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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 Star
    Director Timothy Reckart's The Star turns the greatest story ever told into just another kids' movie.
  2. Guidance
    The unapologetic lack of political correctness never goes beyond a one-dimensional and tentative provocation.
  3. Tab Hunter Confidential
    The film lacks perspective beyond a rather limited preoccupation with the details of Hunter's personal life.
  4. Ashby
    The film displays little ability to utilize Ashby's violent actions for means other than high-concept fodder and out-of-place bloodshed.
  5. Love the Coopers
    Sloppy and haphazard where it should be calculatedly chaotic, it can't ever seem to settle on an appropriate tone.
  6. The 5th Wave
    The sense that children’s attitudes toward rampant militarization are being gradually normalized is the film's objectionable given.
  7. Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
    The visual blandness of Edward Zwick’s style and the simplistic, easily solved case is better suited for television.
  8. I Saw the Light
    A flaccidly directed film that basks for two hours in a carefully art-designed simulation of the past.
  9. Born to be Blue
    Robert Budreau strip-mines the life of an amazing musician for the purpose of mounting yet another comeback story.
  10. Wrecker
    Time and again, the filmmaker cuts the money shot meant to theoretically cap a sequence.
  11. The Childhood of a Leader
    Brady Corbet reaches for a dreary self-importance akin to Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon.
  12. Remember
    Atom Egoyan is only interested in using the Holocaust as fodder for carrot-dangling plot contrivances.
  13. Father Figures
    Father Figures, which finished shooting more than two years ago before spending endless months without a release date, is both meandering and bloated, suggesting the Frankensteinian result of brutal test screenings.
  14. The Forest
    The so-called suicide forest's cultural value is trivialized in the bum-rush to liberate the main characters from their agonies.
  15. The Emperor's New Clothes
    It's more about hyping Russell Brand as a constituent for the people than locating the means for sustained economic transformation.
  16. Fist Fight
    Over-stuffed and under-conceived, Fist Fight is a clumsy mélange of clashing comedic perspectives.
  17. Kingsman: The Golden Circle
    The hollow grandeur of the film's action only gives the proceedings a glib undertone that also undermines the rare occasions of earnestness that the heroes exhibit toward fallen comrades.
  18. The Wannabe
    The film is less a revisionist take on the circumstances of John Gotti's 1992 indictment than a tedious love child of Bonnie and Clyde and Goodfellas.
  19. The Space Between Us
    The Space Between Us is simply disappointing when it isn’t trying to browbeat its audience into emotional submission.
  20. The Daughter
    It too often strains for a tragic gravity that its ultimately melodramatic characters never earn.
  21. Hard Labor
    The allegorical possibilities of a disintegrating wall point to a film that could have been.
  22. The Girl on the Train
    It forgoes its promise of twisty adult thrills in favor of a grimly deadpan lecture about messy truths and false perceptions.
  23. Lamb
    Ross Partridge seems flatly fascinated by Lamb’s pathology without trying to understand its formation from environmental factors.
  24. The Huntsman: Winter's War
    The overriding despair of Winter's War's imagery calls into question who, exactly, the film is for.
  25. Fifty Shades of Black
    An aimless, if sporadically clever, parody that tirelessly conceives of human sexuality as punchlines for its shortsighted cultural ribbings.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Wave
    It sketches an imperiled family worth caring about, but any goodwill is soon weathered by wave after wave of contrivance following the initial town-leveling event.
  27. Ma
    Celia Rowlson-Hall's Ma has had its subtext dragged kicking and screaming to the surface.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker
    The film, hyper-aware of the shadow cast by the franchise’s history, struggles to both honor and redeem the past before everything comes to a close.
  29. Fraulein
    Fraulein almost entirely shuns backstory, coloring around the lives of its characters with ostentatious style (in this case, fuzzy-wuzzy visual vibes and music tailored to each character’s generation) and hoping audiences won’t mind filling in the blanks.
  30. Sing
    In Sing, musical theater is simply an excuse for the filmmakers to deliver an animated version of American Idol.
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