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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. Black Mass
    Even filmmakers and actors as fine as these haven’t managed to solve one of cinema’s most enduring challenges — making criminals interesting without exalting them.
  2. Everest
    Everest gets several things right, but it fails to find a way to make the average viewer relate to the people on the mountain.
  3. The Golden Dream
    The movie has an unhurried pace, lulling the teens — and by extension the audience — into occasional complacency with the regular rhythms of each chugging train.
  4. Wolf Totem
    Annaud and his crew, including wolf trainer Andrew Simpson, nicely illustrate the animals’ cunning and coordination.... The human drama is more perfunctory.
  5. The Visit
    The cast of mostly unfamiliar actors also serves The Visit well. Shyamalan has a gift for eliciting strong performances, even when his material is lacking.
  6. The Transporter Refueled
    The first “Transporter” delivered an unexpected kick, courtesy of Statham, who made for a brooding, magnetic — and reliably kinetic — action hero. Skrein is an inferior stand-in, scowling like his predecessor, but lacking Statham’s cool, coiled power.
  7. Learning to Drive
    Learning to Drive would be an entirely inert expedition were it not for Clarkson, who plays against Kingsley’s sentinel of propriety with her signature radiance and birdlike gracefulness.
  8. Steve Jobs: Man in the Machine
    The picture that emerges is fractured, making for a portrait that’s as fascinating as it is baffling.
  9. A Walk in the Woods
    For a moment, the movie tries to be about something deeper — some existential epiphany, perhaps. The book didn’t deal in platitudes. It was content to be lightly educational, but mostly just entertaining. The movie aspires to be more than that, only to reveal how much less than that it really is.
  10. Unsullied
    Unsullied is wholly underwhelming, with atrocious performances and plot twists so implausible that they would be funny in a film less tedious than this.
  11. Rosenwald
    Rosenwald isn’t just a portrait of a great, selfless American and his powerful company, but an excavation of an ugly strain of our own history, and a reminder of what one person can do to uproot it.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Steak (R)evolution
    The meat is supposed to be the most beautiful thing in the documentary, but I found myself more drawn to the lingering shots of shaggy cows, silhouetted on European mountainsides, with their tousled bangs blowing in the wind.
  13. Digging for Fire
    Digging for Fire is a pleasant escape — an attractively shot, gracefully edited and, finally, emotionally satisfying mystery about the nature of marriage itself.
  14. Grandma
    Like all of her greatest creations, Tomlin brings Elle to life with compassion and candid, sometimes withering knowingness.
  15. Z for Zachariah
    The acting is strong, with Robbie and Ejiofor turning in performances that feel powerfully authentic, even in moments of ethical confusion. Maybe especially in moments of ethical confusion.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 37 Critic Score
    We Are Your Friends
    By the end, though, the original bits fade as easily as one song bleeds into another.
  17. No Escape
    Every Asian character is either a ruthless murderer or anonymous collateral damage. A lot of locals have to die, the film suggests, in order for one white family to survive.
  18. Ten Thousand Saints
    The movie captures the city vibrantly, in moments of beauty and brilliance.... But Jude, our narrator, is paper thin.
  19. Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet
    For audiences interested in an earnest, inspirational story, full of timeless messages and beautiful animation, this is a lovely reminder of how to live life with purpose and joy.
  20. Mistress America
    Even at its most daft and infectiously ditzy, Mistress America is a sharp, aware and surpassingly kind portrait of the agony and ecstasy of becoming yourself.
  21. American Ultra
    American Ultra has a clever premise. But it misses several opportunities to at least comment on, if not skewer, the spy movies that it only halfheartedly pokes fun at. As it is, it’s content to generate a low-grade buzz, rather than deliver a true high.
  22. Hitman: Agent 47
    The movie — which looks and sounds like a more brutal Bond knockoff — is at least consistently stylish, though its tone is less assured.
  23. The Diary of a Teenage Girl
    One needn’t have first-person experience with, or even approve of, the extremes Minnie pursues to appreciate the honest, forthright way Heller and Powley present a journey that, stripped to its most basic emotional elements, is timeless and universal.
  24. Straight Outta Compton
    Straight Outta Compton reminds viewers not only who N.W.A. were and what they meant, but also why they mattered — and still do.
  25. Listen to Me Marlon
    Riley doesn’t merely make a fine nonfiction film about the life and legacy of the late conflicted artist. He virtually resurrects him.
  26. Cop Car
    The film is full of quiet little truths.
  27. Sneakerheadz
    Perhaps Sneakerheadz needs a sequel, one that more directly interrogates the shoe manufacturers themselves about the hazards of pumping up so much hype about their product.
  28. The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
    The threat that this mess of a movie might be followed by a sequel is enough to make anyone cry uncle.
  29. Tom at the Farm
    It’s a claustrophobic drama that unfolds like a thriller, although its characters are so bizarre that sympathizing with them is difficult.
  30. Call Me Lucky
    Ironically, Call Me Lucky, a worshipful new documentary profile of Crimmins by comic-turned-filmmaker Bobcat Goldthwait, has a little too much reverence for its irreverent subject.
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