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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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  1. Yves Saint Laurent
    For all of the supposed passion and anguish in Saint Laurent's clothing and relationships, Jalil Lespert consistently neglects to imbue the film with such a comparable level of ambition or desire.
  2. A Little Chaos
    Alan Rickman's film is consistently, and often dispiritingly, mired in the quaint tradition of the classy costume drama.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
    It's difficult to discern precisely where this all went wrong, and even more difficult to speculate about possible improvements.
  4. Walk Away Renee
    It's Jonathan Caouette's insistence in going back to his nightmarish old footage, or the old footage that he purposefully renders nightmarish, that seems more interesting.
  5. Ender's Game
    Gavin Hood relays a vague sense of what it's like to live in duty, and yet at a distance from one's home, but this vision of the future never rouses, never asks to be remembered.
  6. Half of a Yellow Sun
    It falls into the trappings of middlebrow literary adaptation by finding only sporadic means to convincingly adjudicate the trauma and anguish of its transitory epoch.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Gentlemen
    The London of this film is practically a match for Guy Ritchie’s filmmaking: a characterless mockery of its former glories, smooth and bland and just a bit more monied than before.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Expendables 2
    It plays out like a series wet-dream scenarios, performed by a cast of vintage action figures battered and broken from overuse, bleached and slightly molted from sitting in the sun too long.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Lord of the Rings
    Not even the Dark Lord Sauron would want to put his name to this movie.
  10. Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away
    The movie is something of a compositional nightmare, worlds away, one might say, from the artistry so associated with Cirque.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Call
    Brad Anderson's film is defined by an often frustrating combination of cleverness and stupidity.
  12. Free the Mind
    Phie Ambo deftly captures her subjects' sense of paranoia and helplessness without encroaching on their brave candor.
  13. Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
    While the film’s perception of the politics of the jungle is often profound, the same cannot be said of its take on the human world.
  14. Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
    Much like with Neighbors 2, Mike and Dave’s obvious ace in the hole is its commitment to gender parity.
  15. Papillon
    This remake proffers the sort of cinematic nowhere place that's all too common of an increasingly corporate, globalized cinema.
  16. Day Shift
    Day Shift’s first half is an unexpectedly focused, consistent pleasure, while the second sags under the weight of recycled set pieces.
  17. The Bad Seed
    The Bad Seed might not have the lurid veneer of Oedipal conflict that turned The Good Son into a supreme guilty pleasure, but it’s got more false-façade performances than you could ever hope for.
  18. Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
    Unimaginatively directed and indifferently shot, the film never establishes a distinctive voice for itself.
  19. Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula
    Peninsula feels like the work of an artist who misunderstood his past triumph, squandering his talent for the sake of a pandering, halfhearted encore.
  20. 21 Bridges
    It’s difficult to imagine a worse time to release Brian Kirk’s 21 Bridges than the present.
  21. Lovelace
    Lost in the music, mustaches, and furniture of the early '70s, this docudrama of a porn star's exploitation isn't nearly painful enough.
  22. Marry Me
    Marry Me plays out as the logical culmination of a multi-hyphenate icon’s indiscriminate commercial voracity.
  23. Hardcore Henry
    The film's unbelievably precise choreography of action seeks to tap into a universal feeling of powerlessness.
  24. Parkland
    The Peter Landesman film's overt politics are minimal, aside from defaulting to the myth of John F. Kennedy as a martyr for...something.
  25. John Carter
    As film theorist Siegfried Kracauer once wrote, to paraphrase, art often blooms in the most hostile soil. No such luck here.
  26. Misery Loves Comedy
    Commingling industry shoptalk with introspective insights and wrangling testimonials, the film casts an incredibly wide net, but doesn't reveal much of anything.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Mermaid
    Ultimately, Mermaid shows how loneliness can un-anchor a person, and it makes you understand how any lost sailor might fall for the first thing, no matter what it is, that breaks it.
  28. Anonymous
    Anonymous leaves one bereft of any meaningful knowledge of these personages or the theatrical energy of their age, and earns the obscurity it figures to acquire even if the war between Team Edward and Team William blazes on.
  29. Jack Reacher
    The film is as incompetent, manipulative, safe, and disposable as any number of nickel-and-dime actioners, but goes to great, unconvincing lengths to insist it's different.
  30. Romeo Is Bleeding
    Romeo Is Bleeding projects an aura of obsessive self-consciousness that occasionally suggests the superior film that eluded its creators.
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