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For 7,765 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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: 4,342 out of 7765
  2. Mixed: 1,490 out of 7765
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7765
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  1. Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D)
    The film doesn’t totally succeed in capturing the show’s scope or thematic through line.
  2. Over Your Dead Body
    Once it turns into a home-invasion thriller, the film becomes more sadistic than hilarious.
  3. Power Ballad
    Like the fraught relationship between its two musician characters, the film never finds the right groove.
  4. Faces of Death
    For a film that’s so well versed not only in the genre but in its tendencies to recreate and recycle itself, it’s disappointing to see Faces of Death do so in such slavish fashion.
    • 50 Metascore
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    They Will Kill You
    This is a film that’s content to imitate its influences rather than build an identity of its own.
  6. Late Shift
    For all its empathy, Late Shift upholds the dubious virtue of self-sacrifice that underpins the Protestant work ethic.
  7. Hoppers
    It falls well short of providing any satisfying exploration of its weighty theme of persuasion versus violence in the face of oppression.
  8. Dolly
    One senses that Rod Blackhurst knows that Dolly is undernourished, but his attempts to jazz it up by splitting it into transparently titled chapters only calls further attention to that dearth of imagination.
  9. Crime 101
    Like Mike’s modus operandi as a criminal, the film goes through all the pro forma motions.
  10. Wuthering Heights
    Like a particularly impressive aspic, Wuthering Heights is tantalizing to behold but not so easy to swallow.
  11. I Want Your Sex
    The film gets too caught up in concern trolling about the sexual timidity of today’s youth.
  12. The Moment
    Farce and sincerity make more odd bedfellows across Aidan Zamiri’s meta mockumentary about Brat Summer.
  13. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
    The Bone Temple doesn’t pack the moment-to-moment kineticism of the prior films.
  14. Greenland 2: Migration
    Greenland 2 plays out as a much more generic thriller than its predecessor.
  15. Primate
    If only the filmmakers had put the same care and thought into their human characters, then Primate might have been worth going apeshit over.
  16. We Bury the Dead
    There’s a thoughtful zombie tale with its own distinctive personality lurking somewhere within We Bury the Dead, but it’s overridden by the film’s more generic elements, and that identity ultimately gets lost among the horde.
  17. Anaconda
    Regrettably, the one star of Anaconda that gets the shortest shrift is the most important one: the snake.
  18. Avatar: Fire and Ash
    The crystal clarity of Russell Carpenter’s cinematography is often unnerving, as is the uncanny nature of Pandora’s computer-generated flora and fauna, which never truly seem alive and vital.
  19. Song Sung Blue
    Song Sung Blue is content to pendulum-swing from triumph to tragedy and back again with all the self-control of a drunk driver.
  20. The Voice of Hind Rajab
    Watching actors interact with an authentic recording of a child on the brink of death is less an invitation to audiences to wrestle with the horrors of war and more with the ethics of the film’s creative choices.
  21. Ella McCay
    The optimism that Ella preserves as she takes life one day at a time is compelling enough that it’s hard to get too mad about how shallow the world around her can seem.
  22. Scarlet
    On paper, anime master Hosoda Mamoru’s Scarlet sounds positively electrifying.
  23. WTO/99
    WTO/99 sets out to correct misrepresentation by corporate media about the aims of the movement, but that attempt is hampered by the recycling of much of the same news footage from news broadcasts.
  24. 100 Nights of Hero
    The film’s brand of feminism is as skin-deep as the narrative.
  25. Eternity
    The film is very old-fashioned in its thinking and approach to fantastical romance, despite some occasional, vague allusions to the fact that it is, still, a 2025 film.
  26. A Magnificent Life
    Sylvain Chomet provides only a scant sense of Marcel Pagnol’s creative inklings, such as the ideas and themes that fuel the films that he fights so vehemently to make.
  27. The Running Man
    In flinching at the end, The Running Man ultimately becomes akin to the very thing it criticizes: a hollow, mollifying image of empowerment that distracts from the logical conclusions of its nihilistic premise.
  28. Christy
    Christy lulls us into complacency by deviating little from the standard inspirational sports-movie playbook.
  29. Ballad of a Small Player
    The film’s ambivalent perspective on the greed and glitz of its protagonist’s world makes it difficult to invest much care in what happens to him.
  30. Hamnet
    Though Hamnet is concerned with bottomless grief and the unique power of art to express the inexpressible, it can’t help but telegraph its themes loudly and incessantly, its emotional register off-puttingly monotonous.
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