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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. Ava
    Ava isn’t only banal, but also, in its half-hearted stabs at novel ideas, seemingly content with its banality.
  2. Project Power
    The film is an unwieldy array of muddled ideas that never gel together into a cohesive whole.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Binge
    If The Purge cynically saw humans as itching to unleash their pent-up violence, The Binge recognizes us all as horny nitwit fratboys at heart who need an excuse to cut loose.
  4. Rifkin's Festival
    As Rifkin’s Festival drones on, the wastefulness grows offensive in a manner that’s unusual even for Woody Allen’s misfires.
  5. Mainstream
    The film has the knowing swagger of something on the cutting edge but none of the self-awareness to realize it’s late to the party.
  6. Honest Thief
    The repetitious plot is more ritual than text as we watch yet another Liam Neeson avenger defy the will of younger, unscrupulous men.
  7. The 355
    The film treats its premise as the backdrop for a trite celebration of empowerment and teamwork among professional women.
  8. Hillbilly Elegy
    Hillbilly Elegy feels like a bland feel-good story rather than one part of a longer tragedy with no clear end.
  9. Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things
    Made on the cheap and inspired by early Romero, this zombie flick doesn’t even have the dead rise until the final half-hour. Until then, we’re stuck with an amateur theater troupe chattering away as they venture out to an abandoned island for a goofy séance.
  10. The Midnight Sky
    The film minimizes the tragedy of the human race’s near-complete annihilation by positioning it as the backdrop for the world’s most grandiose deadbeat-dad redemption arc.
  11. Vanguard
    The film is an uncanny reflection of the jingoism that Hollywood has been wrapping in glossy spectacle and exporting to foreign markets for decades.
  12. Mortal Kombat
    In spite of its occasionally engaging displays of gnarly brutality, the film too often feels like an adaptation of a player select screen.
  13. Locked Down
    Had the filmmakers taken a more easygoing approach, Locked Down might have landed in the realm of The Thomas Crown Affair.
  14. Babylon
    [Chazelle’s] torturously glib cynicism is quite the attitude around which to build an epic boondoggle of this sort. Equally as heinous is the 11th-hour optimism that he then attempts to tack onto Babylon via a jaw-droppingly wrongheaded climactic montage.
  15. Fear of Rain
    The film portrays mental illness with all the nuance and insight of Jared Leto in Suicide Squad.
  16. Boogie
    The film’s characters hardly possess a sense of a history or an interior life to adequately convey racism’s psychic toll.
  17. Zack Snyder's Justice League
    The film could be taken as an intentional travesty of the superhero genre, if only it weren’t so tortuously tedious.
  18. Prisoners of the Ghostland
    The film is a profound disappointment in part because it feels so overdetermined to live up to Sion Sono and Nicholas Cage’s respective brands.
  19. Every Breath You Take
    Sam Claflin is best in show, but his performance is undercut by the film’s inability to escalate or explore the ramifications of its premise.
  20. Moffie
    Oliver Hermanus’s film is a rumination on the consequences of apartheid on those who benefit from it most.
  21. The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
    The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard improves on its 2017 predecessor only insofar as it runs 20 minutes shorter.
  22. Gunpowder Milkshake
    The fundamental ineptness of Gunpowder Milkshake appears to be a consequence of the exponentially swelling glut of streaming options.
  23. The Ice Road
    The film is a muddle of clichés and unremarkable action sequences that bleed together into a cacophony.
  24. Flag Day
    Flag Day is little more than a near-two-hour montage of tear-streaked faces shouting blandly melodramatic lines at each other.
  25. Clerks III
    Kevin Smith toys with death in Clerks III as a shortcut to bring emotion to a film that otherwise has no meaningful hook.
  26. Army of Thieves
    Matthias Schweighöfer’s film puts itself in a box, consistently failing to justify why its story deserves our attention more than the spectacle of the recently deceased rising to feast upon the flesh of the living.
  27. Yakuza Princess
    This grimly self-serious tale of violent destiny is consistently drowned out by Vicente Amorim’s overreaching visual style.
  28. The Unforgivable
    The Unforgivable is devoid of all textures and emotions that don’t readily affirm the film’s rigid worldview of redemption.
  29. Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World
    The film stumbles sluggishly from one chapter in Foreman’s life to the next.
  30. Needle in a Timestack
    The film is too blinded by manufactured sentimentality to see the more compelling what-if scenario lying right in front of its eyes.
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