IGN's Scores

For 1,735 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 69% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 27% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 The Dark Knight
Lowest review score: 19 Leatherface
Score distribution:
1735 movie reviews
  1. Point Blank's production bones are solid and the action itself is clear and capable, but the story is woefully past its expiration date and the attempt to tether it back to the types of "action movies we grew up with" falls flat.
  2. As heartwarming as the story in Leap! can sometimes be, and as strong as the relationship is between Félicie and Odette, her actions can make it difficult to cheer for her as wholeheartedly as the film intends.
  3. When is a murder mystery not about the murder or the mystery? When it's as beautiful-looking as Gemini.
  4. Hold the Dark is a beautiful-looking bore.
  5. Underground is cartoonishly raucous explosion porn from mayhem maestro Michael Bay that feels like a film that was made over a decade ago and was just somehow recently unearthed by Netflix. It's a testament to star Ryan Reynolds and his seemingly effortless charisma because without him the movie would have been a snow-blind mess.
  6. Amityville: The Awakening has a good cast, and, if viewed by a group of rowdy friends late at night, may certainly do its due diligence in periodically startling you for 87 minutes, but never manages to transcend its genre in any meaningful way.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    There are moments where it reaches out for horror and produces something interesting and distinct from Hollywood’s other blockbusters, but those moments are buried beneath unremarkable and, by the end, tedious action sequences.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Tomb Raider fails to develop interesting characters or motives but at least offers viewers some fun action.
  7. Mute tries to tell a transformative sci-fi story but struggles to find its footing with a less than stellar hero.
  8. The Bad Moms sequel suffers from an uneven script and the addition of too many new, superfluous characters.
  9. Liam Neeson is back with The Commuter, though viewers may wind up wishing they bought a ticket to a different train.
  10. Rampage doesn’t really offer much of anything new as a giant monster movie, a video game adaptation, or a Dwayne Johnson vehicle, but it still checks all the boxes expected from it, offering one just enough entertainment value to not make you completely hate it.
  11. There are hints of greatness, but Glass is tonally confused and will likely disappoint fans of Unbreakable and Split.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    The relentlessly slapstick Peter Rabbit may please the kids, but the film never quite realizes its full potential.
  12. As a piece of the larger Conjuring universe puzzle, The Nun is a fun, if ineffectual history lesson that will provide fans with plenty of dots to connect. On its own merits, The Nun stumbles by not delivering any real terror or investment in its characters, instead resting on its strong visuals and atmosphere and, strangely, humor.
  13. The Kitchen has a good cast and strong premise, but it never quite finds its footing and falls into gangster cliches.
  14. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile has some interesting ideas about how little we know the people we love, and about the power of a celebrity cult status. But no matter how good Zac Efron’s performance as Ted Bundy is, this is the tamest way to explore such a complex and interesting story.
  15. While there are some creepy ideas in this surprise Netflix-Blumhouse offering, the quality of Mercy Black is strained.
  16. Miss Bala never quite delivers on its potential and lets down the woman at its center.
  17. After a while, rather than just being funny (in a dark way), it's questionable why one should sit through the whole thing.
  18. Trier manages to make a movie about passion that feels almost completely detached, right to the end. It’s an approach that gives Thelma, the movie, the appearance of portent without fully exploring the fascinating themes, characters or storylines that might actually have justified that self-serious tone.
  19. Action Point contains some crazy stunts and some funny-ish gross-out humor, but is ultimately a pale echo of the dark destruction Johnny Knoxville became famous for.
  20. Kin
    All the genre elements play like an afterthought, and that's frustrating because the rest of the movie isn't quite spry enough to stay interesting without action, adventure, or at least little more weirdness.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Everything about this "movie" is a joke. What really pisses us off is the fact that: a) Ben is now white (yes, white!); b) there are people doing drugs; and c) there's a sex scene! What in the hell? Not making things any better is a simply ridiculous ending that just about abandons all hope for the movie's success.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Jim Brown: All American is visually impressive, but about halfway through the documentary it gets so defensive and excusive that it stalls. It's as if Lee is forming a defense case rather than exhibiting the man's life.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Dark Tower is a thoroughly average take on some truly incredible source material. While the fantastic leads do the best with what they’re given, it’s ultimately not enough to compensate for a lack of time spent building characters and their motivations in the script.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The film is particularly disappointing as McTeigue also directed V for Vendetta, a much sharper, much more intriguing, much more thought-provoking look at our post-9/11 world.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Pitch Perfect 3 tears up the rule book for the franchise but sadly all the rules in it are what made the original work so well and the second film work well enough.
  21. Patient Zero never realizes its potential.
  22. Snatched has its fair share of laughs, but the film’s attempts at sustaining a legitimate emotional underpinning throughout are unsuccessful, thanks to a lackluster turn from Schumer, and some tiresome writing all across the board.

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