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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. Fear Street: Prom Queen
    Like its predecessors, the film is an often awkward mix of YA drama and R-rated gore.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
    The film cloyingly asks us to embrace the sincerity of its impersonal romance.
  3. Ghost Trail
    Jonathan Millet’s film is unconvincing and unnaturally contorted into its shape.
  4. Henry Johnson
    Ultimately, Henry Johnson’s cynical assertions about society and human nature are the only aspects that end up resonating, for better or worse.
  5. Now You See Me: Now You Don't
    The third film in the series reliably delivers on the promise of both flamboyant showmanship and a steadfast refusal to adhere to more than just the rules of physics.
  6. Bone Lake
    The horror here proves as much a dead end as the main characters’ relationship.
  7. Echo Valley
    A story that might have been benefited by being allowed to breathe over a six-episode arc instead feels rushed and schematic rather than lived-in.
  8. Resurrection
    At times, Resurrection seems to outright taunt viewers for trying to make sense of it all.
  9. The Wizard of the Kremlin
    Olivier Assayas’s knack for fostering insight through irony is nowhere to be found in the film.
  10. Regretting You
    The decision to have Allison Williams and Dave Franco, both in their late 30s when the film was shot, play their characters as teens may be the most egregious example of Regretting You’s indifference to verisimilitude.
  11. Anniversary
    This is an overtly political film that’s hesitant to express its own political views.
  12. Play Dirty
    Shane Black’s film plays like a misguided action extravaganza from the 1980s.
  13. The Carpenter's Son
    The Carpenter’s Son fails to even offer decent frights, unless one finds the preponderance of CGI snakes particularly scary.
  14. Dust Bunny
    The film’s writing is the sort that begs you to find it cute and quirky, which makes it quite grating if you don’t.
  15. Swiped
    Swiped’s story sits right at the center of so many vital issues, and a smarter, braver rendition of it—that is, one interested in actually probing beneath the surface of things—might have yielded a film truly worthy of comparison to The Social Network. Instead, we get a piece of corporate hagiography that sweeps all those issues aside to celebrate another tech billionaire.
  16. The Choral
    This is a historical drama with a handsome enough period setting and a couple of pleasant musical moments but whose roteness keeps it from resonating.
  17. Reminders of Him
    Vanessa Caswill’s film feels reverse engineered to maximize emotional impact.
  18. I Only Rest in the Storm
    Whatever the post-colonial lessons are, I Only Rest in the Storm’s characters articulate them too evidently, as if preemptively justifying the making of a film in or about “Africa” on the condition that the white man’s presence is relentlessly denounced.
  19. Dracula
    Not even a typically scenery-chewing Christoph Waltz can enliven the proceedings.
  20. Lee Cronin's The Mummy
    In lieu of any competently developed drama, we get a blitzkrieg of scares and gooey body horror that can best be described as arbitrary.
  21. Rosebush Pruning
    Only cheap shock value can be gleaned from the film’s cavalcade of blood, semen, animal carcasses, dick pics, and erotic toothbrushing.
  22. Two Pianos
    Arnaud Desplechin’s film only flirts with questions about the sacrifices made for art.
  23. Restless
    Gus Van Sant's cinema, which of late has been fixated on immersing viewers in particular times and spaces, takes a detour into excruciating quirkland with Restless.
  24. Apollo 18
    A nasty, cleverly revealed monster might have redeemed some of the monotony of the first (seemingly endless) hour, but the beasty here manages to be ludicrous, dull, and unoriginal somehow all at once, compromising the marginal hope you may have been holding out for the film.
  25. The Hangover Part II
    If The Hangover was a boorish blackout fantasy for our binge-drinking age, The Hangover Part II is something like the contents of a fraternity house's toilet the morning after an insane kegger-namely, regurgitated elements of a more entertaining prior adventure.
  26. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
    Intended as the cinematic equivalent of an orgasm, this tirelessly hyped insta-blockbuster is loaded with OMG developments (marriage! Sex! Baby!) and seemingly regarded by everyone to include the most epic and gratifying scenes of romantic release in modern movie history.
  27. Cowboys & Aliens
    Brandishing a literal-minded title as laughable as the rest of its action, Cowboys & Aliens mashes up genres with a staunch dedication to getting everything wrong, making sure that each scene is more inane than the one that preceded it.
  28. The Help
    High school creative-writing-class ironies of all kinds abound in The Help.
  29. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
    Wither the rollicking verve and whip-crack humor in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows?
  30. Mr. Popper's Penguins
    If you're wondering where the Jim Carrey of "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" and "Dumb and Dumber" fame went, don't look to Mr. Popper's Penguins for answers.
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