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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. Lights Out
    For a movie that relies so heavily on a single, not especially groundbreaking visual effect — now you see the bogeyman, now you don’t — Lights Out is crazy scary.
  2. You've Been Trumped
    It’s pretty obvious, with the controversy surrounding Trump’s political ascendancy, that there is a built-in market for a film that makes him and his business surrogates out to be both callous bullies and buffoons.
  3. Captain Fantastic
    Captain Fantastic leaves viewers with the cheering, deeply affecting image of a dad whose superpowers lie in simply doing the best that he can.
  4. Microbe and Gasoline
    Microbe and Gasoline doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but it just might ride four of them into your heart.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Our Little Sister
    To his credit, Kore-eda avoids oversentimentality in a narrative that could easily have indulged in it. Yet the unhurried pacing and minimal dramatic tension — even when an important character makes an appearance midway through the story — feels unsatisfying.
  6. Cold War 2
    Although it boasts three crackerjack action sequences, Cold War 2 won’t wow Hong Kong cinema buffs who crave nonstop mayhem. This clever drama features more bureaucratic wrangling than criminal scuffles.
  7. Ghostbusters
    Sunny, slimy and profoundly silly, the new, lady-centric reboot of Ghostbusters immediately silences the backlash and bluster that’s preceded it.
  8. The Infiltrator
    If the movie isn’t always gripping, it’s nevertheless a worthwhile examination of the intricacies of undercover life.
  9. The Innocents
    Through the example of friendship and cooperation, The Innocents shines a glimmer of hope on a period of great doubt.
  10. Life, Animated
    Life, Animated makes fascinating points, about the power of cinema, about meeting our loved ones where they are and, as Ron says, about who gets to decide what constitutes a meaningful life.
  11. My Love, Don't Cross That River
    The vérité style of filmmaking is slow and sometimes monotonous, making it all the more surprising that you will probably find yourself bawling your eyes out — without ever knowing how you got to that state — at the film’s profoundly, heartbreakingly somber conclusion.
  12. Seoul Searching
    It’s too bad, then, that the comedy spends so much more time mimicking the familiar than trusting in its own fresh perspective.
  13. Zero Days
    Few will emerge from its story of intelligence tradecraft and egregious lapses in oversight without feeling seriously freaked out.
  14. Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
    Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates is uproarious and flamboyantly raunchy, utterly stupid yet also occasionally winning
  15. The Secret Life of Pets
    The humor is generic. And the film’s most obvious comparison — it’s been called “Toy Story” with animals — only points up the one thing “Pets” lacks, and that any animal lover will tell you their furred and feathered friends have, in spades: personality.
  16. Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
    Amusing and even edifying, although it is also unlikely to make converts out of those who just don’t get Zappa’s pastiche of juvenile parody and sophisticated songwriting, derived from rock, jazz and 20th-century experimental music.
  17. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
    Even when it dispenses with realism altogether, Hunt for the Wilderpeople conveys important truths about the will and sheer endurance it takes to make a family.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Les Cowboys
    Bidegain and cinematographer Arnaud Potier speak multitudes with wide-angle, slow-panning shots that immerse us in a post-9/11 quagmire that’s never less than utterly personal.
  19. Nuts!
    Nuts!”is an intriguing, if patronizing, curio from the cabinet of American arcana, a geegaw from the collective attic that, when dusted off, looks grotesquely funny in the light of today. We wonder how anyone could buy it. Just imagine what, one day, they’ll say about us.
  20. Swiss Army Man
    [The film] isn’t for everyone. But the story is astoundingly original. During the summer months, when theaters are occupied by superheroes and sequels, that’s something worth celebrating.
  21. Tickled
    The story is so nasty, so depraved and troubling, that viewers may well wonder at its value beyond prurient interest.
  22. The Witness
    The Witness makes an encouraging case for the argument that society is not as apathetic as we fear. But it also reveals a troubling phenomenon: our willingness to accept all that we are told as truth.
  23. Wiener-Dog
    You wouldn’t exactly call the movie a thrill, but it’s curiously engrossing all the same.
  24. The BFG
    Roald Dahl’s beloved ad­ven­ture tale about a brave little girl who befriends the titular Big Friendly Giant, finds Steven Spielberg in his natural element of childlike enchantment, yet also strangely out of step, his trusted sense of narrative propulsion and pacing occasionally failing him in a saggy, draggy second act.
  25. Our Kind of Traitor
    There’s little of the poetry that Perry teaches in the script, but the story’s mechanics are solid.
  26. The Purge: Election Year
    Even DeMonaco seems bored by the sieges, escapes and gun battles. Silly one-liners are the only saving grace, and that's because such acting veterans as Williamson know how to sell them.
  27. Three
    In the movie’s first hour, all the blood is medical. Then the director stages a big shootout, mostly in slo-mo, that’s more clunky than epic. Before that misstep, though, Three is singularly entertaining.
  28. The Shallows
    Is The Shallows a thriller for the ages? No, but it’s decent popcorn fare. It’s about as deep as the titular lagoon on which it’s set, but the breakers promise a short and heart-pounding ride, with no wipeout.
  29. The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble
    “Strangers” offers an inspiring look at creative people from very different walks of life who nonetheless communicate beautifully with one another. They don’t need to speak a common language: Their dazzling music says it all.
  30. Free State of Jones
    As gratifying as it is to see forgotten history brought to light, it’s disappointing, too: There’s an epic story to be told within Free State of Jones, but this white-knight tale isn’t it.
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