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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. Unforgettable
    The truly depressing thing about a thriller as undercoocked as Unforgettable is its failure to fly on dark fantasy.
  2. The Ottoman Lieutenant
    More conspicuous than its rote melodrama is the way the film elides the concurrent genocide of ethnic Armenians by Ottoman forces.
  3. Midnight Sun
    Throughout, the film's tone vacillates jarringly between corny, broad humor and unrestrained treacle.
  4. A Ghost Story
    An empty exercise in imitative long-take aestheticism, A Ghost Story fills its distractingly round-cornered frame with endless repetitions on a visual gag.
  5. Aftermath
    The film evokes nothing more strongly than a live-action adaptation of a Crate and Barrel catalog.
  6. Mine
    The film has absolutely no interest in the dilemmas or after-effects of war and occupation.
  7. The Institute
    The Institute seems constantly on the verge of dipping into spoof, though of what exactly is difficult to say.
  8. Bright
    A welter of dissonant intentions, the film fails to seamlessly intertwine its elements of realism and fantasy.
  9. Voice from the Stone
    In none of its manifestations is grief as tidy and meticulously arranged as in Eric D. Howell's film.
  10. Hot Summer Nights
    Like the teenagers at its center, Hot Summer Nights tries too hard to look cooler than it ever could be.
  11. Venom
    The final act's full-tilt embrace of action effectively undermines Tom Hardy's flashes of actorly idiosyncrasy.
  12. Mary Magdalene
    As the plot mechanically moves through Jesus’s greatest hits, the narrative focuses less and less on Mary Magdalene until her life feels completely beside the point.
  13. Unlocked
    With its dull mixture of indifferently staged exposition and action, it suggests a primitive side-scrolling video game.
  14. Mile 22
    When Mark Wahlberg's Silva isn't wielding run-on sentences as military-grade weapons, he barks out derivative commands and asinine statements that make him sound like a 13-year-old playing Call of Duty.
  15. Dolittle
    Dolittle’s inability to completely develop any of its characters reduces the film to all pomp and no circumstance.
  16. The Lion King
    There’s something very cheap at the core of this overtly, ostentatiously expensive film, reliant as it is on our memory of the original to accentuate every significant moment.
  17. The Clapper
    Though it pretends to stick up for all the schmucks in the world, the film is really just laughing along with the assholes.
  18. Aardvark
    The film adopts a half-hearted variation on A Beautiful Mind's gimmicky approach to grappling with a man's mental illness.
  19. Godard Mon Amour
    Michel Hazanavicius co-opts Jean-Luc Godard's personal life for cheap prestige-picture sentiment.
  20. Vincent N Roxxy
    Its gory conclusion is presented with an ostentatious grandiosity that the rest of the film simply doesn’t justify.
  21. Woodshock
    It becomes the obnoxious equivalent of trying to have a serious conversation with people who are high out of their minds.
  22. Austin Found
    The conspicuous means by which Will Raee stacks the deck against Leanne, the real victim of this story, is matched only by a moral grandstanding that seeks to condemn rather than understand the character’s decisions.
  23. Sherlock Gnomes
    Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary characters feel as if they've been air-dropped into a universe where they don't belong.
  24. The Man Who Invented Christmas
    Since “humbug” is already spoken for by Ebenezer Scrooge, “opportunistic” would be the most apt word for The Man Who Invented Christmas.
  25. All the Money in the World
    As released, All the Money in the World is by and large a conspicuously manufactured thriller that moves between manipulative psych-outs.
  26. Temple
    The film is only in the business of supplying the sort of fear that hinges entirely on the shock of the exotic.
  27. 12 Strong
    As Nicolai Fuglsig doesn't allow any complicated thoughts about war, colonization, and mortality to hover around his characters, 12 Strong inevitably proceeds as a jaunty imperial adventure through the wilds of northern Afghanistan.
  28. Kill Me Please
    Anita Rocha da Silveira’s slasher-film plot is simply a tease, as there are no scares here, and the filmmaker’s attempt at genre hybridization never coheres conceptually.
  29. Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards
    Michael Roberts's documentary is an unabashed exercise in deifying its subject matter with superlatives and hyperbole from the mouths of talking heads, which ultimately results in the cheapening of the artist.
  30. Jungle
    Greg McLean and screenwriter Justin Monjo faithfully hit the key plot points of Yossi Ghinsberg's 1993 book Back from Tuichi but fail to sell the severity of the threats Yossi confronts.
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