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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. Flowers
    The movie, for all its uneventfulness, is intensely memorable.
  2. The Peanuts Movie
    An entertaining combination of humor and tenderness, The Peanuts Movie isn’t just an all-ages crowd-pleaser. It’s the perfect first feature film for a preschooler.
  3. SPECTRE
    We don’t expect a James Bond film to be deep, but at least we should be dazzled by the seductive gloss of its surfaces. Aside from that stunning opening sequence, this installment feels overcompensating and dutiful.
  4. Nasty Baby
    Ultimately, Silva’s uneven command of tone undoes whatever goodwill his actors have managed to generate. They — and we — deserve much better than this.
  5. I Smile Back
    Although the plot is painfully familiar — and not particularly edifying, compared with similar narratives that have gone before — the novelty here is Silverman, who doesn’t exactly erase her comic persona so much as bring to the surface an inherent darkness that has always lurked in the shadows.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Cut
    Rahim delivers a fairly strong performance. Yet the last third of the film loses some focus and emotional resonance.
  7. Difret
    This film is a necessary reminder of what can happen when people preserve tradition for its own sake.
  8. The Assassin
    This mesmerizingly beautiful drama ponders themes of duty, patience, isolation and compassion.
  9. The Armor of Light
    The Armor of Light is a fascinating little piece of storytelling.
  10. Suffragette
    Suffragette is an absorbing, ultimately moving portrait of thwarted ideals that rings all too true today.
  11. Burnt
    It’s not pretty, but it captures something that few cooking movies do: reality.
  12. Our Brand Is Crisis
    The movie turns out to be something we’ve seen before: an underdog tale mixed with a redemption narrative.
  13. Tab Hunter Confidential
    Hunter proves to be an engaging if low-key narrator, whose greatest asset is his refusal to take himself too seriously.
  14. Experimenter
    Experimenter’s most striking quality is the way it encourages us to think deeply, from the first frame to the last, even if it’s just to consider what on Earth an elephant is doing on screen.
  15. Truth
    Truth would have been more compelling with less sanctimony and tougher self-examination.
  16. Room
    As wrenching as Room is, especially during its grim first hour, it contains an expansive sense of compassion and humanism thanks to the sensitive direction of Abrahamson.
  17. Rock the Kasbah
    Sexist, racist, overlong, dull, visually ugly and, worst of all, unfunny, “Kasbah” squanders its cast.
  18. The Last Witch Hunter
    As Kaulder, Diesel does what he does, rumbling out lines of silly dialogue in his subwoofer of a voice. As far as acting goes, there’s not much.
  19. Breathe
    In some ways it plays like a horror movie, in other ways it’s almost a documentary. The most interesting thing about the movie is the balance of tone that Laurent strikes between recognition and repulsion.
  20. Jafar Panahi's Taxi
    Some of the characters make more of an impression than others, and the vignettes aren’t always entirely thrilling or well-acted. But Panahi’s movie remains a political coup considering his significant constraints.
  21. Goosebumps
    It’s occasionally funny and sometimes suspenseful, but it isn’t particularly imaginative. Then again, neither are Stine’s popular novellas.
  22. Beasts of No Nation
    Fukunaga imbues this study of ma­nipu­la­tion and manufactured loyalty with an unsettling degree of visual richness and lush natural detail.
  23. Crimson Peak
    The film by the stylish fantasist Guillermo del Toro looks marvelous, but has a vein of narrative muck at its core.
  24. Steve Jobs
    Propelled by an ingenious script by Aaron Sorkin, given vibrance and buoyancy by director Danny Boyle, Steve Jobs is a galvanizing viewing experience.
  25. Bridge of Spies
    Bridge of Spies expands from being a smart, engrossing procedural to a carefully observed character study of Donovan, a particularly intriguing, heretofore overlooked American figure.
  26. Labyrinth of Lies
    Labyrinth of Lies is an eye-opening story about the importance of seeking the truth — even when it’s complicated, ugly and buried beneath years of secrecy and deceit.
  27. In My Father's House
    In My Father’s House offers lots of interesting raw material, but it could use a disinterested observer’s remix.
  28. Yakuza Apocalypse
    Miike sets up entire sections of Yakuza Apocalypse like an endurance test. If the film’s title and the promise of ear fluid are not deterrents, then maybe you’ll be able to appreciate the sheer energy and audacity of his unapologetic vision.
  29. Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon
    Douglas Tirola’s documentary is brisk and entertaining, if not especially thoughtful.
  30. Big Stone Gap
    Big Stone Gap suffers from some hokey moments, including an ending that’s both implausible and too heavy on the sap.
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