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For 7,776 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: 4,350 out of 7776
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7776
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7776
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  1. Five Feet Apart
    In the film, hardly any fact about cystic fibrosis is raised without being doubly, even triply, underlined for viewers.
  2. Deep Water
    After a dangerous, even personal, first half, Deep Water becomes crude in all the wrong ways.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    High Tech, Low Life
    As far as its subject matter goes, the documentary only scratches the surfaces, only reaffirming the simple idea that Internet censorship in China is prevalent and unfair.
  4. [REC] 4: Apocalypse
    Whatever scant insight the prior films offered into Spain's waning Catholic belief has now been entirely replaced by fascist, cartoonish shows of wish-fulfillment prevarication.
  5. Pokémon Detective Pikachu
    At the very least, Ryan Reynolds’s casting perfectly splits the difference between the adorable and the absurd.
  6. Rid of Me
    At once hopelessly amateurish and given to desperate assertions of auterist "virtuosity."
  7. The Quarry
    Only Michel Shannon’s off-kilter timing brings The Quarry to sporadic life.
  8. Jig
    Jig doesn't twist itself into the self-important, exploitative think piece on youth ambition that Spellbound was, but it does convincingly suggest that its subjects are in it for more than sport.
  9. Bridgend
    The film, with its dark-blue-hued cinematography and murky music, is all foreboding atmosphere.
  10. Earth to Echo
    The constant foregrounding of so much well-executed incident only works to shortchange the heroes' yearnings and anxieties.
  11. Demons
    Demons is a coffee-table book of a horror movie, reveling in a purity of transcendent revulsion that marks it as something that’s really only suitable for the truest and most devoted of aficionados. It’s a snob’s objet d’art, disguised as a blood offering.
  12. Big Game
    The rambling conversations and endless wandering through nature could let the film pass for a filler episode of Lost.
  13. Samba
    Even as Samba struggles to hold onto his identity, the film becomes entangled in an identity crisis of its own.
  14. Viceroy's House
    The only thing that offsets the film's self-negating revisionism are the scenes involving Gillian Anderson vicereine.
  15. Body at Brighton Rock
    Appearing to recognize the flimsiness of her material, Roxanne Benjamin overcompensates with insistent direction.
  16. Malcolm & Marie
    Expending so much energy anticipating our avenues of interpretation, Malcolm & Marie leaves us with little to interpret.
  17. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
    It does astounding work animating the mind of its young soldier, but it runs into technical difficulties whenever it tries to grasp the bigger picture.
  18. The Awakening
    The film takes pains to ensure that the story feel like laborious toil rather than a trip through the dark side of the ethereal.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Approaching the Unknown
    The film fails to lay down the character foundation that might have elevated the third-act histrionics.
  20. Luther: The Fallen Sun
    The film defaults to the most pedestrian narrative turns imaginable when it’s not just recycling bits from the series.
  21. Final Score
    To observe that the Dave Bautista-starring action flick Final Score is yet another Die Hard knockoff may be tiresome, but it's not as if the film gives one much of a choice, as it offers up a ceaseless barrage of scenes lifted from the John McTiernan classic.
  22. The Hollars
    The film's ruefully honest tone is periodically drowned out by the blare of stagey coincidences.
  23. I.S.S.
    The film is in such a rush to get to the bloodshed, deception, and panic that most of the fertile ground of its premise goes unexplored.
  24. Red Sparrow
    The way that Dominika is at once completely transparent and at the same time impossible to read is Red Sparrow's most intriguing through line, not least of which for the way that Jennifer Lawrence makes you grasp the canny mental gymnastics that her character has to do in order for everything that she says to be at once truth and obfuscation.
  25. Carrie
    In focusing on predominately kid-gloves portrayals of her teen players, Kimberly Peirce never properly addresses the machinery behind their doom, which is why the film is relentlessly lifeless when it's not literally ripping off De Palma shot-for-shot.
  26. The Artist and the Model
    This safe, solemn tale of an aged artist whose vitality is briefly revived by a pretty young thing is unconvincing as an articulation of the potentially spiritual nature of the artist/model relationship.
  27. Fly Me to the Moon
    Fly Me to the Moon’s sudden shift toward the weighty throws off the pace of what had been a formulaic but charming rom-com, as the heavy-handed look at both Cole’s and Kelly’s past demons fails to mesh cohesively with the antic silliness that preceded it.
  28. In Time
    Justin Timberlake can't elevate what amounts to relatively simplistic, formulaic material, but his headlining turn exhibits sufficient charisma and wit to make In Time a passably diverting action-packed waste of time.
  29. Our Brand Is Crisis
    It only serves to validate George Clooney's devotion to showmanship as Hollywood's current reigning poster boy for blue-state morality.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Snowman's Land
    A tonal hodgepodge ever at odds with itself, Tomasz Thomson's unctuous, tongue-in-cheek debut is far too self-satisfied with its jokes for any to really be funny.
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