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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. The Perfect Family
    Having the far from goody-goody Kathleen Turner play a holier-than-thou mother bent on winning a devout church title is an inherently hilarious premise.
  2. Lola Versus
    A year in the life of a young woman unhappy in love and uncertain in career, Lola Versus could easily be faulted for the narrowness of its worldview.
  3. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
    A film so overworked to ensure mass-market appeal that it loses the charming oddness and loose goofiness that has allowed these characters to endure.
  4. A Little Bit of Heaven
    Unsurprisingly for a film detailing terminal disease, this is a largely solemn affair, often verging on morbidity in its elongated deathwatch.
  5. The Words
    The film folds narratives on top of narratives in a vain attempt to mask the fact that there's nothing to read between its graceless lines.
  6. Come on Eileen
    Rarely leaves the realm of the obvious and the literal.
  7. 300: Rise of an Empire
    Noam Murro gives the film nothing so much as a hit-refresh on the same glistening, impossibly golden and gray flecks of pixel-barf that have invaded the frames of every tent-pole studio release since the Bush administration.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Womb
    Too abstract to suggest a coherent moral lesson, but too remote to foster a satisfying emotional connection, Womb feels barren, an attempt to do too much that ultimately does very little.
  9. Deadline
    By the end of it, you'll be crying uncle--or wish you were watching The Help instead. At least that was a more artful lie.
  10. A Green Story
    Writer-director Nika Agiashvili buys into the concept of the American dream with the zeal of a true believer.
  11. Inside Hana's Suitcase
    A film relating a story of the Holocaust is destined to provoke a number of adjectives, but "cloying" shouldn't be one of them.
  12. Carrie
    In focusing on predominately kid-gloves portrayals of her teen players, Kimberly Peirce never properly addresses the machinery behind their doom, which is why the film is relentlessly lifeless when it's not literally ripping off De Palma shot-for-shot.
  13. Meeting Evil
    Chris Fisher so over-directs his material that the action takes on the sheen of a parody or, at least, of a film that doesn't realize its clichés are being exaggerated to the point of absurdity.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
    The Donald Rice film suffers most from an excessively blunt approach.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Caroline and Jackie
    Because the whole thing feels so amateurishly improvised, Caroline and Jackie doesn't so much enter into Michael Haneke territory as slip backward, over a banana peel, into some bad-faith parody of the same.
  16. Robot and Frank
    Christopher D. Ford's film is nothing more than a Lifetime movie dolled up in cheap Philip K. Dick drag.
  17. White House Down
    Roland Emmerich makes love of country into a thing of unabashed hokum, which bleeds through every nook of this overstuffed jumble and leaves no character untouched.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Nesting
    The way Nesting goes out of its way to tell us where its set is symptomatic of the film in general.
  19. For Greater Glory
    The film is awash in blandly brown-toned cinematography, action scenes more violent than rousing, and a whole host of bathetic subplots.
  20. 30 Beats
    While it lends itself to some interesting insight on the politics of non-exclusive, fuck-buddy dynamics, its characters are ultimately too one-dimensional and their dialogue too theatrical to sustain an involving cinematic experience.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Hit and Run
    Far more frustrating than the film's banally conventional plot structure is its characters' lack of depth.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Redlegs
    Redlegs may be "raw," but it's meaningless. That's something Cassavetes would have never abided.
  23. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    A risible, somewhat revolting piece of pop martyrdom, made for and isolated to the damaged middle class.
  24. The Babymakers
    A safe, laugh-free exercise that gets to have its fun, such as it is, because it's all in the service of the most conservative notions of domestic normality.
  25. Wish Me Away
    The film is ultimately too concerned with courting the singer's fans to deliver anything more than a theatrical release of a very special episode of VH1's Behind the Music.
  26. The Tortured
    Robert Lieberman's Perverted Justice advert spins its wheels with scene after scene impatiently cut like a montage sequence.
  27. That's What She Said
    An embarrassing girls-behaving-badly indie romp you'd expect a group of friends to write after an all-you-can-drink brunch.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Dead Man Down
    The action merely meanders when it should be hurtling forward, running in circles when one expects it to head toward a conclusion or some sense of resolution.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    You've Been Trumped
    Though Anthony Baxter seems driven by empathy rather than greed, his film is ultimately as reductive and misleading as the expensive Trump PR campaigns he righteously rails against.
  30. The Do-Deca-Pentathlon
    In Jay and Mark Duplass's film, the fragile middle-aged male ego is indulged, massaged, and, finally, critiqued.
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