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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 Giant Mechanical Man
    It's a simple story of simple people intentionally told in simple terms, and the only issues with which it's concerned are those of pure personal connection.
  2. The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers
    The documentary is dressed to the nines in pomp and patriotism, which seems meant to hide the fact that the film offers very little in the way of valuable reporting or insider information.
  3. 4th Man Out
    It's a bizarre and retrograde spectacle, as clueless and incurious about friendship as it is about the rudiments of composition and screenwriting
  4. Night Swim
    There’s an elegiac beauty to many of Night Swim’s pool scenes, but everything that surrounds them is leaden, from Wyatt Russell’s comatose performance to the baseball metaphors that have been unsubtly shoehorned into the impossibly routine narrative.
  5. The Drowning
    If there’s anything worth mulling over about The Drowning, it's the way it proffers the East Coast couple as an inevitably miserable institution without really meaning to.
  6. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
    Every set piece brings to mind an Epcot Center attraction built from borrowed parts, geared toward reinforcing the young audience's belief that adults just don't understand them.
  7. Backwards
    Streamlines its busy set of plots and subplots into a 90-minute sprint, throughout which characters often confront and overcome their obstacles within the same scene.
  8. Step Up Revolution
    The film busts a fierce move but never relishes the unique cultural essence that its gentrifying baddie threatens to snuff out.
  9. Hunter Killer
    The film is a second-rate airport thriller that makes The Hunt for Red October seem like nonfiction by comparison.
  10. Jackpot
    Guy Ritchie may have creatively moved on from his Tarantino-inspired debut, but international crime cinema has not, as again evidenced by Magnus Martens's film.
  11. San Andreas
    In Brad Peyton's San Andreas, the biggest earthquake in recorded history is less natural disaster than divorce negotiation process.
  12. American Pastoral
    Ewan McGregor’s inert adaption smooths out the Philip Roth novel's eruptions of self-loathing and doubt.
  13. True Wolf
    The documentary veers between repetitive and didactic pronouncements of a call to inaction and more affectionately told stories about Koani's life as an "ambassador wolf" on the elementary school circuit.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Maggie Moore(s)
    The story’s center isn’t strong enough for the rest of its disparate parts to hold.
  15. The Vow
    Very fortunately, there's an alternate universe swirling in the eye of The Vow's synthetic storm, a place occupied only by Tatum and McAdams, where the link between them cuts down the filmmakers' bad instincts.
  16. Bob Marley: One Love
    This shaggy, disjointed film is less interested in the complexities of Marley’s personal or professional life than it is in presenting him as a hero and an inspiration.
  17. Antebellum
    This is a film that employs imaginative twists to illuminate the racism that’s entrenched in American history and society.
  18. The Angry Birds Movie
    The Angry Birds Movie is a lot of things, but none of them true to the app's appeal.
  19. Equals
    The Drake Doremus film all comes down, simplistically and repeatedly, to “feelings make us feel alive.”
  20. The Girl in the Spider's Web
    Fede Álvarez’s film suffers from a compulsion to be capital-C cool, and all of its ostensibly stylish shots are untethered to any semblance of a sustained reality.
  21. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
    In transforming folk metaphors into utilitarian attributes of an action hero, Disney exposes the emptiness of their product.
  22. Shelter
    The characters' marginalized social standing is less indicative of a real-life epidemic and more akin to window dressing.
  23. All I See Is You
    The longer things drag out, All I See Is You becomes every bit as amorphous as its protagonist's vision.
  24. My Best Enemy
    This twist-heavy World War II drama would play as an absurdist comedy if the director wasn't so dead set on excluding just about any trace of humor from his self-serious project.
  25. A Family Affair
    Ultimately, Richard LaGravenese’s rom-com is a little too packed with soul-searching speeches.
  26. Wish I Was Here
    It's hard to see the fiscal woes at the center of Zach Braff's second feature as anything more than a fashionable depiction of first-world problems.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Total Recall (2012)
    Len Wiseman's Total Recall's a trifling mess, as superfluous as a third breast.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The ABCs of Death
    Tellingly, this horror anthology's finest entries convey how real horror comes in more than shades of red, and how it lives inside us all.
  29. The Brass Teapot
    Imbued with a buoyant mysticism, the film is more gag-friendly than idea-based, primarily relying on the considerable charm of its leads to ground its supernatural conceit.
  30. The Lady
    The goings-on can rarely be called truly compelling, even if they're almost always generally pleasant.
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