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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. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
    A torrid journey through the subconscious of a little girl lost, Fire Walk with Me is also a cautionary tale of sorts, the sad chronicle of a sleepy town trying to rid itself of its dirty laundry.
  2. Angel Has Fallen
    The film seems to have cobbled its set pieces together from a series of close-ups edited as if by random selection.
  3. Seance
    Simon Barrett imbues his narrative with a purplish emotionality that the Urban Legend movies didn’t even think to bother with.
  4. Rampage
    Unlike 2014’s Godzilla, which benefited from director Gareth Edwards’s patience with the Jaws-style slow burn, RAMPAGE is all noise without crescendo.
  5. Fisherman's Friends
    The script doesn’t contain many lines that ring true, and a few clang wildly off-key.
  6. She's Funny That Way
    Familiar as its art/life paralleling may be, it's all fueled by a filmmaker with an intimate relationship to his subject matter.
  7. About Alex
    However self-aware the film may be, its characters and moods and conflicts are too over-determined and familiar to linger in the memory very long after the credits roll.
  8. Chasing Mavericks
    The filmmakers' kinship to Moriarity is obvious, and it makes for a tone of unflinching hope and optimism, though it leaves little room for grit or nuance.
  9. Queenpins
    The film’s largely painful humor is informed by the mistaken belief that the main characters’ criminal enterprise is inherently quirky.
  10. All Cheerleaders Die
    Frontloaded with a surprising amount of plot, the film takes forever to get going, but it's the filmmakers' hypocrisy that really grates.
  11. The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
    The film is overtly suspicious and critical of the new and only serviceably romantic about the old.
  12. Off Label
    Sincerely angry about the crisis in polypharmacy, this narrative suffers from a documentarian form of A.D.D.
  13. Cherry
    Though the film touches on numerous hot-button topics and is packed with incident and humor, its self-aware style—from straight-to-camera narration to slow motion to visual tricks like the washing out of an entire background so a character will pop out in bright color—and simplistic characterizations deprive it of the chance to say much of anything.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Treasure
    Because the casually observational moments of Julia von Heinz’s film are so rich, its thematic contrivance becomes harder to accept.
  15. Patagonia Rising
    Director Brian Lilla alternates between talking heads and animated graphics to elucidate first how dams work and, obligatorily, to put a human face on those who would be affected.
  16. Salt and Fire
    Salt and Fire is a doodle, suggesting an assemblage of ecological riffs and fantasias that Werner Herzog may have entertained while making Into the Inferno.
  17. Wild Horses
    Robert Duvall's evident admiration for his wife are typical of this film, in which so much seems touchingly sincere but clumsily expressed.
  18. Miracles from Heaven
    Situations and people are sketched out too lightly to leave an emotional trace.
  19. Saban's Power Rangers
    Power Rangers is so concerned with launching a mature teen-targeted franchise that it often forgets to have some fun.
  20. Mapplethorpe
    In Mapplethorpe, the ultimate purpose of the film seems to be the reductive portrayal of the artist as yet another tormented queer destroyed by his tendencies toward vice.
  21. Oz the Great and Powerful
    An amorphous melange of ill-fitting reference points and misappropriated aesthetics, a lumbering family blockbuster both tiresome and wholly indistinct.
  22. Joyful Noise
    Joyful Noise certainly has its demographics covered.
  23. A Million Ways to Die in the West
    All the whiny point-scoring is such an explicit appeal for audience sympathy that the dialogue feels derived from a malnourished stand-up routine.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    Hammer of the Gods
    An unbearably stupid exercise in gore that deserves to die the same cruel, soulless death that nearly every character does at some point in the film.
  25. All the Boys Love Mandy Lane
    Like far too many modern horror films, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane flaunts its knowledge of classic genre fundamentals but fails to do anything very clever or surprising with them.
  26. Bushwick
    Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott's Bushwick is a genre film with a refreshing sense of political infrastructure.
  27. Unicorn Store
    Brie Larson’s directorial debut is nothing so much as a series of quirks.
  28. 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.
  29. The Legend of Tarzan
    The film's action sequences are a jumble of movement and cuts that have no discernible relation to the actual motion of the characters.
  30. Rapture-Palooza
    Its views on organized religion are so halfhearted and perfunctory as to make Kevin Smith's Dogma seem like a veritable master's class in theistic studies.
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