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For 3,960 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 47% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Hell or High Water
Lowest review score: 0 Daddy's Home 2
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,219 out of 3960
  2. Mixed: 1,378 out of 3960
  3. Negative: 363 out of 3960
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  1. Bird Box
    You don’t appreciate the art of a good genre contrivance until you see one pulled off poorly.
  2. Scoob!
    The best part of Scoob!, a computer-animated reboot of the Scooby-Doo franchise, is the part in which the movie painstakingly recreates the opening credits of the original series.
  3. Gone
    Believe it or not, the delicate-featured, whisper-thin actress manages to (mostly) pull it off, but the abysmal movie around her lets her down.
  4. Elf
    I was looking forward to something a tad more satirical than this Hallmark card of a movie, which plugs innocence and goodness like they’re going out of style.
  5. Brick Mansions
    It should be wilder, funnier, nuttier.
  6. Jumper
    Jumper is so in sync with the language of modern action movies that it’s possible to look past its soullessness and go with the quantum flow.
  7. You Should Have Left
    It might have worked as a drama, but as horror, it’s a disaster.
  8. The Quiet Ones
    This demonic possession story is at times so lame it makes the last "Paranormal Activity" flick look like a masterpiece.
  9. Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
    Does anybody really find this crap scary anymore?
  10. The Little Mermaid
    Bailey is, unfortunately, completely failed by the dull, misguided production around her. As the studio has done with other live-action remakes, Disney betrays its own lack of imagination and an essential misreading of what made its original children’s fare such a joy to audiences in the first place.
  11. Eternals
    With Eternals, Marvel proves itself to be nothing more than a staid, lumbering black hole.
  12. Godzilla: King of the Monsters
    This thing is an unholy mess.
  13. Some Kind Of Beautiful
    Look past its colorful, smooth surfaces and something corrosive emerges. And it’s not like the film isn’t aware of this. But it doesn’t really know what to do with it.
  14. Wild Mountain Thyme
    Wild Mountain Thyme is not just charmless. It is genuinely confounding, a movie constantly working against itself to make its characters and their dilemma comprehensible.
  15. Venom: The Last Dance
    Venom: The Last Dance isn’t a lark, but a smirk to let you know that while everyone may be aware of what it’s up to, you’re the sucker who bought the ticket.
  16. The Life of David Gale
    The Grisham-esque murder-mystery plot got so scrambled that, finally, it’s anybody’s guess what the filmmakers intended.
  17. Ride Along 2
    Ride Along 2, which picks up not long after the first film ended, doesn’t mess much with the formula, except that everything feels more frayed and tired this time around.
  18. Respect
    The preceding two-plus hours of this 145-minute slog — Tommy’s threadbare hodgepodge of bad impressions, gratuitous filmmaking, and even worse depictions of mental health — isn’t even a shadow of the real natural woman.
  19. Mother
    Most of the dialogue and effects are clunky, repetitive, second-rate. A minute or so of David Lynch’s latest Twin Peaks series has more irrational menace. For all its feverish activity, Mother! feels static.
  20. Deliver Us From Evil
    Bana is a likable actor, but he doesn’t bring any vulnerability or transparency to the part; it’s hard to tell what he’s thinking, if he’s thinking anything at all. And so, we move from one bleak, bludgeoning setpiece to another. But with each loud noise, the film loses us more and more.
  21. Grown Ups 2
    The original film also featured Rob Schneider. I can’t quite believe I’m saying this, but his presence is sorely missed here.
  22. Anonymous
    A well-polished cowpat that will confuse and bore those who know nothing about Shakespeare and incense those who know almost anything.
  23. Bewitched
    Kidman is stuck in this pomo movie about the making of a TV-show remake. It’s "Being John Malkovich for Morons."
  24. Anything Else
    Being a cultural icon is a time-limited occupation; after a while, the culture moves on, and if you don't move with it, you end up with a movie like Anything Else.
  25. Together
    Since this is a coming-of-age movie about a poor rural kid who grapples with the big city, it would be nice if its protagonist weren’t such a lummox.
  26. Clash of the Titans
    It isn’t a train wreck--a train wreck would be memorable. What’s wrong is wrong by design.
  27. Aftershock
    If all this sounds outrageous, and extreme … don’t worry, it’s not. Provocation coupled with ineptitude doesn’t reveal the ugliness of humanity; it simply reveals the ugliness of the filmmakers themselves.
  28. The Happytime Murders
    The Happytime Murders turns out to be a stupefyingly sh—y puppet movie.
  29. Moms' Night Out
    A weird mix of tired jokes, topicality, and crippling anxiety.
  30. Guest of Cindy Sherman
    The documentary has its roots in a monologue in which the "guest of Cindy Sherman" (what H-O's place-card read at a gala) stood up for his personhood and made himself the center of the story—only there's NO STORY, not even insight into what made this unlikely couple click. Remove the boldface names and there's no movie; that center does not hold.
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