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For 7,767 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 33% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 64% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 59
Highest review score: 100 Mulholland Dr.
Lowest review score: 0 Jojo Rabbit
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,344 out of 7767
  2. Mixed: 1,490 out of 7767
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7767
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  1. One Spoon of Chocolate
    The slower it moves, the more obvious One Spoon of Chocolate’s deficiencies become.
  2. Two Pianos
    Arnaud Desplechin’s film only flirts with questions about the sacrifices made for art.
  3. Michael
    The film turns the realities of a tragic, deeply complicated life into a sanitized popcorn film.
  4. Lee Cronin's The Mummy
    In lieu of any competently developed drama, we get a blitzkrieg of scares and gooey body horror that can best be described as arbitrary.
  5. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
    The film has, figuratively and literally, somehow even less gravity than its source material and predecessor. The visual language is divorced from reality and referent to the games; even Looney Tunes action is grounded in the real world—the better to subvert it.
  6. Reminders of Him
    Vanessa Caswill’s film feels reverse engineered to maximize emotional impact.
  7. In the Blink of an Eye
    In the Blink of an Eye feels less like a film than a commercial for life insurance that got out of hand, or perhaps more accurately one for the kind of hollow Silicon Valley tech optimism that has been thoroughly exposed as a sham by now.
  8. This Is Not a Test
    The film struggles to bring its non-zombie characters to life.
  9. Rosebush Pruning
    Only cheap shock value can be gleaned from the film’s cavalcade of blood, semen, animal carcasses, dick pics, and erotic toothbrushing.
  10. The Strangers: Chapter 3
    It’s easy to imagine the nihilistic avenues that Renny Harlin’s trilogy capper could have gone down.
  11. Jimpa
    Jimpa’s exploration of non-binary identity ultimately proves superficial.
  12. Dracula
    Not even a typically scenery-chewing Christoph Waltz can enliven the proceedings.
  13. Return to Silent Hill
    Christophe Gans’s film does away with all the psychosexual nuance of Silent Hill 2.
  14. Night Patrol
    Ryan Prows’s film comes across as just straight-up exploitative.
  15. My Neighbor Adolf
    The film at once wrings this premise for whimsical absurdism and slow-burn suspense, on each side vulgarizing the memory of the Holocaust.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Housemaid
    The Housemaid’s twist is a doozy, but it falls just short of being a deconstruction of tradwife values.
  17. I Only Rest in the Storm
    Whatever the post-colonial lessons are, I Only Rest in the Storm’s characters articulate them too evidently, as if preemptively justifying the making of a film in or about “Africa” on the condition that the white man’s presence is relentlessly denounced.
  18. Dust Bunny
    The film’s writing is the sort that begs you to find it cute and quirky, which makes it quite grating if you don’t.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Keeper
    Osgood Perkins mistakes abstruseness for surrealism, and an oppressive atmosphere for palpable tension.
  20. The Carpenter's Son
    The Carpenter’s Son fails to even offer decent frights, unless one finds the preponderance of CGI snakes particularly scary.
  21. Now You See Me: Now You Don't
    The third film in the series reliably delivers on the promise of both flamboyant showmanship and a steadfast refusal to adhere to more than just the rules of physics.
  22. Anniversary
    This is an overtly political film that’s hesitant to express its own political views.
  23. Regretting You
    The decision to have Allison Williams and Dave Franco, both in their late 30s when the film was shot, play their characters as teens may be the most egregious example of Regretting You’s indifference to verisimilitude.
  24. The Choral
    This is a historical drama with a handsome enough period setting and a couple of pleasant musical moments but whose roteness keeps it from resonating.
  25. TRON: Ares
    For a story that seeks to champion the unpredictability and finite quality of life, Ares ultimately feels trapped by the inertia of working within the parameters set by its no less flimsy predecessors.
  26. Resurrection
    At times, Resurrection seems to outright taunt viewers for trying to make sense of it all.
  27. Play Dirty
    Shane Black’s film plays like a misguided action extravaganza from the 1980s.
  28. Bone Lake
    The horror here proves as much a dead end as the main characters’ relationship.
  29. The Strangers: Chapter 2
    Mostly notable for its distracting resemblance to Rick Rosenthal’s Halloween II, Chapter 2 suggests for a while a needlessly extended epilogue to the first film.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
    The film cloyingly asks us to embrace the sincerity of its impersonal romance.
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