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For 3,744 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.8 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 10 The Emoji Movie
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,455 out of 3744
  2. Mixed: 1,188 out of 3744
  3. Negative: 101 out of 3744
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  1. 31
    Zombie’s filmmaking career began with inventive pop videos for his band White Zombie and he can still frame an interesting shot or layer in an unusual and affecting snatch of music, but after six features he still can’t come up with a fresh story, write characters with more depth than their make-up or direct stalking scenes that are suspenseful or moments of gory violence that are shocking.
  2. The Desperate Hour
    Directed with brisk efficiency by Philip Noyce, the mix of adrenaline-rush emotion, manipulative melodrama and moralising is surprisingly entertaining in the moment.
  3. Kraven the Hunter
    Kraven The Hunter is, by far, the most graphic and violent of the Spider-Man Universe pictures, but that extra bloodshed does little to quicken the pulse.
  4. Scream 7
    Despite the occasional cheeky moment and brutal slaying, a property that once satirised horror cliches has largely succumbed to them.
  5. Self/less
    There are enough twists and turns in Self/less to keep things interesting
  6. The Assignment
    This is a film which doesn’t take itself very seriously, and it will work best with an audience which takes the same approach.
  7. Keeping Up with the Joneses
    Keeping Up with the Joneses may have twice the talent of other outings in the spy-couple sub-genre...but its laugh quotient is pretty low. And that’s a real problem for a romantic action comedy that’s always going more for humour, with a touch of sweet-natured romance, than thrills.
  8. The Dark Tower
    Idris Elba makes for a dashing, haunted gunslinger assigned to safeguard the universe, but whether it’s Matthew McConaughey’s hammy turn as an all-powerful villain or the generic effects work, The Dark Tower proves to be a movie filled with faint ambitions and an even weaker pulse.
  9. The Last Witch Hunter
    Like its star, The Last Witch Hunter is big, overblown and frequently incomprehensible.
  10. Sleepless
    Swiss director Baran bo Odar leans heavily on bone-crunching sound design and a percussive score which rumbles over the film like a pursuing helicopter.
  11. Get Hard
    A raunchy yet slack-feeling comedy that seems to put as much effort into playing on racial stereotypes as playing for laughs.
  12. Brain on Fire
    This is a downbeat slog of a film which tells a not particularly involving story.
  13. Vanguard
    More of branding exercise than a fully fledged star vehicle, this fast moving but instantly forgettable adventure allows Chan to participate in the set pieces while ceding the really strenuous activity to his up-and-coming co-stars.
  14. Thunder Force
    Good-natured, soft-hearted, a little lazy, and propelledby the relentless charisma of Melissa McCarthy when all else fails, this Netflix production makes for cozy pandemic at-home viewing with scant thrills but a couple of genuinely funny moments.
  15. Red One
    In the fun but strained Red One, director Jake Kasdan serves up an effects-heavy action comedy with a disarming sweetness that is undone by an overly complicated plot and some tired blockbuster conventions.
  16. Alice Through the Looking Glass
    A parade of gaudy CGI and strained whimsy, Alice Through The Looking Glass proves even more manic and grating than its 2010 predecessor.
  17. Kings
    Story strands feel half developed; pacing seems erratic.
  18. Zoolander 2
    The stakes are higher, the action is bigger, the ambitions are grander, the jokes are appreciably less funny. Like many comedy sequels, Zoolander 2 supersizes everything in such a way that it’s that much more apparent how few of the jokes are connecting.
  19. Ice Age: Collision Course
    Collision Course is a colourful 3D romp that’s heavy on slapstick and cosy family comedy but light on real laughs and affecting drama.
  20. Point Break
    Core’s incarnation of Point Break is about one thing, extreme sports, and it is no small relief that the film at least handles those sequences well.
  21. The Mummy
    Everything about The Mummy strains solely towards setting up a franchise in a world which only makes sense to its writers.
  22. Love Hurts
    The perfunctory martial-arts sequences and convoluted plotting conspire to make this a painfully uninspired proposition.
  23. Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
    A strangely lacklustre, unconvincing attempt to tell the story of the Heineken kidnapping.
  24. The Divergent Series: Allegiant
    Long, shiny, and treading a lot of water.
  25. Elisa & Marcela
    Deep down this is a conventional and predictably plotted period drama about a clash between bodice-ripping passion and social mores.
  26. The Only Living Boy in New York
    The whole endeavour ends up feeling fussy and clever rather than incisive and nuanced — especially when a late twist seriously jeopardises plausibility.
  27. Five Nights at Freddy's
    Unfortunately, this adaptation of the popular 2014 video game fails at delivering scares or cheeky laughs, resulting in a tedious experience that relies heavily on horror’s most cliched tropes.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Colonia
    The victims of notorious Chilean torture camp Colonia Dignidad suffered more than enough without Colonia adding insult to injury.
  29. Fifty Shades Darker
    Sometimes sexy, sometimes campy, Fifty Shades Darker is a smorgasbord of silliness, its dopey pleasures indistinguishable from its many awkwardly melodramatic moments.
  30. The 5th Wave
    Like many films designed to double as opening chapters in ongoing screen sagas, The Fifth Wave always feels padded, its focus on establishing a springboard for future sequels rather than satisfactorily exploring its own narrative.
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