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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. Down to Earth
    If Rock ever comes to his senses, he can host Saturday Night Live and skewer this damp, gag-riddled civics lesson of a movie.
  2. Paranoia
    Now it feels almost quaint, like a throwback. You watch it and, despite all the au courant techno geekery on display, you feel like you’ve stepped into a time capsule. It’s a nice feeling at first. If only the movie were better.
  3. Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
    The gags are mostly puerile and uninspired — like the film was dreamed up by a bunch of tired, wired 13-year-olds; it has their insistence but little of their invention.
  4. Independence Day: Resurgence
    This hodgepodge has been thrown together in so slovenly a way that it’s no surprise the studio didn’t show it to the press.
  5. Masked and Anonymous
    Here’s a good rule of thumb: Any movie featuring a quote in its ad from the poet laureate of Great Britain—“Deeply engaging!” -- is in trouble.
  6. Cats
    There is something magical about the simple fact that this movie exists, in all its obscene, absurd wonder, its terrible filmmaking choices and bursts of jaw-dropping talent. It doesn’t need to be timely to be an artifact of its time — a movie about nothing but song and dance and, most important of all, about cats.
  7. Sinister 2
    Sinister 2 is far from perfect, but it has a nobility that’s rare in much modern horror cinema.
  8. Swordfish
    Another in a long line of middling movies for Travolta, who must have been so stunned to regain his stardom with "Pulp Fiction" that he hasn't stopped working since.
  9. Firestarter
    Perhaps what’s most dispiriting about this Firestarter is how visually impoverished it is.
  10. Robin Hood
    A thoroughly incoherent movie salad.
  11. Alex & Emma
    Life imitates art, except there’s precious little of either here.
  12. 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.
  13. The Transporter Refueled
    Stupid, stupid, stupid — and it certainly knows it. You might even chuckle contentedly at its knowing silliness — that’s sort of what this low-rent franchise is here for — but you’ll also miss Jason Statham, whose deadpan self-awareness somehow legitimized the ridiculousness of the previous films.
  14. Wish Upon
    A deeply silly midsummer lark that makes up for the fact that it’s about nothing by being incredibly entertaining.
  15. Saint John of Las Vegas
    The film turns into one of those indie parades of eccentrics that are hit-and-miss but mostly miss.
  16. Showtime
    Eddie Murphy and Robert De Niro have made any number of lame movies on their own, but there's a special wastefulness connected to their first co-starring vehicle, Showtime: It's lameness times two, and then some.
  17. Charlie Countryman
    However you cut it, with all that talent, Charlie Countryman feels like a sad, wasted opportunity.
  18. Tyler Perry's The Single Moms Club
    The problem here isn’t the writer-director’s politics, but his stifling lack of imagination, his complete refusal to even attempt narrative dexterity.
  19. 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.
  20. Rebel Moon Part 1: A Child of Fire
    Crumbling under the weight of its own visionary grandiosity, Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon is a series of amazing-looking sets and costumes and effects looking for a story, characters, emotion — really, anything that might raise the pulse.
  21. The Lazarus Effect
    Sort of a Flatliners for the sensitive indie-actor set, The Lazarus Effect is a grimy, dopey, confused thriller that wastes a very likable cast.
  22. Smurfs
    It’s when the music stops and the movie is forced to contend with the mishmash of recycled elements it’s trying to use as a plot that it really flounders.
  23. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
    Largely indistinguishable from any number of bloated superhero spectacles that have already graced our screens. Your kids may not mind it, but it’s more insistent than it is fun.
  24. This Means War
    The gut-whomping, high-concept romantic thriller This Means War is not a distinguished addition to director McG's oeuvre.
  25. That's My Boy
    The results are soul-corrodingly funny.
  26. Death Wish
    Death Wish is a classier version of what you can find on cable in the wee hours — it’s not worth seeing in the theater — but it’s worth pausing over its politics of guns.
  27. Hellboy
    It’s inert where it should be fast, and cluttered and choppy where it should be rousing. Which is a shame, because Hellboy, as conceived, is one of the more interesting comic book heroes we have. He deserves better than this.
  28. An American Affair
    The reason to see An American Affair is Gretchen Mol. She has a mild, natural way of holding herself that's likably unactressy--in every film, she seems both smart and grounded.
  29. Hounddog
    Fanning is a child actor with a grown-up soul, and every move, every breath, seems mysteriously right.
  30. Red Dawn
    Love it or hate it, Milius's original Red Dawn looks like an Akira Kurosawa masterpiece next to this latest iteration, directed by Dan Bradley.
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