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For 7,779 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 6.3 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: 4,353 out of 7779
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7779
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7779
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  1. Populaire
    Candy-colored to a potentially cavity-causing degree, the film is a bubbly regurgitation of retrograde romantic comedy tropes and reactionary sexual politics.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Men in Black III
    More like an attempt to reenergize a franchise than rebottle the lightning that electrified the original.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Wrong
    It doesn't seem to have any pretensions beyond the regimented unveiling of a parade of odd occurrences, plodding along under the banner of absurdity.
  4. Snowden
    The film depicts Edward Snowden's ethical dilemmas in a political vacuum that disregards America's increasingly complex security threats.
  5. Hello Lonesome
    Hello Lonesome isn't really that much of a movie, but it has something that a number of more polished pictures in the same vein don't: human decency. Sadly, that's noteworthy.
  6. Lawless
    Lawless may be full of half-hearted overtures toward depth and emotional complexity, but the film's prestige sheen is mostly a sham; the real focus here is the irrepressible lure of bad behavior.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Kid-Thing
    Its main character's moral predicament with a woman inside a pit becomes a muddle of confused symbolism and trite psychoanalysis.
  8. Jobriath A.D.
    The film never explores the depths and nuances that could actually place Jobriath in conversation with figures who came after him, however reductively.
  9. Skin
    After a while, the film’s not-strictly-linear structure and handheld camerawork come to feel like self-conscious signs of “gritty” realism, attempts at masking a certain conventionality.
  10. A Hologram for the King
    Remarkably faithful, except in how it rather boldly transforms Dave Eggers's drama into a broad comedy.
  11. Happy Death Day
    Happy Death Day twists the inherent repetitiveness of slashers to its advantage by exaggerating it to an impossible degree.
  12. The High Note
    Everything here wraps up as tidily as it does in your average Hallmark Channel movie.
  13. Henry Johnson
    Ultimately, Henry Johnson’s cynical assertions about society and human nature are the only aspects that end up resonating, for better or worse.
  14. Vanishing Waves
    A scintillating sci-fi throwback, Vanishing Waves draws inspiration from Stanley Kubrick and Andrei Tarkovsky, among others, but without feeling plagiaristic.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    One Million Years B.C.
    One Million Years B.C. ends where the story of humanity begins: in a seemingly endless saga of strife and solidarity that resonates down to the present day.
  16. Eden
    As the plot progresses, the film appears increasingly adrift, discordantly sliding between farce, satire, and murder mystery.
  17. Penance
    The film is ultimately, and disappointingly, revealed to be a contraption that's less concerned with mental portraiture than with getting all of its expository ducks in a row.
  18. The Moving Creatures
    Caetano Gotardo's triptych of short tales features a sense of experimentation and poetic license mostly seen in European cinema.
  19. Jimmy P.
    Too often Jimmy P. seems to struggle in making its interesting ideas apparent, leaving them stranded beneath the dry surface of an otherwise ordinary procedural.
  20. Knives and Skin
    The film gets so lost in its affected idiosyncrasies that it stops probing any discernible human feelings.
  21. Jumanji: The Next Level
    For all the emphasis on video game characters who can be swapped out on a whim, it’s the players themselves who come across as the most thinly drawn and interchangeable beneath their avatars.
  22. Moana 2
    For a story that so prizes how far its heroine will go, Moana spends so much of this sequel stuck in a rut.
  23. Mean Girls
    If this Mean Girls thrives too much on its relationship to the original, more tribute with songs than independent adaptation, its enjoyability is also a testament to the original’s staying power, as well as to Fey’s decades-long faith in the recyclability of her own material.
  24. Somebody Up There Likes Me
    Bob Byington's perspective may be above it all, but that doesn't quite account for the shades of melancholy that pop up unexpectedly in lines of dialogue and in some of the performances.
  25. The Equalizer 3
    The overarching plot of the film is pretty boilerplate, but the fine details count for a lot.
  26. Hope Gap
    So many grandiose tactics portend a grander revelation than the film’s otherwise low-key three-hander delivers.
  27. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
    The film, still only clearing its throat, hints at a wellspring of emotional riches to come.
  28. Southbound
    Southbound is yet another contemporary horror film that belongs to seemingly every era but its own.
  29. The Finest Hours
    A square journey through choppy waters, it boasts a Greatest Generation nostalgia so thoroughgoing it might as well be called Boys Becoming Men.
  30. The Trust
    Throughout Alex and Benjamin Brewer's film, Nicolas Cage holds the screen with his distinct timing and expressive force of being.
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