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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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    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ballerina
    De Armas simply doesn’t have a purchase on the cultural affection that Reeves has built over four decades of stardom, and that lack keeps “Ballerina” firmly in the minor leagues for about two-thirds of its running time.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mountainhead
    It’s a comedy, and a brutally dark one, that draws blood and appalled laughter for two-thirds of its running time before jumping the shark in the final stretch. Once again, a brilliant TV writer finds the compact format of a two-hour movie more challenging than expected.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bring Her Back
    Bring Her Back is close to, but not quite, a triumph of style over substance — foreboding, unnerving and ultimately very gooey in ways that linger like the aftermath of a bad dream yet lack the nightmare cogency of truly great horror.
  4. Karate Kid: Legends
    Karate Kid: Legends combines the best of all those sequels plus a 2010 remake — a simple underdog tale, appealing casts and crisply filmed action — to contribute a new and worthy chapter to the canon. It’s one whose ambitions meet, and occasionally exceed, our expectations.
  5. The Last Rodeo
    The Last Rodeo may not be bodacious, but it’s a satisfying ride.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Fountain of Youth
    It’s a movie designed as functional entertainment, and for lack of a better word it functions.
  7. Lilo & Stitch
    Despite a snoozer of a pat ending that strains to bring its themes full circle, the live-action iteration at least proves that the franchise, with its notion of ohana and several films, spin-off series and countless plushies sold to date, hasn’t lost all its heft — just its original spark.
  8. Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
    The story, held at well-mannered arm’s length by Piani, never gets too messy; even Agathe’s deepest psychological issues — a phobia that makes travel difficult and, later, the explanation of its traumatic roots — are handled with efficient, unfailingly discrete politesse.
  9. 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.
  10. Deaf President Now!
    The message of “Deaf President Now!” comes across loud and clear: We will be heard.
  11. Hurry Up Tomorrow
    The film has the whiff of easy paycheck. It looks glossy but is empty. It sheds light without gaining insight.
  12. Ain't No Back to a Merry-Go-Round
    In an era beset with dizzying setbacks in the ideals it celebrates, Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round feels particularly necessary right now.
  13. Friendship
    Friendship is primarily a movie for Robinson’s hardcore fans, but, for the Tim-curious, it serves as an amusing — if haphazard and uneven — introduction to his distinctive sensibility.
    • 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.
    • 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?
  16. Secret Mall Apartment
    Thanks to its thoughtful protagonists and filmmaker Jeremy Workman, what starts out as a quirky human interest story becomes a profoundly humane portrait of creativity and community.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Juliet & Romeo
    Shakespeare this ain’t. In the long, long history of “Romeo and Juliet” movie adaptations, “Juliet & Romeo” lands well below the 1996 Baz Luhrmann version starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes and just above 2011’s “Gnomeo & Juliet,” in which the characters are portrayed as animated garden gnomes.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Words of War
    There’s no dazzling CGI in “Words of War” — no stalwart, spandexed action figures flying through the air to land nuclear uppercuts on the villain of the hour. There’s just one woman: Anna Politkovskaya, a Russian journalist who went up against the villain of our age and paid the ultimate price for it.
  19. 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.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Surfer
    The Surfer feels overthought and underwritten, a cacophony that builds to an undeserved power chord of acceptance, transcendence and retribution.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Another Simple Favor
    To paraphrase the T-shirt, everyone here went to the Isle of Capri, and all we got was this lousy movie.
  22. Thunderbolts*
    It’s certainly a movie nobody asked for, as Marvel itself acknowledges. But it’s here. And it’s just fine.
  23. The Shrouds
    The film also suffers from erratic pacing and half-baked reveals, but at its best, it throbs with raw, human, horrific honesty.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    On Swift Horses
    As a director, Minahan knows his way around a track, but on the evidence of this film, he’s not yet ready to run wild.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Legend of Ochi
    If you’re up for a film that tells its own tale, rather than the one it thinks you want to hear, this one has a touch of madness to it, and it seems fashioned from love and old parts for people who genuinely don’t want to know what’s going to happen next.
  26. The Accountant 2
    Brax’s knuckles may be perpetually bared, but his heart’s always in the right place, which “The Accountant 2” spares nothing to remind us, even while the mayhem escalates into sheer outlandishness.
    • 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.
  28. Sinners
    Sinners gives sensuous, supernatural, often electrifying expression to the belief that we’re all simultaneously captive to our histories and capable of so much more.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Misericordia
    Even if such murky doings aren’t your cup of absinthe, the skill with which Guiraudie weaves his web is mesmerizing.
  30. The Amateur
    The Amateur may be off to a rocky start as a spy franchise, but it scores one for the IT crowd.
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