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For 2,969 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 34% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 The Peanut Butter Falcon
Lowest review score: 10 The Legend of Hercules
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,702 out of 2969
  2. Mixed: 1,148 out of 2969
  3. Negative: 119 out of 2969
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  1. Extraordinary Measures
    The overall feel is one of a generic, feel-good drama, albeit one with Harrison Ford stomping around most of the time as if someone kicked him in the shins. One suspects that this is a story that deserved better.
  2. Escobar: Paradise Lost
    After a predictable opening hour, Paradise Lost manages to deliver a surprise or two as it switches gears into a full-on thriller. But it never gets close to the epic heights to which it aspires.
  3. The Croods
    The jokes only make up for the pedestrian plot for so long. There was a time when animated fare with generic stories sufficed. But now we expect more from them, because they have, pardon the pun, evolved. The Croods, like its title family, hasn’t.
  4. Battle: Los Angeles
    Unfortunately, screenwriter Christopher Bertolini has given Eckhart and Liebesman a story so riddled with war-movie cliches that it contains almost nothing else.
  5. V/H/S
    The problem with V/H/S, a compilation of sometimes scary horror shorts loosely bound by an overarching plot, is that, no matter how savage, evil or sadistic the killer, the victims almost always come off as bigger jerks.
    • Arizona Republic
      • Posted Oct 23, 2012
  6. The Daughter
    While the acting draws us into the story; it plays like a daytime soap opera with really good actors and Australian accents.
  7. Run All Night
    In Run All Night, Neeson gives us more of the same, although with Collet-Serra's assistance, it's dressed up in a more interesting package.
  8. Midnight's Children
    The ambitious visual stylings don’t do enough to buoy a film that lacks a certain soaring spirit. If the adaptation is serviceable, it’s also dull — a disappointing fate for a story that’s anything but.
  9. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
    There’s a weird attempt at feminism here that doesn’t quite fly – basically it boils down to young women having every bit as much right to do bong hits all day and night as young men do – but at least there is an attempt.
  10. Happythankyoumoreplease
    There is a sweetness to Radnor's character and to his film. What there is not is a sense of urgency, of a desire to find out what happens next.
  11. CHAOS: The Manson Murders
    Maybe the Manson murders are not meant for easy explanation, which in part seems to be what Morris is getting at. Maybe we’ll never really know the answers. But we don’t seem to be able to stop looking for them.
  12. Risk
    Artfully shot and mooded-up with a jittery ambient soundtrack, Risk is compelling because the enigma of Assange is compelling.
  13. Insidious: Chapter 3
    Insidious: Chapter 3 is almost more a spoof of a classic like "The Exorcist" than it is an homage. It's not scary horror, it's silly horror, and the audience is in on the joke.
  14. Like Me
    As statements go, it’s somewhat compelling. But really, the look of Like Me is the big draw here, and it’s what makes the film both interesting and well worth seeing. As for Mockler, it’ll be fascinating to see what comes next.
  15. Godzilla vs. Kong
    A decidedly dumb entry in the titan saga that’s still kind of fun.
  16. Love After Love
    The ways in which Love After Love is successful at portraying the grief process is also what makes it at times wildly unpleasant to watch.
  17. Godzilla: King of the Monsters
    You come to a Godzilla movie for the epic fights, and on that front, Dougherty delivers.
  18. The Paperboy
    "Southern fried" is as good a phrase as any to describe The Paperboy...It fits, really, because it causes the same reaction. You eat a mess of fried okra or tater tots, and it's tasty going down. It's only after you're done that you feel a little queasy. [18 Oct 2012]
    • Arizona Republic
      • Posted Oct 23, 2012
  19. The Angry Birds Movie
    Screenwriter Jon Vitti and first-time directors Fergal Reilly and Clay Kaytis certainly give it a try, but their bag of tricks is mostly recycled and their sense of humor is aimed squarely at 12-year-old boys.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Emilia Pérez
    There was a lot of hype surrounding it, but after one too many awkward musical numbers combined with slow pacing, I was left checking my phone for when the 2-hour and 10-minute movie would be over.
  21. The To Do List
    Our teenage years are so overwrought with emotion; not to put them in play at all makes Brandy feel like little more than a cipher for Plaza’s deadpan dark humor. And that’s pleasurable enough for a quick fling, but hardly the foundation of a lasting relationship.
  22. Slotherhouse
    Overall, it's exactly as absurd as it sounds, but in the best way.
  23. Killer Elite
    If you're willing to accept Killer Elite as a shoot-'em-up action movie with good actors taking the spots of the usual lunk heads (but spouting the usual nonsense), you'll be pleased with the film.
  24. Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas
    A Madea Christmas, for all its narrative shortcomings, also has plenty of laughs.
  25. A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas
    What you would expect from the third film in an unlikely franchise: less of the same.
  26. The Woman in Black
    Subtlety may not be Watkins' strong suit, but he knows how to frame a scene for maximum tension and dread.
  27. F9: The Fast Saga
    Is it a ridiculous movie? Of course, that’s the point. Yet it’s still kind of fun, and it all but insists that you enjoy watching it.
  28. Pete's Dragon
    Pete’s Dragon is a good movie. But it could have used a little more of the magic its characters are searching for.
  29. Sing
    Sing is like an album with a good song here and there, but too much filler and not enough hits
  30. Captain Marvel
    For all its thematic and behind-the-scenes innovations, cinematically Captain Marvel feels like a step backward for the MCU. Fresh off the heels of the all-or-nothing bombast of “Avengers: Infinity War,” the righteous representation of “Black Panther” and the giddy lunacy of “Thor: Ragnarok,” Captain Marvel is a retreat into a bland formula.
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