenplay by Brooks McLaren and D.J. Cotrona, “Fight or Flight” is high-spirited junk, too full of itself at times but mostly content to work out every last variation on a theme: How do you kill someone on an airplane?
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Wedding Banquet
    A remake of Ang Lee’s 1993 film of the same title...the new film is unnecessary as such, but it’s a determinedly openhearted crowd-pleaser with a handful of delicious performances, and it’s just about impossible to dislike.
  30. If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
    It’s a bold, claustrophobic movie that wouldn’t work without Byrne.
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