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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. Escape Plan
    It’s not fair to either of these actors to want to see Rocky and the Terminator over and over again. But it is fair to want to see them in something better than this.
  2. Isn't It Romantic
    The problem isn’t that it pokes fun at romantic comedies, it’s that it itself isn’t a terribly good one.
  3. Aftershock
    The ending is sick enough to make it almost worth the wait. Key word: almost.
  4. Your Highness
    It's an ironclad rule for comedies: Stupid is fine, as long as it's funny. But if it's not? Well, then it's just . . . stupid.
  5. Super Troopers 2
    What really saves Super Troopers 2, to the extent that it even wants to be saved, is how gleefully the Broken Lizard bunch goes about its work.
  6. Burying the Ex
    There aren't any scares to speak of, though there is some gore. The cast is game to try anything, but there's just not much here for them to work with. Like most zombies, Burying the Ex is an idea that should have stayed dead.
  7. Leonie
    It’s a juicy story squandered by the poor telling. It’s got all the trappings of a good ol’-fashioned Merchant Ivory pic — lush locales, exotic period trappings — but none of the soul.
  8. Blair Witch
    Without real innovation or story evolution, Blair Witch becomes a trip down a rabbit hole of misery and suffering.
  9. The Double
    With its convoluted plot and fading stars, The Double feels like a straight-to-DVD feature that somehow sneaked onto the big screen. It's simply not very good.
  10. It Ends with Us
    While Baldoni had a surplus of material and talent to work with, "It Ends with Us" felt flat and uninspiring.
  11. Dark Shadows
    It seems hollow, somehow false, even by its own campy standards.
  12. Trolls
    The characters are clichés and the plot is assembly-line predictable.
  13. The Intruder
    Basically, a lot of things happen; not interesting or believable things, but, hey, there's movement and action.
  14. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
    This movie is exhausting.
  15. Inferno
    Inferno...is the kind of movie that stops — and stoops — to explain, early and often. Not that the explanations amount to much; the movie makes almost no sense.
  16. Sarah Palin: You Betcha!
    With Sarah Palin: You Betcha! director Nick Broomfield manages to screw it up.
  17. 5 to 7
    For an R-rated romance about a young writer's affair with a sultry French siren, 5 to 7 generates all the heat of an Easy-Bake Oven. It aims to sizzle but quickly fizzles.
  18. Ted 2
    The film, like most of MacFarlane's work, is a mix of occasional laugh-out-loud moments — there are some here — and cringe-worthy misfires that play a lot more tone-deaf than he seems to intend.
  19. Jupiter Ascending
    The Wachowskis never lack for ambition. It's in the execution where they run into trouble.
  20. The Family
    Yes, The Family has skills. They’re like “The Incredibles” — except they’re heroes for sadists and sociopaths only.
  21. The Forest
    The Forest is one of those horror movies that starts with an intriguing idea but has no idea what to do with it.
  22. The Boy Next Door
    It's no surprise The Boy Next Door is junk. What is disappointing is that it's not fun junk. It doesn't even merit a good hate-watching, because the whole thing is so meh.
  23. The Lords of Salem
    Some of the imagery is memorable, in a twisted-horror kind of way. Zombie has no trouble scaring up atmosphere. But other scenes are ridiculous, unintentionally funny, particularly one he builds up to ominously, only to give us a silly payoff.
  24. Mighty Fine
    Subtle, it's not.
  25. The Upside
    Despite their palpable comedic chops, Hart and Cranston are unable to make this unlikely and stereotypical pair likable.
  26. The Cup
    For one thing, all the characters are far too pleasant.
  27. Seventh Son
    Seventh Son is recommended only for the most far-gone of fantasy addicts, for whom it will serve as a sort of methadone. It won't exactly satisfy, but it will tide you over until the next season of "Game of Thrones."
  28. Colonia
    Unfortunately, what the filmmaker has wound up with is something that feels like it should be playing at the bottom end of a triple bill at a drive-in.
  29. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
    You’d think a move about the potential for the destruction of universes would feel pretty high stakes, but this one doesn’t. Nor does it connect on the family drawn together through adversity front.
  30. You People
    It’s not just that the jokes aren’t funny, or that they’re given to genius comic actors like Eddie Murphy and Julia Louis-Dreyfus to deliver — which has to be some kind of pop-culture crime — the bigger issue is that there's not a single instance of recognizable human behavior in the entire film.
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