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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. The Sweeney
    Clichés abound, even in the look of the film, which toggles between post-Ritchie crime-violence burlesque and sleek, Nolanesque faux-grandeur.
  2. The Mountain Between Us
    Hany Abu-Assad’s film is notable for the way it fixates on its characters’ rush toward survival, homing in on the intimacy that they achieve without ever suggesting that there’s any actual romance in their future.
  3. Rememory
    The film successfully argues that it’s through sensory details that we access the deeper aspects of our lives.
  4. Black Nativity
    For anyone who prefers their assertive homilies to crust over like a syrupy sweet, this loose adaptation of Langston Hughes's beloved holiday tradition will come on like a dream fulfilled.
  5. Critters 2
    Critters 2: The Main Course offers a heaping helping of everything that’s missing from the first film: a reasonably intelligent and witty script, a supple and unchained playfulness, and an anarchic mélange of diverse genre riffs.
  6. Pet
    The screenplay quickly loses this moral clarity as the plot twists pile up and the power balances shift.
  7. Jayne Mansfield's Car
    Billy Bob Thornton's ensemble Southern family dramedy fails to subvert its cutesy formula often enough.
  8. Lords of Chaos
    Jonas Åkerlund’s breezy approach to this material not only cheapens the music, but also has the effect of downplaying the severity of the scene’s truly unsavory politics.
  9. The Strangers: Prey at Night
    Opening with the pulsing synth lines of Kim Wilde's “Kids in America,” Johannes Roberts's film announces itself as a looser, bouncier, more self-consciously frivolous effort than its now decade-old predecessor.
  10. Blue Like Jazz
    Blue Like Jazz charts a typical existential coming-of-age tale, yet remains atypical by being hip while also treating religion fairly.
  11. King Cobra
    It’s difficult to find a reason for the film's existence beyond a spoiled platform for James Franco's ersatz boldness.
  12. Mary Magdalene
    As the plot mechanically moves through Jesus’s greatest hits, the narrative focuses less and less on Mary Magdalene until her life feels completely beside the point.
  13. Godzilla: King of the Monsters
    The film is frustrating in the end for reaffirming the traditional blockbuster’s allegiance to human perseverance.
  14. To the Arctic
    Though the film is light on anthropomorphization, its aesthetic is nothing if not infantile.
  15. Yogawoman
    It's less a film than an unimaginatively assembled series of talking heads.
  16. The World Made Straight
    The moody lighting and the ubiquity of deciduous trees provide a canvas for bracing drama, but the film undoes itself by its desire to impart revelatory history lessons.
  17. Morgan
    The film's makers lose trust in the intellectual heft of their material and chose to prioritize empty sensation instead.
  18. The Catechism Cataclysm
    The film is an 80-minute shaggy-dog story about the seductive power of storytelling and the weird places it can transport us; too bad writer- director Todd Rohal doesn't take us any place worth going.
  19. Haunted Mansion
    The film handily invokes the campiness of the iconic Disneyland attraction, if not its kinetics.
  20. Lee Cronin's The Mummy
    In lieu of any competently developed drama, we get a blitzkrieg of scares and gooey body horror that can best be described as arbitrary.
  21. Special ID
    The audience becomes conditioned to expect the action a few moves before the film makes them, which quickly renders the story tedious.
  22. Being Charlie
    Most of the film's characters are unconvincing, flattened out by Charlie's self-focused lens.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    An Encounter with Simone Weil
    Ultimately, the film doesn't feel like it ever left Julia Haslett's head, leaving us a little cold.
  24. 3 Generations
    The main character is too often pushed to the sidelines so that the filmmakers can indulge tired family-drama tropes.
  25. The Marsh King's Daughter
    Once the film turns into a paranoid home-invasion thriller, there’s no ambiguity left to the tale.
  26. Sonic the Hedgehog
    Throughout, any and all subtext is buried under the weight of Jim Carrey’s mugging.
  27. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
    With this film, nuance seems to have disapparated from the wizarding world altogether.
  28. Hunted
    Hunted intends to make a show of our desensitization to predator-prey relationships, but the greater purpose of its self-awareness never quite comes into clear focus.
  29. RED 2
    An awfully expensive and grossly extended Cialis commercial.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    MIS Human Secret Weapon
    The documentary necessitates a degree of respect and sensitivity that makes it difficult to stress how bad it is.
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