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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. Krystal
    The gravity of Krystal's situation is undermined at every turn by the filmmakers' excessively broad, comedic strokes.
  2. Ava
    The film's constant cruelty is so inescapable that it starts to feel unfair not only to the protagonist, but to Iran itself.
  3. This Is Our Land
    Throughout the film, Lucas Belvaux sidelines the emotional textures that might complicate all his sermonizing.
  4. Greyhound
    With no vividly drawn humans on display, the action feels like rootless war play.
  5. The Wife
    Glenn Close's perennial look of astonishment and resilience commands the action to the point of turning every other screen element into a gratuitous prop.
  6. Hotel Artemis
    Hotel Artemis quickly reveals its future setting as an empty pretext for a banally convoluted and sentimentalized show of emotional rehabilitation.
  7. Woman Walks Ahead
    As a character, Catherine Weldon suffers the same fate as Sitting Bull, having been reduced to a signifier of the filmmakers' retroactive political correctness.
  8. 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.
  9. Shock and Awe
    Rob Reiner's film rests on broad, sweeping proclamations about the importance of factual reporting.
  10. Lion's Den
    Although the film is essentially contemplative, there’s little here worth contemplating.
  11. Ideal Home
    The broad strokes of the performances make the film's occasional lurches into sentimentality seem especially jarring.
  12. Good Manners
    The film is a rebellion of surfaces that never quite reaches, or emanates from, the underpinning roots of its fable.
  13. Destination Wedding
    The way Destination Wedding uses misanthropy to augment screwball tropes ends up being its undoing.
  14. The Bookshop
    The Bookshop is steadfast in avoiding drama at all costs.
  15. Capernaum
    Zain Al Rafeea's naturalness, however uncanny, only makes the film's maneuverings seem all the more obvious.
  16. Pet Sematary
    The story has enough pathos to fulfill the expectations of a great tragedy, but the film feels like a commercial for something else entirely.
  17. The Aftermath
    The film’s threads of personal loss and cultural friction are all but lost amid the tawdry romantic entanglements.
  18. Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti
    Gauguin represents for the film no less an ideal Romantic subject than the Polynesians represented for the painter himself: penniless, chronically ill, and living in self-imposed isolation—the very embodiment of the suffering artist.
  19. Damascus Cover
    The film trots out thinly conceived villains and a murky plot twists that leave crucial details needlessly shrouded in mystery.
  20. Friday the 13th Part III
    The horny teenagers all seem like banal, plastic, eager-to-please refugees from a sitcom, desperately hoping with their every line of dialogue for a canned laugh.
  21. Peterloo
    Peterloo so simply recounts the details of its subject matter that its culminating horror unsettlingly feels like little more than a cathartic inevitability.
  22. Aladdin
    Aladdin is ultimately less offensive than patently ridiculous, mostly because its ethnic white noise is really just an excuse for Robin Williams—as a postmodern blabbermouthed genie who grants Aladdin three wishes—to put on the most elaborate, narcissistic circus act in the history of cinema.
  23. Path of Blood
    The film in effect positions young jihadis less as fervid, bloodthirsty psychopaths and more as dumb kids at summer camp.
  24. Dumbo
    Tim Burton manages to put his stamp on this clunky behemoth of a film, but in the end, the Mouse always wins.
  25. Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
    The tone is crude, raunchy, and leering, with kill scenes combined with more nudity than usual; we’re even invited to check out a hot chick’s body after her face has been sliced in half by garden shears.
  26. Fahrenheit 11/9
    Fahrenheit 11/9 represents a sincerely bold attempt to capture the overwhelming civic decay that led to our current political crisis, but Michel Moore’s circus-showman duplicity is as crass and abhorrently self-promoting as that of Donald Trump.
  27. Joker
    The film is one that might have been dreamed up by one of the cynical douche bros from the Hangover during a blacked-out stupor.
  28. Mid90s
    Jonah Hill constantly falls back on providing vague justification for his characters' behaviors, along with spoonfuls of sentiment to let the more dour moments go down easier.
  29. Final Score
    To observe that the Dave Bautista-starring action flick Final Score is yet another Die Hard knockoff may be tiresome, but it's not as if the film gives one much of a choice, as it offers up a ceaseless barrage of scenes lifted from the John McTiernan classic.
  30. Sicilian Ghost Story
    The film is determinedly unclassifiable, blurring genres with a fervor that grows tedious.
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