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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. Freeheld
    A lugubrious cloud of mediocrity sets in early in Freeheld, a dreary dramatization of a pivotal gay rights case that paved the way for marriage equality.
  2. The Final Girls
    Simultaneously violent and droll, The Final Girls is a way to have your blood-soaked cake and eat it, too.
  3. He Named Me Malala
    If there’s a quibble with the film, it’s that it glosses over what it’s like to grow up in the glare of worldwide celebrity.
  4. Pan
    Pan doesn’t deliver on its own promise. The movie doesn’t so much enhance our understanding of the flying boy as it demonstrates how little thought went into crafting his back story.
  5. Shanghai
    Shanghai is an exercise in retro glamour, alluring decadence and tough-guy posing, all of which it delivers in sufficient quantities.
  6. Prophet's Prey
    It’s hard to say what is most difficult to digest about Prophet’s Prey.
  7. Peace Officer
    Peace Officer piles up evidence of outrageous excess, provoking what is likely to be a response, from its audience, that is far less measured than that of its main subject.
  8. Addicted to Fresno
    While director Jamie Babbit, who cut her teeth on indie comedies, is an equal- opportunity offender, some jokes land better than others. Still, strong lead performances and an energetic supporting cast elevate the uneven material.
  9. The Keeping Room
    The Keeping Room raises difficult moral questions, yet it wallows so relentlessly in gloom that it is a challenge to care about what happens to its characters.
  10. 99 Homes
    99 Homes isn’t just a straightforward drama. It’s a suspense movie.
  11. Mississippi Grind
    Mississippi Grind winds up being an improbably satisfying, even heartwarming character study.
  12. The Martian
    What’s being marketed as a sober, straightforward sci-fi drama (the words “Bring him home” superimposed on an unsmiling Matt Damon inside a space helmet) is instead a smart, exhilarating, often disarmingly funny return to classic adventures of yore.
  13. Nostalgia for the Light
    Gracefully moving between the infinite and the practical, the celestial and the implacably grounded, Guzman has created a sensitive, richly textured portrait of time and place that transcends both those conceits.
  14. The Walk
    The Walk satisfies as an absorbing yarn of authority-flouting ad­ven­ture and as an example of stomach-flipping you-are-there-ness. The journey it offers viewers doesn’t just span 140 feet, but also an ethereal, now-vanished, world.
  15. Goodnight Mommy
    It’s a masterful example of genre filmmaking’s ability to transcend its limitations, leaving a viewer not just frightened, but also changed.
  16. The Second Mother
    The Second Mother feels lovingly handcrafted. All the elements of the story fit impeccably together for a humorous and occasionally wrenching examination of relationships.
  17. Finders Keepers
    As Finders Keepers gets weirder, it also gets better and deeper. Somehow, Carberry and Tweel have managed to fashion an inspirational tale out of what one local newscaster calls a “freak show.”
  18. Sicario
    Every scene of calm, potentially, is trip-wired for an explosion. But for all its chilling tension and horrific imagery, Sicario is also a beautiful movie.
  19. Stonewall
    It’s a shame that the beginning of a movement that has come so far, so fast has been reduced to a trite, calculatingly manipulative reenactment.
  20. The Intern
    Meyers seems content to make a nice movie about nice people doing their best to be nice to each other despite one or two not-nice things that happen along the way. That’s all very nice, but not particularly the stuff of potent or rousing entertainment.
  21. Hotel Transylvania 2
    If you enjoy Sandler’s brand of obvious humor and don’t mind noticeable Sony product placements, this inoffensive sequel is, like its predecessor, just enough for a Halloween treat.
  22. Sleeping with Other People
    The romantic comedy boasts two winning leads in Jason Sudeikis and Alison Brie, as well as some sweet, funny moments amid the Aaron Sorkin-esque dialogue — courtesy of writer-director Leslye Headland — that’s a little too clever for its own believability.
  23. Pawn Sacrifice
    Overall, the movie presents a worthy and historical look at the link between genius and mental illness.
  24. The New Girlfriend
    In Ozon’s confident hands, The New Girlfriend has moments that juxtapose gentle humor and surprising depth of feeling.
  25. Meet the Patels
    With its appealingly conflicted hero and generous sense of humor, Meet the Patels has the breezy touch of a scripted romantic comedy.
  26. Cooties
    It’s Rainn Wilson who steals the show as the cocky physical education teacher who takes charge when the pint-size monsters corner him and his fellow educators.
  27. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
    If “The Black Panthers” has been designed to leave viewers outraged and energized in equal measure, it succeeds with admirable style. It counts both as essential history and a primer in making sense of how we live now.
  28. A Brilliant Young Mind
    A Brilliant Young Mind is less stuffy than the usual cinematic ode to British smarts and schooling. But that still can’t save this tale of eccentric genius from being profoundly conventional.
  29. Time Out of Mind
    The movie sometimes dillydallies, but the unhurried rhythms ultimately have a hypnotic effect.
  30. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
    It’s not a bad movie. It’s like several pretty good ones.
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