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For 7,775 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: 4,349 out of 7775
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7775
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7775
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  1. The Son of No One
    The Son of No One is driven by mood and atmosphere to the extent that the stakes-free story and interest-free characters seem almost incidental, and such is surely the movie's saving grace -- a perverse style that overshadows a severe lack of substance.
  2. The Art of Getting By
    If not for its lack of self-awareness, The Art of Getting By would seem to be a spoof of ennui-inflicted teen dramas, because how else to explain the fact that Gavin Wiesen's debut is comprised of only clichés of clichés?
  3. Sex Tape
    By the time a blackmailing plot is introduced, the film seems to be surviving solely on the fumes of curse words and frequent shots of Jason Segal and Cameron Diaz's backsides.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    My Uncle Rafael
    The Americans are clichéd and vapid, and seeing them get knocked around and told to wake up can be validating if you know people as obnoxious and spoiled as them.
  5. Gone
    Nearly a year has passed since the release of Catherine Hardwicke's Red Riding Hood, and Amanda Seyfried is still crying wolf.
  6. Pan
    Whatever drugs director Joe Wright may or may not have been on when he wrestled Pan to the ground, pulverizing the material into a quivering mound of monkey-bread dough, you can trust that they were synthetic. Not a single emotional moment in this entire origin story for J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, Captain Hook, and Neverland feels organic.
  7. Parental Guidance
    Andy Fickman's comedy offers a confused and flat portrayal of generational differences.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Hot Flashes
    Seidelman's attempts to provide positive, alternative representations of marginalized people and problems is overly ambitious.
  9. Assassin's Creed
    The film ends up with both blurry action that often looks digitally faked and a fractious plot that’s stuck over-explaining itself.
  10. I Am Happiness on Earth
    If the film defies conventional form, it does so without the gravitas that conceptual cohesion brings, quickly rendering its experimentation into gratuitous aesthetic masturbation.
  11. 6 Days
    6 Days boils down the intricate relationship between Iran and the West into a tense standoff of conflicting ideals where the values and perspectives of only one side really matter.
  12. This Is Not a Test
    The film struggles to bring its non-zombie characters to life.
  13. Conan the Barbarian
    The re-whatevered Conan the Barbarian feels unexpectedly low-rent, even with its multi-million-dollar backdrops and ear-splitting, rumbling soundtrack and (presumably post-converted) 3D imagery.
  14. Special Correspondents
    Ricky Gervais's film hopscotches through a variety of premises, looking for jokes that never arrive.
  15. Solace
    It joylessly coopts the hoariest stylistic tics and narrative tropes from your run-of-the-mill 1990s thriller.
  16. That Awkward Moment
    Its obsession with male genitalia, or, more specifically, penis receptacles, is emblematic of its overall aura of male entitlement and its consideration of women as prizes to be lanced.
  17. Blind
    At one point, the film makes a bold but foolish move by getting in the ring with Tolstoy, analogizing itself to Anna Karenina in a self-seriously laughable attempt to pass its schmaltzy and contrived romance narrative off for something significantly grander.
  18. Serena
    The film can't reconcile Ron Rash's apocalyptic tenderness with its own eagerness to revel in romantic star allure.
  19. Runner Runner
    The ultimately forgettable Runner Runner is, for a gambling film, markedly risk-averse.
  20. Standoff
    Standoff isn’t quite inspired, but it coasts on unexpected modesty of professionalism.
  21. Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
    Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man is one passable joke stretched out over 98 minutes with nothing in the way of a real movie to support it.
  22. The Perfect Guy
    It uses convention to its advantage through an intriguing play with casting choices and bizarrely effective allusions to film history.
  23. The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature
    Though it may clear the low bar set by the first film, The Nut Job 2 still suffers from many of the same problems.
  24. Naked
    Right from the very beginning of Rob’s cruel cycle that sees him repeatedly returning to the floor of that elevator every time the church bells at his wedding begin to ring, Naked besmirches the reasons that Groundhog Day's Möbius-strip construction worked.
  25. Red Lights
    That all the good things--and there are several--Red Lights has going for it are ultimately in service of an ending that might even make M. Night Shyamalan cringe represents one of the year's biggest missed opportunities.
  26. Forever My Girl
    Forever My Girl makes one wonder if Bethany Ashton Wolf actually thinks this is what true love is like.
  27. Lucy in the Sky
    Noah Hawley treats his protagonist’s story as a somber tragedy that at times stoops to trashiness.
  28. The Watch
    What's perhaps most off-putting about the movie isn't its increasingly stale humor, but the way it ultimately validates its characters' worst impulses.
  29. Best Man Down
    While it tries to relate a story about the sloppiness of life, the way best-laid plans can go wrong in an instant, its script is neatly and tidily structured.
  30. Inside
    At best competently mounted and at worst a case study in watering down chaos for an American market.
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