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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. Those Who Wish Me Dead
    The film half-heartedly teeters between a kinetic action thriller and something a little more low-key.
  2. First Date
    The shadow of Risky Business looms large, and distractingly, over Manuel Crosby and Darren Knapp’s film.
  3. Army of the Dead
    The film’s masterful prologue writes a check that the remainder of this very long, very indulgent film labors mightily to cash.
  4. Shoplifters of the World
    The film lacks for the empathy, curiosity, and sense of humor that are the defining characteristics of the Smiths’s music.
  5. The Vault
    The film misses the opportunity for a suspenseful interweaving of sports spectatorship and its characters’ high-stakes gambits.
  6. The Unholy
    Writer-director Evan Spiliotopoulos barely capitalizes on the luridly sacrilegious implications of the film’s premise.
  7. The Tunnel
    The film lacks for the methodically escalating stakes that makes the best examples of the genre so entertaining.
  8. Stowaway
    By paring their story down so much, the filmmakers only end up highlighting just how little it contains.
  9. Demonic
    Like District 9, the film is a genre outing with big ideas that’s more committed to the power of arsenals and pyrotechnics.
  10. When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
    The reality of Nazi Germany and its looming atrocities feels as if it exists only beyond the edges of the film’s frame.
  11. Cinderella
    With an overload of winking, Kay Cannon’s Cinderella displays a contemptuous attitude toward fairy tales in general.
  12. Funhouse
    Throughout, it’s difficult to sort the contrivances that writer-director Jason William Lee is parodying from those he’s indulging.
  13. Shotgun Wedding
    The film has a rather perfunctory feel, as if it were unwilling to go all in on its ludicrous concept.
  14. 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.
  15. Samaritan
    Perhaps the fairest description of Stallone’s performance is that it’s only as one-note as the material, his stern tough-guy muttering and grimacing just about right for a screenplay that feels like it’s been plucked out of a dustbin left untouched since 1995.
  16. Aline
    Valérie Lemercier’s film feels at once like a vanity project for its maker and a glorified fan tribute.
  17. Kate
    Kate will leave you wishing that its narrative possessed the same attention to detail as its elaborately violent action set pieces.
  18. Queenpins
    The film’s largely painful humor is informed by the mistaken belief that the main characters’ criminal enterprise is inherently quirky.
  19. Deception
    With his Deception, Arnaud Desplechin renders one of a great author’s slighter works titanic by comparison.
  20. The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
    The film charts Louis Wain’s slow, long mental breakdown in ways that tackily oscillate between the pitying and the whimsical.
  21. Birds of Paradise
    Birds of Paradise lacks the nuance and finesse needed for its story to really take flight.
  22. Together
    Together’s dramaturgy perfectly, if unintentionally, underscores the suffocating nature of pandemic living.
  23. Zeros and Ones
    Zeros and Ones is the unwelcome spectacle of a bad boy attempting to apologize for his badness.
  24. The Last Thing Mary Saw
    The film comes to feel like a parody of a possession flick rather than a straightforward replication of the genre’s tropes.
  25. Hypnotic
    The film is a pointlessly complicated house of cards that crumbles due to its own hollowness.
  26. Don't Worry Darling
    Don’t Worry Darling has the swing-for-the-fences ambition that should have at least made it a noble and compelling folly, but its repetitiveness frustratingly undercuts its grandiosity.
  27. The Tender Bar
    The film insists so forcefully that J.R. has lived a topsy-turvy, singular life that it abandons a potentially more rewarding approach of foregrounding how relatable many of his moments of self-discovery really are.
  28. Mayor Pete
    The film’s approach is completely subsumed by the importance of the Mayor Pete persona as the means and ends of the candidacy.
  29. Let's Scare Jessica to Death
    Great auntie to waking nightmare movies about distaff insanity as diverse as Images, 3 Women, A Woman Under the Influence, and Mulholland Drive, Let’s Scare Jessica to Death spends 90 minutes tapping lightly but incessantly on its heroine’s fragile sanity, as though it were some sort of Fabergé S&M model egg.
  30. Cha Cha Real Smooth
    Rather than thoughtfully reflect on post-collegiate ennui and disillusionment, the film settles for erecting a monument to its main character’s awesomeness.
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