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For 3,961 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: 2,220 out of 3961
  2. Mixed: 1,378 out of 3961
  3. Negative: 363 out of 3961
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  1. Basic Instinct 2
    Stupefyingly lackluster.
  2. Five Nights at Freddy's 2
    Because it’s darker and a bit more intense, Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 is a slight improvement over the first film, which seemed to mistake family-friendly restraint for abject lifelessness.
  3. Taken 3
    Taken 3 is bad enough that it may just end it.
  4. Rambo: Last Blood
    Quick as it is, though, you have time to wonder how these Mexican assassins can watch their comrades getting skewered, dismembered, and eviscerated by Rambo’s traps and not think, Maybe we should pull out and rethink this assault.
  5. The Million Dollar Hotel
    He (Gibson) ramrods his way through the bugged-out hysterics as if he were appearing in a movie that actually made sense. What a brave heart.
  6. The Identical
    It's stocked with clichés, but they're arranged in such weird ways that the end result is both predictable and certifiable. If only any of it actually went somewhere.
  7. Moms' Night Out
    A weird mix of tired jokes, topicality, and crippling anxiety.
  8. R.I.P.D.
    The whole thing seems ill-conceived from the start, unable to keep its parameters simple – think of Ghostbusters and “Don’t cross the streams!” – but also lacking any genuine comic spark or imagination. It’s an exhausting 98 minute ride to nowhere.
  9. Strange Magic
    The problem with Strange Magic isn’t so much its derivative story as it is the odd, half-complete way it unfolds. You can sense the weird mixture of tones, influences, ideas — as if the whole thing were still in its planning stages.
  10. Enough
    Clumsy, obvious, preposterous, the movie will likely set the cause of woman warriors back decades.
  11. Gods of Egypt
    It’s both thin and overstuffed, filled with intricate, at times dazzling set-pieces peopled by characters we don’t care about, and an irreverent sense of fun that nevertheless leaves us cold. It tries so hard… and ultimately achieves so little.
  12. Apollo 18
    Apollo 18, isn't egregiously inept. It just never lives. It's 80 minutes of dead air.
  13. Mr. Deeds
    Hollywood movies are once again taking on the job that Andy Griffith–era TV sitcoms used to fill, touting homespun values in Never Land.
  14. Holmes & Watson
    As a director, Coen commits comedy’s most cardinal sin: He gets between us and the performers.
  15. Music
    An old-fashioned piece of shameless hokum, Sia’s Music might be hilarious if it weren’t so offensive.
  16. The Snowman
    I figured the film would have an off-the-charts creepy quotient (the novel is chilling) and gobs of atmosphere. I could never have predicted it would turn out to be such a shambles.
  17. The Cobbler
    Throughout The Cobbler, Sandler himself seems more invested than he’s been for a long time. But the rest of this ghastly movie lets him down.
  18. Yoga Hosers
    Yoga Hosers is the best film Kevin Smith has made in a long time, which admittedly isn’t saying much. But this new cult comedy-thriller may well represent a turning point for the writer-director.
  19. Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
    If the similarly situated "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" took itself too seriously, the problem with Hansel & Gretel is that it doesn't quite take itself seriously enough - which sounds insane, but it's not too much to ask that the movie go beyond its one and only joke. Instead, amid all the fake Sturm und Drang, all we hear is the movie giggling to itself.
  20. Reagan
    Reagan is pure hagiography, but it’s not even one of those convincing hagiographies that pummel you into submission with compelling scenes that reinforce their subject’s greatness. Sean McNamara’s film has slick surfaces, but it’s so shallow and one-note that it actually does Ronald Reagan a disservice.
  21. The Legend of Hercules
    Like so many of today’s action films, The Legend of Hercules is too busy peddling slick, stone-faced portent to ever bother making us laugh, or engaging us in any way.
  22. Getaway
    Getaway’s only claim to fame is that it may be the dumbest movie released this summer.
  23. Blumhouse's Fantasy Island
    It is a terrible horror movie, by the way, just wretchedly unenjoyable.
  24. The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
    Performance aside, the film never quite manages to figure out what it’s actually about.
  25. Norm of the North
    Everything appears to have been thrown together with little attention paid to how it might all work together.
  26. 8MM
    Wallows in its own muck.
  27. 3000 Miles to Graceland
    On the reasonable assumption that no movie featuring an Elvis impersonator can be wholly bad, I was prepared for a high old time at 3000 Miles to Graceland, which exhibits a plenitude of Elvi. The exhibition does not last very long, however. Less than a third of the way through, the filmmakers jettison the premise and trash their own movie.
  28. Accidental Love
    It’s something of a catastrophe.
  29. Rabbit Test
    Rabbit Test’s failure is understandable: It’s pretty much a terrible movie. Directed more like a sitcom than a film and full of dud jokes that feel like they’re waiting for a laugh track to kick in, it’s a good example of how the comedian’s ten-wisecracks-a-second humor didn’t necessarily translate to a narrative medium.
  30. 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.
  31. Replicas
    Replicas is chock-full of histrionic what-ifs that seem to hyperventilate so hard in their delivery that they don’t have enough oxygen to actually blow anyone’s mind. It would be the stuff of future cult screenings if it wasn’t so boring and muddled.
  32. Polar
    If only the issue with Polar, Åkerlund’s fifth feature film, was merely shallowness. Polar is an execrable motion picture, a sad, lint-filled key bump scraped together from the bottom of the post-Tarantino ’90s exploitation baggie.
  33. Swept Away
    If you were expecting Ritchie to discover something in Madonna that no one else has, something like, say, acting talent, forget it.
  34. The Devil Inside
    It has been a long time since I've heard people - many people - distinctly yell, "Boo!" Usually they just growl or moan or hiss. They don't bother actually to articulate the word "Boo!" I second their statement. The ending reeks.
  35. Movie 43
    It's rare to see a piece of sh** that actually looks and sounds like a piece of sh**. It's kind of exciting!
  36. The Nutcracker
    Even if the film were well done, it would still be a travesty.
  37. 88 Minutes
    Forget Pacino; it’s all those red herrings that reek.
  38. The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)
    The movie is a reductio ad absurdum, a sick joke taken to extremes, beginning with a goof on the notion that horror movies inspire copycats and ending with a test to determine whether some people will watch anything.
  39. A Haunted House 2
    A Haunted House 2 is not a movie. It is a nervous breakdown.
  40. The Last Days of American Crime
    Even if it had been released at a less tense and tender time, this thing would go down like an oversized flaming lead balloon.
  41. Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
    Nobody was expecting much from Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2, but did it have to be this unimaginative and lifeless?
  42. Left Behind
    Left Behind is biblical in its silliness.
  43. The Emoji Movie
    It is one of the darkest, most dismaying films I have ever seen, much less one ostensibly made for children.
  44. 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.
  45. Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo
    Beyond being tiresome, Intermezzo is just plain ugly, with seemingly little care given to the image — odd, perhaps, given that the film is so clearly and confrontationally about its own director’s gaze.
  46. Me You Madness
    All Me You Madness has to offer are poorly written rants, indifferently staged action, and ill-conceived comedy. In the end, it doesn’t even deliver on the madness.
  47. The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence)
    No. Nope. Uh-uh.
  48. Melania
    The gap between Melania’s insistently anodyne tone and what’s happened in the year since it was filmed can become downright vertiginous, especially when Melania intones observations about her immigrant journey and how “everyone should do what they can to protect our individual rights.”
  49. Way Past Cool
    It’s a magical little movie about a most unmagical subject.
  50. Take My Nose... Please!
    Early in the film, Margaret Cho nails both sides of the issue in her stand-up act, decrying plastic surgery as “brainwashing, mutilation, and manipulation of women.
  51. Most Likely to Murder
    Most Likely to Murder, a perfectly fine and forgettable story about a man who still has some growing up to do coming back to his childhood home, is not the worst or the best, merely the latest.
  52. Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
    It’s a lively, occasionally powerful history lesson, and an essential reclamation project.
  53. Sentinelle
    Sentinelle is an admirably swift, elegantly filmed spine-snapping action thriller with moments of surprising grace.
  54. Traveling Light
    The movie gathers force as it proceeds and delivers one final shock toward the end. It’s not a twist, exactly, but rather a development that makes you reconsider what you’ve just seen — suggesting that those who sometimes seem to care the least about the world are, secretly, the ones most overwhelmed by it.
  55. Once Within a Time
    Once Within a Time runs 52 minutes, and it’s so lovely, funny, and charming that it feels like 15. But when it’s over, you feel like you’ve seen the world.
  56. The Bricklayer
    The Bricklayer isn’t worth seeking out — it’s ideally stumbled onto on cable TV on a hungover Saturday afternoon, when there’s plenty of time to reflect on how little time a slumming Tim Blake Nelson, playing the director of the CIA, must have spent on set.
  57. The Painter
    Smith is a stunt coordinator and performer, a background that’s led to some great action fare in other contexts, but in this one, produces a mess of chopped-to-bits showdowns that sometimes seem to be missing coverage.
  58. Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron
    In this age of hyper-brand management where practically every celebrity doc requires direct sign-offs from the subject themselves, it’s striking to watch a document of a global cultural luminary being so nakedly human.
  59. The Ballad of Judas Priest
    While The Ballad of Judas Priest may not always feel complete, by centering the music, it excites our curiosity long after the credits roll.
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