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For 8,793 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 57% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 58
Highest review score: 100 The Searchers
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,786 out of 8793
  2. Mixed: 2,560 out of 8793
  3. Negative: 1,447 out of 8793
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  1. The Queen of Versailles
    The Queen of Versailles encourages the very worst tendencies in the audience: to sneer at the Siegels, to marvel at their tackiness, to root for their fall from grace.
  2. Uncharted
    With so many video game adaptations being little more than live-action fanfiction, Uncharted stands out by feeling like an actual movie, mostly eschewing fan service in favor of little organic beats between characters.
  3. The Eye
    This moody Hong Kong thriller puts a stylish new spin on the old "Hands of Orlac" horror motif.
  4. Yossi & Jagger
    It’s amazing what Yossi & Jagger does manage to relay in its brief time onscreen. And instead of melodrama and fireworks, the film goes the more difficult route of restraint and psychological tension.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Executive Decision
    Just when you're about to give up on this seemingly sorry excuse for an action movie, the picture does an about-face in a matter of minutes, and pushes the tension level way into overdrive and transforms suddenly into a solidly entertaining thriller.
  6. Blonde
    When de Armas’ performance is given the space to be quiet and chilling, Blonde suddenly hits, and what once felt hollow feels painfully visceral.
  7. Our Family Wedding
    A formulaic wedding comedy about mismatched families, but thanks to several appealing performances this rote exercise turns out better than most.
  8. Potiche
    A lightweight confection, this French import slides down easily even though it never truly satisfies.
  9. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
    Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days is probably the most inoffensive kid's film you're likely to see this summer. And that's a good thing.
  10. Kinky Boots
    Trite? Sure. Obvious? And then some. But a lesson to be taken to heart nonetheless.
  11. Total Eclipse
    The story excels in its portrait of obsessive love and desire. Where the tale falls down is in its portrait of two comrades in poetry, the writers who inspired each other to new levels of artistry and dwelled with the muses wherever they cohabited.
  12. Crazy Horse
    At 134 minutes, Crazy Horse could have used some judicious editing, but that relatively minor quibble aside, it provides a revealing and intimate look (as if there could be any other kind) at an institution both familiar and utterly alien.
  13. The Last Tree
    Rich with technical strategies that enhance our view into Femi’s emotions, The Last Tree uses slow-motion, diffused sound, and many Spike Lee-like camera shots to make the story extremely personal and unique.
  14. You Don't Nomi
    Often the discussion about a film is more interesting and worthwhile than the film itself, and that's why You Don't Nomi exists.
  15. Notorious C.H.O.
    She's funny, she's feisty, she's a flabulous, fat-positive “fag hag,” and Margaret Cho isn't apologizing for any of it.
  16. The Last Lions
    This nature documentary about the vanishing lions of Africa is not your children's "Lion King."
  17. The Twentieth Century
    It ends up being a smashingly good and goofball history of the non-world of Canadian history and flim-flammery, deeply committed to its own colonial crazy.
  18. Skylines
    The aliens look better than ever, Morgan delivers just the right kind of dry-witted action heroics, and Skylines takes the trip to the stars that the franchise has been promising.
  19. Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
    Although the movie's ecological message is dominant, it's not heavy-handed. Rather, the ecological warnings are tossed out with the same joie de vivre the Once-ler displays when tossing marshmallows to the bears.
  20. Cut Throat City
    As COVID-19 widens the gap between the rich and the poor in communities across the country, Cut Throat City’s institutional assault feels sadly timely.
  21. Blue Crush
    The script also takes the occasional dip into hokeyness, but even that is buoyed by its ballsy leading ladies.
  22. The Bridesmaid
    The final payoff is a good one and relates to something tossed out in the film's opening minutes. Still, this is middling Chabrol, not as tight and suspenseful as his best work.
  23. Me, Myself & Irene
    Has those proverbial big laffs in spades.
  24. Just Cause
    It's a rich, humid mix of race, murder, and mystery that works well, even if it doesn't work perfectly.
  25. Conan the Barbarian
    Schwarzenegger has probably never been better-cast.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Johnny Suede
    DiCillo's humorous insight into the post-modern culture manifests into vivid characterizations that are enhanced by credible cast performances.
  27. The Damned
    In his debut feature as a director, The Valhalla Murders creator Thordur Palsson lets the icy-blue pitilessness of the inhospitable Westfjords permeate every frame and every moment.
  28. Kill List
    Viewers will find themselves well into this intriguing movie before they get a sense of what it's about and where it's going. And even then, they'll never correctly predict the film's outcome or foretell its bizarre ending.
  29. From Mexico with Love
    This up-from-the-fields slice of Tejano pride is a punchy, melodramatic piece of tried-and-true Americana that mixes cultures (and film genres) with an eye toward knocking down borders both cultural and contemporary.
  30. Wing Commander: Space Will Never Be the Same
    While much of the film is taken over by enormously entertaining dogfight sequences … much of it also rests on the narrative drive, which seems clipped part and parcel from one of those old “Why We Fight” documentaries that Frank Capra doled out to keep our G.I.s in fighting mode.
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