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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. Artemis Fowl
    Artemis Fowl concocts an adventure that requires its privileged hero to go virtually nowhere, physically or emotionally. As if he ordered it on Instacart, conflict is simply dropped off on his front stoop, and all he has to do is throw on some shoes and sunglasses to pick it up.
  2. Nobody
    The film offers chaos by the yard with no real stakes or emotional reverberations.
  3. Capone
    Every scene is virtually self-contained, and so Capone feels as if it’s starting all over again from frame to frame.
  4. Shazam! Fury of the Gods
    The film fails to build on the whimsical foundation of the first film in any way.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
    The overreliance on wisecracks and employing, and then mocking, clichés make it seem as if Honor Among Thieves is outright embarrassed by its source material and wants you to know it.
  6. Run with the Hunted
    Some of the film’s narrative threads are frustratingly unresolved, while others are wrapped up in arbitrary fashion.
  7. Finch
    The end of the world may never have had less impact than it does in Miguel Sapochnik’s Finch.
  8. Save Yourselves!
    The film fails to use its millennial characters to investigate contemporary attitudes about the possibility of world annihilation.
  9. Summerland
    Throughout, the film’s characters exhibit little life outside of their moments of tragedy and symbolic connections.
  10. The Way I See It
    The final product feels like it would have been most appropriate as a video presentation for the Democratic National Convention.
  11. Random Acts of Violence
    For all of its ostensible thoughtfulness, in trying to describe “real art,” Random Acts of Violence ultimately doesn’t describe anything at all.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Monday
    Ultimately, the film is unable to overcome the mundanity of its simple, overly familiar scenario.
  13. New Order
    The film utilizes a trendy issue as window dressing for a tedious and delusional exploitation film-slash-museum piece.
  14. I'm Your Woman
    Julia Hart drains the crime film genre of its macho bluster without replacing it with anything.
  15. A Call to Spy
    Because its focus is so split, the film lacks the pervasive sense of danger one expects from a spy thriller.
  16. I Carry You with Me
    Heidi Ewing’s tale of immigration and deportation afflicting the lives of a Mexican gay couple flashes its reason for being at every turn.
  17. A Minecraft Movie
    There’s a self-reflexivity to the game’s artifact-y textures that’s lost in this film adaptation, where the finely detailed look of just about everything says nothing in itself about the endless possibilities of a digital world’s malleability.
  18. Fatman
    If it weren’t so airless, it’d be easier to appreciate Fatman a character study of Santa’s midlife woes.
  19. Triggered
    Once you get past the faux-provocation of the film’s title, it’s difficult to tell what ideologies the filmmakers are trying to skewer.
  20. Wild Mountain Thyme
    Jamie Dornan is a stiff whom Jon Hamm immediately upstages, and this dynamic underscores why the film is so tedious and unsatisfying.
  21. Jiu Jitsu
    Nicolas Cage’s amusing turn as a kooky hermit with an affinity for newspaper hats often feels awkwardly spliced into the film.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Wander Darkly
    What could have been a profound study of grief and psychological trauma is diluted with needless structural and stylistic obfuscation.
  23. Blue Bayou
    The film’s evocative imagery doesn’t compensate for the story being told with such a heavy hand that it dulls, rather than sharpens, Justin Chon’s urgent political message.
  24. No Man's Land
    No Man’s Land mostly suggests a performance of allyship on the filmmakers’ part.
  25. Malcolm & Marie
    Expending so much energy anticipating our avenues of interpretation, Malcolm & Marie leaves us with little to interpret.
  26. Outside the Wire
    The film’s arguments against endless war end up seeming more than a bit disingenuous, especially given how much time it spends glorifying the actions and morality of those who help buoy ongoing American occupation of foreign nations.
  27. Crisis
    Time and again, the film shortchanges the human elements of its stories for drug stats that can be Googled in a matter of seconds.
  28. Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar
    Best exemplified by its fixation on culottes, the film never feels like more than a half-formed in-joke between close friends.
  29. Simple Passion
    The film makes no attempt to embody the themes that form the core of Annie Ernaux’s story in its aesthetics.
  30. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
    The Eyes of Tammy Faye mostly plays out as a showcase for Jessica Chastain to bring as much emotional sturm und drang to the woman as she lurches between various states of turmoil.
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