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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. Kidnap
    Ultimately, Kidnap is an efficient vehicle for the delivery of some lean action that's frequently weakened by a scarcely whip-smart script.
  2. Dear Dictator
    The potential comic absurdities of the premise are squandered as soon as the film settles into a tepid coming-of-age tale.
  3. Pacific Rim: Uprising
    Steven S. DeKnight's film lacks for Guillermo del Toro's visual acumen, but it makes up for that with an energetic sense of chaos throughout its front-and-center skirmishes, and in the end hedges closer to the nightmarish intensity of such inspirational texts as Hideaki Anno's Neon Genesis Evangelion.
  4. Heart of Stone
    The cinematography looks striking enough throughout the various set pieces, but little happens in them to elevate Heart of Stone past its hackneyed foundation.
  5. The Brothers Grimsby
    The film doesn't do much to satirize the spy genre, instead using its flimsy plot mostly as a scaffolding for a barrage of jokes.
  6. Hyena Road
    Paul Gross situates the film's events somewhere between violent, militaristic fantasy and gentler, anti-war lament.
  7. Hotel Transylvania 2
    It risks offense by putting a typically Adam Sandler-ian twist on a tired familial trope, though such risks can often be the only thing enlivening forced franchise installments like this one.
  8. Brightburn
    The way the film shuttles through its 90 minutes, it’s as if it’s been stripped of its most crucial narrative parts.
  9. A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
    Avoids funny one-liners like the plague, choosing in their place to deliver only squishy faux-outrageousness that, like Sudeikis's one-note stud, exudes an unwelcome air of self-satisfaction.
  10. Churchill
    The film simplifies Winston Churchill's legacy for the dubious purposes of narrative momentum and emotional lift.
  11. The Belko Experiment
    The film's characters are stock types without enough satirical texture to fulfill their function in the narrative.
  12. Pain Hustlers
    The excitement that the film tries to generate for its main characters is disturbingly glib.
  13. Reaching for the Moon
    Bruno Barreto's insistence that this pass for a product that Hollywood might have spawned smoothens a journey built on sharp edges.
  14. Come Out and Play
    Makinov's film expertly crafts a sense of dawning madness that hinges on its villains' unspoken fury at their elders.
  15. The King's Man
    The film is so caught up in its own idea of national exceptionalism that its tagline might as well be Make England Great Again.
  16. Lookin' to Get Out
    Lookin’ to Get Out, however, though pieced together with Ashby’s trademark character sympathy and technical aplomb, is one toke over the line: Unkempt and unconvincingly funny, the film is infused with the thin, despondent languor of a mourning man’s second-hand marijuana smoke.
  17. The Inbetweeners Movie
    Oh, the hilarious awkwardness of placing privileged white kids in a place where they don't belong.
  18. Foe
    At every turn, Garth Davis’s Foe not only fails to adequately redress or rework played-out tropes within its high-concept world, but its examination of marriage and identity is also hackneyed.
  19. Ricky Stanicky
    As a WWE superstar, Cena is a perfect casting choice for a larger-than-life character like the formerly imaginary Ricky. He rattles off jokes with the boundless energy of a man used to spending three nights a week catapulting himself across a ring, and he’s completely at ease as the absolute center of attention.
  20. Delivery Man
    The breadth of Vince Vaughn's gregarious persona has never been given free reign by any director and this certainly isn't the game-changer.
  21. Barely Lethal
    The film settles into a time-honored groove of so many forgettable juvenile comedies before it.
  22. Next Goal Wins
    Next Goal Wins feels like five different films, all of them failing to coalesce in an effective way because every 30 seconds the script thinks it has to crack wise.
  23. Five Time Champion
    A coming-of-age tale that, with every landscape cutaway and twinkling note from its xylophone-heavy score, begs to be taken as a dreamy slice of countryside profundity.
  24. Cut Bank
    If the film is meant only as a pulpy genre exercise, Matt Shakman's competence in various modes actually works to strip it of any sense of coherent vision.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    See No Evil, Hear No Evil
    Trapped inside its overwritten crime story is a breezy character study starring two men with genuine chemistry and a flair for both physical and verbal comedy. In the rare moments when Pryor and Wilder simply talk to each other, there’s the potential for a funny and poignant interracial two-hander like I’m Not Rappaport. It’s too bad that potential is squandered on a senseless murder plot.
  26. House
    House has a superb premise that begs for a more ambitious framework, both formally and psychologically.
  27. Planetarium
    Given all its clumsily executed genre detours and tonal fluctuations, Rebecca Zlutowski’s film suggests an amateur juggling act.
  28. Spinning Man
    The film is ultimately tethered to the strictures of a procedural thriller, as it's rife with functional dialogue and plotting as well as forgettable aesthetics, which cumulatively reduce the existential calisthenics to filler.
  29. Clean
    While its plot is strictly by the numbers, Clean is elevated by its stylistic flair and propulsive pace.
  30. Mortal Engines
    After a while, it all starts to feel like a showreel for the film’s special-effects team than an honest effort to tell a story.
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