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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. 28 Hotel Rooms
    We're supposed to take their self-pity at face value, an impression that's emphasized by a grinding monotonous humorlessness.
  2. Halloween III: Season of the Witch
    That plot gives you an idea of how casually insane this movie is, but if you’re able to radically suspend your disbelief (the story is an illogical shambles), the film offers a number of modest pleasures.
  3. Nobody's Hero
    The film goes from biting satire to broad farce and back as Alain Guiraudie fills it with both social observation and ludicrous incident.
  4. Society
    Society never entirely decides whether it’s a plot-centric horror-mystery or an imagistic fantasy; the film’s self-conscious emptiness drains the incestuous conceit of its shock value, defanging a nervy gross-out.
  5. Elles
    The film is ultimately draining because of the way it handles Anne, stranding a potentially dynamic character in two dueling scenarios, both of which are drab and unsurprising.
  6. Cowboys & Aliens
    Brandishing a literal-minded title as laughable as the rest of its action, Cowboys & Aliens mashes up genres with a staunch dedication to getting everything wrong, making sure that each scene is more inane than the one that preceded it.
  7. The Purge: Anarchy
    DeMonaco may doubly, sometimes triply, underline the story's governing theme of social power and how it's exchanged, but the rage and lucidity of these ideas resonate.
  8. The Tribes of Palos Verdes
    The unvaried register of the filmmaking leads the narrative to feel aimless and dramatically inert.
  9. Summer of Goliath
    Nicholas Pereda shows nothing short of immense promise here, especially in his enigmatic framing and collaborative effort with his regular DP, Alejandro Colonado.
  10. Things Heard & Seen
    Ultimately, the film’s most impactful terrors have nothing to do with things that go bump in the night.
  11. The Mighty Macs
    The Mighty Macs is a film from another planet, where stories are told, obliviously, in cryptic, nonsensical code, and people talk to each other in sugarplum proverbs no earthbound adult would ever inflict on another, not even on the set of a Hallmark Original Movie.
  12. Space Station 76
    As a space-opera lampoon, it's incoherent primarily because it's never clear what the filmmakers are attempting to spoof.
  13. Black Christmas
    The filmmakers’ overly simplistic depiction of good and evil is mitigated to some degree by the presence of Landon (Caleb Eberhardt).
  14. Wilson
    Wilson lurches jarringly from poignant melancholy to cartoonish slapstick, unable to settle on a consistent tone.
  15. Half Magic
    The film displays a sprightly tone and blissful sense of liberation in charting the exploits of characters seeking to live by their own feminine-centric rules.
  16. Don't Let Go
    Would that Jacob Estes had kept the particulars of his murder mystery as intricate as the sci-fi of his main characters’ communion.
  17. Escape Plan
    A dim anti-privatization parable that preaches a familiar strain of cynical, unchallenged self-righteousness in the face of widespread abuse of civil liberties.
  18. Paradise Hills
    Alice Waddington’s sci-fi fantasy never finds a cohesive story wrapper for its themes.
  19. Kidnapped
    Its scenario and criminals devoid of any representational depth, and without any substantial ideas underlying its carnage, the film ultimately just assumes the sadistically pragmatic POV of its one-dimensional thugs, pitilessly doling out brutality as a practical means to an end.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Special Treatment
    A portrait of gender-and job-transcending ennui, Special Treatment paints a vulgar picture of two apparently interwoven professions: prostitutes and shrinks.
  21. Starbuck
    Yet another example of modern-family predicaments getting stuffed into the traditional-family-values message of conventional comedies.
  22. Enemies Closer
    JCVD may not say it best, but he does say it aptly, when his manically cartoonish baddie caps one murder with the assertion that "shit happens."
  23. Georgetown
    It’s an occasionally amusing and insightful beltway satire that’s ultimately undone by its conventional mise-en-scène and predictable plot.
  24. All I Wish
    Writer-director Susan Walter's film seems almost determined to disprove the causality of social phenomena.
  25. Demolition
    It takes its literalism to such an extreme that, at points, it's difficult to determine whether or not the film is operating with a semblance of irony.
  26. A Man's Story
    A Man's Story does a major disservice to an artiste of fashion with a pretty amazing and prolific oeuvre by reducing him to a Bravo-like personality - a personality whose pettiness Boateng's work, though perhaps not his ego, clearly exceeds.
  27. Class of 1984
    No matter how much director Mark Lester attempts to hide his sermonizing behind sensationalistic-pedagogic terrorism, he does himself in whenever a jaded cop shrugs his shoulders and grunts, for the umpteenth time, What can we do, they’re juveniles?
  28. Loitering with Intent
    It's a comedy concerned with myopia that doesn't succumb to the self-obsessed pitfalls of that subject.
  29. Please Stand By
    Dakota Fanning's Wendy is less a truly thought-through character than a compendium of quirks.
  30. Jane's Journey
    Despite the fact that Goodall narrates the bulk of the material, there are scant details about her concrete contributions to animal and life science save for her observing of chimp-made tools.
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