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For 3,962 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: 2,221 out of 3962
  2. Mixed: 1,378 out of 3962
  3. Negative: 363 out of 3962
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  1. The Girlfriend Experience
    Most of the dialogue is listless, and no matter how much Soderbergh snips and stitches, the movie is a corpse with twitching limbs.
  2. Homefront
    A thoroughly boilerplate bayou actioner, with one notable feature. It’s got good villains – nasty, delirious, stupid villains, among them Franco and Ryder – and for that it’s almost worth seeing. Almost.
  3. They Will Kill You
    For all its bloodshed, the movie’s not sharp enough to land a cutting blow — or even to break skin.
  4. Death of a Unicorn
    There’s enough material for a rollicking 25-minute short in Death of a Unicorn, which unfortunately spreads its goods out over the stretch of a feature.
  5. The United States vs. Billie Holiday
    The United States vs. Billie Holiday (which is out now on Hulu) wants to be a history lesson, but it’s at times so one-note and inert that it loses any sense of authenticity.
  6. 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.
  7. Suspiria
    An interesting take. The problem is that Guadagnino can’t cast a decent spell.
  8. Parallel Tales
    None of the female characters in the film acts in ways that suggest Farhadi has actually given much thought to what it’s like to move through the world as a woman.
  9. Spring Breakers
    Spring Breakers strikes me as another of Korine’s calculated punk outrages, a sploog in Disney’s direction.
  10. My Life Without Me
    A weepie for audiences under the (mistaken) impression that independent movies are always more emotionally honest than Hollywood movies.
  11. The Legend of Tarzan
    The new Tarzan film, The Legend of Tarzan, plays as if a dog ate part of the script.
  12. Planes
    On just about every other level other than visuals, Planes is dry, dry, dry. There's no verbal wit, no standout vocal performances.
  13. Fifty Shades Freed
    By the end of Freed, Christian and Ana are no longer a rich man and his middle-class girlfriend, but two rich people telling the tale of how and why they got rich to each other. Doesn’t get more deviant than that.
  14. The Dirt
    Its own pointlessness may keep The Dirt from feeling like an actual affront to humanity, but that doesn't make it very good, either.
  15. Youth
    Though often beautiful, this is an emotionally paralyzed film about emotionally paralyzed people.
  16. Moana 2
    It’s so devoid of bangers or any remotely memorable tunes that there’s nothing to distract you from the movie’s lack of clear stakes, or meaningful drama, or antagonists with any personality.
  17. The Heart of Me
    O'Sullivan's movie could easily have been made 60 years ago. This is not intended as a compliment.
  18. Casa de los babys
    The cast…is first-rate, but each is given a single note to play.
  19. Stoker
    Wasikowska drabs herself down. Her body is undefined in dowdy clothes, her hair hangs limply. But her eyes usher you into her inner world, with its battle between girlish longing and the impatience to move on and be what she really is — whatever that might be. It’s a richer performance than the movie deserves.
  20. Son of God
    Their movie has its moments, to be sure, and the target evangelical audience may well respond enthusiastically, but, unless your own salvation is riding on it, the film is mostly a slog.
  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. Glass
    If Shyamalan is an original, his originality is in draining the life out of pop archetypes, twerpily annotating them, and presenting it all as a gift from on high.
  23. Snatched
    I’m not sure about Hawn. A youthful twitterer, she has developed an expressively croaky voice, but nothing about her reads “nervous, agoraphobic cat lady.” She’s no longer a jumpy clown — she doesn’t need the humiliation.
  24. The Company You Keep
    As a piece of suspense, it ain’t exactly "North by Northwest," or even "Three Days of the Condor"; the awkward attempts at chase scenes make it clear that Redford the actor, who has always given off a slightly lugubrious air, has lost a step or two physically.
  25. The Sacrament
    I found parts of The Sacrament more effective than anything else he’s done to date, as it’s probably the least genre of his movies. But don’t tell West that; I’m pretty sure he still thinks he’s made a horror flick.
  26. Mulholland Dr.
    Lynch needs to renew himself with an influx of the deep feeling he has for people, for outcasts, and lay off the cretins and hobgoblins and zombies for a while. Mulholland Drive is the product of David Lynch, Inc.
  27. Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland
    It was undoubtedly a great experience for everyone involved, and the show itself might have been a romp. But as a movie, Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show makes you think of the days in which troupes that didn’t deliver were run out of town, bullets pinging off their heels.
  28. The Informant!
    This is yet another of Soderbergh’s “exercises in style,” which means he has one big idea and sticks to it. He makes the space shallow and ugly (faces are bathed in orange) and adds groovy sixties titles and Marvin Hamlisch music.
  29. Rocketman
    In common with most recovery stories, Rocketman boils down to a fat lump of self-pity, but the music does leaven things.
  30. Elizabeth: The Golden Age
    An unholy mixture of the banal and the bombastic.
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