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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. Letters from Baghdad
    It provides a sturdy, often exhilarating bridge between the present and a past that not only isn’t distant, but isn’t even really past.
  2. Band Aid
    I wouldn’t call Band Aid profound, but it’s wiser and deeper than the average pop song, if not by much.
  3. Megan Leavey
    This movie is rarely more than merely competent, but it should stir lovers of justice as well as dog fanciers.
  4. My Cousin Rachel
    What’s missing from this production is the darkness — the perversity, even — that informs du Maurier’s work, and that would elevate an attractively illustrated story into aesthetically and psychologically vivid cinema.
  5. It Comes at Night
    For much of its brisk running time, It Comes at Night teeters between delicious atmosphere and almost unbearable tension.
  6. The Mummy
    The big thrills and few laughs are no match for the cumbersome, convoluted story, not to mention the nonexistent chemistry between Cruise and Wallis.
  7. Tomorrow
    There are some inspiring people in the film, and one wishes it had been edited to focus more on their stories. In the end, Tomorrow is less a movie than a long public service announcement.
  8. I, Daniel Blake
    I, Daniel Blake is about human value: disposable and abstract in one context; eternal, inviolable and sacred in another. They might underline the point a bit too thickly, but Loach and Laverty count on their audience to discern the difference, and to act accordingly.
  9. God of War
    As the wily leader of the Japanese forces, grizzled Kurata Yasuaki has more presence than Zhao, who’s bland in non-action sequences. But Zhao’s ability to deliver dialogue is less crucial than his skill at leading hundreds of extras through elegantly choreographed, sumptuously photographed chaos.
  10. Dean
    Dean has its moments. The cast is solid, and the story moves along smoothly. Slight though it may be, it’s a sweet enough tale, while it lasts.
  11. Churchill
    Biography, at its most useful, disabuses us from myth, but Churchill has no such ambitions. As both history and entertainment, it’s a drag.
  12. Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
    In an increasingly mean-spirited world, the spirit of fun and kindness in Captain Underpants is simply a tonic.
  13. Wonder Woman
    Wonder Woman may not cure all the ills of pop culture’s superhero-saturation syndrome; in fact, in many ways it succumbs to some of its worst excesses. But at least it brings an exhilarating, vicarious kick to the sagging, bagging table.
  14. War Machine
    It’s funny and sad and weary and wise, which feels just about right for now. War Machine is a weird, unsettled movie for a weird, unsettled time.
  15. Everything, Everything
    Stenberg and Robinson are enormously appealing young actors, but charisma only goes so far in a story that manages to be, as directed by Stella Meghie (“Jean of the Joneses”), sterile and wildly far-fetched.
  16. The Commune
    Dyrholm, who deservedly took the prize for best actress at last year’s Berlinale for her sensitive performance as Anna, movingly captures the struggles of a middle-aged career woman who revels in the new freedoms of the 1970s, while ultimately falling victim to them.
  17. The Wedding Plan
    The film’s structural shortcomings will matter less to most viewers than the personality of the central character, Michal.
  18. Wakefield
    Cranston is consistently watchable in the title role, although Howard’s journey into — and, at least potentially, out of — madness is a tough one to keep up with.
  19. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
    Loud, overstimulating and hard to take in all in one sitting, it feels like the vacation that you’ll need a vacation from.
  20. Baywatch
    If anything, Baywatch is a litmus test for how low Johnson can sink while still winning us over.
  21. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
    Every single sight gag in Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul telegraphs its punchline for what seems like an eternity.
  22. Last Men in Aleppo
    While Last Men in Aleppo could stand a trim here and there, it mostly uses its length to good and heart-rending effect, delivering a lingering, close-up — and ultimately tragic — look at the misery and joy taking place, side by side, under the eyes of the world.
  23. Paris Can Wait
    Paris Can Wait is a modest, genteel piece of cinematic escapism, a silky testament to sensuality as impeccably tasteful as it is utterly undemanding.
  24. Alien: Covenant
    Presumably, Scott is giving the audience what it wants, but purists may wonder whether simply re-watching “Alien” would have provided scarier, more genuine jolts.
  25. A Quiet Passion
    Davies is a master of the slow build, lyrically evoking the dreaminess and gravity of his subject and her verse.
  26. Urban Hymn
    Music redeems an at-risk teen in Urban Hymn, a social-problem melodrama whose other major characters don’t fare so well.
  27. The Wall
    The Wall is a fairly hopeless film. In a sense, the fragile structure of the title acts as a double metaphor: for a barrier between enemies that keeps them from killing each other, as well as one that must come down if true understanding is ever to occur.
  28. 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.
  29. Obit
    It is fascinating to watch the writers in “Obit” strive to do right by their subjects, warts and all.
  30. 3 Generations
    The cumulative effect is closer to a didactic after-school special for troubled parents.
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