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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 Ledge
    There's nothing wrong with establishing a field of unlikable characters, but The Ledge not only relies on paper-thin stereotypes, it keeps its allegiances clear from the beginning.
  2. Mercy
    More than anything, this twisty dystopian thriller commits to the jittery anxiety of doomscrolling.
  3. The Smurfs 2
    Raja Gosnell's particular zeal to modernize the Smurfs only develops this would-be family comedy into a shamelessly manipulative smurftastrophe.
  4. Imaginary
    The film never thinks to lean into the blatant silliness that its premise invites.
  5. Amityville II: The Possession
    Supremely awful.
  6. Baggage Claim
    Writer-director David E. Talbert adapts his own 2003 novel into something as useless as it is implosive.
  7. The Wait
    By the end, audiences will most likely feel as if they've been locked out of the drama that's presumably unfolding right in front of them.
  8. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
    The new Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a deeply miscalculated mix of incoherent social commentary and over-the-top gore.
  9. Bringing Up Bobby
    Just an extended dramatization of the 1980s anti-drug PSA that memorably cautioned "I learned it by watching you!"
  10. Beneath
    The film is impersonal and populated with wisps of characters who spend most of the running time wandering around in the dark yelling at one another.
  11. Addicted to Fresno
    The film's larger points essentially fall by the wayside in the name of black comedy that's largely without genuine edge.
  12. My All American
    All of the film's nuances are ultimately negated by the its relentless canonization of its subject.
  13. Yakuza Princess
    This grimly self-serious tale of violent destiny is consistently drowned out by Vicente Amorim’s overreaching visual style.
  14. Siberia
    The film has the tone and look of a direct-to-video feature, and some shots of Keanu Reeves are so waxen that the actor almost looks rotoscoped.
  15. ATM
    If both good and evil characters don't behave in ways that make sense vis-à-vis their circumstances, any sense of terror quickly dissipates.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Sexual Chronicles of a French Family
    Its scope is too limited for it to muster much of a response in us beyond basic titillation. And there are plenty of better places to go for that.
  17. Jellyfish Eyes
    Takashi Murakami has invested the film with the same sort of primal pop-art aesthetic that distinguishes much of his art.
  18. Refuge
    The problem with the film isn't the contrivance of its premise, it's that writer-director Jessica Goldberg doesn't know it's contrived.
  19. The Last Victim
    Distractingly indebted to No Country for Old Men, the film’s wild tonal swings mostly leave it feeling impossibly disjointed.
  20. Knife Fight
    Bill Guttentag exaggerates the absurd lengths advisors go to win an election and yet ultimately aggrandizes their behavior.
  21. Zoolander 2
    The film is frequently guilty of the same obsolescence it accuses the characters of embodying.
  22. 21 and Over
    By the dictates of the boys-will-be-boys party genre, 21 and Over is so tame that it barely manages to even be offensive.
  23. Safe Haven
    It goes without saying that Safe Haven is the whitest thing offered up for public consumption in the three days since Mumford & Sons won the Grammy for Album of the Year.
  24. Ice Age: Collision Course
    If Ice Age: Collision Course gleefully fails at being a history lesson, at least it offers an energetic recess from reality.
  25. Point Break
    In its philosophical and criminal investigations (largely imported from Kathryn Bigelow's original), the film moves in dozens of illogical directions, but not without achieving a patina of earnest credibility.
  26. Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston
    The tension between the amateurish interviewer and the star interviewees gives the documentary a layer of authenticity that its otherwise formulaic structure and storytelling fail to find.
  27. Erased
    The film seldom pushes beyond the bare-minimum dictates of the thriller, only rarely offering up a memorable action sequence.
  28. The Mummy
    Too much is at stake throughout, leading to formulaic plot filler and exposition that snuff out the spark of the early scenes.
    • 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.
  30. Return to Silent Hill
    Christophe Gans’s film does away with all the psychosexual nuance of Silent Hill 2.
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