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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 Dances
    It's the moments when director Alan Brown stops worrying about clarifying plot and character motivation and lets the performances bring those into being that makes this an authentic project.
  2. Trust Me
    Almost none of the film's characters or scenarios escape feeling contrived under writer-director-star Clark Gregg's bizarro tonal shifts and plot developments.
  3. 21 Years: Richard Linklater
    Of greatest damage to the doc's coherence is its wholehearted belief that its subjects are offering firsthand reports worth hearing.
  4. For the Plasma
    The film, whose disparate narrative threads unsurprisingly never connect, drowns in weirdness for its own sake.
  5. The Kid
    Its scenes wildly escalate to a fever pitch at the drop of a hat, before then ending, more often than not, with abrupt violence.
  6. The Man with the Iron Fists
    The chop-socky wire-fu scenes are beautifully choreographed, but pretty crudely edited; despite its gourmet neo-grindhouse trappings, the film won't bring the heat like you've never seen before.
  7. Love
    Gaspar Noé's lack of self-investigation merely situates the film as a libidinal advertisement for a tantrum-prone filmmaker's delayed adulthood.
  8. Surge
    More than effective in visualizing its protagonist’s disorientated state of mind, the camerawork may leave viewers feeling like they just stepped off of a merry-go-round.
  9. Jack the Giant Slayer
    This epic waste of $190 million plunders the grab bag of overused plotlines, failing to put its own stamp on much of anything.
  10. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
    The difference between the film and its equally expensive contemporaries is Luc Besson's playful, childlike naïveté.
  11. Desierto
    Any perceptive dialogue or contemporary socio-political subtext is pummeled by Jonás Cuarón’s preference for empty genre thrills.
  12. Live From New York!
    Formally, it relies on a bevy of spectacularly funny clips and a plethora of talking heads, most of which fall back on plaudits rather than sage insights.
  13. A LEGO Brickumentary
    Here's a documentary so insidious, so comprehensively scrubbed clean, that it argues for the therapeutic powers of consumerism.
  14. Bird Box
    Many sections of Bird Box don’t hold up to a second’s scrutiny; the conceit’s silliness and convenient scare tactics make Shyamalan’s take on infectious-suicide horror seem downright subtle by comparison.
  15. Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru
    Director Joe Berlinger essentially allows his subject to hijack the film for his own end.
  16. Think Like a Man
    Unfortunately, like so many women have prophesized regarding the weaker gender's lack of commitment, there's just not enough follow through.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Snitch
    Snitch is the latest in a long line of films whose sole purpose is to flatten a major social problem into a pulp ideal for self-serious spectacle.
  18. Project Power
    The film is an unwieldy array of muddled ideas that never gel together into a cohesive whole.
  19. We Can Be Heroes
    Robert Rodriguez’s film, like The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D, fundamentally lacks a sense of wonder.
  20. Fixed
    The balls-out shock value doesn’t detract from the fact that Fixed is more square than its makers probably think it is.
  21. Skyscraper
    Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is the true Tower of Babel, the movie star who with each film gets closer to God and whose films always come tumbling down around him.
  22. The Face of Love
    An almost offensively "tasteful" dud that remains irritatingly on the surface, more alive to the set design than the characters' motivations.
  23. God's Pocket
    Throughout, it becomes difficult to know whether we're meant to empathize with these characters or laugh at them.
  24. Taurus
    Taurus is in the business of self-aggrandizement, but this is a film that understands that stardom is inherently aggrandizing.
  25. Risen
    It's an episode of Without a Trace: Jerusalem presented with all the panache of a Trinity Broadcasting Network TV special.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Song of Names
    In the end, the film is unable to bridge the gap between the emotions it elicits and the messages it imparts.
  27. The Liberator
    It's sense of complexity is giving us masses of people moved by Simon Bolívar's words, and gorgeous sweeping vistas of the landscape backed by a stirring orchestra.
  28. Nobody Walks
    The whole thing comes out feeling kind of featureless, beaten flat by its own sense of fairness.
  29. The Song of Sway Lake
    Despite Ari Gold’s knack for visual flourishes that capture a sense of place seemingly outside of time, The Song of Sway Lake plays like several disparate melodies overlapping one another.
  30. The Grinch
    The film’s vision of Christmas is so insipid and lifeless, it’s hard to see why the Grinch would even bother to steal it.
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