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For 7,777 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: 4,351 out of 7777
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7777
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7777
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    • 54 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Redlegs
    Redlegs may be "raw," but it's meaningless. That's something Cassavetes would have never abided.
  2. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
    The expansion has the unintended and unfortunate effect of doing exactly the same thing to Alexander he accused his family of doing in the first place: marginalizing him.
  3. Captive State
    The film might have better performed if it consisted of more than a smattering of good but relatively isolated ideas.
  4. My Son
    The film seeks to elevate genre clichés by slowing down the speed with which they’re typically offered.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    Oblivion
    Absent of any sense of self-awareness, Oblivion seems only self-serious, a ponderous mess both misguided and unaware.
  6. The Girl
    Uses the perils of immigrating to this country without papers as a backdrop for a poor white American woman's bumpy path to enlightenment.
  7. The Boys in the Boat
    The film doesn’t break a single mold, and it doesn’t take long to realize that’s entirely the point.
  8. Greta
    Neil Jordan’s deft control of pace and tone elevates Greta past mere gimmickry, resulting in a comic thriller whose goofy humor only compounds its mastery of suspense.
  9. The Berlin File
    The film is a sporadically entertaining, modestly ambitious shoot 'em up that frequently succumbs to spelling out its subtext.
  10. Orphan: First Kill
    William Brent Bell’s film proves that not every horror concept has the potential to be franchised.
  11. A Little Help
    Michael J. Weithorn's direction underlined its understatement via self-consciously patient camerawork and a doleful score, all in order to further the mournful mood.
  12. Draft Day
    The cruelly obvious third act congeals the film as a wet-eyed monument to the Kevin Costner character's particular brand of American manliness, one that values gut instinct, it's implied, over cold and ruthless calculations.
  13. Camp X-Ray
    Peter Sattler's film feels quintessentially Sundance: an expensively mounted treatise on important issues that's terrified to dig in obsessively, yet so ramrod-stiff with indignation that it never comes anywhere near compelling entertainment.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Downtown 81
    This time capsule of bohemian New York distorts its representation of the city for reasons more loving than lazy.
  15. American Made Movie
    The documentary's refusal to challenge the comfort zones of its target audience is apparent throughout.
  16. Profile
    Timur Bekmambetov’s Screenlife film is more fluff piece than hard-hitting news story.
  17. Boogie
    The film’s characters hardly possess a sense of a history or an interior life to adequately convey racism’s psychic toll.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Cocaine Bear
    Cocaine Bear starts running on fumes almost immediately and peters out before the second brick of cocaine is even devoured.
  19. Evil Eye
    Evil Eye is a feast of timidly undeveloped raw material.
  20. The Magnificent Seven
    As passably entertaining as the film is, it never surrenders to the abandon of its action, and as such never feels like it shifts out of first gear.
  21. The Taste of Money
    For all the revelations about the way the rich operate, there's little juicy pleasure to be had in the proceedings.
  22. Sympathy for the Devil
    With copious scenes of Nicolas Cage going buck wild, it can hardly be faulted for failing to give audiences what they want.
  23. Echo Valley
    A story that might have been benefited by being allowed to breathe over a six-episode arc instead feels rushed and schematic rather than lived-in.
  24. Elizabeth Harvest
    Sebastian Gutierrez's film creates an incestuous atmosphere that's reminiscent of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe.
  25. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
    The glue holding it all together is the same that gave the earlier Hunger Games films an edge over its YA brethren: the steadfast portrayal of the cynicism and emotional neglect required to regard other human beings as numbers and meat that have to be placated to be useful.
  26. The Little Things
    John Lee Hancock’s The Little Things blends two modes of the serial killer film, both of which have been shepherded by David Fincher.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos
    Manages to be an entertaining and faithful expansion on the original material while being inconsequential to it.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    Tomorrow, When the War Began
    It's one thing to defer to archetypes, but Tomorrow is so full of stock types and clichés it makes "The Breakfast Club" look like "Nashville."
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Big Boys Gone Bananas!*
    The issue remains that this variety of faux-populism seems better suited to the soapbox than the silver screen.
  30. Flex Is Kings
    Putting aside the generic human interest, the film turns out to be shockingly deficient in its on-screen depiction of flexing.
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