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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. Friday the 13th
    You really have to screw it up to dishonor the memory of a movie as shitty as the original "Friday the 13th." Heads should roll.
  2. Annabelle
    Familiarity is not always a bad thing, though. "The Conjuring" breathed new life into old clichés; it showed that those creaking doors and possessed closets and white-robed figures still had the power to scare us. But that was a movie made with sensitivity and purpose. The blunt, lifeless Annabelle, on the other hand, sucks that life right back out.
  3. Evolution
    Began life as a standard sci-fi horror script before mutating into the unfunny mess it now is.
  4. True Story
    There’s only one good scene in True Story, though it’s the most flagrantly absurd.
  5. 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?
  6. All the Pretty Horses
    Most movies take a while to slip you into a stupor. All the Pretty Horses makes you groggy right away. Set in 1949, it's a lackadaisical series of vignettes apparently culled from a much longer movie that never made it to the screen. Be thankful for that.
  7. Rock the Kasbah
    The air of mourning might have worked as a counterpoint to the silliness if Mitch Glazer’s script had smart gags, but as one-liner after one-liner misses its mark, you begin to feel sorry for Murray, who’s really too old to be playing a guy who has a little daughter (not granddaughter) and likes to get kinky with Kate Hudson as a raucous, Dolly Parton–style hooker-businesswoman.
  8. Red Lights
    Veering between tonal and narrative extremes, it's the kind of film that makes you long for the grim pomposity of something like "Signs."
  9. Flight Risk
    It’s a mess of a movie, and no amount of threatening huffing and puffing on Wahlberg’s part can make it worthwhile.
  10. The Life Before Her Eyes
    In a vile-movie competition between Michael Haneke’s "Funny Games" and Vadim Perelman’s The Life Before Her Eyes, Haneke’s film would win--but only because he’s working so much harder to be noxious.
  11. Borderlands
    This movie feels like it’s been shredded to bits, stripped clean of personality and character and coherence, presumably in an effort to get it short enough to sneak in some additional screening times.
  12. Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
    Dr. Seuss's The Lorax [sic] isn't Seussian in spirit. It's shrill and campy and stuffed with superfluous characters.
  13. Rampage
    I’m not terribly convinced that the overtly campy version of this film would be any better, but I’m very certain that this one is bad.
  14. For Colored Girls
    He (Perry) has taken Shange's landmark poem cycle for seven African-American actresses, cut it up, and sewn its bloody entrails into a tawdry, masochistic soap opera that exponentially ups the "Precious" ante.
  15. Thunder Force
    Thunder Force doesn’t work as a comedy, but that’s because it doesn’t really work as a movie. There’s so little chemistry between McCarthy and Spencer, longtime real-life friends, that, rather than buddies, their characters often just come across as mildly surprised to find themselves in the same room.
  16. Speed Racer
    Orgy, hell: The film is like a nightmare in which you're trapped in an arcade with screens on all sides and no eyelids. Based on an elemental but happily streamlined Japanese cartoon (an anime precursor), it's an eyesore, a shambles, with incoherent action and ear-buckling dialogue.
  17. Entertainment
    Entertainment wears its contempt too arrogantly, fulsome in its emptiness.
  18. The Princess
    Its empty girl power aesthetic has the quality of an intrusive thought. Like something out of a time capsule cracked open too early, The Princess is an artifact of girlboss feminism that retains no resonance, but that’s also not distant enough to have curiosity value.
  19. Jurassic World Dominion
    It’s frantic yet lifeless, chaotic yet pro forma. A thorough lack of care emanates from the screen.
  20. Galveston
    The pitch-black and paper-thin Galveston not only fails to find a way to reinvent, or at least refresh, that old tired idea, it also piles a few more tired ideas on top of it.
  21. Antebellum
    Antebellum is ultimately a travesty of craft and filmmaking with a perspective that hollows out the Black experience in favor of wan horror.
  22. The Last Castle
    Plays out like "Cool Hand Luke" meets "Attica," and it's quite the silliest thing.
  23. 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.
  24. Captive
    You’re left with no real catharsis — religious or emotional. And without that, Captive winds up building to a big nothing.
  25. Gunpowder Milkshake
    The film’s humorlessness is off-putting; it is slick to the point of lacking texture. But the underlying problem is more fundamental. Gunpowder Milkshake is led by someone without the star power to carry it, surrounded as she might be by actresses far more interesting.
  26. Accidental Love
    It’s something of a catastrophe.
  27. The Hangover Part III
    Turgid, unfunny catastrophe.
  28. Kingsman: The Golden Circle
    Kingsman: The Golden Circle is the bloated, campy, thoroughly stupid sequel to the 2014 action thriller "Kingsman: The Secret Service."
  29. Ravenous
    Don't go to this movie on a full stomach. Better yet, don't go.
  30. Artemis Fowl
    The movie is so charmless and hopelessly incoherent that you might feel the need to consult Wikipedia afterward for some help on what it was even about.
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