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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 3.4 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. Music
    Music is a bad movie, but I wish that were all it was. I can handle its poor pacing and stiff dialogue, but even doing research and writing an essay on the film’s problematic elements pre-release were not enough to prepare me for how harmful Music is to autistic people.
  2. The Misfits
    The Misfits, starring Pierce Brosnan and Nick Cannon, is airless, pointless and only passably made; an amalgamation of the most tired clichés of heist movies, executed in the emptiest way possible.
  3. Home Again
    The problem with director and writer Hallie Myers-Sheyer’s film is that it just blandly presents all of the expected cliches of the genre without anything really new or unique to say.
  4. Paint
    Paint is interested in the meme of the man. As the old proverb goes: A funny meme does not a feature film make.
  5. Despicable Me 4
    Despicable Me 4 loses focus like a golden retriever in a Petco plushie aisle, splitting characters into bottled subplots that can only be addressed in single-file order.
  6. The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature
    The Nut Job 2 actually contains some impressive animation, with photorealistic backgrounds and detailed fur dynamics on the characters, but that makes it an even bigger tragedy, since we know that untold hours were spent by artists in service of a product that even the least discerning child would find tired and useless.
  7. Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer
    It’s a shame, because the idea of a serial killer approaching his work with a kind of dutiful, world-weary professionalism is funny enough – maybe only comedy-sketch funny, but then again, The Shallow Tale produces a profound longing for the number of laughs that could sustain a five-minute sketch.
  8. Imaginary
    A horror movie so derivative that it becomes uniquely terrible.
  9. Churchill
    It’s difficult to think of a biopic that so thoroughly embarrasses its subject in the process of attempting to honor them the way Churchill does.
  10. Baywatch
    Baywatch is a tonal mess of epic proportions.
  11. Fantastic Machine
    The documentary—with the pretentious full title of And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine, after the British monarch whose coronation Georges Méliès staged and filmed—is a bad undergrad media studies paper, given shape and movement by directors Axel Danielson and Maximilien Van Aertryck.
  12. Kings
    It’s genre salad, and every ingredient is wilted at a moment in America where Kings’ historical makeup remains fresh.
  13. G20
    Before we get to its many faults, it’s worth noting G20 gets one part of its concept correct: casting Viola Davis as the President. Getting the vibes right when casting your President is the most important first step when making a film in this subgenre.
    • 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.
  15. America: The Motion Picture
    It is obnoxious, overlong, annoying and, above all, deeply unfunny.
  16. He's All That
    He’s All That is, yes, a nightmarish, joyless commentary on influencer-beholden adolescence told through the crutch of nostalgia and starring a charisma-less TikTok star, but it’s hard to know if one is merely an example of “Old Man Yells at Cloud” or if the teenagers of today are truly living in a Hell on Earth
  17. Blacklight
    Poor writing and direction suffocate Neeson so thoroughly that he can’t be charming, nor weathered, nor any other distinguishable feature; instead, the stalwart of old man action is just an expensive vessel for Williams’ half-baked ideology.
  18. Dashcam
    Rob Savage’s Dashcam is the equivalent of strapping a GoPro to a Republican edgelord’s dirty diaper and throwing it into a blender.
  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. Asking for It
    Asking for It is made with sloppy overconfidence, a stunning bluff of both style and substance.
  21. The Emoji Movie
    The Emoji Movie’s most insidious trait is its surface-level innocuousness.
    • 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.
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