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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. Chuck
    Although the central match in Chuck is effective, and hits all the right beats, unlike the best of the “Rocky” movies, the drama outside the ring is less potent than drama inside. This, despite strong performances by Schreiber and — especially — Moss, a grounding presence who summons a toughness not usually seen in her work.
  2. King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
    King Arthur: Legend of the Sword is a fun, if sacrilegious, first step in a franchise creation — one that observes the first commandment of storytelling: Thou shalt not be boring.
  3. The Lovers
    Flustered, flirty and filled to the brim with compassion, The Lovers is charming, even when it’s proving how hollow charm can be.
  4. Angkor Awakens: A Portrait of Cambodia
    It is the Cambodian voices that give “Angkor Awakens” a welcome glimmer of light.
  5. Buster's Mal Heart
    Malek’s talents serve a much more personal, ultimately touching story.
  6. Citizen Jane: Battle for the City
    Director Matt Tyrnauer mixes lively archival footage, including a memorable news interview with an angry Italian grandmother, with testimony from passionate experts to demonstrate the importance of city design.
  7. My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea
    It’s crazy and ridiculous at times. But I can’t help agreeing with Assaf, who observes, of his companions’ rescue plans, “I like it. It has the logic of a dream.”
  8. This Is Not What I Expected
    This engagingly goofy romantic comedy speaks the international language of food.
  9. Risk
    Risk raises deep misgivings about its subject and its maker. But it’s still queasily, compulsively watchable — and probably necessary, if only as a cautionary example of how ethics, objectivity and agendas come into play in nonfiction filmmaking.
  10. Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
    Peppering “Norman” with obliquely mordant observations about Middle East politics, Cedar effortlessly propels the narrative into a sweetly pensive character study of a familiar archetype, which he invests with an angel’s share of humanity and heart.
  11. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
    The new film is more expansive, more beautiful, funnier, nuttier and — this is the most difficult trick for any comic-book movie to pull off — more touching than the first film.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Below Her Mouth
    While the frequent sex scenes are graphic, they’re also driven by vulnerability and long-buried desire. In this film, wordless encounters often reveal more about characters than conversation.
  13. Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary
    In Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary, documentarian John Scheinfeld shows that the music of one of jazz’s most experimental saxophone players still speaks to audiences today.
  14. Finding Oscar
    [A] well-told tale.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent
    It’s a languorous look at the ups and downs of a career gone awry, and the mysteries and confused culinary disciples left in the wake of the chef’s abrupt disappearance to Mexico for several years.
  16. Voice from the Stone
    The film looks handsome and expensive, building up a nice head of suspense before sputtering to a less than wholly satisfying conclusion.
  17. The Transfiguration
    O’Shea follows his twisted premise to its inexorable conclusion, so his film is ultimately more unnerving than sad.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    In Search of Israeli Cuisine
    Like the graphics that intermittently appear as Solomonov travels (and which look like the first Google Image result for “Israel map”), the documentary proves slightly underwhelming.
  19. The Promise
    Attempting to make an atrocity palatable to a mainstream audience, The Promise delivers the history, but undercuts its impact.
  20. The Lost City of Z
    In an effort to make Fawcett a logical, upstanding guy, the story never fully convinces us of his obsession with returning to find the lost city.
  21. Free Fire
    With his cultivated air of nonchalance, the trivialized, consequence-free violence and reverse-engineering of a plot threaded with convenient twists and unexpected arrivals, Wheatley seems intent upon lowering the stakes at every opportunity.
  22. Cézanne et Moi
    It’s a touching evocation of friendship, brotherly competition and artistic courage at the cusp of a new century.
  23. Born in China
    With Born in China, Disneynature continues its tradition of ascribing human traits and emotions to wild creatures in ways that flirt with artificiality. Yet the documentary does manage to elicit a viewer’s awe and touch the heart.
  24. Unforgettable
    Unforgettable borrows elements from film noir, Lifetime movies and slasher flicks and updates them for the Internet age. But this forgettable thriller will simply make you remember other, better films.
  25. Graduation
    The power of the film is cumulative, as the filmmaker spins a mesmerizing morality tale from the dross of daily life. In his skillful hands, the ordinary turns out to be anything but.
  26. Tommy's Honour
    Tommy’s Honour is never boring, but at best it invites a smattering of polite applause, not an upturned barrel of Gatorade.
  27. Truman
    Truman avoids preachiness as scrupulously as it evades certainty.
  28. Colossal
    As a 30-something coming-of-age story, Colossal is as relatable as they come, its deadpan depiction of lost sheep recalling the Charlize Theron movie “Young Adult.” Vigalondo doesn’t evince the same cynicism and anger as that film reveled in so bitterly, but he’s also not one for easy allegorical equivalencies.
  29. The Fate of the Furious
    “Fate” gives fans of the franchise exactly what they want, provided they can ditch logic as easily as the movie does.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Alive and Kicking
    Glatzer captures the visceral charge of moving wildly in tandem with another person, often in improvised bouts that forge strong bonds between partners, if only for a few minutes.
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