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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. 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.
  2. Polar
    If only the issue with Polar, Åkerlund’s fifth feature film, was merely shallowness. Polar is an execrable motion picture, a sad, lint-filled key bump scraped together from the bottom of the post-Tarantino ’90s exploitation baggie.
  3. Swept Away
    If you were expecting Ritchie to discover something in Madonna that no one else has, something like, say, acting talent, forget it.
  4. The Devil Inside
    It has been a long time since I've heard people - many people - distinctly yell, "Boo!" Usually they just growl or moan or hiss. They don't bother actually to articulate the word "Boo!" I second their statement. The ending reeks.
  5. Movie 43
    It's rare to see a piece of sh** that actually looks and sounds like a piece of sh**. It's kind of exciting!
  6. The Nutcracker
    Even if the film were well done, it would still be a travesty.
  7. 88 Minutes
    Forget Pacino; it’s all those red herrings that reek.
  8. The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)
    The movie is a reductio ad absurdum, a sick joke taken to extremes, beginning with a goof on the notion that horror movies inspire copycats and ending with a test to determine whether some people will watch anything.
  9. A Haunted House 2
    A Haunted House 2 is not a movie. It is a nervous breakdown.
  10. The Last Days of American Crime
    Even if it had been released at a less tense and tender time, this thing would go down like an oversized flaming lead balloon.
  11. 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?
  12. Left Behind
    Left Behind is biblical in its silliness.
  13. The Emoji Movie
    It is one of the darkest, most dismaying films I have ever seen, much less one ostensibly made for children.
  14. Some Kind Of Beautiful
    Look past its colorful, smooth surfaces and something corrosive emerges. And it’s not like the film isn’t aware of this. But it doesn’t really know what to do with it.
  15. Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo
    Beyond being tiresome, Intermezzo is just plain ugly, with seemingly little care given to the image — odd, perhaps, given that the film is so clearly and confrontationally about its own director’s gaze.
  16. Me You Madness
    All Me You Madness has to offer are poorly written rants, indifferently staged action, and ill-conceived comedy. In the end, it doesn’t even deliver on the madness.
  17. The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence)
    No. Nope. Uh-uh.
  18. Melania
    The gap between Melania’s insistently anodyne tone and what’s happened in the year since it was filmed can become downright vertiginous, especially when Melania intones observations about her immigrant journey and how “everyone should do what they can to protect our individual rights.”
  19. Way Past Cool
    It’s a magical little movie about a most unmagical subject.
  20. Take My Nose... Please!
    Early in the film, Margaret Cho nails both sides of the issue in her stand-up act, decrying plastic surgery as “brainwashing, mutilation, and manipulation of women.
  21. Most Likely to Murder
    Most Likely to Murder, a perfectly fine and forgettable story about a man who still has some growing up to do coming back to his childhood home, is not the worst or the best, merely the latest.
  22. Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
    It’s a lively, occasionally powerful history lesson, and an essential reclamation project.
  23. Sentinelle
    Sentinelle is an admirably swift, elegantly filmed spine-snapping action thriller with moments of surprising grace.
  24. Traveling Light
    The movie gathers force as it proceeds and delivers one final shock toward the end. It’s not a twist, exactly, but rather a development that makes you reconsider what you’ve just seen — suggesting that those who sometimes seem to care the least about the world are, secretly, the ones most overwhelmed by it.
  25. Once Within a Time
    Once Within a Time runs 52 minutes, and it’s so lovely, funny, and charming that it feels like 15. But when it’s over, you feel like you’ve seen the world.
  26. The Bricklayer
    The Bricklayer isn’t worth seeking out — it’s ideally stumbled onto on cable TV on a hungover Saturday afternoon, when there’s plenty of time to reflect on how little time a slumming Tim Blake Nelson, playing the director of the CIA, must have spent on set.
  27. The Painter
    Smith is a stunt coordinator and performer, a background that’s led to some great action fare in other contexts, but in this one, produces a mess of chopped-to-bits showdowns that sometimes seem to be missing coverage.
  28. Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron
    In this age of hyper-brand management where practically every celebrity doc requires direct sign-offs from the subject themselves, it’s striking to watch a document of a global cultural luminary being so nakedly human.
  29. The Ballad of Judas Priest
    While The Ballad of Judas Priest may not always feel complete, by centering the music, it excites our curiosity long after the credits roll.
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