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For 1,801 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 49% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 50% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Denial
Lowest review score: 0 From Paris with Love
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,004 out of 1801
  2. Mixed: 382 out of 1801
  3. Negative: 415 out of 1801
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  1. The Sonata
    A number of questions await anyone who lasts the full 88 minutes. What just happened? Was the suicidal composer a lunatic devil worshiper who planned for his daughter to follow in his footsteps? Will anyone else ever hear the sonata of the damned? Does anyone care?
  2. Being Frank
    Being Frank festers uncomfortably from start to finish.
  3. Lucky
    The film is awkward, the situations tenuous and underdeveloped, the pacing torturous as a slow drip from a leaking faucet, and the narrative just plods along, with the body count rising for no clear reason.
  4. The Woman in the Window
    There’s little weight, not much style and even less sense to the psychological terror The Woman in the Window attempts to inflict.
  5. 5 Star Day
    Five Star Day is a respectable and intelligent little film.
  6. Mojave
    Mojave is 93 minutes of gibberish with guns and phony literary pretentiousness about two thugs in a duel of weapons and words that goes nowhere fast.
  7. Darling Companion
    The movie is not about the dog. It's about the people who find love, settle their differences, and get their priorities straight while searching for him. Still, when all is said and done, the dog is the only thing you care about in Darling Companion.
  8. Bleeding Love
    Like just about everything else these days that passes itself off as a movie, Bleeding Love moves too slow for its own good and hobbles its way to an inconclusive and unsatisfactory ending.
  9. Gangster Squad
    The best thing about Gangster Squad is how they got the 1940s accoutrements right.
  10. Better Living Through Chemistry
    The end result of this stoned-cold picnic is both haphazardly successful and somewhat disappointing, but it’s worth seeing, thanks enormously to the tremendous charisma of Sam Rockwell.
  11. Dark Was the Night
    A creepy descent into madness called Dark Was the Night is better than most.
  12. The Good Heart
    One of the least likable characters (Cox) in recent memory--irascible, but with moments of real tenderness--he’s the reason this strange movie takes on a perverse charm that is uniquely its own.
  13. In the Blood
    Ms. Carano still has a lot to learn about acting, but she’s certainly the one you want around in case of a home invasion.
  14. 65
    65 is essentially a big-budget version of a simple, made-for-streaming creature feature, nothing more and nothing less.
  15. 13 Minutes
    Written and directed with an overload of talent by Lindsay Gossling, it rarely falters and leaves a viewer grateful for a whirlwind of character-driven suspense and humanity instead of the usual Hollywood cliches.
  16. The Goldfinch
    The Goldfinch arrives as one of the year’s deadliest disappointments.
    • 40 Metascore
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    Meg 2: The Trench
    It’s an odd and unfortunate shift for the sequel that leaves its action wanting, especially since it’s steeped in the genre of shark-based silliness.
  18. Leonie
    Leonie is a rich tapestry of cross-cultural revelations, released to the public at last, and a welcome addition to an otherwise dreary movie season.
  19. The Last Word
    Despite the presence of Shirley MacLaine, the moments of pleasure provided by The Last Word are far outnumbered by scenes of exaggerated, phony, sugary marzipan-like make believe.
  20. Phantom
    To be honest, I can rarely recall any film, on any subject, that made less sense.
  21. Wild Card
    A quirky re-boot of the old Burt Reynolds hashtag "Heat," this modest character vehicle for the lifeless, balding and incomprehensibly inarticulate Jason Statham is so bleak and moody it won’t be much of a lure to action fans.
  22. Petunia
    Petunia augurs more titillation than it delivers and only works occasionally.
  23. Outlaws and Angels
    No need to get worked up about Outlaws and Angels, a vile, nauseating and incomprehensible pile of saddles-and-spurs gibberish sane audiences will undoubtedly avoid at all costs.
  24. Homefront
    Statham and Franco, both well-known sleepwalkers on camera, seem more animated than usual. Suspend belief, and you’ll find Homefront predictable but entertaining.
  25. The Benefactor
    As a memorable work of cinema, it misses every important mark by a mile.
  26. Beneath Us
    This moronic parable inspired by Donald Trump’s treatment and attitude towards illegal immigrants is a disgrace, but so is almost everything else on the screen these days.
  27. Butter
    The film was shot in Louisiana, which looks nothing like Iowa. Nobody along the way seems to have a care in the world about cholesterol. And it's the first movie in history that makes Hugh Jackman look repulsive.
  28. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
    There is no way I would call this a good movie. But! I was indeed entertained the whole way through, and there were enough genuinely interesting scenes to almost make up for the incredibly clunky moments provided by a very wooden screenplay.
  29. Green Lantern
    Even as a prime example of rotten summer silliness, this is a paralyzing experience.
  30. Inhale
    Soberly and responsibly, a small but significant film called Inhale, starring the underrated, charismatic and terrifically accomplished Dermot Mulroney, has arrived without fanfare or big-budget ad campaigns to capture some well-deserved attention.
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