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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. Hot Pursuit
    The only thing that could've made Sofia Vergara's misguided contribution grislier would have been to fellate a Chiquita banana.
  2. Last Knights
    Another macho celebration of fighting for "freedom" because someone else told you to, devoid of any acknowledgement of the inherent irony of that ideology.
  3. The Dead Lands
    A phony collection of storytelling clichés held under the banner of archetype and lent a modicum of weight by the splendor of the landscape.
  4. A Year in Champagne
    The premise amounts to numerous raised glasses and classical music cues, but little of this schmoozing strikes a notable chord beyond the démodé back-patting engaged throughout.
  5. Like Sunday, Like Rain
    Frank Whaley never gives these characters a humanizing moment outside of their default personalities, which turns them into cartoon impressions of the worst of each class.
  6. Burnt
    Everything in the by-the-numbers script signals that Adam must transform himself from and abusive tyrant in the kitchen to the head of a loving and fully functional family.
  7. Zoolander 2
    The film is frequently guilty of the same obsolescence it accuses the characters of embodying.
  8. Dawn Patrol
    The opposite of enlightenment, the film hides its anxieties behind a mélange of third-rate grit and playful xenophobia.
  9. Preggoland
    Throughout, Sonja Bennett embodies slackness as an affectation, not a raw response to a culture of authenticity-killing productivity.
  10. The Road Within
    The film's tired sentimentality aside, its general lack of empathy is most damning.
  11. Break Point
    A mostly laugh-free, paint-by-numbers approach to a pair of former pros vying for relevance as they enter, kicking and screaming, into their mid 30s.
  12. Ride
    Throughout, Helen Hunt obsequiously tends to her character's evolution as a parent through a flagrant indulgence of sitcom-ish scenarios.
  13. Mojave
    With the film, director William Monahan offers audiences a bundle of fetishes dressed up as an existentialist thriller about the class system.
  14. Fifty Shades Darker
    Fifty Shades Darker takes the Dark Knight approach to franchise maintenance, taking pains to assure you that its protagonists are serious about their passions.
  15. The Seven Five
    It relays a story of police corruption that's transparently designed as a pitch for a feature-film adaptation.
  16. The Film Critic
    It perverts cinephilia by asserting that anyone who engages in criticism actually, deep down, wants to be a practicing artist.
  17. That Sugar Film
    One senses that all of these kinds of documentaires are finally aggrandizing shrines made by artists trying to erect something out of nothing.
  18. Anesthesia
    Tim Blake Nelson's film immerses itself into as many pain-induced (and painful) subplots as it possibly can.
  19. The Benefactor
    Writer-director Andrew Renzi treats unfettered wealth as a hyperbolic playground through which to explore masculine insecurity.
  20. American Heist
    The film offers a veritable smorgasbord of dated, only-in-the-movies clichés about the debt-ridden working class.
  21. Police Story: Lockdown
    The film's subtitle is apropos, as this is a decidedly locked-down and lead-footed talk-o-rama.
  22. Marguerite & Julien
    It finds its filmmaker completely lost between impulses to pay homage, play it safe, or offer something—anything—new.
  23. The Sea of Trees
    There's little here to suggest that the film is anything more than a hastily cobbled-together studio star vehicle.
  24. Daddy's Home
    Though Will Ferrell has made a career out of his own debasement, the film quickly becomes too cruel to generate laughter for anyone who would empathize with him.
  25. Boulevard
    Not merely rote, Boulevard is contemptible for a belief in its own stature as a daring attempt to parse through the minutia of its core relationship, where Nolan's uncertain sexuality would be terms enough to laud the film's provocative insights.
  26. Return to Sender
    The kind of wholly misconceived thriller that begs asking precisely what its filmmakers were seeking to accomplish.
  27. Amnesiac
    Its concern for the reclamation of identity is less important than the dull approximation of The Others' stark haunted-house atmospherics.
  28. The Dressmaker
    The frequent contemptuousness the film displays toward its characters keeps the audience at arm's length.
  29. Big Sky
    Jorge Michel Grau's ambitions are stalled by a screenplay that seems to have never made it past a first draft.
  30. Shanghai
    Everything in Mikael Håfström's film is needlessly bloated to accommodate its status as an international, prestige production.
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