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For 2,243 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 60% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 37% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Young Frankenstein
Lowest review score: 7 Reagan
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,591 out of 2243
  2. Mixed: 515 out of 2243
  3. Negative: 137 out of 2243
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  1. The Snowman
    The real problem with The Snowman is that no one involved seems to understand how movies work. There is no setup, no character development, no suspense, no mystery, no suspects, no payoff.
  2. Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
    Unfortunately, Norwegian director Tommy Wirkola’s Hansel & Gretel is just another entry in Bland Fairy Tale Theater, a shapeless riff on those hapless German siblings with the worst parents ever.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 7 Critic Score
    Reagan
    It fancies itself to be a likeness of reality but is simultaneously unapologetic about mythologizing its central figure, obfuscating Reagan’s sins along the way and refusing any narrative that doesn’t paint him as the Christian, capitalist savior of the family unit.
  4. Vanquish
    Imagine spending an hour and a half or so watching a film that, the minute the credits roll, dissolves from the mind like cotton candy in hot water. That’s Vanquish. Nothing that happens throughout its narrative happens for any good reason, other than the plot dictates it must for the sake of limping to the next scene.
  5. Children of the Corn
    Kurt Wimmer’s newfangled Children of the Corn is a rotten husk of a Stephen King adaptation.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 39 Critic Score
    The Gracefield Incident
    The thrills become rather predictable.
  7. The Clapper
    The Clapper is just so boring and corny that all the audience can do is either feel bad for Helms or disingenuously applaud his unsuccessful efforts, mimicking his character’s chosen vocation.
  8. Life Itself
    The movie is a shameless, relentless wreck.
  9. Asking for It
    Asking for It is made with sloppy overconfidence, a stunning bluff of both style and substance.
  10. Playdate
    No one escapes from this mess looking good, although to his credit, Ritchson is at least giving it a titanic effort.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 18 Critic Score
    On a Wing and a Prayer
    This is the film: Constantly rendered emotionless by decision-making both numbingly predictable and entirely inexplicable.
  12. The Emoji Movie
    The Emoji Movie’s most insidious trait is its surface-level innocuousness.
  13. Blame!
    The film is a visual gem, each set piece rendered with an impeccable level of polish and attention that does justice to Nihei’s penchant skill for depicting monolithic dimensions.
  14. I Love You Both
    I Love You Both perhaps would have been best imagined as a short, but it makes for a breezy watch.
  15. Genocidal Organ
    Throughout its near two-hour runtime, the film broaches many weighty subjects.... And to its credit, Genocidal Organ manages to juggle all of these hefty concepts rather capably.
  16. I Am Evidence
    The film is intense, making for one of the sniffliest audiences in which I’ve ever been included, so viewer discretion is certainly advised. But with that kind of emotional power too comes the intellectual and statistical weight we need to enact change.
  17. The Vatican Deception
    It is far enough to one end of the docu-spectrum that it shares a border with “advertorial,” though I think it would be mean-spirited and beside the point to call it propagandistic. It seeks to educate. It doesn’t do a very thorough job of it.
  18. City of Joy
    City of Joy is a piercing little film, by turns appalling and uplifting, that manages to go straight to the heart of a complex issue and contend with it eloquently, bravely, and concisely.
  19. High Voltage
    Despite the rarified standard of living in the film industry, I think it’s safe to say that superior intelligence has not taken possession yet. But something has. And somewhere in Heaven, Ed Wood is gazing down and going, “Dang.”
  20. Modest Heroes: Ponoc Short Films Theatre, Volume 1
    Modest Heroes is a satisfying sophomore effort from Studio Ponoc, a collection of shorts that, together, resonate with the sentiment of that most joyous and courageous of adages made famous by the likes of Rod Serling: “...there’s nothing mightier than the meek.”
  21. Stay Out of the Attic
    Despite (or perhaps due to) having four writers contributing to the script, Stay Out of the Attic is disjointed and incongruous, with thematic ties to twin experimentation, eugenic science and the medicinal properties of the optic nerve that never connect to reveal anything substantial.
  22. Miracle Fishing: Kidnapped Abroad
    After a rocky start, Miracle Fishing is a gripping journey featuring one of the first great documentary moments of the year.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    Golden Arm
    The funny and worthwhile film, directed by Maureen Bharoocha, is a centralization of both female friendship and the glory of arm wrestling that contains the witty repartee and quarter-life crisis meditations of fellow indie comedies like Save Yourselves! and The Boy Downstairs.
  24. Deliver Us from Evil
    Deliver Us From Evil’s sweaty thrills might be derivative, but they’re far from dead on arrival.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal The Movie
    The two-part film will satisfy fans old and new, bringing an added depth to the guardians’ sisterhood that reminds us of how insecurities lurk in even the most powerful of people. It’s nothing the power of friendship can’t fix.
  26. Revolution Rent
    This revolution may be televised, but aside from the rawness that too rarely brings it near its potential revolt, it’s an underwritten rerun.
  27. Silat Warriors: Deed of Death
    True to its genre-defining premise, the Malay actioner doesn’t break much ground during its lackadaisical story of an in-over-his-head gambler attempting to make good, but Bakar shoots it with enough inconsistent, eclectic energy that it’s occasionally more watchable than its ideas deserve.
  28. A Classic Horror Story
    Despite a visual slickness coupled with certain scenes of striking brutality, A Classic Horror Story circles the blood-drenched drain of horror callbacks with little payoff when it comes to making an organic observation.
  29. What We Left Unfinished
    Clocking in at barely over an hour, What We Left Unfinished feels a bit unfinished itself, and its compelling premise will leave history buffs, media scholars and those simply looking for a good yarn about lost art wanting far more.
  30. Bleed with Me
    The small cast, capsule setting and slow-burning yet scintillating story are efficacious in their sparse simplicity, leaving ample room for carefully crafted ambiance and performances to arrest the viewer with mounting dread and anticipation.
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