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For 7,558 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 0.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Ghost Elephants
Lowest review score: 0 Buddy Games: Spring Awakening
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7558 movie reviews
  1. Despite its many perils, both natural and human, The Ice Road is surprisingly dull.
  2. Even with an embarrassingly rich cast, The Estate chokes on its own airlessness.
  3. Love, Guaranteed is the kind of movie you leave on the TV because you’re lying on the couch with a cold, and the remote control has fallen off the blanket onto the rug, and you don’t feel like going to the trouble to reach down, grab it and change the channel.
  4. Despite claiming otherwise in its marketing, this doc still wants to uphold her as the rock n’ roll goddess of the headlines rather than as a person on her own terms.
  5. At times, “Alpha” plays like a Cronenbergian after-school special, in which the visual metaphors are overplayed, and the drama is broadly sketched to teach a moral lesson.
  6. From the beginning, Cut Bank isn’t just tonally inconsistent, it doesn’t really have one. It’s flat. There’s no sense of rhythm, tension, or atmosphere.
  7. Meet Me in the Bathroom is an impressionistic blur, more about what it felt like to be at the head of a scene than the actual scene’s character or identity.
  8. Wait for this to show up where it belongs — on cable.
  9. If nothing else, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reminds us that nostalgia is often used as a mandate for spectacularly lazy filmmaking.
  10. There are, to be sure, moments of shock. But they offer very little awe.
  11. The idea of remaking "Point Break" was not necessarily a bad idea, I suppose, but whatever charms that film might have had, they are utterly lost on the people behind this embarrassment.
  12. If you squint you can nearly see the kind of movie Gutto might be aiming for.
  13. Anna was written and directed by Besson himself and it still feels like a misfired rehash of his greatest hits.
  14. Killers Anonymous just doesn't make sense as a throwback to MTV-friendly sensibilities. It's also not inventive, funny, or energetic enough to warrant its creators' vague ideas about deceiving looks, moral relativism, and, uh, girl power?
  15. Destined to fade into obscurity in the presence of the other two films about Reality Winner, Fogel’s version should at least indicate to other filmmakers that they must leave this story alone and move on to other preoccupations.
  16. It’s like a surreal, extreme version of “Bad Moms.”
  17. Jeanne du Barry cares more about the love affair between two non-distinct people wearing exquisite clothes in stunning rooms than the reality that would sweep away those rooms, those clothes, and those people in just a few years' time.
  18. Alternately idiotic and boring horror thriller.
  19. In the end, there's a distinct air of solipsism to this tale.
  20. The main goal of Port Authority is the simple but unfortunately necessary message that “hey, trans people are people, too!” It’s too bad this film isn’t really about them.
  21. It doesn’t help that neither Yeoh nor Thompson play a character that remotely resembles real people in a film that only brushes over the anxieties of immigrants in the still-early days of Brexit.
  22. Its uneven, heavy-handed approach to breakups and bad exes may quench some urge for revenge, but our main character’s heart isn’t in it.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    In spite of some compelling performances and a consistent mood, the film fails to ground any of these aesthetic flourishes in story or emotion.
  23. Sthers has amassed such a strong cast of veteran actors that they manage to create some resonant moments now and again.
  24. Unfortunately, the craftsmanship is lacking.
  25. The timing of Oslo is less than ideal, current events being what they are. The framing, too, is blinkered and naïve.
  26. Had the filmmakers put forth the effort to view the story through Jamal’s eyes, they may have had a worthy cinematic counterpart to their noble off-camera achievements.
  27. The action/competition scenes have some dynamism, but the overall look of the film is unimaginative.
  28. There is not a single original idea in All Day and A Night. Not one solitary surprise is to be had here.
  29. Perhaps with less questions left unanswered, “Drift” would permit a more sympathetic lead, but the flatness and flippance of its context leaves everything on the surface.

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