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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. Kidnap
    This is a low-stakes, no-frills, point-A-to-point-B crime thriller, taking inspiration from every parent’s worst nightmare, and pretty much nothing else.
  2. Pacific Rim: Uprising
    Uprising’s script isn’t great at jokes or nuance or originality, but it’s pretty good at shuttling us from one set piece to the next. And when those set pieces are good — as is the case with an early Jaeger fight in Siberia, or the gee-whiz silliness of the climactic battle in Tokyo — it’s easy enough to overlook.
  3. Murder Mystery 2
    It’s a time-filler, not a time-waster. It’s a film of simple pleasures — but they are pleasures.
  4. The Brothers Grimsby
    Parts of The Brothers Grimsby are very funny.
  5. Hotel Transylvania 2
    Hotel Transylvania 2 is minor, to be sure, but given the comedian’s recent work, it still counts as a pleasant surprise.
  6. Brightburn
    Most of Brightburn belabors the obvious.
  7. The Belko Experiment
    The fundamental ironic juxtaposition — ultraviolence meets corporate banality — is a bludgeon that never feels fresh no matter how many times it’s driven into our aching skulls.
  8. Walking Tall
    The new film stars The Rock, but The Wood might be a better description of his performance.
  9. The King's Man
    The real sin of The King’s Man is its near-total lack of fun.
  10. Delivery Man
    Delivery Man feels more unformed, as if nobody’s bothered to give it that extra coat of slick Hollywood paint to cover up the patchwork beneath.
  11. The Center of the World
    The dance he (Wang) ended up with is on the wrong lap.
  12. It Runs in the Family
    Fred Schepisi, the great Australian director, had the thankless task of trying to turn Jesse Wigutow’s screenplay into something with a pulse, but his finesse is wasted on this steaming heap of dysfunctionalism.
  13. Next Goal Wins
    There are a few funny sequences . . . But the film is otherwise so sloppily assembled, and so lazy, that it frequently ends up feeling like an inadvertent parody of the underdog-sports genre it belongs to.
  14. Voyagers
    Voyagers, in keeping its focus where it does, feels like a waste not just because of how predictable its beats are, but because it ends just when it feels like it’s getting interesting.
  15. Funny Games (2008)
    Haneke’s assault on our fantasy lives is shallow, unimaginative, and glacially unengaged--a sucker punch without the redeeming passion of punk.
  16. Mortal Engines
    Like all good YA fantasy, it’s rooted in earnest adolescent anxieties, and dresses them up with the same level of earnestness.
  17. Into the Storm
    Into the Storm is at once one of the dumbest films you'll see this year and one of the scariest.
  18. We're the Millers
    The result is a loose conglomeration of jokes that never really holds together: Funny in parts, but overwhelmed by the bland emptiness where its protagonist should be.
  19. Hot Summer Nights
    As it cliff dives, unprompted, into reheated cocaine-nightmare territory done better by any number of 1990s ’70s nostalgia films before it, it not only ceases to be fun, but stops pretending it has any vision for where its lead characters should go.
  20. The Old Guard 2
    There’s a debilitating cheapness that keeps this picture from reaching its true potential. I have no idea what the budget was — for all I know, it could have been bigger than the original film’s — but it feels at times like we’re watching a mock-up of what a movie called The Old Guard 2 might look like.
  21. Forever Mine
    A noir written and directed by Paul Schrader that's so listless and numbing we need not wonder why it went directly to cable.
  22. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
    There’s enough going on to keep you watching — and, as I said, to keep fanboys wowed by the scale of the production and pretension. But most people will leave feeling drained and depressed, wondering how a studio can get away with withholding so much.
  23. This Is Where I Leave You
    Somewhere in this mess, there might be a very good movie.
  24. The Village
    The Village is a better movie (than Signs) --probably his best since "The Sixth Sense"--but it indulges Shyamalan's penchant for messianic uplift.
  25. Bloodshot
    At this point, what could have been a passably entertaining diversion, the kind of film best enjoyed overcoming a hangover or while folding laundry, falls flat on Diesel’s lips. He lacks the gravitas of delivery, disinterested in his lines even before he finishes saying them.
  26. Jobs
    The problem is that the film gets too wrapped up in the myth to tell an effective behind-the-scenes tale.
  27. Southland Tales
    Love it or laugh at it, you will gaze on Southland Tales with awe.
  28. America's Sweethearts
    Too eager to please to be truly dislikable, and Roberts and Cusack have a fine rapport.
  29. The Wendell Baker Story
    If you want proof that Will Ferrell is the most riotously funny straight man since Jack Benny, observe the way his utter sincerity (in the Ralph Bellamy role, as Wendell’s rival for Eva Mendes) lifts this two-ton piece of whimsy into the stratosphere.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Palmetto
    Palmetto is an unconvincing, paint-by-numbers pass at American noir by the usually ambitious German director Volker Schlondorff (The Tin Drum).
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