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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. Jurassic World Rebirth
    Audiences may not have run out of enthusiasm for what the Jurassic Worlds are selling, or at least they haven’t yet, but the people tasked with making them sure are out of ideas.
  2. Seventh Son
    Seventh Son not only offers no new spin on its bland, by-the-numbers story, it also fails to deliver any generic pleasures; I’m not sure this movie could even keep a young child engaged.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Terminal Man
    Even George Segal gone bananas, courtesy of an out-of-whack computer in his head, chopping a lady and her waterbed into slow-motion streams of diluted blood that makes pretty patterns on white tiles, doesn't alleviate the excruciating boredom and intermittent nausea produced by The Terminal Man. [24 Jun 1974, p.59]
    • New York Magazine (Vulture)
  4. Venom: Let There Be Carnage
    It’s so obviously shaped by fan response that it feels like the movie equivalent of someone who went viral online and now can only repeat themselves to diminishing returns in an attempt to hawk merch while they can.
  5. Terminator Genisys
    It doesn’t jell, though, and the movie’s philosophical message is especially grating.
  6. Joker
    The downside to the performance is the downside to the movie: It’s one note played louder and louder.
  7. Taken 3
    Taken 3 is bad enough that it may just end it.
  8. Robin Hood
    A thoroughly incoherent movie salad.
  9. 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.
  10. The Anniversary Party
    A heavy dose of movie-colony narcissism posing as warts-and-all honesty.
  11. Butter
    Butter essentially eats its own premise, then proceeds to bludgeon us with unfunny, unoriginal political satire.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. Madame Web
    Even Johnson has her limits, and Madame Web, one of Sony’s attempts to build out its own Spider-Verse, blows so far past them that you can practically guess which scenes were shot last based on the degree to which its star has given up.
  15. Mortdecai
    In the end, we must lay the badness of Mortdecai at the feet of its star. I envy Depp’s capacity for self-amusement, but it’s a pity he’s so rich and enbubbled that no one dares say to say to him, “Er, Johnny ... this is, er, really very bad.”
  16. The Wood
    The people who made this movie have either seen too much mayhem -- or they haven't seen any.
  17. Music
    An old-fashioned piece of shameless hokum, Sia’s Music might be hilarious if it weren’t so offensive.
  18. Basic Instinct 2
    Stupefyingly lackluster.
  19. Sinister
    Sinister did something I thought would be impossible: It made this lifelong horror freak abhor horror movies.
  20. Victor Frankenstein
    A catastrophic miscalculation of a movie, Victor Frankenstein is a perfect example of a Hollywood revision that, in trying to outsmart an original, reveals what worked about said original in the first place.
  21. Turistas
    There's only one surgery scene, but it's the heart (and kidneys) of Turistas. The rest -- especially the incoherent action -- falls well below the mark set by the last Americans Abroad torture-porn picture, "Hostel."
  22. Tom & Jerry
    Tom and Jerry is so busy, so desperately unfunny, so clunkily cacophonous that it makes you long for the simple, brain-numbing charms of the one thing it pretty much refuses to give you: a Tom and Jerry cartoon.
  23. Machete Kills
    The carnage (with its computer-­generated splatter) is meant to be campy fun, but it’s so offhand that there’s less suspense than in an Austin Powers movie.
  24. Wish
    Unfortunately, Wish manages to be none of the things it wants to be. It is neither evocative enough of the past to work as a tribute, nor irreverent or inventive or just plain funny enough to justify its constant but half-hearted callouts. It’s the ultimate cop-out — a lifeless, uninspiring mess of bland brand management.
  25. Peppermint
    Peppermint has no surprises up its sleeve, and casting Jennifer Garner as the put-upon housewife turned gun-toting vigilante doesn’t change that. If anything, changing one element of the formula does more to expose its dullness than the same movie starring Liam Neeson.
  26. 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.
  27. Kill Me Three Times
    This twisty-turny film seems too enamored of its twisty-turniness to give us characters we can latch onto.
  28. A Haunted House 2
    A Haunted House 2 is not a movie. It is a nervous breakdown.
  29. 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.
  30. Pixels
    A movie like Pixels should be stupid and energetic, not stupid and lifeless.
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