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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. Big Sky
    Jorge Michel Grau's ambitions are stalled by a screenplay that seems to have never made it past a first draft.
  2. Dumb and Dumber To
    There's much more plot floating around during the sequel, all leading up to a climax at the "KEN Conference" that suffers in comparison to Silicon Valley's mockery of the same milieu.
  3. Archaeology of a Woman
    It purports to be an incisive character study dramatized through outré "dream logic," but Sharon Greytak's ineptitude at this very Lynchian aesthetic sucks all nuance and spirit out of the film.
  4. Ithaca
    The film is confused in conception, dreary in execution, and completely lacking in forward momentum.
  5. Art History
    The staging of this dissociative roundelay is still presented in a forcefully lo-fi format, prizing roughly framed shots, improvisation, and flat characters, but there are ever clearer indications that Swanberg is producing something more than empty-headed slacker cinema.
  6. A Promise
    Patrice Leconte struggles to find a coherent rhythm, a problem exacerbated by a hurried running time that compresses some of the novella's more interesting socio-political nuances.
  7. Father of Invention
    There's no spark or humor to the film's situations, just the sense of capable actors trying to make the best of a hopeless situation.
  8. Revenge of the Green Dragons
    Like Better Luck Tomorrow, it tries to cut cool-movie poses under the pretense of providing an alternative racial viewpoint to typical genre tropes.
  9. Perfect
    Eddie Alcazar’s film is a purposefully inscrutable, wandering, disconnected, symbolic, and highly precious mood bath.
  10. Addicted to Fame
    The cinematic equivalent of staging a disaster and then bitching about the mess.
  11. Hôtel Normandy
    Another well-upholstered but cheap exercise in luxe pandering that fails as romantic farce.
  12. Lucky Bastard
    In the end, considering the numerous ways the film goes limp, it seems credibility still eludes the found-footage genre.
  13. Why Stop Now
    Shifting between wacky situation comedy and somber familial drama, Why Stop Now? isn't invested enough in either mode to convincingly pull off its genre-hopping ambitions.
  14. My Neighbor Adolf
    The film at once wrings this premise for whimsical absurdism and slow-burn suspense, on each side vulgarizing the memory of the Holocaust.
  15. Kin
    Jonathan and Josh Baker's Kin, a feature that comprises little more than an extended introduction to its characters, resembles a TV pilot that's been released into theaters as a standalone property.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Bert Stern: Original Madman
    Rote, rushed, and utterly uninterested in the power of Stern as an innovator of image, making it effectively the opposite of the output of the artist it attempts to document.
  17. Rupture
    It attempts to dress up torture-porn tropes with a late-inning switch to science fiction that spectacularly backfires.
  18. Blumhouse's Truth or Dare
    Director Jeff Wadlow's Truth or Dare is a startlingly mean-spirited but otherwise dimwitted horror film.
  19. Camera Obscura
    The filmmaker has a bad habit of dropping the psychological inquiries to dully go through the genre motions.
  20. The Huntsman: Winter's War
    The overriding despair of Winter's War's imagery calls into question who, exactly, the film is for.
  21. Grudge Match
    It will come as a surprise to none that Grudge Match is so wantonly clichéd that to watch it is to explore the outer perimeters of one's own tolerance for a specific type of feel-good sports film.
  22. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
    For devotees of the franchise, Nia Vardalos's film will be a surprisingly emotional trip home.
  23. Mute
    Mute is so slow and arbitrarily over-plotted that it's difficult to believe that Jones also directed the spry and enjoyable Moon and Source Code.
  24. Inner Demons
    There's a disingenuous offering of pathos to accompany the film's ridiculous and violent denouement.
  25. Awake
    It’s difficult to imagine a high-concept thriller that coalesces around its one-line conceit less convincingly than Awake.
  26. 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.
  27. Dorfman in Love
    The film's moral lesson is too contradictory to be taken seriously.
  28. The Guillotines
    Despite the multitude of cinematic tricks the prolific Andrew Lau has up his sleeve, the film is a disappointingly rote entry in the wuxia pantheon.
  29. Venom
    The final act's full-tilt embrace of action effectively undermines Tom Hardy's flashes of actorly idiosyncrasy.
  30. Dream House
    A modest genre entry, Dream House also benefits from the fact that any movie with good enough sense to cast Elias Koteas is automatically better as a result, even if he is utterly wasted here.
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