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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. Vacation
    Father doesn't just know best, he's the only one whose knowledge or lack thereof means anything at all.
  2. Love Hurts
    The film is startlingly earnest in its affection for Ke Huy Quan and making him play both to and against type.
  3. The Lifeguard
    The film heroically stretches out its governing water metaphor to a point that allows it to best Garden State's Guinness World Record for most incessant navel-gazing.
  4. The Bubble
    The film’s toothless showbiz satire mostly comes down to teasing its characters for their entitlement and self-importance.
  5. And Now a Word from Our Sponsor
    It's a testament to Bruce Greenwood's acting that Adan never becomes entirely as insufferable as the words that come out of his mouth.
  6. 33 Postcards
    Pauline Chan's film is a jumbled mixture of redemptive uplift and genre hijinks.
  7. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip
    In the film, Alvin and the Chipmunks proudly align themselves not with Dr. Demento, but with Kidz Bop.
  8. Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
    For all the thematic emphasis the script ultimately places on the allegedly thick bonds among these men, it's surprising how often they communicate solely through exposition.
  9. The Greening of Whitney Brown
    The first strike against the movie is that the awkward and diminutive Sammi Hanratty is never even slightly convincing as an enviable teenage diva, and surely not as the most popular girl in school.
  10. Language of a Broken Heart
    A feigned attempt at a stereotypically quirky indie film that has virtually nothing in the way of formal sophistication or narrative ambition.
  11. Looking Glass
    There's no follow-through or follow-up on how the main character's voyeurism informs his burgeoning sexual perversions.
  12. The Only Living Boy in New York
    As the film spirals outward from its central relationship to delve into other characters’ hidden pasts, the story becomes too unwieldy and fragmented for the audience to develop a comprehensive understanding of Callum Turner's Thomas or his personal evolution.
  13. Grave Encounters
    Twelve long years after "The Blair Witch Project" pushed the first-person-POV subgenre to horror's forefront, and four years after [Rec] expertly refined the formula, Grave Encounters can't even pretend to be anything other than hopelessly derivative.
  14. Virginia
    Unfortunately, there's little sympathy granted to these people, and the revelation of their hidden vices comes across like an increasingly mean series of punchlines.
  15. Open Grave
    Individual moments linger, but Gonzalo López-Gallego's film is merely a rough draft of a thriller.
  16. Five Nights at Freddy's
    Five Nights at Freddy’s has absolutely no idea what kind of ride it wants to be.
  17. Programming the Nation?
    A pseudo-investigative documentary shakily committed to the subject of subliminal messaging in America, but curiously indulgent about giving the singer of Queensryche time to spout off about whatever enters his head.
  18. Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
    Even though we would see more of Jason over the years (first as a zombie, then battling a telekinetic super-girl, taking on Freddy Krueger within his own warped dreams, even hacking teens to bits in outer space), this one certainly felt as if it properly closed out the Friday the 13th series before it devolved into unadulterated camp.
  19. Blackbird
    The film is, like its main character, too naïve to understand or, at least, to deploy the reparative powers of camp.
  20. In Stereo
    The film is just another fantasy of living only the good portions of the life of an artist.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Losing Control
    The film, in its defense, is far too vacuous to be accused of having any kind of agenda--it just happens to get its politics wrong along with everything else.
  22. Free the Nipple
    This is kind of didactic topical movie that distributes its rhetoric evenly between characters with clear distinction as to who's playing devil's advocate to the other one's points.
  23. The Hero of Color City
    No cartoon has ever conveyed the struggle for self-actualization with such an inexpressive sense of imagination as this cheap and glorified babysitter.
  24. Collide
    It's difficult to begrudge a film that has the good sense to put so much stock in Ben Kingsley's hammy theatrics.
  25. The Baytown Outlaws
    This schlocky piece of ultra violence plays like a pop-culture pastiche without a stable thematic foundation.
  26. Colonia
    Nothing more than leftwing exploitation cinema, a cheap thriller dressed up in the guise of a social-justice exposé.
  27. The Space Between Us
    The Space Between Us is simply disappointing when it isn’t trying to browbeat its audience into emotional submission.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Rites of Spring
    Padraig Reynolds's film has no interest in self-awareness, and in fact wears stupidity as a sort of badge of honor.
  29. Amnesiac
    Its concern for the reclamation of identity is less important than the dull approximation of The Others' stark haunted-house atmospherics.
  30. Jackals
    Though far more elegant in execution than most Rob Zombie-imitating films, Jackals smugly wears its violent tediousness as a badge of honor.
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