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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. Death by China
    Further confirmation that agitprop documentaries have become wedded to a template that undermines their very arguments.
  2. Vita & Virginia
    The film frequently falls back on the stately demeanor of countless other historical biopics and period pieces. Read our review.
  3. 360
    Directed by Fernando Meirelles from a dusty script by Peter Morgan, 360 is all superficial stimulation, hollow and stiff as it beats the dead horse of we're-all-connected narratives.
  4. The Strangers: Chapter 1
    This film’s approach to slasher film mayhem is liable to induce some serious déjà vu.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    Doctored
    Bobby Sheehan doesn't just squander his objectivity, he drowns it out with bleating strings.
  6. Where the Crawdads Sing
    The film spins a soapy yet dramatically inert and often tone-deaf yarn about societal rejection and female empowerment in the wetlands of North Carolina.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Bleeding Steel
    A film so brazen in its desire to reach a wide audience that it plays like a compilation of disparate action set pieces, each shamelessly stolen from successful Hollywood franchises.
  8. Black Butterfly
    Its incoherent turn of events attempts to stupefy us into mistaking its deeply flawed internal logic for ingenuity.
  9. Violet & Daisy
    A twisted, spirited exercise in stark juxtaposition, a grindhouse fairy tale of sorts that pairs the sugary sweet with the nastily violent.
  10. The Aftermath
    The film’s threads of personal loss and cultural friction are all but lost amid the tawdry romantic entanglements.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Bad Fever
    In Bad Fever, Dustin Guy Defa's sad-sack indie drama about loneliness and urban ennui, a stand-up routine becomes an outlet for personal pain, the stage a place to unload baggage.
  12. Stephen King’s A Good Marriage
    It could have used far more of King's mordant humor, which might have imbued the metaphorical autumnal proceedings with a much-needed jolt of pop anarchy, or even pathos.
  13. Vincent N Roxxy
    Its gory conclusion is presented with an ostentatious grandiosity that the rest of the film simply doesn’t justify.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
    The film cloyingly asks us to embrace the sincerity of its impersonal romance.
  15. Good Deeds
    Simultaneously both archetypal Tyler Perry and another step in the direction of nuance and thoughtfulness for the filmmaker.
  16. In Dubious Battle
    Bits of editorializing dialogue throughout James Franco's In Dubious Battle suggest the resonant film that might’ve been.
  17. Machine Gun Preacher
    Marc Forster regards the real-life Childers's evolution from heroin-addicted, wife-beating (implied), gun-toting oblivion to born-again do-gooderism with motorized aloofness.
  18. I Do... Until I Don't
    It’s hard to tell who’s being lampooned and who’s being treated with sincerity at any given point.
  19. Retribution
    Without a compelling reason for us to care about the people inside the car, a reasonably diverting journey never accelerates into an outright thrill-ride.
  20. Back to Black
    The film presents Amy Winehouse’s demise with a sad shrug, as one of those tragic things that just sort of happens.
  21. Like Sunday, Like Rain
    Frank Whaley never gives these characters a humanizing moment outside of their default personalities, which turns them into cartoon impressions of the worst of each class.
  22. The Takedown
    The Takedown’s supposedly inclusionary, pro-immigrant messaging is constantly undermined by puerile and dated humor.
  23. Miss Meadows
    Perhaps Karen Leigh Hopkins's intent was to subtly suggest the surreal aspects of the story, but ultimately she underplays her hand.
  24. Monte Carlo
    Mistaken-identity shenanigans and gooey romance are Monte Carlo's prime commodities.
  25. Desperate Acts of Magic
    Tammy Caplan and Joe Tyler Gold's film gives off the alienating feel of an inside joke that you miss in the off chance you're not part of the professional magic business.
  26. Dark Phoenix
    The film is an all-too-fitting whimper of a conclusion to a franchise that never remotely fulfilled its potential.
  27. A Dog's Purpose
    Lasse Hallström's gooey film exists only to offer comforting reassurances about dogs' natural servility.
  28. Nitro Circus: The Movie
    While the Nitro Circus's many achievements are impressive, they pale in comparison to those of Knoxville and company's.
  29. Last Days
    Instead of delving into what lay behind John Allen Chau’s recklessness, the film scatters itself across multiple plot angles that confuse more than clarify.
  30. The Circle
    The film is a hokily melodramatic rise-fall-redemption story with a mostly unearned patina of greater significance.
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