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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. The Wonders
    Structurally, The Wonders suffers from awkward bulges and sags, especially toward the end. Still, it’s a beautiful, richly imagined ride that doesn’t end as much as evaporate into a dreamlike puff of smoke.
  2. Legend
    Hardy is extraordinarily good at evoking the fraught fraternal connection between the Krays.... But the film is ultimately unable to plumb the Krays’ deepest souls, if they even have any.
  3. The Good Dinosaur
    The Good Dinosaur is hardly catastrophic. But the movie is a lot like Arlo. On its own, it seems fine; just don’t compare it to its capable siblings.
  4. Creed
    The themes of love, loyalty, ambition, honor and legacy that lend sinew to the story are delivered with such a clean punch that they as feel as fresh as they did in 1976.
  5. Victor Frankenstein
    Even McAvoy’s reincarnation-obsessed Frankenstein can’t breathe vitality into this shallow adaptation, which careens from moments of horror to serious drama to attempts at comedy that don’t quite land.
  6. Olvidados (Forgotten)
    Despite numerous missteps and contrivances, Olvidados succeeds as an indictment of Operation Condor’s horrors.
  7. 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.
  8. Victoria
    The acting, especially by Costa, is first rate. Exuding both a childlike openness and a tendency toward the recklessness of young adulthood, the actress backs up even her character’s most questionable choices with conviction.
  9. Criminal Activities
    Just when you’re about to write off your investment in Criminal Activities, the third-act dividend pays off, in spades.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Sembene!
    For a filmmaker who believed in giving Africans their own voice, it seems appropriate to offer such an unvarnished portrait.
  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. Heart of a Dog
    Weaving together stories of death with observations on the post-9/11 culture of surveillance, Heart of a Dog hints that the very language on which Anderson has built her career as a performance artist is finally inadequate in the face of mortality.
  13. 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.
  14. Censored Voices
    Censored Voices is an essential documentary. Its subject is nothing less than loss of innocence, the seeds of hatred and the illusory nature of victory.
  15. The Pearl Button
    The Pearl Button may not answer all the questions it raises, yet it is an absorbing experience — at least for anyone with a taste for beauty over insight.
  16. Secret in Their Eyes
    As the movie wears on, the plot points become increasingly far-fetched, and what started out as a moody if by-the-book thriller becomes increasingly silly. All the while, Roberts gives her all.
  17. The Night Before
    The Night Before is hardly a Christmas miracle, but it’s good for a laugh or two. And that’s not a bad way to get into the holiday spirit.
  18. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
    Most of the pleasure of Mockingjay — Part 2 comes from watching Lawrence, not the story around her. Her aim is true, even if the narrative arc of the movie traces a long, wobbly path toward its eventual, and not exactly happy, resting place.
  19. Kilo Two Bravo
    Few war films are entertaining in a traditional sense. This one is so relentless that recoiling from it is nearly impossible.
  20. In Jackson Heights
    Wiseman’s voracious curiosity and evenhanded approach to his subject ensures that viewers will have a wide range of responses to the material he has collected.
  21. East Side Sushi
    East Side Sushi includes a number of moments that are a little too on-the-nose in their eagerness to convey the obstacles.... But Lucero compensates for such missteps with subtly persuasive visual choices and narrative restraint.
  22. By the Sea
    By the Sea is dazzlingly gorgeous, as are its stars. But peeling back layer upon layer of exquisite ennui reveals nothing but emptiness, sprinkled with stilted sentiments.
  23. My All American
    My All American plays like an extended highlights reel, not a movie.
  24. Spotlight
    For all of its modesty and dedication to process, Spotlight winds up being a startlingly emotional experience, and not just for filmgoers with intimate knowledge of the culture it depicts.
  25. Love the Coopers
    Love the Coopers is one of the most jumbled, tonally misguided holiday movies in recent memory. It is an insult to tidings of comfort as well as joy, and a complete waste of the time and talents of its ensemble cast.
  26. Trumbo
    After a somewhat tedious and overly episodic first half...Trumbo becomes a far more successful movie.
  27. The 33
    The inspirational docudrama nicely evokes the havoc of the initial cave-in, but spends too much time above ground to convey the existential horror of the almost-buried men.
  28. Brooklyn
    Soaring, swooning and gently nostalgic, Brooklyn takes melodrama to a new level of reassuring simplicity and emotional transparency.
  29. Love
    Good camerawork only goes so far. Love drags on and on, alternating between arguments and intimacy, breakups and makeups. The movie never passes the authenticity test; if this is what sex feels like, we’ll all soon be extinct.
  30. Miss You Already
    When Miss You Already works, it’s because of the cast.
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