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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. Bad Boys for Life
    The good-natured tension and ribbing between the two old “boys” is still there — and still a bit old hat — but there is a new dynamic that juices the entertainment factor.
  2. Baby Driver
    As charming as Baby Driver strives to be, the appeal starts to curdle once Wright makes his fetishistic aims clear.
  3. What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy
    The film is not just about a very specific and difficult conversation. Ultimately, it is also about the failure of conversation itself.
  4. In My Father's House
    In My Father’s House offers lots of interesting raw material, but it could use a disinterested observer’s remix.
  5. Wolf Totem
    Annaud and his crew, including wolf trainer Andrew Simpson, nicely illustrate the animals’ cunning and coordination.... The human drama is more perfunctory.
  6. The Hallow
    In a departure from the sexually active teens of most slasher movies, The Hallow plays on more grown-up fears: keeping your family safe and steering clear of a vengeful Mother Nature.
  7. Race
    The film is handsomely mounted and provides a window into the tough choices Owens faced, yet its dramatic licenses oversell its message.
  8. The Family Fang
    Bateman does an effective job directing the movie, which is based on a novel by Kevin Wilson (with a script by playwright David Lindsay-Abaire), smartly opting for understatement from his performers, so that their characters’ eccentricities have something to play against.
  9. Labyrinth of Lies
    Labyrinth of Lies is an eye-opening story about the importance of seeking the truth — even when it’s complicated, ugly and buried beneath years of secrecy and deceit.
  10. The Boy and the Beast
    It is the world of man, not beast, that makes this coming-of-age movie most touching.
  11. Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words
    As a family-approved document, In Her Own Words is celebratory rather than probing, critical or comprehensive.
  12. The Idol
    Like its protagonist, The Idol finds a sense of identity, hope and pride within a landscape of grim dispossession and fatalism.
  13. Cars 3
    There isn’t quite as much pep to the film’s narrative engine on this trip.
  14. Ant-Man and the Wasp
    As “Guardians” and, later, “Deadpool” doubled down on the snark, “Ant-Man” kept things light, its playfulness made all the more endearing by the boyish, twinkle-eyed persona of its star, Paul Rudd.
  15. Expend4bles
    The movie is unsurprising and not especially ambitious, but it’s agile enough to vault over most of its flaws.
  16. Godzilla vs. Kong
    One half of Godzilla vs. Kong wants to tell a human story. Believe it or not, it partly succeeds. The other half just wants to break stuff.
  17. Kingsman: The Golden Circle
    “Kingsman” is essentially a live-action cartoon, one that aims for an audible reaction and little else. That may not be the world’s loftiest goal, but whether it results in a gagging eww or a chuckle, it’s a plan that usually succeeds.
  18. A Royal Night Out
    The script, written by Trevor De Silva and Kevin Hood, falters when farce gives way to melodrama, but the movie regains momentum with a climax in a ballroom.
  19. The Armor of Light
    The Armor of Light is a fascinating little piece of storytelling.
  20. Snatched
    No one will ever credit Snatched with discovering new comic territory. But it earns its share of laughs by covering some well-trod ground.
  21. Allied
    As the espionage plot surges toward its nail-biting conclusion, the path it’s traveling feels less open-ended than preordained.
  22. Touched With Fire
    Touched With Fire is by no means a perfect film. The production values and melodrama sometimes seem better suited for a small-screen movie. But the drama deserves points for its measured, realistic view of mental illness.
  23. Ip Man 3
    Ip Man 3 credibly conjures the period with soundstage sets, rock-and-roll oldies and slicked-back hair. But director Winston Yip shows less concern for authenticity in Ip’s antagonists.
  24. The Wave
    The human scale of this story about a very real threat to one Norwegian village makes the movie more tragic and also more chilling.
  25. Doctor Strange
    All in all, Doctor Strange is a fun and trippy excursion to a place where Marvel rarely seems to go: that is, to the retinal roots of the comics.
  26. Viva
    The story is slightly melodramatic, but director Paddy Breathnach finds ways to make it surprisingly moving at times, in the same way that he makes the Havana slums look paradoxically beautiful.
  27. Sing
    Sing ends, predictably and without straining, on a high note, with everybody’s problems resolved. If only real life could so easily be realigned, by a singing pig.
  28. Bad Moms
    The comedy sails along, thanks to its charismatic leads.
  29. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
    It may not be the most spellbinding of the prequels so far, but it does advance this saga in an entertaining, if less than fantastic way.
  30. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
    True to its title, as well as its flawed but sympathetic protagonist, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is more confused than cynical or opportunistic. Its bewilderment is contagious, and ultimately endearing.
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