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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. Intruders
    The film ultimately boils down to people bludgeoning one another in unimaginative close-ups.
  2. UglyDolls
    What’s self-worth in the 21st century without a dollar amount attached to it, and what value does UglyDolls have if kids aren’t walking out of the theater nagging their parents for toys of their favorite characters?
  3. Beauty and the Beast
    Christophe Gans’s telling of Beauty and the Beast abounds in impersonal and unsatisfying sumptuousness.
  4. As Above, So Below
    The film predictably alternates in scaring its characters by tapping into their deepest fears and having them rub shoulders with the relics of a past that insists on being undisturbed.
  5. Resident Evil: Retribution
    At this point in the franchise, Anderson is content to alight the saga on a perpetual rewind loop, ever-ending, ever-rebooting, all subsidized by his nonpareil compositional sense.
  6. The Gunman
    The lack of any visual ingenuity, reflexivity, or awareness of genre tropes diminishes the intermittent pleasures of the action's slightly involving kineticism.
  7. The Apple
    The Apple is an Old Testament movie in more ways than one, and its relentless bad taste is sure to appeal to the same audience that won’t even realize they’re being slapped in the face.
  8. Lazy Eye
    Writer-director Tim Kirkman tries to peg depth of character on the character of Dean instead of having him earn it.
  9. Three Christs
    By the end, it’s as if a good doctor’s god complex has been taken up by the film itself.
  10. The Other Woman
    The film is clearly wary of either being too saccharine or taking itself--or the notion of compulsive infidelity--too seriously, though its schadenfreude is unwavering.
  11. Johnny English Strikes Again
    Relying on such arcane gags as prat falls in knight’s armor, fake French accents, and an array of gadget-based explosions, Johnny English Strikes Again seems almost hellbent on aiming for the lowest common denominator at every turn.
  12. The Numbers Station
    Sits awkwardly between shoot 'em up and psychological thriller without offering the excitement of either.
  13. The Sitter
    An ugly rendering of an infantile script that constantly exploits stereotypes for cheap guffaws, and employs the hollow trend of hoping ultra-specific, zeitgeisty lingo will distract from inert, derivative storytelling.
  14. Tammy
    Ben Falcone's film is an almost plotless doodle, with low stakes made even lower thanks to the bratty passivity of its titular antiheroine.
  15. Ella McCay
    The optimism that Ella preserves as she takes life one day at a time is compelling enough that it’s hard to get too mad about how shallow the world around her can seem.
  16. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
    Johnny Depp’s perfunctory gestures and flailing pratfalls befit a film that brings the franchise’s theme-park roots full circle.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Vincent Wants to Sea
    Complacent with road-movie tropes, director Ralf Huettner and screenwriter Florian David Fitz's Vincent Wants to Sea is likeable insofar as it's familiar.
  18. Dear Evan Hansen
    The film works harder to fix the problems with its source material than to establish itself as an independent piece of art.
  19. The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box
    The film gradually reveals a lot of unsavory motives, which ultimately deflate the buoyant virtues on which the film had blithely coasted.
  20. The Maid's Room
    Drina is less of an individual, and one whom we wish to see avenged, than a transparent martyr for the collective sins of the wealthy few.
  21. Pelé: Birth of a Legend
    The beautiful game, as Pelé called football (or soccer to us Americans), has never felt like such a sedate slog.
  22. The Underdoggs
    There’s only so much that director Charles Stone III can do with the script’s “head held high” cornpone.
  23. Michael
    The film turns the realities of a tragic, deeply complicated life into a sanitized popcorn film.
  24. The Intruder
    The film is ostensibly about the war for the soul of a house, but it couldn’t feel less lived in.
  25. Woodshock
    It becomes the obnoxious equivalent of trying to have a serious conversation with people who are high out of their minds.
  26. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
    The film's problem isn't so much the grossness of its humor as the laziness with which it's executed.
  27. Stage Fright
    Jerome Sable's debut feature couldn't be further from De Palma's delirious cinematic essays on vision and genre.
  28. Skin Trade
    There's no beauty to this film, little rhythm, none of the physical grace that action-film fans crave even if they don't know they do.
  29. Underworld: Awakening
    The only thing that manages to outpace Underworld: Awakening's ineptitude is its utter soullessness.
  30. Don Verdean
    If the film is any indication, Jared and Jerusha Hess remain committed to clotting up the screen with ostensibly charming "eccentricity."
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